When I was in primary school I was apparently very musical, so much so that my teachers took it up themselves to foist the recorder upon me, despite my protestations. This was not the only musical instrument I was lumbered with, oh no, I was also a prisoner of the trumpet for a long weary while. But unlike the trumpet I grew to enjoy playing the recorder, and we were all given a book of songs to work through called "A Tune a Day". I remember very little about it except that the one I had had a blue cover, when all the other kids had a green one. This is because I had the second book in the series, so was a whole book ahead of the others. This was not, alas, due to any kind of musical prowess on my part. On the contrary, I was off the day they handed out the music books and they didn't have enough green ones to go around. Rather than photocopy or let me share, I was instead given completely different music to learn before I'd even learned where to put my fingers on the blasted thing.
I think this is the story of my life.
BUT that whole story was just to explain why I chose this title for this post. I've deicded to post lyrics to a different song every day, as a kind of cathartic exercise. Songs that mean something to me, and are applicable to how I feel at the time. It's like... I still want to post and tell everyone how I'm doing, but sometimes words fail me and I can't explain for the life of me in proper English. At times like that I've always fallen on using someone elses words to do the explaining for me, and that's what I want to do this week. I toyed with the idea of the song or band starting with the same letter as the day (which todays coincidentally does), but that seemed to make it too deliberate. What if the song I WANTED to post didn't fit this? Me then trying intentionally to find a song that was appropriate JUST to make it fit didn't seem genuine. Missing the point of the exericise.
Anyway, I'll post todays separately. This post is overly long as it is.
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