Okay, I realize I am delinquent again in my blogging. Bad, bad Becky... I have no excuse. In fact, I blog for my company every week -- four blogs in fact. I think that's why I get so pooped out by the time I get home. What's funny is that I started that part of my job because of this blog, so... I better get back to this!
Anyway, I have wanted to write about Survivor's "The Search is Over" for quite some time. It is truly a beautiful song, and the more I listen to it, the more I like it. I thought the lead singer had written it, but it turns out that Jim Peterik did. I didn't know much about Jim, so I did a bit of research. Of course, I came across his Facebook page and several photos with Mindi Abair, which made me very jealous. I am a single reed player, too, but I will probably never have the chance to hob-nob with rock royalty like she does now. Alas, I will get over my jealousy. There's still time. Ann Wilson plays flute, and I work for a flute company, so...
Anyway, back to the song. Can you believe that for the longest time, I had the wrong lyrics in my head? Yeah, amazing, I know. Just kidding. I think by now we all know that this often times happens to me. In this tune, I always thought at the chorus Jamison sang, "I was living for Audrey...." I thought, "Well, who's Audrey?" Then, I realized it was, "I was living for a dream..." A ha! The search was over for the lyrics! Now it all made sense. The song is about a man who is searching for love just about all over the place when it really was in front of him the whole time. Yup, he had a very good female friend whose love and devotion he took for granted so to say. He really considered her to be "just a friend" and not a "girlfriend." Finally, he realized she was "the one," and the search was over! Just like that! And, even to this very moment in time, I find myself correcting another lyric. Yup -- "taking on the world...that was just my style." I always thought the lyric was "taking our love away...that was just my style." Wow. Living for Audrey and taking our love away? Sheesh. I'm glad I listened to this a few more bazillion times. I hope, at least, that I have listened to it more times than the man in the song searched for love...
"Audrey" is one of my good friends. I can't wait to share your anecdote with her. I'm sure we'll both be singing your version from now on. A fun and freaky fact I learned from listening to "Nights With Alice Cooper" is that Jimi Jamison is the background singer in all the Bud Light "Real American Heroes" and "Real Men Of Genius" commercials. When I heard that I said "Of course he is" There are more than 100 different commercials in the saga now and every one is as funny as the next. One of my personal favorites is "Mr. giant taco salad inventor."
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Funny thing for me is that even though I've heard both songs thousands of times it wasn't till about six months ago that it struck me; The bass line in "Eye Of The Tiger' and Stevie Nicks "Edge Of Seventeen" are the exact same. Listen to the beginning of each and you'll see what I'm talking about.
Yup -- you are correct, Mike. I actually could hear both of those songs in my mind, and the beginning is the same. Very cool fact about Jimi Jamison -- I had no idea! I will have to check those commercials out. What a funny coincidence that you have a friend named Audrey. I really thought those were the words -- and "taking our love away" seemed to fit perfectly into the theme of the song! I'm actually kind of disappointed now that I know it's "taking on the world."
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