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4/01/2004

The Mad World

I heard this a few Fridays ago driving... when it was rainy and dreary and crappy and gray and I was totally feelin' it...the teary eyes...the sighs...the whole ten yards

It was like I just discovered the plans for the house I already lived in...

It is called 'Mad World' and is a remake of the Tears For Fears song of the same name by this other guy ... Gary Jules...
Even the Girl D.J. on the radio after the tune was over said "Sorry about that everybody... umm...cheer up!"

I thunk'd 'Is it strange that this song seemed so new yet so very familiar...?'

Then I did a Goggle search for it...

It is from from 'Donnie Darko'... the movie...which I totally dig/dug...and that is when I first heard it...and last heard it.... 18 months ago...

Then I heard it again on that Thursday...driving from work ... right from the begining

Then I did it again on that Monday... right from the beginning

Then I heard it again... from the beginning... the day after Patty's Day

Then again on Friday at 6 pm...from the beginning....hollah!

And then again! Again on monday from the beginning.....

And then again wednesday right totally right from the beginning...I know!

And dammit wouldn't ya know I was watching Leno this Monday, which I never do, and the S.O.B. Gary Jules was on there...and I caught it... right from the beginning...

Different stations...different times...I felt like it was after me or it was like 'Joan of Arcadia'...what am I suppose to do... what does it mean... driving me crazy!

And then finally they had played it on some station yesterday but it was the song before..."You just heard 'Hero' by Foo Fighters and before that 'Mad World' by Gary Jules "...and so the curse of The Mad World has been lifted from my burdened shoulders...yippieizzel!

Turns out the dude, Gary Jules, has a new album coming out and this track is on it...I just wanted to say I heard this when this song was kewl...like 1.5 years ago...right when before you start hearing 30 times a day.... :-)
Your welcome!

P.S. It totally just frekin played on my iPOD right when I wuz typin'...right now...crap!... crap!... ummm...curse back on :-(

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
And their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tommorow, no tommorow

And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Mad World

Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me

And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Mad World
Mad World
Mad World

///posted by the often humiliated but never decaffeinated X @ 4/01/2004

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