MISS YOUR KISS
(Words and Music by Rick Springfield, Bob Marlette and Tim Pierce)
Well I miss you yeah
But I don't really miss your touch
Not too much
Send your love express
But I don't need it all that much
Not too much
Baby, you, you know it's true
You know it's true
But I don't miss your
Fascinating conversation
And there's more room in the bed
Now that you're gone
Don't tell me I miss your smile
You know me baby
This is the real deal
And you know just what I've missed
You get my gist
The thing is this
Baby I miss your kiss
Not joking
The truth is this
You just can't miss
I don't want to be fooling around
Miss your kiss
Baby I miss your kiss
Trust me on this
If I had my wish couldn't ask for more
Miss your...kiss
Now when I get home
If you still want to talk all night
That's alright
And I want it known
If you just want to turn out the light
I won't fight
I'll make love to you
Make love to you
If you want to
You know baby anything goes
And I'll even get you breakfast in your bed
As long as I get my fix
You know it baby
I'm missing the real thing
And you know just what that is
If I resist just slap my wrist
Baby I miss your kiss
Not joking
The truth is this
You just can't miss
I don't want to be fooling around
Miss your kiss
Baby I miss your kiss
Trust me on this
If I had my wish couldn't ask for more
Miss your
Miss your kiss
I know what I want
And what I don't have
What I won't give for your kiss
Nothing better
Nothing better
If you hear me say 'Yeah-yeah'
Yeah-yeah
That's the way I want it face to face
Baby I miss your kiss
Not joking
The truth is this
You just can't miss
I don't want to be fooling around
Miss your kiss
Baby I miss your kiss
Trust me on this
If I had my wish couldn't ask for more
Miss your
Baby I miss your kiss
Not joking
The truth is this
You just can't miss
I don't want to be fooling around
Miss your kiss
Baby I miss your kiss
Trust me on this
If I had my wish couldn't ask for more
Miss your
Baby I miss your kiss
Not joking
The truth is this
You just can't miss
I don't want to be fooling around
Miss your kiss
Baby I miss your kiss
(total playing time 5:02)
Song
Facts: This can be found on Sahara Snow.
I like this
catchy little tune. Most of the time I listen to the songs in my car or as background
music so I don't pay super close attention to them. For these review processes I
listen to the song a few times and usually come up with some scene. I have this image in
my mind of the guy talking to the girl on the phone. They were living together but
one of them moved out (probably him). They've moved past/worked through whatever
issue caused them to break and now they are having a 'playful' conversation on the phone.
She asked him if he misses her, so he teases her by saying yeah but.... (words to the song
here). He wants them to get back together and tells her all the things he'll do when
he gets home.
I even like the silly little 'If you hear me say yeah yeah' part. I
thought the music fit this album.
This is one of
my not so favorite songs on this album. I skip it more times than not. It's just too
bouncy and the lyrics aren't much to write home about. I like to think the lyrics on this
one were not really majorly Rick's contribution. They just aren't the imaginative
well written stuff that I have come to expect to be penned by Mr. Springfield. This one is
too bubblegum for me. Combine that with the lyrics that lack any substance for me and you
get a skipped track.
OK, I am going
to go up to the plate and stand in the minority and say that I liked this song. It's
hard for me to explain why I like it, because the reasons why people don't like it make
total sense. But I liked the lightness of the song and the vulnerability that he
speaks of. How he starts off by showing the woman he doesn't need her "I
don't miss the fancy conversation, there is more room in the bed now that you are
gone" but then comes clean and says that he misses her and would do anything to get
her back. For all the songs, I try looking deep, everyone is so good at
it, but I go as deep as I can.
Granted, it's not my favorite song on the CD. But I do like it.
This
song really confuses me. A part of me thinks there is some sarcasm going
on, that he's trying to convince himself that things are better without her (more room in
the bed), and yet I do see the line "I don't miss your fascinating conversation"
as sort of a slap in the face, and that he is kind of bored with that part of the
relationship. And I think "kiss" is a substitute for sex, and he's really
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I like this song because I don't take it too seriously. The music reminds
me of a song you would hear in a strip club (pardon the imagery). It goes with a
ridiculously overdone sexy dance. , at
least it would if I were dancing...LOL!
Anyway, the lyrics are interesting because I can't decide what he's getting at, unless it
has to do with missing something little that you share with another person. For
example, when my hubby is out of town, I notice that there isn't that daily coffee stain on the kitchen
counter. It reminds me that he's not there. The song could also be referring
to the intimacy of a kiss, like the line in that stupid "Pretty Woman"
movie. You know the part, when Julia tells Richard that she will do anything but
kiss him because it's too personal.
In conclusion, I would like to say that this song is fun and I like it better than some of
the others on the CD. Rovianne is still the best one on there.
I have to say that
this one isn't one of my favorites on the album. Don't get me wrong; it's a nice,
peppy song that can get you moving and grooving. It's a great pick me up song.
But I think why I don't care for this song is that there really isn't a lot of depth to
it. It's a three minute perfect pop radio tune. The epitome of ear
candy. The lyrics are cute and sexy but not in the way that the lyrics to some of
the other tunes precede it are sexy, and deep and evoke images in your head that just
drive you absolutely insane.
I also don't really care for the scenario set in this song. It could be about
someone who has left him, but more of what I see in it is a long term relationship that
just doesn't have that spark anymore. It reminds me of a marriage where it is all
perfunctory, where the talk and the sex are a chore that the woman does because she has
to, but the character Rick describes wants the kiss, the passion, the "real
thing" that has long since left the relationship. I don't like to think that
this is personal to Rick's experience, though I have to suspect it is personal to
everyone's experience who has been in a long term relationship.
I think this song is just not
the quality of some of the other tunes on the disc. It almost seems like because
it's a sexy disc, this one just got thrown in the mix because it's a song about sex, but I
for one do not find it a particularly sexy song. Modern World, for example, I think
is sexy, even though it's not about sex: that bass line where he goes
"Uh...yeah..." in the middle of it just gets me every single time.
:) And we all know I think Scandalous Life is WAAAAY sexy. :) So for me
to NOT like a sexy Rick song (well, a song about sex that I don't find sexy) is a stretch.
Thank goodness he had co-writers. I feel less like a traitor that way. :)
This is a song I normally tend to pass over when I listen to SS, and I don't
know why. I really like this song, but I listen to it very little. (Maybe I'm
in a hurry to get to Heaven and Lust? LOL)
When I first heard this one, my immediate reaction to the music was that I didn't care
much for it, but even then, I couldn't resist tapping my foot to it. It grew on me
fast, though, because now I find it difficult to listen to this one and sit still.
I love the way Rick's voice sounds in this one, and there's definitely more than one line
where the way he sings it causes my heart to skip a beat.
Some favorite lines:
But I don't miss your
Fascinating conversation
And there's more room in the bed
Now that you're gone
The way he sings those last two lines... *THUD* Gets to me every
time...
And I'll even get you breakfast in your bed
Another heart-stopper for me...
If I resist just slap my wrist
I love this line, and can never listen to it without a big ol' grin on my face ... but
that's mainly because a friend of mine misunderstood the lyric. What she was hearing
was definitely more interesting that what it actually says, but I won't share it. LOL
Overall, I think this is a fun song to listen to, and I really must stop skipping over
it all the time. Sometimes listening to a song that isn't all sweet and
romantic is a really nice change of pace. The sweet stuff is good, but sometimes the
not so sweet stuff is so much better to hear. ;-)
Well, I like the boppiness of the music. As soon as it comes on, my head
starts bopping. There's one musical part I really like - after the first verse,
there's a little "whoo" at the end that I think is cute.
Funny misheard lyric - when I first got the CD and heard this song and didn't have
the words in front of me, I thought instead of "Not Joking / The truth is this"
I heard "What drunken truth is this." What a dolt!
I like this song. Not a favorite, by far, but I don't skip it. The first part
I see as the John Lovitz character on SNL, "Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket. I
don't miss you or your touch. Maybe just your kiss, but nothing else. I don't
need you." Then he seems to come around to admit that just maybe there's more
that he misses. Like slowly admitting you want something when you know you just
want it all now. I see someone asking me if I like Rick (or chocolate) and
I'll hold my fingers an inch apart and say "a little bit" when we all know
the answer is YES! Like that.
I see this as he'll do anything for her. Previously he said, "If you want to
talk, that's alright." "If you want to turn out the light, I won't
fight." "I'll make love to you. . If you want to." (IF you want
to?!? Thud - that's just me - not the song!) So I see that line that you don't
like, not as his fix being sex, but as being her - she's his fix.
Again, not a favorite, not too deep, not too sexy. But it's Ok in my opinion.
Ugh. Now THIS one rattles my nerves. It's actually been a while
since I made it all the way through the whole song, this is the one that I hit skip on the
CD player when it starts up because it irritates me so. But, in the
interest of formulating a review, I listened to it as much as I could possibly
tolerate today. What I discovered is that my feelings toward this one have not
changed much. So now I'm gonna pound out this review as quickly as possible to
get the damn song outta my head.
That's the first thing that bugs me. The chorus is like one of those maddening
commercial jingles that you cannot get out of your brain and you find yourself humming it
when you least expect it. What I find so nails on the chalkboard bad is that
Rick really sounds like he's straining (something) while singing the chorus, like he's
trying to hit some kind of note his voice hasn't touched in years. Maybe he was, I
don't know but it sure annoys me.
The second thing that I really dislike are the lyrics. I can tell that all three
gentlemen wrote this one, because I *know* Rick Springfield is not that
chauvinistic! <said tongue-in-cheek> I'm even willing to entertain the
thought that he may possibly have some chauvinistic tendencies in everyday life, but not
in his music for cryin' out loud! This is the man who wrote My Father's Chair, and
Inside Silvia, Free, (alright, I won't do the whole catalog of tender songs, you guys
know them as well as I) and has brought me to tears many a time. But to listen to
him sing the words that he doesn't miss her touch, her love, her fascinating
conversation-well THAT'S a lie for sure Mr. Springfield. We know you
better.
The line that bothers me the most is "I'll even get you breakfast in your bed, AS
LONG AS I GET MY FIX" What? Excuse me? Oooh, that one
just makes me want to reach out and smack him. (and it won't be his wrist, that's for
sure) Oh, and in the interest of trying to get a different angle out of this song
because I really didn't want to trash the whole thing-- I really started to think the
"I'm missing the real thing -slap my wrist" mention might have had
something to do with masturbation (again), but hey I'm NOT going there! (this time! LOL)
Ya know, I really hate writing these kind of reviews. It makes me feel like a
traitor. I almost think it might just be better to not write anything at all.
(my mother always said if you can't say something nice..) However, my need to have
an intelligent good debate every once in a while won out. I'm certainly not
missing his kiss on this one.
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