Showing posts with label Follow Your Arrow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Follow Your Arrow. Show all posts

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Life in the Lyrics: “Follow Your Arrow”


"If you save yourself for marriage you're a bore,
if you don't save yourself for marriage you're a whore-able person. 
If you won't have a drink then you're a prude, 
but they'll call you a drunk as soon as you down the first one. 
If you can't lose the weight then you're just fat, 

but if you lose too much then you're on crack. 
You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't, 
so you might as well just do whatever you want, so…

Make lots of noise, kiss lots of boys 
or kiss lots of girls if that's something you're into. 
When the straight and narrow gets a little too straight 
roll up the joint, or don't. 
Just follow your arrow wherever it points, 
yeah, follow your arrow wherever it points.

If you don't go to church you'll go to hell, 
if you're the first one on the front row you're a self-righteous son of a - 
 Can't win for losing; you just disappoint 'em; 
just 'cause you can't beat 'em don't mean you should join 'em.

Say what you feel, love who you love, 
'cause you just get so many trips 'round the sun, 
yeah, you only live once."
- Kasey Musgraves
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The talented Kasey Musgraves first caught my ear with “Blowin’ Smoke,” a clever and poignant song about people who rarely follow through on any of the noble plans they have for their lives. The overriding metaphor has to do with smoking – people say they are going to quit someday, but they’re just blowin’ smoke.  It’s a great tune.

According to her popular single “Follow Your Arrow,” this desire to embrace a purposeful life of health is something you should definitely do. Or not. It doesn't really matter. “Follow Your Arrow” highlights sexual lifestyles, the use of addictive substances, religious beliefs, and choices about whom we should love as areas in which we ought to do whatever we want, because, you know, YOLO.