Friday, June 12, 2020

Carly Simon - That's The Way I Always Heard It Should Be - 1971

( JUST ANOTHER IN THE LIFE OF A NOBODY, CAUGHT IN A SORT OF "LA LA LAND, GROUND HOG (LOL)"WORLD):P.S. RETURNING TO YESTERDAYS IN MY MIND(WHILE I STILL HAVE IT)"SHE(EILEEN") DID KINDA "RUSH ME" ONE SUNDAY, ARRIVING UNEXPECTEDLY AT PARENTS HOME, INSISTING(THE WAY SHE LOOKED & DRESSED THEN=SIMPLE, YET PROVOCATIVE TO ME & " NO MAKE UP, YES , A FEW BLOND STREAKS(MOM WARNED ME ABOUT BLONDES, NEVER KNOWING MY "CRUSH ON LATE " MARILYN MONROE"FROM "7TH" GRADE),YEARS AFTER DAD LEFT US<I REALIZED"DAD & I HAD 1 THING(BESIDES MOM & BROTHER) IN COMMON)" WE BOTH ADORED "MARILYN MONROE"("JUMPIN' JACK FLASH, WHAT A GAS GAS GAS").SO, WE ARRIVED UP AT " DIAMOND EXCHANGE"(ROOSEVELT FIELD". I FELT SAFE(LEFT WALLET BEHIND, AS SHE DROVE(SUPERBLY I MUST ADD, OH HOW SHE "HANDLED THE STICK SHIFT"(MINE TOO??(LOL)). TIME STOOD STILL, WE WALKED IN, THEN OUT , SHE ORDERED, SIZING FOR HER " ENGAGEMENT RING"

(I WOULD HAVE PICKED THE ROUND ONE), SHE REMINDING ME I " OWED HER BIG TIME), AS SHE PUT THE DOWN STROKE ON HER CARD. ( DID I EVER PAY HER BACK..HMM. MATTER OF DEFINITION= U SAY " TOMATO I SAY TOMATOE"). ANY WAY, ALWAYS, ALWAYS GAVE ALL PAY CHECKS, BONUSES IN CASH(P.P.S.. SHE'S "STILL THE ONE"(SHANIA TWAIN HAS SAME 1ST REAL NAME AS HER(EILEEN); LIVING, ARGUING, SONG EVOKING & WRITING DAILY.

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