...But I Love Her.

Summer's answer to the "rules" question (short and to the point...I could have tried that and saved everyone a lot of time...) got me to thinking about a song that kind of sums up life, and how I feel about it. It's not a song you can get off iTunes or buy a CD of. It's a song from the last two minutes of an episode of the NBC show "ED". Which, at this point, you cannot get on DVD (I'll be blogging more about that later...I'm building up steam...).

The set-up: In this episode, an old high school friend of Ed's dies. Ed hadn't seen him in years. He and the other old friends get together after hearing the news, and start watching on old camcorder tape of the guy in question. This guy was the drummer in the band the four of them had in their high school days, one called the "Youth Bandits". While he's talking to the camera, the guy reminds them of a promise he'd made them make...one they'd forgotten all about. The promise was that if he died, they'd have to get up at his funeral and play a song he wrote...one called "She's a Bitch (But I Love Her)". The episode then deals with them trying to decide, as adults, what to do here (okay, are you going to get up in a church at a funeral and play a song with THAT title? With two of the band-mates now a doctor and lawyer, no less?). They made a promise (as their pal, played by Andy Richter, keeps reminding them, because he just wants to get the band back together). But that promise was made amongst boys. And are we really the same people then that we eventually become? The ep dealt with these issues, and the decision, as it went back and forth. And it was actually a really poignant look at how our lives change as we grow older...and yet, how we need to remember those people that we were. In the end, the Youth Bandits (sans drummer) do get up at the funeral and do the song, and yet the song we've been waiting for ends up being not quite what we expected.

Go check out the clip, and listen to the words. I think that about sums it up.

Crazy bitch.