Annotations: Even When You're Glad It's Gone

This song was begun on August 29th 2003, and finished off in a FRENZY of activity the next morning (although I did spend about an HOUR working out the chords for the verse during the preceding weekend, for use in yet another abandoned attempted at a song about my life being like that of a 70's sitcom husband). It was EASY.

The main reason it was easy was because this is the advice I ALWAYS give to my friends when they've split up with someone, or something similarly upsetting has occurred, and the reason I give it is because it is TRUE. You ARE going to have to feel upset and sorry for yourself at some point, so why bother trying to hide it? Just get on a MOPE for a weekend/week/however long it takes, and then it will be DONE. Otherwise you'll just have to drag it round behind you, getting bigger and bigger all the time, until you DO finally decide to sort it out.

I had been giving this advice to one of my longest serving friends just the week before (hence the idea to write it down IN SONG), and as usual ended up quoting Keats, or at least trying to as it's about 20 years since I last read "On Melancholy" and can't be bothered to look it up. MERCIFULLY I mentioned Keats in "Programming Is A Poetry For Our Time" which, at time of writing, was Attracting Some Attention, so I thought it'd just be showing off to mention it again. So I didn't. Except here.