A note about the Finchel duet
Faithfully and Pretending both happen in competitions they lose. Paradise By The Dashboard Light is different.
Because where Faithfully and Pretending are both songs ‘where they get together’ and express their love for eachother, Paradise By The Dashboard Light is the opposite of that.
The lyrics follow a story:
A boy and a girl go parking, and they’re making out and they might actually go all the way! The girl then tells the boy to stop, and demands he’ll love her forever and will make her his wife before she’ll have sex with him. At first the boy is trying to put it off with not answering and then we have this:
“I started swearing to my god and on my mother’s grave That I would love you to the end of time I swore that I would love you to the end of time!
So now I’m praying for the end of time To hurry up and arrive Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you I don’t think that I can really survive I’ll never break my promise or forget my vow But God only knows what I can do right now I’m praying for the end of time, so I can end my time with you
It was long ago and it was far away and it was so much better than it is today”
This song isn’t one of True Love, if anything it’s the opposite. It’s what happens when you commit too young to someone who isn’t someone you’ll want to spend the rest of your life with - no matter how good you are together in that heated moment.
Let’s just say, the whole marriage storyline? Actually, most of their romantic storyline so far, has been this. The engagement just made it extra clear they’re not going to last being together forever. And that’s fine too.
