put the lime in the coconut

you know when you start to write down a lyric and suddenly question whether the words you've strung together for years upon decades is how the song really goes? if you're one of those who just realised jeremy spoke in class today when you've been telling everyone he was smoking grass?

yeah, well.

put dem bot together...den you'll feel better.

i do not like coconut. but i was thinking the other day how that tune was on heavy rotation in my head after mom hit the train.

i am also so very not a fan of 'the wizard of oz' or its soundtrack. but when Israel Kamakawiwo'ole is somewhere over the rainbow, that tune is my absolute favorite. right next to 'stand by me'. which was played at our wedding. and also in the movie of the same name centered around boys in search of a dead body. and while goose did not die by locomotive, they did play iz's oz as he sat on the beach and i weeped as cancer finally took him from 'er'. and i stopped watching.

we played 'son of a preacher man' at dad's funeral. i wonder what dad would have thought. of that and the shots of he and mini-skirted mom leaned back on the car, kissing, that accompanied it.

i wonder what will be played at mine. and if anyone would think to play any of my top three choices laid out above. i do so hope if carl's alive that when they place me in the ground or throw me into the air, that he hums the little espn diddly. and then for vern or matthew to somehow play the 'lost' bomb.

nearly all of which would be so fitting should we die en route to hawaii.

you know when you sit down intent on recording a specific thought and you totally tangent yourself?