Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!gateway!dont-send-mail-to-path-lines From: martebf2@MENTOR.CC.PURDUE.EDU (brian) Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: "This Woman's Work" video Message-ID: <10190@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 12 Apr 91 02:36:48 GMT References: Sender: Love-Hounds-request@ims.alaska.edu Organization: Purdue University Lines: 38 Approved: Love-Hounds@hayes.ims.alaska.edu In judi@coyote.datalog.COM (Judi McKernan) writes: > Also- as to the first few lines of the song: >"Pray God you can cope > I stand outside this woman's work > This woman's world > Ooh, it's hard on the man > Now his part is over > Now starts the craft of the father" >When I consider these lines as one segment by themselves, sometimes I get >the feeling that she's talking about childbirth. Does anyone else see this? >Or is it just me? (Sometimes I think I don't understand any of it...) even >if you spelled it out for me it might take some explaining before I'd >understand it completely! > judi YES YES YES YES YESSSSSSSSS! Sorry, I just couldn't believe the song when I first heard it. I was watching *She's having a baby* and during the delivery scene when she is experiencing some difficulty and her husband is not being allowed in. He is forcibly removed from the scene by a nurse. I was moved to tears by this juxtaposition of the movie and this song by possibly one of the greatest lyricist/musicians of all time. I just sat and thought about the situation and compared my own possible life experiences. My wife and I have never had any children and now I see the event in a manner not heretofore experienced. I could babble on and on so I'll stop right here. Just bloody brilliant... And the *goddess*, I love it... Great, fantastic, super, *WOW*... -- Yours faithfully, * "Do something you hate, being * Brian Marten (martebf2) * miserable builds character" -CALVIN *