Song Meaning
The lyrics drop us into a scene of immediate discomfort: a splitting headache from a "terrible hangover." Yet, amidst this physical misery, the speaker is blindsided by an even more inconvenient truth: "To fall in love, what a thing!" This sudden, unwelcome emotion clashes sharply with their already rough day.
The core tension here is the speaker's exasperation with an emotion they can't control, particularly its awful timing. The repeated phrase "What a thing!" (何てことかしら) underscores a profound disbelief and almost comedic frustration. This isn't a romantic sigh, but a groan of "Oh, *now* this?" as if love is just another item on a very long list of bad luck.
The lyrics brilliantly use a string of mundane, often negative, similes to describe this unexpected infatuation. It's "like high heels about to break," suggesting fragility and impending collapse. It's "like a weather forecast no one believes," highlighting its unreliability and the speaker's own skepticism. Later, it's "like measles," implying something common yet inconvenient and perhaps embarrassing, and "like a Monday with a downpour," a universally unwelcome scenario. These comparisons ground the grand emotion of falling in love in a relatable, almost comically unfortunate, everyday context.
The true punch arrives with the revelation: "I'm getting married tomorrow." This single line transforms the speaker's earlier exasperation into a moment of profound, almost tragicomic irony. The love isn't just inconvenient; it's catastrophic. The final lines, "It's always like this...truly unlucky, what a pity," cement the speaker's self-perception as someone perpetually plagued by ill-timed emotions and unfortunate circumstances, making the sudden infatuation less a grand romance and more another entry in a long history of bad luck.
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