"I'll put a spell on you, you'll fall asleep, and I'll be the first thing you see, and you'll realize that you love me"

I always thought this song portrayed the sweet notion of a passive, yet wishful, unrequited love. But listening to the extension on this live version of "Strange and beautiful", the sweet yet slightly desperate tone transforms into an angry and vengeful force and I thought perhaps, this song does reflect the evolution of an obsessive unrequited love.

First you watch from afar, then you love from afar, then you want from afar, (but you can't have from afar), so you feel rejected from afar, but you can't leave from afar, so you try to woo from afar, (but you can't win from afar), then you are broken from afar and now broken you want to break from afar, so you are vindictive from afar.

And suddenly you're in the news for murdering someone because you were caught at the crime scene crying into the person's hair with blood on your hands.

Regardless, it's a gorgeous song that always grabs my attention when it's on air.

On a more quaint note, it's always nice to think you can cast a spell to make someone fall in love with you. But in time, would that sort of love ever be enough?