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Bruce's Misfortune

My favorite song by far on Mike Doughty's CD Haughty Melodic is the last track, Your Misfortune. It caught me by surprise in the car just now, however, in that it summed up so neatly and so beautifully the sentiments my sister, my parents, and to a lesser extent I have been expressing to my Uncle Bruce for months (or years, really). It goes like this:

When your faith in life is gone
Come and speak to me
When you're down and all messed up
Seek my sympathy
When everybody says "no, no, no"
Well it's your misfortune and none of my own
"Wrong, wrong, wrong"
Well it's your misfortune that sweetens my song

I can be the friend you want
I can be your confidant
I can be the right reminder at the right time
Throwing out the lifeline

Stand in the light stand in the light stand in the light
Stand in the light stand in the light stand in the light

When your face is caked with mud
Come and speak to me
When the chill creeps in your blood
Seek my sympathy
When everybody says "no, no, no"
Well it's your misfortune and none of my own
"Wrong, wrong, wrong"
Well it's your misfortune that sweetens my song

I can be the air you drink
Every single thought you think
I can be the right notion at the right time
Warm you like the sunshine

Stand in the light stand in the light stand in the light
Stand in the light stand in the light stand in the light
Stand in the light stand in the light stand in the light.

If Bruce failed to take the advice in the verses, I hope at least he is now standing in the light, free from worry and especially from pain.