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silly songs

I frequently make up silly songs
as I go about my day
- does that sound wrong?

Peter’s quite used to it.
Sometimes he sings along
when he sees fit.

It should be mentioned
that I have an awful voice
there have been singing interventions

I’m sorting my closet
one of the tasks on my
get ready for school docket

(*singing*)

“Look at me
I’m as helpless as a lobster up a tree
and if you 
ignore the smell
i’m doing swell
feeling frisky
and so much in lovvvvve

Look my way
and as long as your not driving
it’s ok
in fact
it’s just as well
cause I bet you can tell
that I’m frisky
and so much in lovvvve”
.
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A song for this:
Silly Love Songs by Paul McCartney

silliness, songs, boyfriend, voice, humor
Copyright © | Year Posted 2026

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Parker Avatar
August 20, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Whoa!!!!! Doctor be gone is official??? So cool your songwriting career can supplement. Whew. So now you're fighting love communicated diseases???? Mommy be pi$$'d. 🌹
Parker Avatar
August 21, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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Vionet Avatar
August 21, 2026 at 6:35 AM
Yes, I was going to be a concert pianist before covid happened. Being a doctor was never MY 'dream,' it was more my 'family business.' I could do it, academically—my year in med school proved that—but seven or eight more years of school and training to do something I'm only so-so about? Naah. I'm going to work for my Grandmère. She has a philanthropy trust (that's distributed €100m a year for decades), I'll be starting there. Her comment to me was, "as a doctor, you'd see what, 30 or 40 patients a day? With this you can help thousands." There's some logic to that. So I'm switching to a master of public health and if it works out, she'll expand the trust to €800m over the next 6 years. My mom wasn't shocked - we talk every week or so - I think she just wants me happy. 🙃
Conn Avatar
August 19, 2026 at 8:58 PM
I was just ogling that pic a few hours ago. It would seem the/a universe has conspired against us.
Vionet Avatar
August 20, 2026 at 7:01 AM
How so (the universe) ⁉️
Fallica Avatar
August 19, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Claude-Michel Schönberg has got nothing on you! Can’t wait to hear you version of ‘Do You Hear the People Sing?’ as you man the laptop and prepare to battle the syllabus / ❤️
Vionet Avatar
August 20, 2026 at 7:19 AM
If Claude-Michel Schönberg is still alive (if your comparison of his brilliance to my lobster lyric version of the jazz standard "Misty" didn't kill him) he would snort at the comparison (yes, French men still snort). My school workload (in switching from med school to a Master of Public health) should be drastically lighter 🙃
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