Name: 17-Year Itch
Duration: P00H02M59S
Description: At the time I wrote '17-Year Itch' 40 seemed a long way off. It still is, but now it's in entirely the wrong direction, and no going back…

17-Year Itch

from The Game of London by David A. Harley

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At the time I wrote '17-Year Itch' 40 seemed a long way off. It still is, but now it's in entirely the wrong direction, and no going back…

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17-Year Itch (words & music by David A. Harley

Front tyre blew / Tax overdue
Picked up / A parking fine or two
Gas bill trouble / Rent is doubled
You say “NOW what’s wrong with you?”
Dentures slipping / Nervous twitch
17-year-itch
I’m underpaid and overweight / So let’s go and celebrate
Who said life begins at 40?

Kids are listening / Separate beds
Bitter thoughts / In separate heads
Kids are screaming / Dogs are howling
Milk gone bad / We’re out of bread
So I leer at typists / Wonder which
Might scratch / My seventeen year itch
I must have wasted / So much time
The other side / Of 39

Monday morning / Bus queue blues
MOT overdue
My head is bursting / My eyes need testing
Sorry that I snapped at you
Sorry / Sorry
Always saying sorry
Always praying
There might be some peace sometime
The other side of 65
But would it be so hard to be
Another aging divorcee?

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from The Game of London, released April 19, 2021
Vocal and guitars by David A. Harley

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David A. Harley England, UK

David Harley is a former professional musician, administrator, IT security editor, author and researcher, and former much else that is even less impressive. He now lives in Cornwall. More info at whealalice.com