Shannon Stacey


Male versus female POV

“It Won’t Be Like This For Long” by Darius Rucker. Nice song, but it’s stupendously obvious to me it was written by a man. Why? Here’s the opening:

He didn’t have to wake up
He’d been up all night
Lying there in bed and listening
To his newborn baby cry
He makes a pot of coffee
He splashes water on his face
His wife gives him a kiss and says,
“It’s gonna be okay”

Now let’s tinker with it a bit, pretend a woman wrote it:

He didn’t have to wake up
He’d been up all night
Lying there in bed and listening
To his newborn baby cry
He makes a pot of coffee
He splashes water on his face
His wife gives him a bitchslap and says…
“You’re complaining to me you couldn’t sleep, you dumb son of a bitch? I haven’t slept since my seventh month when your precious baby decided to shove her giant block head into my pelvic bone. My nipples are chapped and it’s going to take a brush hog to comb my hair and you think I give a flying :censor: you couldn’t sleep? Maybe instead of lying there listening you could have gotten off your lazy ass and changed one shitty diaper so I could sleep for ten :censor: minutes! Asshole!”

I mean, really. While the sentiment of the song makes me all sniffly, those first lines crack me up.

6 comments to “Male versus female POV”

  1. azteclady
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      · February 26th, 2009 at 1:03 pm · Link

    I am so glad I wasn’t drinking anything when I read the “female” version of the song…

    oh my lord, how true is that!



  2. Rhonda
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      · February 26th, 2009 at 12:39 pm · Link

    Spew. OMG I’ve heard that song, but not listened to it obviously. Now it will never be the same :lmao:



  3. Lori
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      · February 26th, 2009 at 5:24 pm · Link

    :lmao: OMG – too freakin’ funny!!! (and true, I might add!)



  4. Annmarie
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      · February 26th, 2009 at 9:53 pm · Link

    I ONCE loved that song. Now I want to bitch slap Darius.

    Love the female version.



  5. Kimber An
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      · February 27th, 2009 at 9:56 am · Link

    Believe it or not, there are awesome dads and great husbands out there, and wives who thank all that is sacred every day they found one. :clap:



  6. Shannon
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      · February 27th, 2009 at 10:33 am · Link

    My husband IS one of those dads, but still…as written by Darius those lyrics are a little hard to swallow. :grouch:







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