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Thursday 28 March 2024

Word of the day - INDEX OF WORDS








These are the songs in the "Word of the day" series.

 Click on each to read about it.

#1 ENNUI

#2 MELANCHOLY

#3 ONOMATOPOEIA

#4 PUSILLANIMOUS

#5 SANCTIMONY

#6 SAPPHIC

#7 DUPLICITUS

#8 SUPERCILIOUS

#9 PEDANTIC

#10 MALLEABLE

#11 FEBRILE

#12 LICKSPITTLE

#13 FENDERSMITH

#14 FRIPPERY

#15 CURMUDGEON

#16 NIGGARD

#17 FLUMMOX

#18 CORNUCOPIA

#19 DISPASSIONATELY

#20 DISCOMBOBULATION

#21 SCHADENFREUDE

#22 INCONTROVERTIBLE

#23 FECUNDITY

#24 DISSOLUTION

#25 GALLIMAUFRY

#26 OBFUSCATION

#27 POLYSEMY

#28 FACETIOUS

#30 OBSEQUIOUS

#31 CIRCUMSPECTION

#32 GAWPING

#33 FULMINATING

#34 ENCOMIUM

#35 MALEFICENCE

#36 CORUSCATE

#37 TEMERITY

#38 HUBRIS

#39 TRUCULENCE

#40 RIGMAROLE

#41 PERNICIOUS

#42 ACCRETION

#43 NITHERED

#44 NARCISSISM

#45 FESTOON

#46 GOBSMACKED

#47 FUGUE




Meaningful songs - INDEX OF SONGS







These are the songs in the "Meaningful songs" series.

 Click on each to hear it.

#1 BLUE MINK - Melting Pot                                                     Read article

#2 NORMAN GREENBAUM - Spirit In The Sky                    Read article

#3 MUNGO JERRY - In The Summertime                              Read article

#4 THE KINKS - Lola                                                                   Read article

#5 LOU REED - Walk On The Wild Side                                  Read article

#6 RALPH McTELL - Streets Of London                                 Read article

#7 ELVIS COSTELLO - Alison                                                    Read article

#8 DORY PREVIN - Lemon Haired Ladies                              Read article

# 9 BILLY PAUL - Me And Mrs Jones                                       Read article

#10 CHARLES AZNAVOUR - She                                              Read article

#11 THE ROLLING STONES - Angie                                         Read article

#12 HELEN REDDY - Angie Baby                                              Read article

#13 INSTANT AUTOMATONS - Harriot's Nurse                    Read article

#14 SINEAD O'CONNOR - Nothing Compares To You          Read article

#15 CARLY SIMON - You're So Vain                                          Read article

#16 PETULA CLARK - Downtown                                              Read article

#17 CHARLES AZNAVOUR - Yesterday when I was young  Read article

#18 THE BEATLES - She's Leaving Home                                Read article

#19 DAVID BOWIE - Letter To Hermione                                Read article

#20 THE SPECIALS - Ghost Town                                             Read article

#21 THE STRANGLERS - Golden Brown                                 Read article

#22 GARBAGE - Stupid Girl                                                        Read article

       With Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go To My Lovely

#23 STAN RIDGEWAY - Camouflage                                        Read article

#24 BLACK SABBATH - War Pigs                                              Read article

#25 ARGENT - Hold Your Head Up                                           Read article

#26. TRACEY THORN - Too Happy.                                         Read article

#27 GEORGE MICHAEL - A Different Corner                        Read Article

GLEN CAMPBELL - Wichita Lineman

THE ARCHIES - Sugar Sugar

GLEN CAMPBELL - By The Time I Get To Phoenix

THE CARPENTERS - Rainy Days And Mondays

GARRY PUCKETT & THE UNION GAP

FUN BOY THREE - Our Lips Sealed

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Four-on-the-floor American rarities - Northern Soul hits


FRANK WILSON - Do I Love you (Indeed I Do)

THE TAMS - Be Young Be Foolish Be Happy

CURTIS MAYFIELD's - Move On Up (cover by The Northers Souls)

AL WILSON - The Snake

FRANKIE VALLI AND THE FOUR SEASONS -The Night-

GLORIA JONES - Tainted Love 1964 and 80s smash hit by SOFT CELL

CHARLIE RICH - Don't Tear Me Down

DUKE BROWNER - Crying Over You

OTIS CLAY - The Only Way Is Up  Joyous steps and later YAZZ version

JUDY STREET - What

THE VIBRATIONS - 'Cause You're Mine

THE 5 ROYALES - Catch That Teardrop

KELLY GARRETT - Love's The Only Answer

JASON KNIGHT - Our Love Is Getting Stronger

TURLEY RICHARDS - I Feel Alright

DEAN PARRISH - Tell Her

GENE CHANDLER - There Was A Time

BRENDA HOLLOWAY - Look What You've Done What You

SANDI SHELDON - Your Gonna Make Me Love You

YOUNGHEARTS - A Little Togetherness

LAURA MICHELE - You Always Hurt The One You Love

SAM DEES - Lonely For You Baby

HERB JOHNSON AND THE IMPACTS - I'm So Glad

TERRIBLE TOM - We Were Made For Each Other

THE SHIRELLES - Last Minute Mira

THE VEL-VETS - I Got To Find Me Somebody

DON GARDNER - Cheatin' Kind

JAMES CARR - That's What I Want To Know

JIMMY RUFFIN - What Becomes Of The Broken-hearted


Dancing in the spirit if Norther Soul -  ROLY PLATT AND JUSTIN FORESLY - Shuffle The Deck (great video)



SKA from Jamaica, was multi-ethnic in the UK


PRINCE BUSTER - They Call It Madness

THE SPECIALS - Gangsters (cover of Al Capone?)

DANDY LIVINGSTONE - Rudy A Message To You (orig)

THE SPECIALS - Rudy A Message To You (copy)

BAD MANNERS - Wooly Bully

THE SELECTER - On My Radio

THE SPECIALS - Too Much Too Young

DESMOND DEKKER AND THE ACES - The Isrealites

THE SPECIALS - Nelson Mandela

PRINCE BUSTER - Enjoy Yourself

BAD MANNERS - My Girl Lollipop

THE SPECIALS - Ghost Town

THE BEAT - Hands Off She's Mine

BAD MANNERS -Lip Up Fatty

SYMARIP - Skinhead Moonstomp

DAVE AND ANSELL COLLINS - Double Barrel

THE BEAT - Mirror In The Bathroom

THE SPECIALS - Do Nothing

BAD MANNERS - Inner London

DENNIS BROWN - Money In My Pocket

THE HARRY JAY ALL STARS - Liquidator (no vocal)

THE UPSETTERS - Return Of Django (no vocal)

UPTOWN TOP RANKING - Althea And Donna

THE BEAT - Rough Rider

DESMOND DEKKER - Baby Come Back

LORD CREATOR - Hurry Up

MUSICAL YOUTH - Pass The Dutchie

MADNESS - One Step Beyond

PRINCE BUSTER - Al Capone

THE PIONEERS - Long Shot Kick De Bucket

JUNIOR REID - Banana Boat Man

THE BEAT - Rankin Full Stop



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Word of the day - FUGUE

The word today is Fugue

Fugue is a noun and is unusual as it can mean two things:

- A musical piece with two or more intertwining voices

- Disturbed consciousness, with no memory after recovery

A word with two meanings





A musical fugue can be irritating or enchanting
A medical fugue is very rare and confusing for all

If you need more about musical fugue start here or here
If you need more about medical fugue start here or here
Dictionay definitions are here or here.

There is an index of words of the day.

Tuesday 26 March 2024

Netanyahu digs his hole

Benjamin Netanyahu (on/off prime minister of Israel since 1996) is being squeezed, as never before, because of his apparent desire to erase Israel's Palestinian "problem" and fight off internal dissenters, whilst hoping the USA doesn't turn into a "frenemy" of Israel. As South Africa cites Israel for a Genocide in Gaza, the USA is fast losing diplomatic patience with their "errant child" as he steps out onto very thin ice indeed. US President Biden has decided strong words are not enough and now refuses to use its veto for a UN Security Council resolution that an immediate ceasefire in Gaza be agreed, on humanitarian grounds

By rejecting strong signals from the USA (and others), to get his house in order and stabilise their seemingly never-ending Palestinian "problems", the hubris of Benjamin Netanyahu will be his downfall, for if these two fall-out Israel would indeed look like a little country. 

The USA put a shot across his bow by reiterating that supplied arms must be used legally and within international law, yet the Israeli's have "gone over the top" against Palestinians and Hamas in Gaza, causing the Dutch to refuse F-35 parts. The USA has also started to sanction individuals within Israel itself as a cease and desist policy. He has had his warnings and now the USA will not stomach his wanton destruction of property and mostly civilians any longer; they are overflying Gaza for drops of aid, in the face of what this apparent despot wantsNetanyahu is a survivor, but his problems are stacking up now as Israel is sorely vexing it's biggest ally and has to come to its main sponsors heel. 

If Trump comes back into power Israel may be tossed to the "dogs"!


Benjamin Netanyahu


Netanyahu, for so long the strongman of Israeli politics, is now being pressured from within Israel as the Gaza war edges beyond conflict into a genocide. His prior attempts at fiddling with their constitution (courts) remains unresolved and very unpopular, with many seeing him as flawed by despotic tendencies.  He is maybe coming to the end of his reign of influence for rejecting the USA is not going to be good for him, regional stability, nor Israel; and internal dissent is being made public, with "his own people" willing to undermine his political standing.

Monday 25 March 2024

Smart Meters - I tried to warn you


For years I have been pestered by E.ON,, who are persistent in their assertion that they "must" replace my electricity meter (new five years ago). They "must" install a "smart meter" in order to offer many advantages to myself.


I DO NOT WANT A SMART METER,
 NOR CAN THEY FORCE ME TO HAVE ONE!

Their assertion that they "must" do anything more than supply and bill me for electricity is false. At best their "must" could be, "we would like to", or "we are being pressured by government to", but "must"? I don't think so. Consumers cannot legally be forced onto a smart meter, even though they have probably already paid for it in some form of prior green levy.

Let me explain:

A smart meter will tell me how much electricity I am using and may thus induce me to reduce my consumption and related bill, but it will not. I will not reduce their exposure to my possible indebtedness for I refuse to be a frozen, meek pensioner, stressed-out and intimidated daily by its "helpful" information. They will never tell me the reason courts may come knocking is because I "chose" to ignore the advice of a damned smart meter. No way - if I'm freezing my arse off the electric heating goes on.

A smart meter accurately records and transmits consumption to them each half hour, for no advantage to myself in any way; and whilst I am happy for E.ON to send me accurate bills based on monthly meter readings that I supply and pay online, at no cost to them, I do not want to host technology that facilitates an ability to vary the cost of my electricity, on a half hourly basis, during periods of high national demand (for instance), nor do I want "encouraging" to consume, or charge and tax my car, outside of "peak times" (Or pay more for the privilege). Update 2023: I wrote the paragraph above in 2018 and it has come to pass in 2023. With sufficient smart meters in use suppliers are confident enough to test their ideas by offering discounts to users taking power in "off-peak" times. This is merely to test their ability to bill for dynamic variation(s) of the electricity price. Believe me, once established the true intent will be revealed; that electricity used at peak demand via a smart meter will be charged automatically at a higher rate, in order to give evermore profit and to smooth power demand in order to mask the deficiencies in the UK's power generation and supply network. You were warned! and this is what the industry is doingUpdate 2024: Finally "they" reveal their hand and the motive(s) behind the drive for smart meters: more control and more profit by charging different amounts for electricity according to circumstances beyond the control of millions of (poor) subscribers, or those who have bought electric vehicles..

A side-issue with smart meters is their ability to be remotely changed into pre-payment mode, meaning you suddenly become "a valued customer" who is deemed poor because you missed a bill payment by more than 15 days (perhaps because your insurer doubled your pending motor insurance and yet you still have to feed the kids!); the real kicker is that pre-paid electricity costs you more and what the supplier has really done is make even more profits from "poor" customers. Without a smart meter this would not happen as readily, so no smart meter for me thank you.

I do not blame electrical vendors wanting more profit in return for not embarrassing politicians, whose inability to enforce national strategic capacity planning is about to be exposed, (as national power generation is nearly incapable of satisfying peak demand), but I simply do not want to be billed every half hour on a Variable Tariff Rate, nor be bullied into changing my consumption patterns; or worse still have a pre-payment only mode downloaded into my meter which will make the same electricity as anyone else cost me more. 

Furthermore, I will not want a meter I "must" have, that can automatically cut me off, or tax me on the amount of power my electric car tells any smart meter it has taken, nor be "hacked" at some time in the future, as most other "Internet of things" seems to suffer these days; when some hacker works out how to tell all metres to shut down, mine will not be one of them.

No thanks E.ON; keep you smart meter, or I will switch to another supplier (not possible by 2023 as any move now stipulate a smart meter is require), something I know will not be trouble free, because their billing systems will not understand the transmissions from an E.ON "smart meter".


Sorry readers, rant over. Normal service will now resume...

Consequences?

Your rights according to Ofgen



Sunday 24 March 2024

Hi Hong Kong on your Macintosh

I see many readers from Hong Kong but are you real people and why do you find my pathetically little site so interesting all of a sudden?


Good luck

TENDING MY ROSE

As we age and start to look beyond the excitements of youth, a need for personal closeness beyond that of  "mates" begins to gather momentum. Not quite a nesting instinct that will come later, but a quiet murmuring in the backwaters of your mind, incessant and sometimes worrying, that comes upon you regularly like a tide, it cannot be turned and sometimes you feel you are drowning in "something" other than self-pity or mere lustfulness. You just know you are ready for a meaningful and loving personal relationship.

Such feelings of unresolved longing, of ennui, can almost consume a person's normal thoughts and a malaise with social withdrawal from those "settling-down", getting married and "nesting" into parenthood. Your need to follow them can become overpowering and sometimes lead to acts of embarrassing social desperation. This I have experienced.

Talking to a piece of paper via a poem may help (as it did me), and a few tears are not uncommon, but best kept secret (I thought).

The following words were/are a retrospective confirmation that I had found someone (my wife of many years) and that in my former barren garden of  life I tended a beautiful rose, who is actually called Rose.

I wish for any readers approaching their time of "settling-down" that your segue goes smoothly.


Wandering the garden of life
I longed for a flower.

I needed a flower,
for looking about others tended theirs
large and small
short and tall;
and I tended nothing.

Through my winter of life
nothing grew till I found you.

I longed for a flower
and found a rose.




Friday 22 March 2024

Mothers Love (or do they?)


In the UK two child brothers were sentenced to indefinite detention for the appalling abuse and torture of two unrelated boys; a prophetic conclusion to their "toxic life" finally came to pass.

Leaving aside the ritualistic media driven "investigations" and "new" recommendations that inevitably followed, adding to the burden on the shelf of hard-core social service failures and the burgeoning (and yet somehow restricting) cannon of advice papers, guidance documents and government directives; when will we allow ourselves to ask the most fundamental of questions, 

Who wrecked the lives of these children?
Who to prosecuted for destruction of their rightful expectations?
Who allowed their lives to be so "toxic"? 
Who allowed "care" to reach a point where lives were taken or children broken to become so sociopathic as to render as fully-fledged sadistic beings.

Who but their "parents" of course!

Agencies who have legislation to effectively intercede in any child's history may fail, but rolling back a child's history leads ultimately to their "parents", most importantly their mother. God only knows why women conspiratorially stand by men (and vice-versa) who foul their children on a daily basis; who fear, loathe and attack their "partner" and yet still "love" them? I don't think I'll ever know but my desire to see punishment fitting a crime also encompasses a desire to see the catalysts of crime punished equally.

The parents of these boys had so obviously abused them through neglect and (dare one still say) a complete lack of any effective social guidance, also deserve punishment. If they have remaining children it can only be assumed they are equally damaged and in need of help, but what seems certain is they do not need those parents! Lock-up the adults for the same amount of time as the underaged thugs they "raise".

The oft' quoted Jesuit motto, "Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man," seems to be most appropriate at this time, so look after your kids please, as you would like them to look after you. (Once the state completes its rollback to the Victorian model of family support.)

Though I did not write the following poem I wish I had, for I admire its ability to express an obvious anger without any incitement to violence. Author PAUL ENGLAND is slowly documenting what we take to be his life’s experiences and I believe he deserves a wider audience.

A MOTHER SO COLD

Mother let me tell you
I don't give a fuck;
shit, I felt it too
when fathers place you took.

Am I a child you could not hold
you callous fucking cunt,
you call me cold!
shit, you've got some front.

For father told me this;
how ready you are to scold,
so excuse me all you people
if I am talking bold,
but mother said some shit
that went and touched my heart,
so I'll take her to my rhymes
and rip that bitch apart.

I'm crying while I write
‘cos this shit hurts to say
but I feel I have to write
‘cos the pain won't go away.

You see there is a line
but you crossed that long ago,
that day you got so selfish
and dad walked out the door.

So keep your love
and save it for another,
for what you've done to me:
you just can't be a mother.


On average, at least one child is killed each week in the UK, often at the hands of guilty parents or "carers"; this statistic as changed little for decades and is apparently an intractable problem. I'd want both parents forcibly sterilised. What would you have done with this lot?

     August 2020 - Bimbo killer mother
      - Mar 2024 - As should her "man", with commentary
                           This sub-human should hang for his crime ... 
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Sunday 17 March 2024

Word of the day - GOBSMACKED

The word today is Gobsmacked

Gobsmacked is an adjective and means the following:

- To be rendered speechless or bereft of words through shock or awe

- To be so utterly surprised or astounded one cannot speak

- When your senses or feelings are so overwhelmed you cannot speak



Gobsmacked is mostly used in the UK, but spreading via media use
Gobsmacked is a "shorthand" for other expressions of astoundment
Gobsmacked is now regarded as slang, though it is s proper word
One could say, "I was so shocked I was gobsmacked"
I could say of another, "his shock was so great he was gobstruck"

If you need more start here or here.

There is an index of words of the day.

Saturday 16 March 2024

Dump Trump 'cos he's a chump

Attention USA! Wake up for God's sake and get your leaders in order, or better still retire some of them.

We Europeans, for the most part, regard Donald Trump to be a dangerously narcissistic idiot (along with others!), who rather than "make America great again" (as it was up to the 70's), will probably precipitate some sort of social implosion there; you have enough explosive factions, such as Jews, Blacks, Hispanics, Illegals and of course, good old Whitey: all chomping at their bits to aggravate each other, but "you", sane electorate, must sort out this mess.

Start by by retiring Biden (just about dead) and dump Trump because he's a chump. Of those two, Trump will screw you because Trump loves Trump alone, so pleaseUSA , US ,, Donald Trump , Trump , Biden , Biden and Trump , Trump and Biden

Dump Trump 'cos he's a chump

(Pass it on!)

Tuesday 12 March 2024

A Despicable Act

Russia!

PUTIN!!!

A despicable and unnecessary act that killed people at prayer was perpetrated by the Russian military this day. Despite their ability to destroy any other part of Ukraine with their pin-point accuracy weapons, they chose to target a church of all things; a non-strategic "target" was wilfully destroyed in Odesa, a world heritage designated area.

Why?

Because they can, I suppose, but certainly not in the name of many, many Russians, who are a proud people whose standing in the world has and is still being trashed by the corrupted and criminal fraternity now driving that country to a place that is detrimental to all who partake. 

Please wake-up you massed Russians and find the inner strength to subvert the actions of your despot leaders who are running the once proud name of Russia, its heritage and its children into dust.








Start reading of this here ....

The fire inside ...

A Wagner story ...

Killing children in a non-military target . "Normal" Russian must be sooooo proud of their valiant military puppets.

Russian irregular troops have turned their backs on Putin and attacked land inside Russia. Will their action be a catalyst for change?

Sunday 10 March 2024

Word of the day - FESTOON

The word today is Festoon

Festoon is a noun / verb  and means the following:

- To decorate a room, person or object for a special occasion

- To  decorate with hanging embellishments, usually curved like drapes


A festoon


If you festoon someone they are said to become festooned
Festooning is the process of  making them festooned 
Whilst becoming festooned someone/thing undergoes festoonment
The word drape could replace festoon in many sentences (I think).

The noun festoon first appeared in the 1600s when it was used, as it still is today, to refer to  decorative chain or strips hung between two points, be it on a person or object. After a century’s worth of adoring festoons, the word festoon acquired a duality as a verb (e.g. I will festoon that person with golden drapes)

If you need more start here or here or better still, here.

There is an index of words of the day.

Friday 8 March 2024

SUSAN FEWSTER R.I.P.

My sister-in-law died yesterday of cancer. We will miss her greatly. She was the bedrock of many people's life's, steadying for them their twists and turns of life with selfless dedication and little thought to her own requirements. She was a loyal, friendly, helpful, supportive and caring person who we will miss greatly and think of often.  Sue Fewster , Susan Fewster , Susan Fewster (nee Markham) , Sue Fewster (Nee Markham) , Bat Bat , batbat ,

Susan Fewster R.I.P.


I have come to the end of my journey
and the sun has set for me,
but I want no rites in a gloom filled room;
why cry for my soul set free?
Miss me a little please
but not for long with heads bowed,
remember my love or friendship
and smile when I’m not around.
Take care of yourselves my friends,
may your care of others abound;
take time to reflect upon the Earth
and what you leave to be found.

* This poem was inspired by the original by Christina Georgina Rossetti
























With hindsight her hospital (Hull's Castle Hill) made a pigs-ear of her treatments - undue delays in treatment (due to petty strike action and the catch-all excuse of COVID), "lost" test results, "trying" different medications like they didn't really have a clue (or much interest), different doctors popping-in to ask inane questions, as if they were there out of curiosity to see what near-death looks like. There was nothing more telling than when one nurse on the ward confided, "you wouldn't treat an animal like this". Complain you may say? What's the point of taking on a well oiled excusing and denial machine.

Cancer patients at risk, again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again

Thursday 7 March 2024

Truism (for leaders)


Followers can be the most destructive component of a leader’s influence.

Personal thought - The principles and ideologies of many leaders are ultimately denigrated or returned to a lower order of influence following the actions of followers transposed into zealots.

Zealots, extremists, fanatics - all alienate supporters, devotees, believers and members alike and true leaders have to be mindful of the diminution of their "public" franchise and the potency of their word(s).


















There are many words written about the greatness of leaders, but not so much about their struggles with their own followers, whose visions/motives/ideology evolve and undermine those of their leader.

One simple example could be a leader doesn't like the colour green, so after various pathways of mutation, their zealots start shooting people with green eyes and painting foliage brown.

Monday 4 March 2024

Meaningful songs #27 - GEORGE MICHAEL

This  is the twenty-seventh in an occasional series of songs from my collection, with the intent of introducing music to younger readers that they may gain appreciation of music from the classic years, 1957-1990. 

I have lived long enough to hear the "popular" music industry become ever-more formulaic, lazy, uninspiring and cynical; delivering "units" and "artistes" as interesting and memorable as polished mud.

Meaningful songs that eloquently convey a story, sentiment, or social comment and make it to national consciousness are rare these days. If you agree this song is meaningful, please introduce it to someone young; they might enjoy becoming "musical archaeologists".

Todays song, titled "A Different Corner", released in 1986, is by a singer called George Michael.


Hear George Michael's song here

A Different Corner speaks of a deep crush or an undeclared love that eventually fails, because of fear of its consequences. Though the deepest of loves it comes to nought because it could not be declared*

         *
George was an undeclared homosexual at this time and was portrayed publicly as every girl's dream; he took the public humiliation on the chin at the time, but brilliantly gave the "media" the finger with a huge hit called Outside in 1996.

In 1986 George Michael was just about to disband the group (WHAM!) to go solo, which he achieved following the global success of this song.

To gather an insight as to how, when and why this song came to be recorded, read here George Michael's own words on the matter.

A DIFFERENT CORNER
    
I'd say love was a magical flame
I'd say love would keep us from pain
Had I been there
Had I been there

I would promise you all of my life
But to lose you would cut like a knife
So I don't dare
No, I don't dare

'Cause I've never come close in all of these years
You are the only one to stop my tears
And I'm so scared
I'm so scared

Take me back in time maybe I can forget
Turn a different corner and we never would have met
Would you care?

I don't understand it, for you it's a breeze
Little by little you've brought me to my knees
Don't you care?

No I've never come close in all these years
You are the only one to stop my tears
I'm so scared of this love

And if all that there is, is this fear of being used
I should go back to being lonely and confused
If I could, I would, I swear

Oh, I swear

Read the next article in this series or hear the next song in the series.

For the index of all songs in this blog click here.