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Dear diary, what a day it's been,
Dear diary, it's been just like a dream.
Woke up too late. Wasn't where I should've been.
For goodness sake what's happening to me.
Write lightly, yours truly, dear diary.
It was cold outside of my door.
So many people by the score,
Rushing around so senselessly
They don't notice there's people like me.
Write lightly, yours truly, dear diary.
They don't know what they're playing.
They've no way of knowing what the game is.
Still they carry on doing what they can
Outside me, impolitely, dear diary.
It's over, will tomorrow be the same?
I know that they're really not to blame.
If they weren't so blind then truly they'd see
There's a much better way for them to be
Inside me, yours truly, dear diary.
Dear diary,
Took a stroll today.
A bit of sun came out later
So I went out and strolled about, looking at the shops.
Didn't really see anything I liked,
So I didn't buy anything.
On the way home I posted a letter.
Been quite a nice day.
Somebody exploded an H-bomb today,
But it wasn't anybody I know.
Dear diary, it's been just like a dream.
Woke up too late. Wasn't where I should've been.
For goodness sake what's happening to me.
Write lightly, yours truly, dear diary.
It was cold outside of my door.
So many people by the score,
Rushing around so senselessly
They don't notice there's people like me.
Write lightly, yours truly, dear diary.
They've no way of knowing what the game is.
Still they carry on doing what they can
Outside me, impolitely, dear diary.
I know that they're really not to blame.
If they weren't so blind then truly they'd see
There's a much better way for them to be
Inside me, yours truly, dear diary.
Took a stroll today.
A bit of sun came out later
So I went out and strolled about, looking at the shops.
Didn't really see anything I liked,
So I didn't buy anything.
On the way home I posted a letter.
Been quite a nice day.
Somebody exploded an H-bomb today,
But it wasn't anybody I know.
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Submitted by
weezerific:cutlery On Jan 06, 2002
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"Somebody exploded an H-bomb today, but it wasn't anybody I knew"-What the-?
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@Tom_And_Jerry Exactly, back in the 60's, the H-bomb was big news with many people in the streets protesting it's development. It's sounds confusing when he writes "but it wasn't anyone he knew," referencing, I assume, that "somebody" exploded the bomb, but whoever it was, he didn't know them, not getting it that it was a country, not a person.
@Tom_And_Jerry Exactly, back in the 60's, the H-bomb was big news with many people in the streets protesting it's development. It's sounds confusing when he writes "but it wasn't anyone he knew," referencing, I assume, that "somebody" exploded the bomb, but whoever it was, he didn't know them, not getting it that it was a country, not a person.
The absurdity of modern life
"... on the way home I posted a letter.."
@Sumpdog Again, exactly...the person's life is so hung up on minutiae that he doesn't comprehend what's going on in the world, i.e., exploding an H-bomb.
@Sumpdog Again, exactly...the person's life is so hung up on minutiae that he doesn't comprehend what's going on in the world, i.e., exploding an H-bomb.
It brings home the endless state of the lives of most people, being so caught up in day-in, day-out trivia of life that we can't see, or choose not to see, the world around us. It's still the same today, were letting our precious freedoms be usurped in the name of "the greater good." As a retired man with estranged children & 3 divorces under his belt, I'm not so caught in the lives of a spouse, children, grandchildren, etc., that I don't have time to ruminate over the state of our world. Most of us, however, let ourselves be so caught up in distraction that the world could be burning down & we'd not concern ourselves with it. Ray writes of a self-absorbed person so caught up in the rat trap that he pays no attention, even of the explosion of a hydrogen bomb, which, in the 60's, was big news, recording for posterity his inane & meaningless daily life.
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@BDoug52 I wholeheartedly agree with your explanation of the lyrics. The meaningful yet meaningless lives. Sending sunshine from Florida 🌞
@BDoug52 I wholeheartedly agree with your explanation of the lyrics. The meaningful yet meaningless lives. Sending sunshine from Florida 🌞