https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/wk-35-7-12-21-30-37-42/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:00:07 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/wk-35-7-12-21-30-37-42/paged/2/#post-299297 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:37:51 +0000
thanks for the explanation, Vic! although that wasn't what you meant it is weird I didn't think of the divorce costing money :wink:
watching Bob Dylan in Fort Worth - my dad would be jealous :D

cheers,
straycat.


* :lol: :lol: :lol:]]> Sunday Songwriters Group straycat. https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/wk-35-7-12-21-30-37-42/paged/2/#post-299297 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/wk-35-7-12-21-30-37-42/#post-299221 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:04:53 +0000 "To be rid of you it was money well spent." Because the narrator/protagonist is now flat stony broke, skint, penniless, whatever, the woman has left him - but he considers being penniless a good trade-off for being rid of her.

Hey, that's Ken's ideal woman, not mine - mine would be a deaf dumb and blind nymphomaniac who owned a brewery and a chain of guitar shops. I AM JUST JOKING!*

And Ken - three years ago on the 4th of July, I was celebrating it with Americans in America, watching Bob Dylan in Fort Worth. Felt weird, celebrating the fact my ancestors had been kicked out of the country....

:D :D :D

Vic

(* I lied.....)]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/wk-35-7-12-21-30-37-42/#post-299221 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/wk-35-7-12-21-30-37-42/#post-299199 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:19:27 +0000 oh and could you kindly explain the following line to me? To be rid of you it was money well spent. seems my IQ of 7 doesn't quite catch the meaning there :lol: my first thought: the narrator hired someone to kill her for revenge... then... wait a moment... wouldn't be writing to her if that'd been the case, would he :D so please, help me out :D We were just building the perfect woman: high bust line, low waist line, high hip line, low IQ, low maintenance, high s . . Nevermind. As Vic said, pursuing that can lead to trouble.

About the money well spent, my brother-in-law is currently going through a divorce.
Half of what he owns goes to the wife. :shock: Ouch!
But, he feels it's worth it. I imagine that is what Vic is talking about.

And Vic, tomorrow we celebrate the end of our existence as a colony.
Happy 4th of July!]]> Sunday Songwriters Group KR2 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/wk-35-7-12-21-30-37-42/#post-299199 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/wk-35-7-12-21-30-37-42/#post-299193 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:58:55 +0000 "decadent ease" fits in very well! also, I liked your choice of the name, Vic :wink:

first time I read your title I was pretty impressed thought "geez, all those weeks in one song" :lol:
Probably 21-12-7 would have to be age/dress size/ IQ - but I can see the storm clouds gathering if THAT line's pursued, so I think we better not go there! No English woman would EVER admit to being bigger that a size 8.. if that is the only point you're worrying about there! dress size.... IQ of 7 wouldn't be problematic? :lol: :lol: :lol:

oh and could you kindly explain the following line to me? To be rid of you it was money well spent. seems my IQ of 7 doesn't quite catch the meaning there :lol: my first thought: the narrator hired someone to kill her for revenge... then... wait a moment... wouldn't be writing to her if that'd been the case, would he :D so please, help me out :D

thanks for that entertaining song.
cheers,
straycat.]]> Sunday Songwriters Group straycat. https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/wk-35-7-12-21-30-37-42/#post-299193 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/wk-35-7-12-21-30-37-42/#post-299134 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:51:32 +0000
So what exactly is your problem with us youngsters, Chris?

:D :D :D

Vic
Mostly, it's the 10 years or more that I've alread spent, and that you've still got up your sleeve... :mrgreen:

And the fact that you can probably still remember...umm... whatever it was we were talking about...

Chris]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Chris C https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/wk-35-7-12-21-30-37-42/#post-299134 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/wk-35-7-12-21-30-37-42/#post-299127 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:13:19 +0000 and let her know what's really wrong with young people today.

So what exactly is your problem with us youngsters, Chris?

:D :D :D

Vic]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/wk-35-7-12-21-30-37-42/#post-299127 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/wk-35-7-12-21-30-37-42/#post-299121 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:37:21 +0000
7-12-21 suggested the birthday of somebody's granny, and 30, 37, 42 looked a lot like the shape some of them end up - skinny shoulders, boobs migrated down to waist level, and all rounded off with a bum like a hippo.

In fact I'm pretty sure she was in front of me in the supermarket queue last week, taking an age to find the right change in her purse, and telling the check-out girl all about her ailments, and what's wrong with young people today..... :roll:
... silly old fool didn't seem to realise that it was MY turn to take an age to find the right change in my pocket, and tell the check-out girl all about MY ailments, and let her know what's really wrong with young people today..... some old people just have no consideration for others....]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Chris C https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/wk-35-7-12-21-30-37-42/#post-299121 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/wk-35-7-12-21-30-37-42/#post-298884 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:42:20 +0000
Ken - dress size 7 and a 28 inch waist? It's obvious you've never spent hours and hours and hours and hours trailing round clothes shops with a woman - only for her to eventually decide "I think I liked the first one best....."

Probably 21-12-7 would have to be age/dress size/ IQ - but I can see the storm clouds gathering if THAT line's pursued, so I think we better not go there! No English woman would EVER admit to being bigger that a size 8, even if she resembled the Michelin Man......
Vic, I always tell people that ideas for songs are all around. I love the concept of your song. Probably subconsciously influenced by a few things - John's "Jimmy Buffet" song and the comments I made to KenRogers2 about the time machine and lottery numbers - sometimes things just seem to fall together. I don't think I could have got anywhere near putting the ideas together in a song though, if I hadn't been hanging out in the SSG for the last four years....

:D :D :D

Vic]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/wk-35-7-12-21-30-37-42/#post-298884 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/wk-35-7-12-21-30-37-42/#post-298879 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:23:28 +0000 KR2]]> Sunday Songwriters Group KR2 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/wk-35-7-12-21-30-37-42/#post-298879 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/wk-35-7-12-21-30-37-42/#post-298878 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:12:33 +0000
I always tell people that ideas for songs are all around. I love the concept of your song.

Which gives me an idea for a completely different song. You know what would be really funny? Completely different, but funny? If you changed the order of the numbers so they went something like 38-28-36.....21-12-7 so that on first glance people would think you were talking about a woman's measurements. Perhaps not.]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Nick Torres https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/wk-35-7-12-21-30-37-42/#post-298878