Careless Whispers - George Micheals
Careless Whispers
George Micheals
Ohohohoh
Ohhh ohhhh
I feel so unsure
As I take your hand
And lead you to the dance floor
As the music dies
Something in your eyes
Calls to mind a silver screen
And all its sad good-byes
I'm never gonna dance again
Guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend
I know your not a fool
Should've known better than to cheat a friend
And waste the chance that I'd been given
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you
Oh ohhhhh
Time can never mend
The careless whispers
Of a good friend
To the heart and mind
Ignorance is kind
There's no comfort in the truth
Pain is all you'll find
I'm never gonna dance again
Guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend
I know your not a fool
Should've known better than to cheat a friend
And waste the chance that I'd been given
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you
Never without your love
Tonight the music seems so loud
I wish that we could lose this crowd
Maybe it's better this way
We'd hurt each other with the things we'd want to say
We could have been so good together
We could have lived this dance forever
But now who's gonna dance with me
Please stay
And I'm never gonna dance again
Guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend
I know your not a fool
Should've known better than to cheat a friend
And waste the chance that I'd been given
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you
Oh ohhhhh
(Now that you're gone)
Now that you're gone
(Now that you're gone)
Was what I did so wrong, so wrong
That you had to leave me alone I had the instrumental intro to this song stuck in my head. I set it to play as I looked at other things, not really focusing on the song. Closing a window, WMP was the active window and my lyrics plugin was activated. Curious I read through the lyrics as the song played once more.
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It was a mistake that made me relive unpleasant memories. Not all of them, but most phrases strike such an unpleasant string of thoughts. It reminds me of a guitar chord really.. hit together they make a wonderfully painful song. I realize that despite consistently referring to it I never actually explain what I'm talking about. Though I'm slitting the dead man's throat, I'll have to fix that eventually. Near the end of high school I fell in love with this girl Karen. I always think that she broke me, but the truth is that the situation only showed me that I've always been broken.
I don't hold anyone any ill will. On the contrary I'm grateful to all the people that shared my life during that period despite my less than graceful exit from their lives. Even so, it was such beautiful agony that it resonates through time. Even a song like Careless Whispers which I've heard dozens of times before today can bring back a torrent of helplessness I'd thought gone. It's an exercise in futility, considering it happens twice a month, but I'm always caught by surprise.
The end of a post like this is usually the most confusing. I'm far off the topic I started on and I don't know what my purpose is. Was I trying to shout the depth of my past emotions so they echoes over the emptiness of the internet? Or was it another bite of bait laid for myself to sooth an ever aching heart? At least I got this song out of my head.