Sometimes we are just faced with crazy situations ya just can’t back out of easily, that ya just can’t win: Unhappy tenants; irrational co-workers; and things that just go wrong…like backing up to another car in the parking lot.
It’s life. We’ve all been there.
So sometimes I hum these tunes in my head, get a laugh, get through, move on.
Hope you find some humor here too.
Paul Simon wrote “One Man’s Ceiling is Another Man’s Floor.” I’ve suffered with Music Bullies myself, and very loud and amorous neighbors. (Yeah, just get up and hide in the kitchen until they’re quiet.)
Here are the lyrics:
"There’s been some hard feelings here
About some words that were said
Been some hard feelings here
And what is more
...
It’s just apartment house rules
So all you ‘partment house fools
Remember: one man’s ceiling Is another man’s floor
One man’s ceiling Is another man’s floor
And there’s an alley In the back of my building
Where some people congregate in shame"
(and now that we have security cams on that alleyway, that has no longer happens. Yippee!)
"I'm Alright" written by Phil Vassar.
This one popped into my head after some interminable drama made everyone miserable. These lyrics made my day sooo much easier!
"I'm alright and nobody worry 'bout me
Why you got to gimme a fight, can't you just let it be?
I'm alright don't nobody worry 'bout me
You got to gimme a fight, why don't you just let me be? …
Gotta catch you later, no, no, cannonball it right away
Some Cinderella kid
Get it up and get you a job"
(Last line is really good advice for people with way too much time on their hands to complain about every last little hangnail!)
Can’t leave out Billy Joel belting out “My Life”
"Got a call from an old friend
We used to be real close
Said he couldn't go on the American way
Closed the shop, sold the house
Bought a ticket to the West Coast
Now he gives them a stand-up routine in L.A.
I don't need you to worry for me cause I'm alright
I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home
I don't care what you say anymore, this is my life
Go ahead with your own life and leave me alone
I never said you had to offer me a second chance
I never said I was a victim of circumstance
I still belong, don't get me wrong
And you can speak you mind But not on my time"
"Dead Skunk" by Loudon Wainwright III
In my younger days, the singer at the old RE's Plum in Bogota, NJ would belt this song out and the crowd would sing the chorus. It's just a song to make you laugh! Enjoy it.
"Crossing
the highway late last night
He shoulda looked left and he shoulda looked
rightHe didn't see the station wagon car
The skunk got squashed and there you are
You got your dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinking to high heaven"
When life gets too stressful, just play this one LOUD!
“Amazing Grace”
"Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found;
Was blind, but now I see.
’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed.
Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come;
’Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.
The Lord has promised good to me,
His Word my hope secures;
He will my Shield and Portion be,
As long as life endures.
Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease,
I shall possess, within the veil, A life of joy and peace.
The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
The sun forbear to shine;
But God, who called me here below, Will be forever mine.
When we’ve been there ten thousand years, Bright shining as the sun,
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise Than when we’d first begun"
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