Soft Autumn Breezes

For those of you not stuck in Maryland, I am happy to report that this state at least does fall perfectly. For the past 4 or 5 days, it's been breezy and cool... you can wear a sweater but you don't have to...my favorite type of weather. (And when I'm at my least productive.) However, it's had sort of a bizarre side effect today.

Of course, I've spent every possible moment away from this awful building and walking around lovely Capitol Hill. I've caught myself repeatedly humming a song, often because of strange looks from passerby.

What song, you may ask? For that, I bring you back to the late 1980s, when Sara, Selda and I were 8 or 9, Tommy 6 or 7. MTV was holding a contest for the best young band, and we knew this was our chance to make it big. Selda played guitar, Sara pretended to play keyboard, Tommy and I snapped our fingers, and the Antidotes were born.

Due to the malicious nature of Sara and Selda's parents, some of you have seen the videotape of that we sent to mtv. For those of you who haven't, I now present the lyrics, in full. Have a box of Kleenex at hand - it's pretty heavy, emotional stuff.

Those endless nights are far behind
And so's the love we'll never find
Days without you seem like an eternity
But then I see you starin' back at me.

CHORUS:
Soft autumn breezes blowing through your hair
And how I wish that you could take me there.
Remembering times that you held me tight
We learned to love, but we lost the fight.

Standing by my window waiting,
Fighting back cascades of tears
The sunset brings an end to a lonely day
If only you could show me the way.
(Chorus)
Fighting about it does no good
We could never love as lovers should
We said forever, but forever's too long
Where could we have gone so wrong?
(Chorus)