The Eagles' "Take It Easy" includes this lyric:
Well, I'm a runnin' down the road tryin' to loosen my load
Got a world of trouble on my mind
Lookin' for a lover who won't blow my cover, she's so hard to find
Take it easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels make you crazy
Come on baby, don't say maybe
It hadn't struck me before: but 'blow my cover'? The chances that the narrator, here, is (let's say) a spy are, I suggest, small. Much more likely is the fact that he is, er, already married. 'Taking it easy' becomes code for 'conducting an extra-marital affair'. Dodgy.
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