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SUZANNE
(Words and Music by Rick Springfield, Bob Marlette and Tim Pierce)
When things get hot
Oh my love
When things get hot
I know you like the heat
When things get hot
When things get much too much
When things get hot
So tell me why do you always run from me baby
Like you do
'Cause where there's smoke there's fire
I tell you love will never stay
When you're playing the games you play
Suzanne
I understand maybe you're scared to see
Just what your life really means to me
Suzanne
What will it take to make you stop giving up on love
When things get hot, Suzanne
When things get hot
Oh my love
When things get hot
Do you keep your cool
When things get hot
Things get too hot to touch
When things get hot
So tell me what are you holding out for now baby
Like you do
I'm walking on that wire
How can I get through
There must be something more that I can do
Suzanne
I understand maybe you're scared to see
Just what your life really means to me
Suzanne
What will it take to make you stop giving up on love
When things get hot, Suzanne
I see the look in your eyes
I don't know why you fight it
You work so hard to deny, it's crazy
Why do you play it safe
Baby wake up and have some faith
Baby I tell you true
All the love will come back to you
Suzanne
This can't be all there is to this
Suzanne
I'll give so much to you if you don't resist
Suzanne
I understand maybe you're scared to see
Just what your life really means to me
Suzanne
What will it take to make you stop giving up on love
When things get hot, Suzanne
I understand maybe
you're scared to see
Just what your life really means to me
Suzanne
What will it take to make you stop giving up on love
When things get hot, Suzanne
I understand maybe you're scared to see
Just what your life really means to me
Suzanne
What will it take to make you stop giving up on love
When things get hot, Suzanne
(total playing time 4:42)
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Facts: This can be found on Sahara snow.
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I don't like this one either. However my reasons are purely selfish, it has nothing to do with Rick. I know a person named Suzanne whom I cannot stand. :-) I'm still waiting for that Michelle song, so until then, I'm holding a grudge.
So, getting impersonal here I gotta agree with Denyele about all the repetition going on. Too much. I've always thought that this meant that Rick was tapped for words at that certain point and figured just repeating the same line over and over "should do it". Sort of like Stranger in the House from Tao -that's another one that's got way too much repetition for my taste. This song has a lot of words similar to Rovianne also, talking about "the heat". Must've been some hot days in the recording studio. Or cold, maybe they were wishing for it to be warmer.
The beat however, has always got my toe tapping. (or my knee bobbing, if I'm sitting as I am now) This does sound like a radio ready song to me. Or one of those you hear playing at the grocery store that you're singing along with unknowingly out loud, until the lady in aisle 9 gives you a weird look. Because you're by yourself. Anyway...
There is a favorite part in this song for me, and funnily enough he doesn't say the name Suzanne once. "I see the look in your eyes, I don't know why you fight it. You work so hard to deny, it's crazy why do you play it safe, Baby wake up and have some faith" Rick's tone changes a bit, I don't know the right "musical term" for what happens here, but the beat of the song changes also with his tone. I always catch myself singing this part out loud.
So the real question here is, who is Suzanne? Knowing Rick, he just didn't pluck a name out of the air. Maybe it is/was Barbara. I've learned my lesson-about curiosity killing the cat- asking Rick about whom certain women in his songs are. So you ask him, okay?
- Michelle P.
This is a song I've tended to skip in the past, for some reason, but now listening to it, really listening to it, this is one hot, romantic song. I think I'd like it better, though, if it didn't have a specific girl's name attached to it (unless of course my name was Suzanne, then I'd be thrilled, I'm sure :-)
This is another recurring theme to many of Rick's song. The woman is afraid to feel, afraid to commit, afraid to open up, and he's begging/pleading with her to let him in.
"when things get hot" a line repeated often, seems to have a sexual implication to it. Maybe the sex is good, but the emotional size of the relationship is missing.
My favorite line in the whole song is "This can't be all there is to this", not so much for the lyric, but for the sound of Rick's voice. I love the way he sings that line.
- rlh
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