Whoa! Didja get the numbers off that truck?!?November 18, 2003 - 6:11 a.m. My Aim Is TrueDid you ever wake up in the morning with a song playing in your head? No earthly reason for it, it's just playing, repeatedly and you're fascinated by it? Such was the case this morning and thankfully it wasn't You're The One That I Want, that depressingly catchy song from Grease that K1 was playing repeatedly last night. Elvis C0stello is a brilliant poet, one reviewer called him the best thing since Bob Dylan. I hasten to agree. He's in my Personal Top Five. Yes, I was cruel once too. I was bitter and sardonic. It was so easy to cast aspersions on people and things because I had it all figured out. I left bitter people in my wake, angered by what I did and said. When I Was Cruel. I exit through the spotlight glareI stepped out into thin air Into a perfume so rarefied "Here comes the bride" Not quite aside, they snide, "She's number four" "There's number three just by the door" Those in the know, don't even flatter her, they go one better "She was selling speedboats in a tradeshow when he met her" Look at her now She's starting to yawn She looks like she was born to it But it was so much easier When I was cruel She reaches out her arms to me Imploring: "Another melody?" So she can dance her husband out on the floor The captains of industry just lie there where they fall In eau-de-nil and pale carnation creation A satin sash and velvet elevation She straightens the tipsy head-dress of her spouse While hers recalls a honey house There'll be no sorrows left to drown Early in the morning in your evening gown But it was so much easier When I was cruel The entrance hall was arranged with hostesses and ushers Who turned out to be the younger wives nursing schoolgirl crushes Parting the waves of those few feint friends Fingers once offered are now too heavy to extend The ghostly first wife glides up on stage whispering to raucous talkers Spilling family secrets out to flunkeys and castrato walkers See that girl, Watch that scene Digging the "Dancing Queen" Two newspaper editors like playground sneaks Running a book on which of them is going to last the week One of them calls to me And he says, "I know you" "You gave me this tattoo back in '82" "You were a spoilt child then with a record to plug" "And I was a shaven headed seaside thug" "Things haven't really changed that much" "One of us is still getting paid too much" There are some things I can't report The memory of his last retort But it was so much easier When I was cruel Look at me now She's starting to yawn She looks like she was born to it Ah, but it was so much easier When I was cruel Lyrics by Elvis C0stello, of course. Current Terr Alert Level OMG, She's agonna blow! |
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