Shuffle Synchronicities: Volume 1 - #188
"You're My Best Friend - Remastered 2011" - Queen - 07/09/21
"You're My Best Friend - Remastered 2011" - Queen
One of my favorite Queen songs on the shuffle today.
It happens to come on the day I routinely see one of my best friends and his son, and one week after I wrote about that five-year-old’s love for “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
But it also comes the day before a first date with perhaps my best prospect yet.
I haven’t met her in person.
But we’ve had some incredibly witty and resonant conversations all week since we matched on OK Cupid.
And I’m warming up to the idea of a new ‘best friend.’
Even if I did include this song as one of the songs for the DJ to play during dinner or cocktails at my wedding to my (ex?)-wife.
Oh, you're the best friend that I ever had
I've been with you such a long time
You're my sunshine
And I want you to know
That my feelings are true
I really love you
(Ooh) Oh, you're my best friend
“You’re My Best Friend” was written by the band’s bass player, John Deacon, who composed the love song for his new wife, Veronica Tetzlaff, whom he married in January, 1975, shortly before the album was recorded.
As I listened to it in the car, I wondered though if some of the ‘love’ lyrics were a bit co-dependent.
Ooh, you make me live
Whatever this world can give to me
It's you, you're all I see
Only being able to live for someone else and only seeing them in the world?
Whenever this world is cruel to me
I got you to help me forgive
Only being able to ‘forgive the world’ because of the influence of your partner?
You know I'll never be lonely
You're my only one
Having only one person in the world to not make you lonely instead of yourself or anyone else?
I was talking to a friend last night about this dating prospect and comparing them to my (ex?)-wife.
They’re both very successful, very smart, very witty, and very cute children’s TV writers.
They both have a lot of Earth elements in their Astrological charts and a lot of 11th house energy.
The 11th house is friends/community.
It’s been nice to see my (ex?)-wife develop even more friends and community after our separation.
Perhaps we were a bit too co-dependent.
And it’s been nice to hear about this new dating prospect’s active social life with lots of different friends and communities.
Because I don’t know if I believe that one person is all you need.
John Deacon would later retire from music soon after Freddy Mercury’s death saying, “As far as we are concerned, this is it. There is no point carrying on. It is impossible to replace Freddie.”
Songfacts.com notes that ~“Deacon became something of a recluse…The band still maintains contact with him, and run(s) decisions by him, but according to Brian May, the rule is if Deacon does not reply to an email, that's his way of saying it has his approval.”
Okay, that’s the one hundred and eighty-eighth Shuffle Synchronicity.