The Weakness in Me
Mar 8th, 2009 by oldfogey
Joan Armatrading’s recording from 1981 of her own song, “The Weakness in Me”, is about the bewitchment of new love, and its destructive power. Under its sensual pull she becomes self-deceiving, talking away the old love, half aware of what she is doing, witnessing the games and stratagems lovers play, hers as well, without owning up to them.
Why do you come here, and pretend to be just passing by?
And she honestly confesses her intentions.
But I mean to see you and I mean to hold you
She acknowledges the baseness in herself, in her longing for the new love and her treachery to the old, and she can do nothing about it.
This old love has me bound but the new love cuts deep.
One of you has to fall and I need You – and – You.
She is the and held trembling between the poles of old and new. She leaves it in the air. But the hard decision is hers, and hers alone.
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