Red Pepper, Oh Killer!

Have you ever thought about 
why a certain song resonates with you?

Why you play it over and over again?

Do you just listen,

letting the music wash

over and over you

again and again?

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Maybe you’re not even hearing the lyrics.

Maybe it’s just the compelling

pound ground drive your heals into the floor beat.

That beat that feels so god dam gu~ud.

Maybe your muskeg is off-gassing,

boiling off methane, 

and you don’t even realize it.

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Because you’re not hearing the lyrics

your unconscious mind

is firing your way.

Ever been in the grocery store

with music playing somewhere in the background?

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You’re standing in front of

a gorgeous mound of vibrant red peppers,

and you’re trying to choose the perfect red pepper.

But suddenly you can’t see the pepper.

It’s a blurry red blob.

In fact, you can’t see any peppers.

All you can see is a big red blurry knobby blob.

Suddenly you realize you’re softly crying,

and you ask,

What is wrong with me?

What is going on?

An announcer interrupts the music,

and suddenly you realize what was playing

and why you can only see red blurs

through the tears flooding your eyes.

Bam!  Bam! Slam! 

Goyte’s  “Somebody That I Used to Know.”

So you flee to some dim corner

where no one can see you.

Where you can pull yourself together

so no one will see you 
crying over red peppers.

Then you go back,
pick up any red pepper,

and waltz through the checkout line

like you haven’t a care in the world.

Ha! 

If they only knew what was going on inside your head! 

But they don’t have a clue …

because you’re very good at hiding you.

I didn’t realize it at first,

but I’ve been playing and replaying

a Stones song a lot this week. 

Over and over on my daily walk.

  

Sometimes the Beatles just don’t do it. 

Sometimes only the Stones will do.

Over and over ~

down and dirty,

that compelling, pounding beat

that makes the kilometers fly ~

fly so well,

you don’t even see the high prairie flowing by.

Suddenly you hear,

not just the driving beat,

but words ~

words for the first time ever.

And you think, OMG

those are the lyrics to this song?

You race home to google,

“Stones Oh Killer you’re just a shot away.”

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And you discover that the song is "Gimme Shelter"

and the words you’re hearing

are not the lyrics of the song at all

Just boiling methane from the muskeg pounding.

Killer: 

Oh, a storm is rising!

Alive!  You’re alive today!

If I don’t get some shelter,

yeah, I’m going to blow you away.

Moi: 

“Oh killer!  You’re just a shot away.

Just a shot away….

Bam!  Bam!  Slam!

That’s what your unconscious wants you to pay attention to?


No way Jose!

Push it back another day.

Ever been there???

Killer:

“Oh, Gurl!  I’m gonna blow you away!

I’ve been checking out different versions of the Stones

"Gimme Shelter" on You Tube.

I rather liked the version with Lady Gaga,

but it’s those shoes!

They’re so distracting!

How does she prance around on shoes like that?

This is my favorite version so far:

Is there anyone more intense than Mick Jagger?

Well, maybe Keith Richards.

Ever wonder what goes on inside his head?