YOU KNOW WE BELONG TOGETHER

Something weird happened today. I was walking along the road, thinking about how to define the concept of irony to an alien civilisation, when I suddenly heard myself singing.

Alright, alright - the singing to myself part of that is probably not the weird part, but bear with me. It was more the content.

"You know we belong together..." I sang.

OK then.

"You and I forever and ever..."

Where did that come from? A dusty corner of my head which hasn't glimpsed the sunlight for twenty years must have been shaken up by something - a close call, crossing the A4 earlier perhaps? My manager talking about Australia to an interview candidate? Hard to tell.

"No matter where you are;
You're my guiding star."

Perhaps thinking about irony led to me thinking about the use of the question mark for sarcasm? You can do that? In the end if you keep ending sentences with the inflected question? What happens? You sound like you should be in an Australian soap opera?

"And from the very first moment I saw you,
(oooh)
I've never felt such emotion.
I'm walking on air,
Just to know (just to know)
You are there (you are there)..."

The leaves were blowing about and there was a really fine drizzle pervading the air. It felt like the spray of the waves, the kind of waves which would lap against the sand at Summer Bay while high school students would lounge about in their red jumpers and check-patterned dresses.

Twenty years eh. Is it still popular, Home and Away? Do people still watch it? I thought about good old Alf and Ailsa and the diner and the surf shop and I had a little go at the accents and frightened a builder when I called myself a great galah in passing. I can't do the Australian accent - it seems like a really slanted combination of cockney, dutch and scottish all sort of rolled into one sunny drawl.

"Hold me in your arms
Don't let me go
I want to stay forever
Home and away
With you each day
Let me be the one
That you turn to
Someone you can rely on
Closer each day
Home and Away..."

It had some really interesting chord progressions in it, didn't it? Major sevenths and cheesy keys. I think it might actually have influenced my song writing. Aww, the 80s. Although, I reckon I'd have a harder time explaining what that was all about to those aliens.