Ghost of a flea

I was introduced to this brilliant song by a strange girl I knew in high school, who hated punk & New Wave & worshiped Bowie & the Sixties. She didn't seem to grasp that the song itself condemns the excesses of the Sixties:

"And I close my eyes and tighten up my brain
For I once read a book in which the lovers were slain
For they knew not the words of the Free States' refrain
It said:
"I believe in the Power of Good
I Believe in the State of Love
I Will Fight For the Right to be Right
I Will Kill for the Good of the Fight for the Right to be Right"

Many good things are wasted on the people who enjoy them.

lol we also argued about "American Pie," another anti-Sixties song about how the Beatles & the Stones corrupted American rock n roll. She insisted it was all about the Kennedys, in spite of the line "I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride..."

She was my girlfriend for a while, but she became a lesbian of course...