The song's pretty clear about that part, but not all college kids are legal adults, and there's always going to be a power differential between a college kid and someone much older.
It’s funny that I always felt sympathy for Maggie, but now that I examine it, she was kind of a jerk. He’s two weeks behind at school, after wasting his summer chasing her. But that remark on her age…sick burn 🔥
And this is after she turned into a lover and a mother and wearing him out. Given the age difference she was probably up half the night with hot flashes and insomnia. No wonder her bloody face is showing its age!
It's such an evocative narrative for a break up song.
"Wake up, Maggie, I think I got somethin' to say to you,
It's late September and I really should be back at school,
I know I keep you amused, but I feel I'm being used,
Oh, Maggie, I couldn't have tried any more"
Imagine waking up, still half asleep, and Rod Stewart is there pouring his heart out for five whole minutes. Like, Rod, can I at least brush my teeth first?
Maggie May will forever be a memory of a lunchtime meat pie in the pub across the road from Ipswich Art School listening to the juke-box, with sun streaming through the window through clouds of cigarette smoke, while dreaming of my teenage love.
I can still taste the pie.
Always think of my first love when I hear that song. She was twenty and I was seventeen but she seemed impossibly worldly and wise to me. She taught me books and I suppose I taught her wild eyed trance walking. She is an English professor today, I am an aging but still enthusiastic walker.
As a Maggie and a lyrics person, I can say that this is only one of several problems with this song. Please stop singing it to us: he’s annoying, and we all look young and lovely in the morning light.
I’m a morning person but if I was woken up by him or anyone else singing in my ear and they didn’t bring me at least a coffee , there would be big trouble
As much as I love Rod Stewart, if he even so much as started to sing that to me when I'm trying to sleep, I'd slap the shit out of him and tell him to shut up lmao
That being said, I'm still hoping to get a ticket to hear him sing that live for me lol
Yeah it’s kind of a lot to dump on someone who was just trying to sleep. “What you’re going back to school? You’re joining a rock and roll band that needs a helping hand? Go back to sleep, Rod.”
My dad would bring this up every single time the song came on the radio. “This is an awful lot to put on someone you just woke up to talk to, don’t you think?”
LET somebody try to come at me with "Wake up Lisa, I think I got something to say to you!" right out of sleep. They will be complaining from an Uber in 2.5 minutes, mark my words.
But Maggie was still asleep. He basically sung the whole song to them while they were still asleep. Not bad for someone who only ‘thought’ he had something to say to them.
Lucky you are the recipient of my very first bsky.
I think Maggie would have kicked him in the head again.
Never actually heard this song even though it's from my era.
Well he's waking her up to tell her he has to go to school, enough of this crazy life as her toy boy. Better that he woke her than sneaking out like an ingrate
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“Wake up Maggie, I think I’ve got something to say to you…”
Ah shite.
"Wake up, Maggie, I think I got somethin' to say to you,
It's late September and I really should be back at school,
I know I keep you amused, but I feel I'm being used,
Oh, Maggie, I couldn't have tried any more"
I can still taste the pie.
Yeah. I'm old.
Imagine being woken up by THAT nose, only to then be subjected to a four-verse exposition dump.
You WERE used.
Now pack up your mandolin and go already.
Cheers,
Maggie
because he couldn't just wait a minute to blame her for HIS choices, even though he clearly only "thought" he had something to say to her
no coffee, nothing, and he just dumps on her?
sounds like you had a good time while it lasted, no need to be so rude
Let the old woman sleep, man
“Wake up, Maggie, I think I got somethin' to say to you”
It’s never established that she does actually wake up🤷🏼♀️✍️💖
The morning sun when it's in your face
Really shows your age
He continues:
But that don't worry me none, in my eyes you're everything
I laughed at all of your jokes
My love you didn't need to coax
He also says:
You stole my heart, but I love you anyway
Nah sorry. No excuse!
That being said, I'm still hoping to get a ticket to hear him sing that live for me lol
"Now? Before I even have coffee?!?"
Rude!
"OK, but how about some fucking coffee, punk?"
(Except the last line doesn’t rhyme)
And it's not like she's gently awoken from her slumber, he's literally bellowed "Wake up Maggie!" down her ear!
I think Maggie would have kicked him in the head again.
Never actually heard this song even though it's from my era.
I think that's where that adage, "...let sleeping head kickers lie" comes from 🤭