“Everybody
always laughs at love
But what
they want is to be proven wrong.” —Daryl Hall and John Oates, “Did It in a
Minute,” written by Sara Allen, Janna Allen, and Daryl Hall, from the Hall and
Oates Private Eyes LP (1981)
It’s funny, but I’ve heard this song countless times
over the years, but—perhaps because the intonation of the line differed from
the rest of the song—never really paid attention to these particular lyrics. It’s only within
the past week or so, in a moment of absolute stillness and concentration, that
I finally heard and understood them.
Daryl Hall, by the way, wrote the song with his
longtime girlfriend Sara Allen (inspiration for “Sara Smile”) and her sister
Janna—who, tragically, died of leukemia at age 36.
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