Week Thirty-Five: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - "Forever (Live and Die)" - The Best of OMD

Happy New Year!!!

The New Year always puts me in such a reflective mood... I was just thinking about how even though my family has experienced a great deal of loss over the past year, with the deaths of my last two remaining grandparents, this year, we will be celebrating the birth of my younger sister's baby in April. I will become a first-time auntie, and I could not be more excited! Not that I even need a reason to go to places like Chuck E. Cheese's and Disney World (fyi - there will be matching Mickey Mouse ears involved in this excursion), but now I will have a completely valid reason to go to such locations.

She's naming the baby Carter, and I warned her that there was a 90's British band called Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine - (I'll post one of their songs below the lyrics); so I told her not to be surprised if her baby turns out to be a nympho. She assured me that her baby is never having sex. Poor girl is totally delusional... I'm guessing that is what pregnancy hormones do to you!!! Speaking of pregnancy, I saw one of those e-cards the other day that made me laugh a bit; it said: "Everyone I know keeps getting married or pregnant. I just keep getting more awesome!" :-D

Anyway, this is another sweet, little OMD tune, and it was just a gentle reminder to me that, from the beginning of time and up until the end of time, people are forever living and dying...

I never wanted another

Come over to me and discover

I want to be near you

And you need to be far away

You always seem to make me feel at home

Hey

People I know

I never know, I never know, I never know, I never know why

You make me wanna cry

I never know, I never know, I never know, I never know why

Forever live and die

I look at all of the people

Doing it over and over

You never get any older

I wish that you could be near

I look at you and I

Make the same mistakes

Hey

People I know

I never know, I never know, I never know, I never know why

You make me wanna cry

I never know, I never know, I never know, I never know why

Forever Live and Die

(Instrumental)

I never know, I never know, I never know, I never know why

You make me wanna cry

I never know, I never know, I never know, I never know why

Forever Live and Die

I never know, I never know, I never know, I never know why

You make me wanna cry

I never know, I never know, I never know, I never know why

Forever Live and Die

I never know, I never know, I never know, I never know why

You make me wanna cry

And here's Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine - also known as Carter USM - with "The Only Living Boy in New Cross"...