Today's Happy Hour Soundtrack

Bobby Dylan, with the best-ever put-down song in the known universe...

Positively 4th Street
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Sorry about the advertising, but finding the original track was a quest I wasn't quite prepared for, given all the false starts and bad covers I had to wade through.  This vid was the best I could do and the advertising is the price ya gotta pay, I suppose.  I've mentioned before in these pages about the way some songs stay with you through the years; about how your interpretation concerning meanings, associations, and life circumstances invariably change, yet the song remains relevant.  "Positively 4th Street" is another in a long line of these sort of songs.  This particular lyric makes me grin in a sardonic sorta way these days:

You say I let you down,
You know it's not like that.
If you're so hurt, why then don't you show it?

You say you've lost your faith,
But that's not where it's at.
You have no faith to lose, and you know it.

Anyone who's ever been betrayed can relate to that sentiment, methinks.  "Positively 4th Street" is masterful and while I think it's the "ultimate put-down song" one shouldn't rule this out:



Heh... "it's been a whole lot easier since..." and so on.  But leave us not dwell too much on that.  Instead, let's consider: our outdoor Happy Hour was good today, as was its soundtrack.  (We heard both of these tunes while sitting out on the verandah, btw.  This isn't a contrived post.)  Today is the sort of day you don't want to end, but end it must.  We're indoors now and the sun is going down; it was great while it lasted.