Everybody Snores

Well it's the wee hours of another Tuesday and I can't sleep. It's my chemo pills. I take them Monday and I have insomnia Monday night. Tonight just after midnight I was listening to a cover version of Everybody Hurts on my iPad. The wifey was fast asleep so I was using ear buds. Yet, what was that? Son of a gun if she wasn't snoring...and in perfect unison with the song: "Everybody hurts - hrmpf - sometimes". Oh, and before you think my wife was snorting like a pork (that's something my sweet francophone spouse would say) she has the most genteel, lady-like snore I've ever heard. Me, on the other hand, when I do sleep and sometimes snore, I just roar. And I have the bruises to prove it where my wife has kicked me. Anyway I was inspired by my wife's nocturnal nuance and the following is the result.

Well my day was long and my night

My night was mine to own

Then for sure I'd had enough of no sleep, I hung on

Didn't let myself go

My body cries and everybody snores 'cept me

Sometimes I sing a song

But this time it's all wrong

Then my day is night, a groan (hrmpf gone, hrmpf gone)

And I feel like sleeping: go (hrmpf gone)

And I think I've had too many of these pills, my sleep's gone

Everybody snores

Take comfort in your bed

Everybody snores

Don't kick your foot. Oh, no

Don't kick your foot

If you think I'm in the zone, no, no, no, you are so alone

If I'm not sleeping my dear wife

Kick me at night is wrong

When you think you've had too much of this hrmpf to bang on

Well that makes me hurt sometimes

My body cries

And everybody snores 'cept me

And everybody snores 'cept me

So don't kick, don't kick

Hold on, hold on

Twas you, twas you!

(It was, it was)

Everybody snores

'Cept me, I'm alone

If you're curious, here's the R.E.M version. How ironic. I parodied a song about not sleeping by a group called R.E.M.