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"Sometimes a fool gets lucky and wins...Sometimes the innocent pay for an old man's sin..."
This is what real music sounds like!
Even real music like this can have lyrics that are hard to interpret. Yet there must be some meaning. "Beat Of A Heart" isn't like "MMMBop" or "Nu Nu." But if the meaning of a song isn't clear, listeners interpret it to their heart's desire.
When I first heard this song, these words caught my ear: "Sometimes a fool gets lucky and wins...Sometimes the innocent pay for an old man's sin." I immediately thought it was about Ronald Reagan winning the election. But before I even said anything, someone repeated these lines in a voice imitating ol' Ronnie. At the time, it seemed so obvious, and I wasn't the only person who thought of this.
These days, when I think of the 1984 election, I start laughing because one of my 6th grade teachers got angry when everyone waited too long to do their election project. But the result of this election was no laughing matter.
Decades later, I saw Scandal a couple times in concert. They put on a fine show. And Patty was chewin' bubble gum! She didn't bubble. But she was chewin' bubble gum!
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