I'd go with something by Pete Townshend.

Slit Skirts

I was just thirty-four years old and I was still wandering in a haze
I was wondering why everyone I met seemed like they were lost in a maze
I don't know why I thought I should have some kind of divine right to the blues
It's sympathy not tears people need when they're the front page, sad news
The incense burned away and the stench began to rise Lovers now estranged avoided catching each others' eyes And girls who lost their children cursed the men who fit the coil
And men not fit for marriage took their refuge in the oil
No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned
From all this you'd imagine that there must be something learned

Let me tell you some more about myself, you know I'm sitting at home just now
The big events of the day are passed and the late TV shows have come around
I'm number one in the home team but I still feel unfulfilled
A silent voice in her broken heart complaining that I'm unskilled
And I know that when she thinks of me, she thinks of me as "him"
But, unlike me, she don't work off her frustration in the gym
Recriminations fester and the past can never change
A woman's expectations run from both ends of the range Once she walked with untamed lovers' face between her legs
Now he's cooled and stifled and it's she who has to beg

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Posted by Ace Midnight

Between sanity and madness

Member since Dec 2006

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Posted on 4/24/20 at 12:44 pm to tidalmouse

Slit Skirts is a brilliant song. I couldn't figure it out when it hit (I was 14 FFS), but I dug the whole melancholy vibe with upbeat music.

By the time I was in my mid-30s, I got it and realized how spot on it was for the human experience.

So, here we are, almost 40 years later and it gets more brilliant every year.

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