MY NEW THEME SONG

     It pleases me to no end that there exists a song called "Cynical Girl". It's a song by Marshall Crenshaw (of "Someday, Someway" fame) that came out in 1982 [good to know I've been paying attention all these years!]. It was playing on my store's MUZAK program channel "7890" [70s, 80s, 90s, and today]. I was delighted to hear it but couldn't believe that that's what I was hearing. There was no way it could be "I'm looking for a cynical girl..." It had to be "simple" right?

     How delightful to be so wrong! I have to go out and buy this album stat.

CYNICAL GIRL

(lyrics by Marshall Crenshaw)

Well I'm goin' out

I'm goin' out lookin' for a cynical girl

Who's got no use for the real world

I'm lookin' for a cynical girl

Well I hate TV

There's gotta be somebody other than me

Who's ready to write it off immediately

I'm lookin' for a cynical girl

Well I'll know right away by the look in her eye

She harbors no illusions and she's worldly-wise

And I'll know when I give her a listen that she

She's what I've been missin'

What I've been missin'

I'll be lost in love

And havin' some fun with my cynical girl

Who'll have no use for the real world

I'm lookin' for a cynical girl

Well I'm goin' out

I'm goin' out lookin' for a cynical girl

Who's got no use for the real world

I'm lookin' for a cynical girl

Yeah I'll know right away by the look in her eye

She harbors no illusions and she's worldly-wise

And I'll know when I give her a listen that she

She's what I've been missin'

What I've been missin'

I'll be lost in love

And havin' some fun with my cynical girl

Who'll have no use for the real world

I'm lookin' for a cynical girl