My song today is ‘Knowing Me, Knowing You’. This song was a hit single recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA. The song was written by Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson, with Anni-Frid Lyngstad singing the lead vocals. The song is featured on the group's album ‘Arrival’ and on the compilation ‘Gold: Greatest Hits’. Recorded in 1976 at the Metronome studio in Stockholm and was released as a single in February 1977, it became one of the group's more successful hits. Group member Benny Andersson named ‘Knowing Me, Knowing You’ as one of ABBA's best recordings in a 2004 interview, along with’ Dancing Queen’, The Winner Takes All’ and ‘When I Kissed The Teacher’.
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When I think about it, few of us ever ‘really get to know’ another individual, however well we think we do. We only ever get to see what the other person chooses to let us see and know. Indeed, it would become impossible, were one not allowed to have private and exclusive space inside one’s head for one’s own private thoughts. However honest we are or try to be, most of us will hold back something when it comes to disclosing all; when it involves relating each and every detail of one’s experience with another person, set of circumstances or event.
Take the closet of loving relationships for example. It matters not if is one’s parents, siblings, friends, spouse, lover, or girlfriend (or even a professional/work relationship), we usually tell people what we feel safest and most comfortable with. Take our most intimate relationships of all, with the opposite sex. None of us come to a new relationship without carrying some concealed baggage. No partner we eventually settle down with and marry will ever benefit from knowing everything about your past relationships. Knowing that you once loved another more than you do them, or that even someone you did not love was the best bed-partner you ever lay with, can never be conducive towards being completely reconciled in your present partner’s mind and actions
If I claim one success regarding my earlier romantic years when I did not want to settle down with the young woman who I courted, it was that we always ended our relationship as friends and that we remained friends thereafter. That, on its own, suggests the presence of a healthy degree of respect between the couple.
Love and peace Bill xxx