Yesterday I woke up early. I had a shower and checked my email and then I wandered out into the city. I took the subway to Bay street and had breakfast. Then I hopped back on the train and went to Ossington for a haircut.
After the haircut I walked back to Bathurst to visit the record store. I bought the albums Who's Next by the Who and a big double album - August and Everything After: Live at Town Hall by Counting Crows.
I came home and ran a bath...lit some candles and put the Counting Crows album on the turntable. The first track is a medley of the songs "Round Here" and "Raining in Baltimore", already two of my favourite songs, with an addition to the ending...a new verse about a girl trapped an island...
"So she sends a boat out on the sea - with a little note for me
it says:
Why are all the girls so hungry?
So why are all the girls so hungry?
& why are all the boys so lonely?
& why can't anybody see me?
Why?"
And I thought about it a lot and surely it's meant as a metaphor but I wonder...if all the girls in the world got together and conspired to each gain 15 pounds...the skinniest girl would still be the skinniest girl and the fattest girl would still be the fattest girl and all the girls might be a little less hungry and maybe a little nicer because of it....and maybe none of us would need to be quite as lonely as we are.
Of course it would never work...too many girls would cheat.
Too bad. Speaking for myself, I'd much rather spend my time with a girl who is full and chubby and happy than a girl who is hungry and skinny and angry.
I guess I just don't understand society.
But it doesn't matter...since of course it's not meant to be taken literally...
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