where is the cabinet? who's got the key?

bubble and scrape. check. blood on the tracks. yep. the magnificent defeat. yassir! even, i guess. all shook down (lucy, remember?) yeah yeah yeah. i need some social medicine.
why am i so into music? always have been. i remember lying in bed at night, tortured over wether i should be a springsteen fan or an alarm fan. springsteen won but i still have a soft spot in my heart for the alarm. still think they were better than u2. at least they knew when to call it quits. for a while. u2? 'achtung baby' should have been the last. brilliant album. their best.
and i rambled.
someone at work today asked me who sang 'cars'. please. don't insult me.
i told the same person bon jovi wrote 'loving every minute of it' . or is that 'lovin''. and did richie sambora co-write. damn, i'm slipping.
god, i loved the stray cats. they were the beginning. i still have my 12 inches and my english imports. ( yeah, ha ha, 12 inches. fucking peasants) remember 'storm the embassy'? mike posted it, i think. check it out.
i can hear music. sweet, sweet music.
can music save your mortal soul?
mortal soul? definitely. and what's heaven without music?
it's the empathy. i never really got it from a real live person. when westerberg sings 'the ones who love us best, are the ones we lay to rest, visit their graves on holidays at best', that speaks to my childhood grief more than any adult ever did. ever. because it's real, and it's not some bullshit consolation.
oh boy.
and elvis costello singing 'i want you'. fuck. fucking god fucking dammit. fuck you.
and 'you send me' for that matter.
and a song like 'social medicine' an afterthought, really. sigh.
i was gonna get to the point at some point. the wheels in my head need a little grease.
point is, music is the only way i can put things in place. i'm sad? 'the first cut is the deepest'. melancholy?'naive melody' . happy? uh, uh....joyride? i dunno, ask me later.
oh! i know! 'wouldn't it be nice' a happy song about being sad! or a sad song about being happy...yeah, that's it.
there's no point to this post. go listen to 'anyway' by the lemonheads off of their only good album 'lick'. that's the point.
give me the beat boys, free my soul.