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And love is just an institution based on human frailty

All of her lovers all
talk of her notes and the
flowers that they never sent
And wasn't she easy?
Isn't she pretty in pink?

Do you know where the wild things go?
They go along to take your honey

I remember exactly where I was when I heard this song for the first time: 1992 working at a casino/restaurant on an Ojibwe Indian reservation near the Canadian border. As staff, we were housed in hotel rooms. I shared a single hotel room with a friend of mine and my female cousin. She had one of the two beds in the room and I shared the other bed with my friend. It was funny-two hetero male friends, dudes, sharing the same bed for months.

It was a microcosmic education in the good and bad, the tragedy and reality of the human condition. I will always remember drinking in the hotel bar with one of the older waitresses who kept her tip money in her bra just like something you'd see in an Old West film. She was tough and enjoyed sipping her Canadian Whisky neat.

After shift, it was a fun progressive low key party from staff hotel room to hotel room drinking and talking. One of the other waiters from Minneapolis played this song on a boombox. I was riveted and absolutely blown away. I loved it.

Remember when Rosie Langley of ELO joined us on WP?
I wonder if she's met Tina Guo!

That was another great story, Magna, and I loved the song! I didn't recognise it at all! You should write a book of anecdotes in conjunction with all your song memories!

Llama, Speedway is great! I hadn't heard that one in quite some time! Keep them coming!

Like something halfway between Nirvana and REM.

SONG: "Enemy" by Days of the New.