Is that all you want from me?
Is this a song about perceived expectations? I don’t know but I think so. Slightly more lyrics here compared to Scarlet but how couldn’t there be? A good title for the last song on an album though.
I do wonder from time to time if I am doing all that is expected of me (whether at work or at home). Meeting expectations is a good goal I suppose. At work our ratings system for performance is in the vein of “meets expectations / exceeds expectations”. We do not have a ratings system at home but I wonder how that would be? If I met semi-annually with my wife and went over my performance as a husband overall. We could set goals for the next 1/2 year and go over the goals from 6 months ago. She might even go for this idea (though I doubt if the reciprocal would be met with any enthusiasm). Maybe I could talk the wife into doing this for the kids as well. Peer reviews would be interesting or at least entertaining.
The title of this song also allows me an exit ramp for this blog series (is that what I should call it?). I think I have accomplished what I wanted to do, namely to get back on the blog bandwagon with a subject that has meaning to me. The War album (next on the U2 discography list) has some interesting titles that show some promising areas for discussion. Since the title of the song is really Is That All? with a question mark, maybe that is how I should leave this blog, with a question as to whether I am done or not with U2 lyrics.
Jon
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