Prompt:
The Supremes song that makes Lily think "There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful" (50) is called "Where Did Our Love Go". The lyrics to "Where Did Our Love Go?" are:
Baby, baby
Baby don't leave me
Ooh, please don't leave me
All by myself
I've got this yearning, burning
Yearning feelin' inside me
Ooh, deep inside me
And it hurts so bad
You came into my heart
So tenderly
With a burning love
That stings like a bee
Now that I surrender
So helplessly
You now wanna leave
Ooh, you wanna leave me
Ooh, baby, baby
Where did our love go?
Ooh, don't you want me
Don't you want me no more
Ooh, baby
Baby, baby
Where did our love go
And all your promisses
Of a love forever more
I've got this yearning, burning
Yearning feelin' inside me
Ooh, deep inside me
And it hurts so bad
Before you won my heart
You were a perfect guy
But now that you got me
You wanna leave me behind
Baby, baby, ooh baby
Baby, baby don't leave me
Ooh, please don't leave me
All by myself
Ooh, baby, baby
Where did our love go?
(http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Where-Did-Our-Love-Go-lyrics-The-Supremes/0D470E3B06AB9FF84825693B00112B40)
Response Requirement:
The Supremes song that makes Lily think "There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful" (50) is called "Where Did Our Love Go". The lyrics to "Where Did Our Love Go?" are:
Baby, baby
Baby don't leave me
Ooh, please don't leave me
All by myself
I've got this yearning, burning
Yearning feelin' inside me
Ooh, deep inside me
And it hurts so bad
You came into my heart
So tenderly
With a burning love
That stings like a bee
Now that I surrender
So helplessly
You now wanna leave
Ooh, you wanna leave me
Ooh, baby, baby
Where did our love go?
Ooh, don't you want me
Don't you want me no more
Ooh, baby
Baby, baby
Where did our love go
And all your promisses
Of a love forever more
I've got this yearning, burning
Yearning feelin' inside me
Ooh, deep inside me
And it hurts so bad
Before you won my heart
You were a perfect guy
But now that you got me
You wanna leave me behind
Baby, baby, ooh baby
Baby, baby don't leave me
Ooh, please don't leave me
All by myself
Ooh, baby, baby
Where did our love go?
(http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Where-Did-Our-Love-Go-lyrics-The-Supremes/0D470E3B06AB9FF84825693B00112B40)
Response Requirement:
- In what ways does this song relate to the novel thus far? Make a text-to-lyric connection.
Baby don't leave me
ReplyDeleteZach doesn’t want Lily to leave when she comes to visit him in jail. He wants her to stay, but she can’t because of visitation rules.
And it hurts so bad
It hurts Lily that her father doesn’t know her favorite color. It also hurts her to know that when she calls after being “missing” for a month, all he does it scream at her and not tell her “I miss you so much, I’m sorry for everything I did, please come back.”
You came into my heart
Zach came into Lily’s heart while she was at the Boatwrights and now she can’t stop thinking about him. She likes him, but she thinks that she shouldn’t since she’s white and he’s black.
With a burning love
Lily has a burning love towards her mother, but she will never get to show her that love, which makes Lily heartbroken. She wants to be able to know the mother she never had there, and know what it feels like to be loved by a mother.
That stings like a bee
Lily got stung by a bee, while working at the farm, and she states how much it hurts. “The sting shot pain all the way to my elbow, causing me to marvel at how much punishment a minuscule creature can inflict.
Where did our love go?
June’s first love that she was suppose to marry left her standing by herself at the alter on their wedding day, so now she doesn’t want to love again.
And all your promises
Lily promises herself that she will tell August about her real life back in Sylvan, but never can find the right moment to.
And it hurts so bad
It hurts August, June, Lily, and Zach when May commits suicide, and they all have this feeling that it was their fault.
Before you won my heart
Neil has won June’s heart, but she just won’t admit it, since she told everyone that she wasn’t going to love again.
You were a perfect guy
Lily thinks that Zach is the perfect guy, smart, funny, and wants to be a lawyer. The only problem that stands in between them- different colored skin.
But now that you got me
Rosaleen has a new best friend, May, that she made while at the Boatwrights and they spend a lot of time together.
You wanna leave me behind
May leaves Rosaleen behind when she commits suicide, and Rosaleen feels heartbroken. Her pretty much only friend just gave her life away, and Rosaleen is lost and unsure what to do.
Ooh, please don't leave me
August doesn’t want May to leave her and go out to the wailing wall the night that she finds out about Zach being in jail, but she lets her go anyway.
These Lyrics in compatrison to The Secret Life of Bees describes Lilys affections for Zack and how Lily wants for Zack to Love him back.But they are seperated because of the whole racist thing.Also if you think about it, it also can describe the relationship between Lily and her Mother.Lily is a Smart child and she has a good heart but she is searching for her perpose in life and somebody to love her.Her dad is a mean man who really pays no attention to her and can care less about her, and her mother isn dead so she really has nobody who really cares for her,accept Rosaleen.
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