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Bill White and Stephen Wordsmith - The Sort of Thing That Used to Bother Me

from Song​-​A​-​Day by Bill White

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There's a guy who's joined me in the lift, he's going up one storey
And that rascal really has no good excuse
There's a perfectly good staircase ten feet to his left, oh glory
And he's long of leg and shiny-new of shoes

But muggins, on the other hand, is off to level seven
Which is why I scuttled in and flipped the lever
And if you think I'm walking up these steps halfway to heaven
You can go ahead and jump in lake Geneva

CHORUS
And that's the sort of thing that used to bother me until we had a virus roughing up the human race
When suddenly the little things and nothing-meaning-everythings were put quite resolutely in their place
And all the little niggles that formed squiggles in the margins of the largely boring pages of my file
Were cast aside in deference to my rather def'nite preference that I'd like to keep on living for a while
Yeah

There's a guy who does the crossword and he handwrites like a surgeon
Leaving bluish worms of God knows on the page
And I know he only does it cause the boredom starts to burgeon
And I also know he's trouble spelling beige

But it doesn't leave me much to do when fifteen minutes later
It's my turn to break for coffee and for sanity
I'm left with nought but scribbles and sudoku in the paper
And a thinly-veiled contempt for all humanity

CHORUS

And ain't it great
And ain't it swell
We beat the bug, we're back to hell
The small stuff I at last unlearned to sweat
Is back in mind
Is back in force
And dripping out from all my pores
I never had the priv'lege to forget

There's a guy who's by the window and his politics are terrible
An HR violation on his t-shirt
I wish him no great harm but pray that no-one finds him bearable
Enough to sit and listen to his bullshirt

CHORUS

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from Song​-​A​-​Day, released July 3, 2019
lyrics by Stephen Wordsmith
music and performance by Stephen Wordsmith

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