Day 333 - Dan Baird - I Love You Period

DAY 333
Dan Baird – "I Love You Period”
From "Love Songs For The Hearing Impaired"



Glenn reminded me of this song when he was being silly and singing a different song... He was parodying a Neil Sedaka song called "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" where he sings the lyrics:

Come on baby, let's start a new
'Cause breaking up is hard to do
Do-be-do-dum-dum
Do-be-do-be-dum
Do-be-do-dum-dum
Do-be-do-be-dum
Do-be-do-be-dum
Do-be-do-be
Don't break my heart.

And it sounds like "Comma comma down do-be-do-down down, comma comma down do-be-do-down down." The comma comma thing reminded me of "I Love You Period" just because of the punctuation reference.

I really loved this song the first time I heard it on the radio... I think it was in 1991 so I would have been 14 I believe... hehehe. I just loved that the lyrics were so creative and cute. Dan's voice reminds me a lot of George Thorogood on this song. Check out the lyrics... sadly I could not find a video clip of Dan performing the song so track it down cuz it is a lot of fun. :)

Back when I was goin' to school,
I never learned a thing
All I did was daydream,
a-waitin' for the bell to ring
I had a certain teacher,
I always tried to impress her
When she stood up in the classroom,
I would mentally undress her
Then one day I decided,
that I would write a little letter
She said the spellin' was a masterpiece,
the punctuation could be better
I understood what she was saying,
I got the gist of her sentiment
She said "I don't mean to be degrading,
"but here's the way that it should've went:"

Chorus) I love you period
Do you love me question mark
Please, please exclamation point
I want to hold you in parentheses
I love you period
Do you love me question mark
Please, please exclamation point
I want to hold you in parentheses

Right on up to high school,
people said I was a writin' fool
All my letters became really great,
with punctuation that was never late
But I was havin' trouble meetin' girls,
I never knew the things to say
Soon I had 'em all overwhelmed,
when they heard me talk this way, like this:

Chorus) I love you period
Do you love me question mark
Please, please exclamation point
I want to hold you in parentheses
I love you period
Do you love me question mark
Please, please exclamation point
I want to hold you in parentheses


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