The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, "Don't Worry Desmond Dekker" from Medium Rare (The Last Angry Rude Boy)
Skammentary: Quite without intending to do so, I broke a girl's heart last night. She is a darling girl who is important to me, & I thought we were strictly friends, but she had hoped otherwise; I didn't realize that the renewal of our friendship put us on a collision course with my discernment to the priesthood, to lifelong celibacy. The lyrics of "Don't Worry Desmond Dekker" don't match what happened last night, but this is still the song that spoke to my heart when I woke up this morning.
"What happened up on Hemingway, we will never change,
You used to be a friend of mine.
The last five years went past so fast, so fast I find it strange,
The beneficial medicine of time.
"And I, I can hear your laughter,
It stays with me after
All this time.
And I, I still got your records,
Clash and the Selecter,
And don't worry, Desmond Dekker's doing fine.
"The doors were shut, the lines were cut, the walls went up so quick,
The windows of opportunity were small.
Prides collide, divides were wide, sides we had to pick,
And, oh yeah, I forgot to call.
"And I, I can hear your laughter,
It stays with me after
All this time.
And I, I still got your records,
Clash and the Selecter,
And don't worry, Desmond Dekker's doing fine…"
No comments:
Post a Comment