The spoiler bit is basically the Townshend version of something i wrote earlier, elsewhere.
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I'm feelin' so good right now
There's a handsome boy tells me how I changed his past
He buys me a brandy
But could it be he's really just after my ass?
He likes the clothes I wear
He says he likes a man who's dressed in season
But no-one else ever stares, he's being so kind
What's the reason?
How many friends have I really got?
You can count 'em on one hand
How many friends have I really got?
How many friends have I really got?
That love me, that want me, that'll take me as I am?
Suddenly it's the silver screen
And a face so beautiful that I have to cry out
Everybody hears me
But I look like a fool now
With a cry and I shy out
She knows all of my friends
But it's nice to find a woman who's keen on living
Now I think I've reached the end
I wonder in the dead of night - how do I rate?
How many friends have I really got?
How many friends have I really got?
How many friends have I really got?
That love me, that want me, that'll take me as I am?
It's all like a dream you know
When you're still up early in the morning
And you all sit together to watch the sun come through
But things don't look so good
When you could use a bit of warning
Then you know that no-one will ever speak the truth about you
How many friends have I really got?
How many friends have I really got?
How many friends have I really got?
That love me, that want me, that'll take me as I am?
When I first signed a contract
It was more than a handshake then
I know it still is
But there's a plain fact
We talk so much shit behind each other's backs
I get the willies
People know nothing about their own soft gut
So how come they can sum us up
Without suffering all the hype we've known
How come they bum us up
How many friends have I really got?
You can count 'em on one hand
How many friends have I really got?
How many friends have I really got?
That love me, that want me, that'll take me as I am?
What a wretched day.
Heading for the lake tomorrow. Call me crazy, but i'm looking forward to it. Things are looking up, & it'll be great to get it all set in stone.
I ordered books today. I now own Franz Kafka. I'm moving up in the world.
Neightbors never shut up. "Ocean's Thirteen" looks underwhelming. Advil never expires.
I have nothing really of note to say. Or rather, nothing that will make for good reading to anyone but me. So i'll copy this from the other blog:
By the way, it's never, ever good when your home becomes something of a cell. A place you're paying X amount of dollars a month to be sentenced in. This week, I think i've talked to maybe three people, two of which were on the phone & the other one didn't speak English. I've had too much time to think, both of me & others. Too much time to seriously consider what kind of person i am, or would like to believe i am. Ask myself things like how i can bend over backwards to help others, or to do my best to see someone of importance, when others rarely if ever do the same for me. Recurring theme, don't take it personally. It just is good to know you matter sometimes, to sound selfish. I ask myself a lot of things, especially this week. It's a weird thing: it never used to be like this, or as bad. A year ago, it didn't matter terribly, even though it was still evident. Now...got me. I'm not angling for anything, by the way. I'm not like that. But i will say i'm lonely, & that isn't all that enjoyable.
Later.