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[Bad username or site: James Nicholl @ livejournal.com] recently did a poll on which is more depressing: "When She Loved Me", from Toy Story 2, or "Puff the Magic Dragon". It wasn't until I was halfway through that I realized what I had, so I figured I'd repost it.
Puff the Magic Dragon, of course. I mean, "When she Loved Me" may seriously screw you up- it has it all over PtMD for the emotions and intensity. When the singer gets that little catch in her voice, it brings the tears on. But with "Puff", that's not just the end of a relationship, it's the end of the era. Once the ganja is gone, the party's over. It's all just over: Jacky goes and finds some new drugs.
I mean, Jackie Paper right this moment is working late on an anti-youtube suit. It's been twenty-five years since his last Dead concert; he's working on his second house, his third wife, and his first stroke. Paper's too busy to really think about it, but he's catching his breath more when he goes up the stairs, and the secretaries- god they're so young- are no longer giggling at his flirting. Some of them even avoid him now. It's almost like they don't find him sexy any more.
He hasn't talked to his wife in days, and his daughter, the older one from the first marriage, just rolls her eyes when he tries to give her advice, and goes back to listening to that hip-hop crap. Disrespectful spoiled kids, all of that generation. Thank god she turns eighteen next month. She can just TRY to get college money from him. And his younger son is worse. Just last weekend when he had custody, Paper couldn't get any work done because the kid just kept babbling about dragons and pirates and kings. The brat is probably already on meth or something....
Dedicated to all Autumn People, everywhere.
Puff the Magic Dragon, of course. I mean, "When she Loved Me" may seriously screw you up- it has it all over PtMD for the emotions and intensity. When the singer gets that little catch in her voice, it brings the tears on. But with "Puff", that's not just the end of a relationship, it's the end of the era. Once the ganja is gone, the party's over. It's all just over: Jacky goes and finds some new drugs.
I mean, Jackie Paper right this moment is working late on an anti-youtube suit. It's been twenty-five years since his last Dead concert; he's working on his second house, his third wife, and his first stroke. Paper's too busy to really think about it, but he's catching his breath more when he goes up the stairs, and the secretaries- god they're so young- are no longer giggling at his flirting. Some of them even avoid him now. It's almost like they don't find him sexy any more.
He hasn't talked to his wife in days, and his daughter, the older one from the first marriage, just rolls her eyes when he tries to give her advice, and goes back to listening to that hip-hop crap. Disrespectful spoiled kids, all of that generation. Thank god she turns eighteen next month. She can just TRY to get college money from him. And his younger son is worse. Just last weekend when he had custody, Paper couldn't get any work done because the kid just kept babbling about dragons and pirates and kings. The brat is probably already on meth or something....
Dedicated to all Autumn People, everywhere.