Je Suis Calme!

As you all know, my life was forever changed Sunday, August 28th the year of our Lord 2022 when Taylor Alison Swift announced the upcoming release of her 10th studio album. God bless and keep her. 

So we will be taking a brief detour from your regularly scheduled Paris content. 

I don't know who is more thrilled about this album drop, me or my therapist because I told her she can really phone it in between now and October 21st. I'll manage.

Taylor shared that Midnights will have 13 tracks about different sleepless nights throughout her life. Which got me thinking about sleepless nights I have had.

There's been nights I couldn't sleep due to heartbreak and nights I couldn't sleep because I accidentally slept all day. 

There were many pandemic nights that I didn't sleep because I was in grad school and everything was due by 11:59 Sunday night so at midnight I had this insane rush of task-completion dopamine. I would literally stay up until like 3 AM working on PowerPoints and assignments for my students to do and organizing my online classroom. What a nerd.

More recently there were nights I didn't sleep because my gallbladder was a freakin' bean bag and trying to kill me. 

I had my share of traditional all-nighters in college studying for exams. I survived 2 lock-ins in my time on the youth group circuit and I'm the only person I know who went to Project Graduation and didn't win a single thing.

Would any of these make for a good song? Who knows?

I took the liberty of writing my own Midnights-inspired lyrics about the time I stayed up with friends in Raleigh waiting for Bojangles to open for the next day. I do have a melody in my head but I could not find a way to present these lyrics with an acceptable audio other than me recording myself singing. So for your own enjoyment I present to you, in written form only, It's Bo Time Somewhere.


It's Bo Time Somewhere

Out with the girls
After the show
Gonna head to some club
And hope we don't see someone we know

An hour turns in
To two or three
And I'm ready to go
I'm ready to leave

But still hungry...

Cookout will be crowded
This much we know
Krispy Kreme is so far
And Chick-fil-A is closed

I can't sleep now
No way, no how
Sweet tea would be a dream
Chicken would be supreme

What time is it?
Is it Bo time yet?
Pass the seasoning
How many biscuits can I get?

What time is it?
I'm in a hurry
For it to be 5:30

Somewhere

Red and yellow
Every single sign
But the one that I want
Is the one I can't seem to find

We're chasing the sunrise
Following the smell of fries
Just hopin'
That you're open
And gonna let us inside

What time is it?
Is it Bo time yet?
Do y'all have Cheerwine?
If not, that's a crime

What time is it?
I'm in a hurry
For it to be 5:30

Somewhere

Chicken goes in
Tenders come out
The world goes Bo Round and Bo Round

At 5:30

Somewhere

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