Fan reviews/comments

INSIDE SILVIA
(words and music by Rick Springfield) 

   
I love that look comes in your eyes when we're all alone 
And it's much too late for friends to come calling 
I disconnect the phone 
And I put on the radio and I take her and I talk real low 
And I hold her tight and soon I'm dancing in the night

Inside Silvia, oh Silvia, yeah, yeah, Silvia 
I know my love is alive 
Inside Silvia, yeah Silvia, oh Silvia, oh

Sometimes you get so crazy,  I know it's all in your mind 
And right in the middle of the night, I see just what you need 
And they say that love is blind 
And I hold you til the feelings come 
But sometimes when the lovin's done 
I see a scared little girl 
Afraid of the woman

Inside Silvia, yeah Silvia, oh Silvia,  
I know my love is alive 
Inside Silvia, yeah Silvia, oh Silvia, oh

Though the world can rage and storm 
There's still one harbor where I'm safe and warm

It's when I'm Inside Silvia, yeah Silvia, oh Silvia, oh 
Inside Silvia, yeah Silvia, oh Silvia, oh
Inside Silvia, oh Silvia, 
I know my love is alive 
Inside Silvia, yeah Silvia, oh Silvia, oh
Inside Silvia......

(total playing time: 4:43)

SONG FACTS:

Rick  re-recorded this song for the Greatest Hits Alive Video.
Rick performs this song often at concerts.

This is my favorite Rick Springfield song. From the first time that I played the record (yes I am that old) - I was in love. I wanted to be Sylvia and have this song playing in the background of my seduction. Twenty plus years later…I still love the song and all of the sexual references. I often wondered why as a heartthrob Rick did not write more “ballad like” love songs. I think that Rick does a great job of capturing the feeling that a young woman has about her sexuality-so many of us look like a woman on the outside; yet, are still a young girl on the inside when we have our first sexual encounters.

 Inside Silvia is my favorite song on the WCD album. This one I find myself replaying when I listen to WCD. The version on the Alive video is amazing.

My favorite line is:

"Though the world can rage and storm, there's still one harbor where I'm safe and warm"

I always find myself taking a deep breath when I hear that line.

Although I think this is one of Rick's more sexual songs......I think there may be a double meaning behind the words. 

"Sometimes you get so crazy..I know its all in your mind..I see a scared little girl..Afraid of the woman inside Silvia"    In addition to the physical meaning in the song, I think he does refer in these lines to understanding what is also going on inside Silvia's mind and understanding her possible insecure feelings.

"I know my love is alive inside Silvia"  I think this may have an emotional meaning as well.....that maybe this love is also inside of her heart.

"There's still one harbor where I'm safe and warm"  Again, I think this might mean that Rick needs that human touch / relationship that gives him a safe harbor from the crazy world, a bad day or whatever he is going through at the
time.

I think this is a beautiful song.

I swear, this is the dirtiest song that Rick has ever written.  I've known all along that the song had that whole "sexual relationship" vibe going on.  But even the title, if you really think about it "Inside Silvia", I don't believe he's talking about inside her head or inside her spirit.  I think it's blatantly sexual.  Oh, did I mention this is my all time favorite song Rick has ever recorded?!

I LOVE this song.  And, for anyone who has missed this live, Rick has asked the audience before if they knew what "and I hold you 'til the feelings come" meant back then, and if they know what it means now (and if not to ask their boyfriends).

My favorite line: "Though the world can rage and storm, there's still one harbor where I'm safe and warm."  I love that part.

This is one of my favorites if not THE favorite.   I loved this song the first time I ever heard it.  I guess I was 10 years old at the time, but I understood the double meaning even then.  I do think that he's talking about being inside her head as well though.  I think he means BOTH.   That's what is so great about it.  Depending on what mood I'm in, I can either listen to and hear it romantically or I can listen to it and hear it as being totally DIRTY. 

I think that more than anything this is the song responsible for me falling head over heals for Rick Springfield.  Specifically, I always loved the very line that you mentioned below.  Now though, there is another part that I love more since the Alive video.  You know at the end when his voice usually goes up when he says "I know my love is alive".  But on the alive video, there is that one part where his voice goes down instead.  Then it's followed by the AWWWWE part that nearly gives me chills.  Wow....I think I'm revealing a bit too much here.

"I love that look that comes in your eyes when we're all alone" Sigh...Exactly the words a girl wants to hear from a man like Rick.   Excluding all the reasons why I love Jessie's Girl, this has got to be my favorite song on this album. I think my hearing/listening to this song exceeds the millionth-time mark, and I'm not joking. I had gotten into the habit of putting my walkman headphones on when I went to bed and would fall  asleep listening to Rick, because growing up in my house meant there was  usually an argument after we kids went to bed, and I would rather have Rick  singing in my ear then to listen to my parents screaming at each other. I would never fall asleep until I had heard this song...it's melodies are so soothing. Even when Rick is not singing, it is beautiful to me.

I cannot even pick out a specific line that is my favorite, because all the words are so meaningful - in my opinion it is a true love song. When I was thirteen, I thought this was the most wonderful love song I had ever heard.

Of course, it took me a few months to pick up the sexual innuendoes throughout...;-) Let's just say I was pretty naive about that stuff until that sex ed class in school. If I had to pick one that stands out for me, it would be "...and I hold you, until the feelings come/but sometimes when the lovin's done...I see a scared little girl afraid of the woman" For a girl who had not, uh let's say - experienced any of that yet, I certainly could identify with this part of the song. I so wanted to be in love with a guy like Rick who would understand how scary that whole sex thing is the first time around.

The first time I saw Rick live, in 1982 in Detroit he performed this song. Now, I was already on cloud 9 because, #1...I was in the SAME ROOM as Rick Springfield. #2... It was actually HIM down there on that stage. (and I kept saying that over and over again " I can't believe it's really him" ..until my friend smacked me) #3...He performed Inside Silvia. Until that point, I had no idea he could play keyboards. I still have the image in my head of a sweaty Rick, with his suit shirt sleeves rolled up, tie loosened (but still on) sitting down and singing this song with all the emotion heard on the record. Eyes closed, slight falsetto in the voice... (there are times like this I wish I could just take you all into my brain - it is much more vivid  than what I can express here) I cried, I was so filled with emotion. My friend that went with me to the show could not believe I had tears in my eyes. (disclaimer: I am by nature a very "soppy" person - those damn Hallmark commercials make me cry every time) I told her it was because I fell in love with Rick Springfield, right then and there. Of course, we're thirteen...we are going to fall in love again a hundred times with other singer/actors/celebrities, right? Not me, I'm a pretty monogamous fan :-)