Really good song. And interestingly, if a man wrote a song like this about a woman he’d be accused of “only wanting sex” and not being a “real friend” even though what Beth here says is way more graphic than what a man would typically say about a woman friend he might have a crush on, e.g. “i keep dreaming of her tongue/her blue denim skirt undone.”

If you haven’t picked up on it yet, I really hate double standards and being looked at as an “unthinking sex beast” because I find a female friend attractive. Why for only men does that mean we’re being disingenuous and vile? The song of which this is a rewrite is not nearly so graphic because a man cannot get away with writing something like that.

Quod erat demonstrandum.