I Know, But It Is Driving Me NUTS!

That song. You've heard it, Second Chance by Shinedown.

What's so terrible, you ask, To make it worthy of a blog post on The Mysterious Mrs. B. Roth?

Watch:



(My apologies.)

Did you catch it?

I just saw Hal[l]ey's comet, she waved
Said "why you always running in place?"
Even the man in the moon disappeared,
Somewhere in this stratosphere.

It's two things really.

1986 was the year I REALLY got into space. My 2nd grade Weekly Reader was all over Halley's Comet. I looked for it almost every night. It's called Halley's comet, rhymes with valley. Okay? And I would let you pronounce it Haw-lee (like hall), because Wikipedia said so, but not Hailey. Okay? Please. Honor the man: much like Edmond Halley himself, I never SAW saw it in real life, but I was out there in the cold hoping for it. Then, 1986, Challenger was going to take pictures of it. You remember Challenger, right? The shuttle with a real live teacher on it? The launch every teacher on earth was watching; mine snuck off to the to the library to watch it live. He came back crying.


And then, STRATOSPHERE??? Do you even know where the stratosphere is? Obviously not. It's between 6 and 30 miles above the earth. Planes fly in the stratosphere. It's the cozy layer of the earth's atmosphere (assuming you are snug in a jet plane). Moons and comets are no where near the stratosphere. Relatively speaking. Well, relatively speaking, I guess they are, but ... arg ... you know what I mean.

I keep hearing this song and every time it bugs me. It drives me crazy. Someone needs to tell Brent Smith to go back into the studio and pronounce it properly. I tried leaving him a note on the band's MySpace page, but MySpace wanted me to sit through a Lindsay-Lohan-gets-knocked-up advertisement, then it wouldn't load and I lost my patience (I haven't had much lately). You, be a peach and leave a note for them, would you? Now, there's a dear! Tell him Mrs. B. Roth sent you!

Halley's comet returns in 2061. I'd really like to SEE see it then. (Lovely, now I have completely jinxed myself and will go blind or just drop dead with in a year of 2061, GAH, I hate Fate!) (calling Fate out undoes it's power, now I have a 50/50 chance!) And so help me, if they bring this song out of the archives of one hit wonders, BY JINGO, you will hear how 83 year old Mrs. Brandy Nichole Anderson Roth (etc.) was arrested for using language unbecoming of a lady and hitting strangers with her purple handbag. Because the song makes me CRAZY mad!