Episode 16 Preview - Sick Day

Besides needing my voice for podcasting, I just super-love talking all the time.  So losing my voice for a week+ has been just the worst.  Coughing up phlegm like a consumption victim on Downton Abbey didn't help much either.  It got so bad that I did, in fact, need to take a sick day to just sleep and recuperate.  Which made me think of the Fountains of Wayne song, "Sick Day".  While not even close to my favorite FOW song--that list is too long to discuss here--it certainly is topical.  So, we have our episode, a little late and a little raspy.  Fun fact: Diana and I once saw Fountains of Wayne at a show in Northampton get cut short due to lead singer Chris Collingwood having a case of laryngitis.

You can purchase the song on iTunes, Amazon Music, or Google Play. No official music video, but we do have a live version of the song from a Chicago show in 2009.  Not quite the same as the album version though which is the one we'll be talking about.

Did I hear a request for lyrics?

"Sick Day"

Check out the girl in the Harbor Tunnel
Crawling to work six feet under
And the day has barely begun
They're all chewing gum

And laughing at the voice on the crackling radio station
Lead us not into Penn Station
Cause the best part's just begun
We're all becoming one again

And she's making the scene
With the coffee and cream
And the copy machine's not working
She's a hell of a girl
She's alone in the world
And she likes to say hey good lookin'
She's on her way
She's taking a sick day..soon

And here is the man pushing paper past her
Thinks up ways to make the day go faster
But the day goes on and on
He dreams of his lawn

And all about 
the pretty careerist 
the next cube over
The fat secretary, 
the lunchtime lovers
'Til the path train finally comes
The platform's full of bums again

And she's making the scene
With the coffee and cream
And the copy machine's not working
She's a hell of a girl
She's alone in the world
And she likes to say hey good lookin'
She's on her way
She's taking a sick day..soon

And she's taking her time
As she's tossing a dime
At the man in the cardboard coffin
It doesn't have to be fine
She's ahead of the line
And doesn't have to be here too often
She's making a play
She's taking a sick day..soon

So, listen, read, watch, think, and come back here on Friday (maybe Thursday? haven't you subscribed to the RSS feed or on iTunes yet?) for the discussion.