Let This Colony Know

So there was this woman and
she was, uh, on an airplane and
she’s flying to meet her fiancé
sailing high above the—the largest ocean
on planet earth and she was seated
next to this man who, you know
she had tried to start conversations
an really—really the only thing
she heard him say was to order his bloody mary
and she’s sitting there and she’s reading
this really arduous magazine article about a
third world country that she couldn’t
even pronounce the—the name of and
she’s feeling very bored and very despondent
and—and then, uh, suddenly there’s this huge mechanical failure and one of the—the engines gave out
and they started just falling -an- thirty thousand feet
and the pilot’s on the microphone and he’s saying,
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, Oh My God, I’m Sorry”
and apologizing and she looks at the man and she—and she says,
“Where are we going?” and he looks at her and he says,
“We’re going to a party, it—it’s a birthday party.
It’s your birthday party, happy birthday darling.
We love you very, very, very, very, very, very, very much.”
And then, uh, he starts humming this little tune and—and, uh, it kind of goes like this

If this isn’t one of the greatest songs, ever…
(sn: i kinda sorta learned it on autoharp today :3)

Bright Eyes - At The Bottom Of Everything

-Shannon