Lend Me Your Love: Difference between revisions

{{a|popsong|{{image|Memphis slim|jpg|Mr. Slim, yesterday}}<br>{{popsong|Lend Me Your Love|Memphis Slim|3222785}}}}Memphis Slim’s [[Lend Me Your Love]] is, like Billy Idol’s [[Rebel Yell]] a fine example of a lyric that correctly, if metaphorically, employes technical legal terminology.  Mr. Slim was evidently often in the business of [[Borrow|borrowing]], [[rehypothecating]] and possibly [[Short selling|short-selling]], his affection. He sings:

:''I know you hear me keep moanin’, moanin’ just like Noah’s dove<ref>A bird released by Noah after the flood in order to find land; it eventually came back carrying a freshly plucked olive leaf (Gen 8, 11). It seems to have been a rather patient dove: stoic, even. There is no mention of it “moaning” or registering any particular complaint, though it did bugger off at the first opportunity it got.</ref><br>  

The transaction seems to be this:  

*As [[collateral]] [[security]] for his obligation to return her love, Mr. Slim grants Ms. Baby a [[mortgage]] over his own love, which for the time being, he is holding on his own balance sheet.  

*We surmise that Mr Slim is intending to take Baby’s love and [[reuse]] it (or “[[rehypothecate]]” it, as our American friends might say) elsewhere.  

*Seeing as he has at least an [[equivalent]] amount of his own love which he is holding subject to a [[fixed charge]], we deduce that Baby’s love and Memphis Slim’s love cannot be [[fungible]] (otherwise this would be a transaction without any economic substance. Which would get Memphis Slim’s [[tax attorney]]s in a lather.)

*While their respective loves might not be [[fungible]], Mr Slim contemplates buying out his obligations under the [[love mortgage]], perhaps with love received from this other woman, raising the prospect that the love of one woman might (in Mr Slim’s [[Legal opinion|opinion]], at any rate) be freely exchangeable, strongly [[correlated]]  [[mark-to-market]] values, if not outright [[fungible]] with the love of another. The [[JC]] prefers not to speculate.  This sounds less than ideal — sub-prime, so to speak.

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