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Lyric of the Week: FALLING ASLEEP WITH THE RADIO ON

Well, I’ve been sniffing like a bloodhound

Looking for a new sound

Searching all over for a different kind of song

I’ve even tried to look

Through the pages of a book

But I know that it’s wrong, it’s wrong, it’s wrong

All the junk that I see

On my MTV

Buzzes all around me like a bumblebee

Punk rock

Gunk rock

Junk rock

Stunk rock

Money for nothing and shice for free

You know it’s so hard to find good honest rock’n’roll on the radio these days

From the old craze to the next phase

And I’ll be falling asleep with the radio on

Falling asleep with the radio on


The thunder and lightning

Is all too frightening

The scary storm all but surrounds me

The rain is pounding

The wind resounding

And thunder and lightning all around me

You know I had this irrational fear ever since I was a little kid

Under the covers I hid

But now I fall asleep with the radio on

Fall asleep with the radio on


The roads are icy

The weather is shicy

And I’m a long way from home

A hundred miles to go

Through the rain and the snow

Traffic all around but I’m alone

But when I finally get home I’ll have a shower and dinner when I’m nice and dry and warm

Then I’ll cuddle up in my baby’s arms

And we’ll be falling asleep with the radio on

Falling asleep with the radio on

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And I’ll be falling asleep with the radio on.

This song is one of my "throwaways" from when I was serving in the Israeli army. I was stationed on the Golan Heights in the spring of 1986 sleeping in tents on the dry grass, sharing the environment with all sorts of wildlife, and I was thinking of what it would be like to be at home in my own bed, listening to the radio like I used to as a kid in the 1970s when I would listen to the music on stations from all over the New York and New Jersey area. Musically, it's a pop-rock ditty, an upbeat, major-key version of a tune that had come to me when I was walking on the boardwalk back in Long Beach, New York, on a Saturday afternoon when I was about four or five years old.

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