I am a lineman for the counteeeeeeeeeee....and I drive the main roooooooad....
(Wichita Lineman)
Lately my grief has taken the form of (Form of! Shape of!) Jimmy Webb songs - they remind me a lot of my dad, probably because of the time frame when they were popular. Wichita Lineman sticks out in particular, because my dad was a "work with his hands" kind of guy.
Might also have something to do with the lyric "And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time..." I am damn mad that my father is dead. I miss him, need him, want him around still. I wasn't nearly done with him yet. Part of my sadness comes from the fact that we weren't particularly close, not for a long time, and I always wanted that to be better. Always thought I'd have more time to fix it with him, as much as we made each other crazy sometimes. I mean, literally crazy.
We don't have all the time in the world to make things right with the people we love. Lesson learned - the hard way.
I never knew how much I liked Jimmy's stuff until this:
From this I learned that Jimmy has written every awesome song in the world. Well, quite a few of them, anyway.
Al, you're so educational. Thanks for the enlightenment.
(And Wikipedia, because I knew Jurassic Park was a parody of MacArthur Park, but I didn't know who wrote McArthur Park until Wikipedia took me by the hand and made me understand.)