{"id":291,"date":"2007-01-02T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=291"},"modified":"2015-11-01T13:23:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T21:23:46","slug":"monday-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2007\/01\/02\/monday-on-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Monday<\/p>\n

T<\/span>here were times, back when I was a drinkin’ man, that pretty much every<\/span> day was Monday, a rude, jangling intrusion into sweet peaceful nescience.<\/p>\n

The necessity to drag oneself out of bed, day after grinding day… man, some days that was just so hard. And then to go to work on top of it, as well? For crying out loud, what do they want<\/span> out of a man?<\/p>\n

But work gave me refuge from primal existential dilemmas, as well… a hidey hole where, as long as I kept my head down and worked toward getting the day over with and keeping from slipping behind, I could be free of nagging doubts about just how worthwhile my continuing existence was. Well, maybe not free<\/span> of them, perhaps, but I could at least defer them.<\/p>\n

And at the end of a long day of work, there was always the bottle. Like a djinn whose work was done, I would coil back into that sweet, dark prison…<\/p>\n\n

Internet Archive page for this recording<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on AYoS:
\n Monday, April 03, 2006<\/a>
\n Monday, February 13, 2006<\/a><\/p>\n

chain of mondays…<\/span><\/p>\n

a thousand mondays
\nthat’s just 19 years
\nput your head down
\nput yourself in gear<\/p>\n

before you know it
\nthe day is done
\nfall asleep
\nand there’s another one<\/p>\n

chain of mondays<\/span>
\nwrapped round my life<\/span>
\nchain of mondays <\/span>
\nuntil the day I die<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m good at what I do
\nbut what I do is dumb
\npushing things around
\nall day long<\/p>\n

what’s it all for
\ndon’t ask me
\ni’m just a well-worn gear
\nin the big machine<\/p>\n

chain of mondays…<\/span><\/p>\n

don’t take off my shackles
\ni don’t want to be free
\ncause theres nowhere to go
\nand no one to be<\/p>\n

been at the grindstone
\nfor so damn long
\nthere’s nothing much left
\nexcept this song:<\/p>\n

chain of mondays…<\/span><\/p>\n

(C)2006, TK Major<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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