Why

I had never been an Anne Lennox fan until the first time I heard her song ‘Why’. I love it then, but loved it more when I had my first big breakup.

Everyone has their own way of dealing with their problems, for me it is always a relief to just quietly relax to a song that verbalizes everything that I am feeling. I still remember how I felt when I heard the lines “I’ve tell myself too many times why don’t you ever learn to keep your big mouth shut. Some things are better left unsaid but they still turn the inside out.”

Anyone who has been in a serious relationship and is now at the rocky ends of it where they are still trying to figure out how they got there, yet too emotional to salvage it, can relate to this tune.

Perhaps my absolute favorite part of this song is the part where Anne said: “I’ve heard it say too many times that you’ll be better off besides, why can’t you see that this boat is sinking,” “Lets go down to the water’s edge, where we can cast away those doubts.”

The video is for me a masterpiece as throughout it Anne like a starlet who is preparing for the role of her life takes time donning her make-up throughout the video. Finishing at the end to have spotlight on her as the portrays all of the emotion and all of the rage that seemed to have boiled throughout the song as she states: “ This is the book I’ve never read, these are the words I’ve never said, this is the path I’ll never tread, these are the dreams I’ve dreamed instead, this is joy that’s seldom spread, these are the tears we shed, this is the fear, this is the dread, these are the contents of my head, and these are the years that we’ve spent, and this is what they represent, this is how I feel, do you know how I feel, cause I don’t think you know.”