Monday morning’s earworm №46
Tired of Being Alone by Al Green
What is an earworm?
It’s a snatch or a snippet, a captured fragment, a line or two, or maybe a bit more, that stays in your head and keeps bubbling up accompanying your day.
It’s part of the language of your landscape that stays in your mind, whether it’s one single line, a couplet or maybe a whole verse, from a poem or song, or a part of a speech from a play, or a quote from a book, or something you heard somebody say, that won’t let you go.
Sometimes it won’t involve what we call language in the everyday. It could be purely a musical phrase that plays on your time, on a loop that follows you through day and night.
That’s what an earworm is. And so is this…
Tired of Being Alone by Al Green
Released June 1971. UK Chart peak №4
Praise the good Reverend Al
A couple of weeks ago I was in Fopp, in Edinburgh, my music supplier of choice, browsing the books looking for those bargains I wouldn’t want to miss out on. While wandering about downstairs I saw Al Green’s autobiography. I paused and thought about it and let it go. I moved on to the next display shelf of music-related books.
