Baby, What'd I Say?

I am exhausted: emotionally, mentally, physically (what, you think it's easy getting back on the road to physically fit when it's 18 degrees outside? Yes, I do own a treadmill, but I can't find anywhere in the house to safely use it AND keep it out of Destructo-boy's clutches.). I'm not even sure when it all happened (yeah, right), but 9:00 rolled around and I just...shut down. When I get like that, I like to have one on one conversation about interesting, perhaps deep, but not too philisophical topics. For my part, I tend to think in music - artists and/or genres particularly. No big surprise there, right?

So, when I say I'm in a Ray Charles kinda mood tonight, I don't mean the movie. I don't mean I'm feelin' like any part of his biography. I mean that I'm feelin' the attitude, the grit, the moan, the wail, the pure soul of the music.

(It doesn't help much that the Blues Clues Movie features Ray Charles as G Clef and I am forced to watch it on entirely too regular a basis. But at least it's a break from Barney.)

I feel very 'You Don't Know Me', perhaps.


You give your hand to me
And then you say, "Hello."
And I can hardly speak,
My heart is beating so.
And anyone can tell
You think you know me well.
Well, you don't know me.

No you don't know the one
Who dreams of you at night;
And longs to kiss your lips
And longs to hold you tight
Oh I'm just a friend.
That's all I've ever been.
Cause you don't know me.

For I never knew the art of making love,
Though my heart aches with love for you.
Afraid and shy, I let my chance go by.
A chance that you might love me too.

You give your hand to me,
And then you say, "Goodbye."
I watched you walk away,
Beside the lucky guy
Oh, you'll never ever know
The one who loved you so.
Well, you don't know me.


Or maybe I'm more of an "Unchain My Heart" kinda gal tonight. I mean, how many people can sing 'pillow case' and make it sound like it completely belongs there?


Unchain my heart, baby let me be
Unchain my heart 'cause you don't care about me
You've got me sewed up like a pillow case
But you let my love go to waste so
Unchain my heart, oh please, please set me free

Unchain my heart, baby let me go
Unchain my heart, 'cause you don't love me no more
Ev'ry time I call you on the phone
Some fella tells me that you're not at home so
Unchain my heart, oh please, please set me free

I'm under your spell like a man in a trance
But I know darn well, that I don't stand a chance so
Unchain my heart, let me go my way
Unchain my heart, you worry me night and day
Why lead me through a life of misery
When you don't care a bag of beans for me
So unchain my heart, oh please, please set me free.

You know, come to think of it, I'm probably most in a "Let's Go Get Stoned" mood. Yeah, that's the one.

And if you need me to put those words down...well, then you don't know what it's like to be in a Ray Charles mood.