Wicked Game

For my money, the two greatest unrequited love songs are: U2’s With or Without You, and Chris Isaak’s Wicked Game. The former can prompt one to hold a lighter in the air and bellow “…and you give yourself a-way-a”.

The latter makes (me) daydream of the Mulholland Highway; sweeping through the Santa Monica mountains at dusk in a 1972 BMW 3.0 CSi. Then I pullover at a some canyon overlook — where my wife and I slow dance in the car’s low-beams. The evening continues from there, but that’s just about…