Dear Stevie

03 Oct 2010 7 Comments

by nainu in Music Themed, Scribbles Tags: cassette, I just called to say I love you, mom, music, stevie wonder

Dear Stevie,

For more than sixteen years, I’ve had your voice on my mother’s cassette player/my computer/ car stereo telling my that you just called to say you love me. I do not remember such a call ever happening. And it is improbable that it ever happened since you’ve been singing this from when I was 3 months old. You, Mr Wonder persist in saying you called me and then keep telling me when you didn’t call me. That really isn’t very helpful is it? And since it disturbs me that I may have missed a call from you, I did some extensive research to investigate when you could have called me.

No New Year’s Day to celebrate
No chocolate covered candy hearts to give away
No first of spring

This helped me eliminate the New Year Celebrated by communities all over the world (red in the calendar) as well as the month of February when chocolate covered hearts are sold to make single people feel bad about their lives. 21st March being Spring Equinox is eliminated as well.

No April rain
No flowers bloom
No wedding Saturday within the month of June
But what it is, is something true
Made up of these three words that I must say to you

Before I get into checking more days off, I have to ask why you persist by saying you said three words to me. I have NEVER been told three words by you. Not even ‘clean your room’ or ‘go study economics.’ Oh well. Those sentences tell me you didn’t call during April. Pity really, I wouldn’t even have had school. And evidently you didn’t call on any Saturdays in June.

No summer’s high
No warm July
No harvest moon to light one tender August night
No autumn breeze
No falling leaves
Not even time for birds to fly to southern skies

Wow. Now you’re just eliminating months like crazy. No July, no August. And as for Summer-  March, April, May in my country and June, July, August for you. And we can’t forget the Australians can we? That would be being hemisphere-ist. So no November, December, January.

No Libra sun
No Halloween
No giving thanks to all the Christmas joy you bring
But what it is, though old so new
To fill your heart like no three words could ever do

Oh! kay… So now we’re eliminating a bit of September and most of October. And Christmas day. Huh. Looks like most of the calendar is gone.

Dum-da-dum. Mr Wonder, you claim you called me sometime between the 1st and 23rd of October (except the 11th) or from the 25th to the 30th of October. Now you’d think I was happy I’d actually narrowed down this alleged call to 28 days out of 365. I was. Except, then I remembered I was born in December. And if you’ve been telling me this since I was three months old, you’ve been claiming to call me BEFORE I was born. Lawyered. (kind of)

…..

I don’t know whether to be happy to have (kind of) lawyered you or to curse myself for having spent 20 minutes composing a post about you.

No Love,

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This post is inspired by my mom who recorded I Just Called To Say I Love You over and over and over again on a cassette and played it for me every night so that I’d go to sleep.

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