Thursday, January 19, 2006

The Gazebo effect



















Dear Marc, do you remember Gazebo? Didn't you find the singer so handsome, his hit song "I like Chopin" so great? I was young. I didn't quite get the lyrics. Now that I read them over again, I still don't. Do you get this?
Remember that piano
So delightful unusual
That classic sensation
Sentimental confusion

BRIDGE:
Used to say
I like Chopin
Love me now and again

CHORUS:
Rainy days never say goodbye
To desire when we are together
Rainy days growing in your eyes
Tell me where's my way

Imagine your face
In a sunshine reflection
A vision of blue skies
Forever distractions

BRIDGE.

CHORUS.

----
Rainy days growing in your eyes
Tell me where's my way

Forever distractions, indeed.

I loved that song. I had no money of my own.
Or almost no money, and my brother's birthday was coming up.
So I did what all people do at so many points in our lives:
I bought a gift for my brother that we both knew was really
a gift for myself with the added benefit of gift-giving credit.

Since, this phenomenon goes by the name of a Gazebo in our family.
That Entourage box I bought for A for X-mas? Gazebo.
The Penguin masterpiece he got for me? Gazebo.

What's your most recent Gazebo? Who was it for?
Your secrets are safe with me, promise!

That classic sensation
Sentimental confusion
-e

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