Back To School

At the risk of getting all Jean Shepherd here, I can remember the dismal feeling of going back to school, getting up at 7AM the only radio station my clock radio got in inexplicably played Terry Jacks' wrist-slit anthem "Seasons In the Sun" without fail every single morning. It was like some cruel DJ was deliberately doing this for some unknown reason. Well, time to return the favor: imagining waking up to this song, "(Now It's) Back To School" (MP3) by one Cal Hayes. Thank you to Scott Soriano, whom I can always count on to email me with stuff like this. Good times.

Comments

[Dan Willems]

Simply stunning.

Dan
L-ville, KY

[flip]

Wow- we must have lived near the same DJ. I too had to listen to Seasons in the Sun every morning witout fail. Seven or eight year later, My Baby Takes the Morning Train, equally terrifying.

[johnchris]

I used to be woken up every school morning by an am radio station playing David Cassidy's "I Think I Love You". At the time I just knew that I hated that song, but now I think it had to be deliberate -- especially when you look at the lyrics!
"I'm sleeping
And right in the middle of a good dream
Like all at once I wake up
From something that keeps knockin' at my brain.
Before I go insane I hold my pillow to my head
And spring up in my bed
Screaming out the words I dread:
"I think I love you!"

This morning
I woke up with this feeling
I didn't know how to deal with
And so I just decided to myself
I'd hide it to myself and never talk about it
And didn't I go and shout it
When you walked into my room.
"I think I love you!""