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Money Can't Buy Music - beautifulgirlssunnyledges

from The Universe For Beginners by ballboy

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Sometimes all it needs is a little change
a little change can put you so far out of sync that it feels like a big change

and so one week instead of passing all the same people on the way to work
or rather
instead of passing them all at the same time
i started to leave the house at different times

just by a few minutes each day
just by a few minutes each day to see what would happen

and that's where i walked
i walked down, you know, across the bridges with the sunshine on both sides

and a little bit later i passed the ugly kid who goes to private school with his dad

and i passed the semi-stylish girl who always seems to be wearing the same clothes
even though i know she's not
but whenever i remember her she's always wearing the same clothes

and she never seems happy

and the strangest thing of all
is that when i pass the coffee shop where the little girl and her dad sit
they're not even there
because of the time that i left

and that's the strangest thing of all because i've watched that girl grow up
she sits every morning with her dad reading her book
and i feel invested somehow
because i've watched her grow up through the little books
the easy ones
through her Oxford Reading Tree and beyond

and now she's one proper novels and i feel a sense of pride

even though all i did was walk by regularly

and later, on the way home I walk past Jenners

and there's a man upside down
standing on his head with his head in a bucket
his arms folded across his chest
and a little box that said
"I didn't want to ask you for money -
and so I did this instead"

and there's an old Jenners Lady walking past
and she says
"You know that's the kind of thing that causes accidents"

and the gothy grungy kids are standing at the top of the stairs
talking about some guy whose girlfriend left him because he spent all his time just staring at a lightbulb

"aye and he said he was doing it just for her"
said the gothiest, grungiest looking one - did that make him the leader?

did these kids even have or believe in leaders
or was there some kind of socialist revolution happening here

hidden behind the clothes and the makeup and the wings

what were the wings for anyway?
did they signify something?
if they did then i didn't understand it

but i guess that's the point

and at the bottom of the street I'm standing and watching
it's early evening at the start of the Summer

and the sun and the sky and the bridges and the parks and the people and the streets and the sounds and the cars

they're all just there - lit perfectly

and I've been here so many times
and I could never quite out what it was that made it what it is

but today I get it
today I work it out for the very first time

and I'm feeling quite pleased with myself for doing it

but also a little bit ashamed that I didn't work it out before.

and here's what it is:

It's that the rich can't buy it
And the poor don't have to give it up

It's that the rich can't buy it
And the poor don't have to give it up

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from The Universe For Beginners, released January 8, 2007

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