"I Want Her She Wants Me"

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I've been meaning to write about this for a long time.  I looked in my search history and discovered that I did research for this two weeks ago, and I knew I had suspicions about it before that.

Anyway, it's the G7 that's underneath the "careful" in "I Want Her She Wants Me" - "she told me to be careful if I loved her."

G7 sounds kind of weird.  In doing research, I discovered that it sounds weird because of the dissonance between the G and the F.  And that dissonance is important to the line - it's as if that G7 is a misstep despite the telling to "be careful."  It works well with the key change that also takes place during that line, which I've written about before.  It seems that both that dissonant G7 and that key change portent ill.  But only for that section of the song - "She told me to be careful if I loved her / 'Cause she had given her heart once before."  So maybe it's taking on the tonal characteristics of the mood in which those lines were said.

I keep comparing "I Want Her She Wants Me" with "Care of Cell 44," which has some of the same ill-portending elements, but which seems different in some way.