
“I don’t know how to live without your love, I was born to make you happy. ‘Cause you’re the only one within my heart, I was born to make you happy. Always and forever you and me. That’s the way our life should be. I don’t know how to live without your love. I was born to make you happy.”
As if this didn’t already lead you to want to shake Britney by the shoulders and scream, “Calm down, girl, it’s just a dick–there’s plenty more where that came from,” her tirade of subservience gets even more intense in the final verse.
Spears pleas, “I’d do anything, I’d give you my world. I’d wait forever, to be your girl. Just call out my name and I will be there, just to show you how much I care.” Maybe if you weren’t acting so interested, your ex would be more into it. While some (mostly Jewish) men relish this sort of desperation and self-imposed enslavement, most other men prefer a challenge. At least the twenty-first century ones, anyway. So unless you fall for a Michael J. Fox sort of fellow, who’s here from the past via a time machine, I would not use this song as inspiration for anything other than karaoke.
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