Keeping it Poppy & Upbeat

Big day, big day!

Tuesday morning it’s not even 11 o’clock.

I’ve already done laundry, dishes, and gone to two separate grocery stores.

I dropped off the popcorn at school that we forgot to bring along in the morning for my kid’s movie watching day in film studies class.

Later on I have to walk the dog¹, clean the bathrooms, facilitate the technology so my daughter can take an online violin lesson, drive my son to his guitar lesson, rush home so he can change clothes, and then go coach a baseball practice.

I also have high hopes of making pea soup, so there’s an easy meal when we get home from baseball.

To add insult to injury, I started a new audiobook yesterday, called “The Denial of Death.” (from 1973.)

I don’t know that I’ve ever read a book that has the phrase “fear of death” appear with such frequency.

All of this to say, I’m adding a relatively feel-good pop song to the mixed up files today and keeping this short.

Listen here as an mp3:

Listen here as a WAV file on Bandcamp:

I recorded this as an improvisation voice memo on September 28, 2022, soon after we moved to San Diego.

I tried playing this song on the guitar today, and it’s not terribly complicated, but I couldn’t quite remember what I did.

I share it here today, not as a denial of death, but as a crumb left behind by a songwriter, perhaps even in the hope that some other musician will cover this song at some point.

Epic diva quit Safari may become the eventual lyric.

I remain your humble servant,

OX&C,

Faux Jean

Here are the LYRICS:

I told her not to wait

But she said she’s gonna wait,

she said she’s gonna wait anyway

Babe, I told ya, it’s gonna be late

Don’t wait, it’s really going to be super late

I told her not to wait

But she said she wants to wait

Said she’s going to wait anyway

Anyway, oh yeah

I told her not to wait

But she said she’s gonna wait,

I told her not to wait anyway

Baby, just go to bed

Epic Diva also neither maybe either

Wait

Wait

10:23 a.m. September 29?

Pinto in the wild.

1. Which I already done once.