The World According To Chris Brewer

“I could never make up my mind…I made it up as I went along.” –Mike and the Mechanics, in one of the most brilliant lyrics ever penned, “All I Need Is A Miracle”

I woke up to those words this morning. I set my Windows Media Player to automatically wake me up at 6:30 each morning with one random track, and this morning I woke up to Paul Young screaming unintelligibly, and I knew I had to keep the song on.

For some reason, I always liked this song since I was a kid…I have always been known to listen to music for the way it sounds, rather than the lyrics. But I have a couple of friends here in Newport News who are big into song lyrics, and they encouraged me to take a closer listen to what songs say and mean. So I’ve been doing that lately, and I find “All I Need Is A Miracle” simply brilliant. Aside from the muffled screaming at the beginning of the song (accompanied by a horrible keyboard melody), the song, from about :21 on, is completely captivating. The lyrics are so awesome that while I am dancing to the song, I am forced to stop being coordinated with my jerky dance moves and listen to the meaning.

Yes, I’m sure the chorus must have taken the writer months to come up with.

All I need is a miracle, all I need is you (dah dam dah dah dam, dah dah dah dah dammmmm).

But my favorite lyrics are contained in the second verse.

I never had any time, and I never had any call…
But I went out of my way just to hurt you, the one I shouldn?جø¬?t hurt at all.
I thought I was being cool, yeah, I thought I was being strong,
But it?جø¬?s always the same old story…you never know what you?جø¬?ve got ?جø¬?til it?جø¬?s gone.

Heck, the whole song is brilliant. If you want the rest of the lyrics, look them up on the internet. I don’t have time to recite all the lyrics by memory and then type them up.

Anyway, I would recommend playing this song to a girl who you love and you really screwed up with. My friend Brad said he did it once when his girlfriend threw him out in the doghouse, and he instantly got back on her good side after he played this in his car, in front of her house, with his windows rolled down, at 9:30 one evening. Unfortunately, some neighbors thought it was a little too loud–he got the cops called on him and was slapped with a $150 noise ordinance ticket.

If you have similar luck as myself, DON’T PLAY IT for a girl you love and wronged badly. I’ve never done it before (then again, I’ve never wronged a girl I love so bad where I’ve had to play a song for her) but I’m sure if I was in love with a girl now and played it I would get &!%$#slapped. Otherwise, play it.

Or, just wake up to it one morning, and your day might go right.