My Gen X Playlist: We Can Work It Out – The Beatles

Absent any new WordPress daily prompts, I pulled one from thecoffeemonsterzco.

How do you decide what groceries to buy?

Marriage is about compromise.

My wife had been getting on my case to buy organic. It’s healthier, she would say. I always rationalized that I grew up not eating organic and didn’t have a third limb growing out of my back. So what’s the difference?

Over the years she’s learned to sway me by arguing the facts. That’s a sure fire way to make her point with me. Of course her concerned centered around the wide use of pesticides these days. My reply used to always be the same. Some people call that flavor. She never thought that was funny and realized it was best to retire that response from my bag of tricks.

I knew deep down I was never going to win this battle. I needed to at least meet her half way and throw some organics into my shopping cart. I’ve conceded on organic eggs and I’ll drop some organic produce into my cart most of the time. I’m 50/50 when it comes to organic meat. Sometimes I do. Sometimes I don’t. Although I get a little grief with non-organics, at least she’s fair and gives me credit when a few organics emerge from my grocery bags. Compromise, you know?

In 1965, the Beatles released We Can Work It Out. This is yet another song that shows how clueless I was. I knew all the words, sang along and it didn’t resonate that was a song about differences and compromise. I always thought it was a song about making up. Apparently, McCartney wasn’t able to do either.

Paul McCartney wrote this about his girlfriend, an actress named Jane Asher. They split for good in 1968.

Songfacts

There are some things I can live with that I don’t need to push back on for the sake of harmony. Organics is becoming one of them. At the end of the day I have to remember the advice a friend gave me before I got married. Happy wife, happy life. It was a female friend dispensing this advice, of course. And too bad there isn’t anything poignant that rhymes with husband for my own catch phrase to return fire. I’m not giving up and will keep searching and rhyming. Until then, happy wife, happy life it is.

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Try to see it my way
Do I have to keep on talking 'til I can't go on?
While you see it your way
Run the risk of knowing that our love may soon be gone
We can work it out
We can work it out

Think of what you're saying
You can get it wrong and still you think that it's alright
Think of what I'm saying
We can work it out and get it straight, or say good night
We can work it out
We can work it out

Life is very short, and there's no time
For fussing and fighting, my friend
I have always thought that it's a crime
So I will ask you once again
Try to see it my way
Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong
While you see it your way
There's a chance that we may fall apart before too long
We can work it out
We can work it out

Life is very short, and there's no time
For fussing and fighting, my friend
I have always thought that it's a crime
So I will ask you once again
Try to see it my way
Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong
While you see it your way
There's a chance that we may fall apart before too long
We can work it out
We can work it out