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David Gray of "Babylon" fame has an album I love called Life in Slow Motion, from 2005, with this song called "Hospital food." When I'm on the treadmill with earphones on and get to this eighth song on the album I start singing out loud with it - top of my voice loud. I just can't help myself. It's always the last song of my workout, so when it's done, I'm done (which makes me happy), but the song itself is wonderful and so the combination is thrilling. Then I bring my sweaty self out to the family room to find Don and Peter also looking happy. I do like to make them happy.
"‘Hospital Food’, says David, “is what we all eat every day. The nanny state, TV-gobbling idiocy that we call passing time is basically hospital food. You get a lot of shit thrown on your plate, and you eat it.” (This quote is at his bio site.)
Hospital Food
Just a little something for the pain
Hospital food getting you down?
Honey now I'm not one to complain
But this hangin' around
Is wearing me out
So patch me up boys take me home
Are you not hearing a word I say?
She sounds so different on the phone
I just sink like a stone
Back to the day
Tell me something
Tell me something
I don't already know
Tell me something
Tell me something I don't know
Don't seem to have that much to show
For all the hard work, the sweat and toil
You say 'well that's right,' and you should know
You've been there before
You've basked in the glow
You've stood in the roar
You've tasted the snow
Tell me something
Tell me something
I don't already know
Tell me something
Tell me something
I don't already
Seeing it all so beautiful
The way it oughta be
Seeing it all so beautiful
And turning away
Turning away
Turning away
Tell me something
Tell me something
I don't already know
Tell me something
Tell me something
I don't already know
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