Minnie Driver Loves Her Dog

I love a good celebrity musician. I can listen to Bruce Willis plug away at his harmonica for hours (he’ll do it too, just ask). And when Jared Leto put on that goth makeup and sings plaintively into the camera, it warms my heart. Sure, nothing will ever compare to the Blues Brothers and their extended R&B ruminations, but we keep trotting celebrities out there, hoping one will stick. Most of the celebrity “women” who try to rule the musical world are pop-rock nymphets like Lindsey Lohan or whichever one of the Duff Girls sings (it may be both, I can’t tell them apart) but once in a while we get a real WOman out there to sing. Someone with class, style and distinction goes up there and makes all us sit up and notice.

That someone is Minnie Driver. You know, the English woman with the enormous head who never gets to use her English accent because we want all of our English women to sound like they’re just ordinary Americans, even if it wouldn’t have made a bit of difference to the story? Yeah that one. Good Actress. Well, she’s made an album or two, believe it or not. And this gem, a love song sang (apparently) to her dog, just blew me away. And the surging footage? Definitely worthy of a Hasselhoff award.

I wanna lay down with you
Forever
Or just this afternoon
Watching the shadows getting long
I’ll sing you a quiet song
Watch you sleep, slow and deep

Baby I know that all your pain will pass
I know your sad
But it wont last
I’m betting you everything, that I’ve got in my pocket
When your staring out into the sky
See what you have
And don’t ask why
Things can be different, be Perfect

I wanna remind you how to laugh
Sometimes you don’t even, make a sound
Until you fall down on the ground
And I want to love you everyday
And maybe it will balance out the pain
I can’t take away

Baby I know that all your pain will pass
I know your sad
But it wont last
I’m betting you everything, that I’ve got in my pocket
When your staring out into the sky
See what you have
And don’t ask why
Things can be different, be Perfect

So come on and lay down with me
I’ll tell you all the useless things that I have learned
But theres one good thing my old man told me:

Baby I know that all your pain will pass
I know your sad
But it wont last
I’m betting you everything, that I’ve got in my pocket
When your staring out into the sky
See what you have
And don’t ask why
Things can be different, be Perfect

Ohh be perfect…