You could have done anything, if you wanted
And all your friends and family think that you’re lucky
But the side of you they’ll never see
Is when you’re left alone with your memories
That hold your life together, like glue
Spider plant, spider plant
Slowly killing my spider plant
Put it in too small a pot
Need to transplant before it rots
Look out! I might kill my spider plant
One of my favorite
Peter Gabriel songs (possibly my most favorite) is Games Without Frontiers.
For THE longest time, I thought – at the beginning of the song – that he was saying,
“She’s so popular …”
It was only until I looked up the lyrics that I realized he was saying,
“Jeux sans frontières”
which is French for “games without frontiers.”
So one day not too long ago, it came up on my Pandora list again and Aaron started singing along, saying,
“She’s so popular …”
I basically scream-laughed in excitement. It’s possible he heard me singing it that way at some point in the past before I knew what the lyrics were, but I don’t remember doing that.
When I told him, he said, “I could totally swear he’s saying, ‘She’s so popular.’”
This gets even better, because when I told my friend Eric this story, he said, “So wait, what?! He ISN’T saying ‘she’s so popular’ then?!”
If we’re being honest, I’m like this.
I’m at that age now
where, if I injure several parts of my body, they get in a car and approach the parts of my body that weren’t injured and say, “Get in loser, we’re going hurting.”
Now don’t you look good, sucking american dick?
You’re so surprised they like you,
You’re so cute and so quick.
Singin’, I’ve got the moves of a tv queen,
Folk girl hero in a magazine.
Faking the truth in a new pop song,
Don’t you wanna sing along?
“Hey you wanna drink?l”
“Yeah!”
*slides craft cocktail over to me*
“That’ll be $13.”
—emily duchaine
Flommist Emily Duchaine lives in the Pacific Northwest. She likes to drink mead, learn about sharks, and listen to the Talking Heads. She pretends to be a professional businesswoman most days. Copyright © 2024 Emily Duchaine.
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