Today's Happy Hour Soundtrack

Goo Goo Dolls:

Stranger than your sympathy
I take these things so I don't feel
I'm killing myself from the inside out
Now my head's been filled with doubt

It's my considered opinion that today's poetry rests almost entirely within the lyrics of popular songs.  I'll be the first to admit the music... the playin', the arrangement, the virtuosity with the instruments... are what grab me first and foremost in most any kind of popular song.  But I would be remiss in sayin' the lyrics don't attract me, because they do.  It's just that it takes me a lil bit o' time to get there.

So it's in the spirit of both the poetry and the playin' that I offer up Today's Happy Hour Soundtrack.  The tune is catchy and the lyrics are semi-profound in their pedestrian sorta way.  Also: there would be no personal connection associated with this tune.  I just like it.  It's mere coincidence that the lyrics might be applied to our current condition.  And that's the truth, to quote Lily Tomlin.