Week Eighty-Six: YouTube Suggestions - General Public - "Tenderness" - All the Rage

So, as you may or may not already know, I have created playlists on YouTube of all of the videos that I post to my blog, and sometimes, as I'm adding these videos to the playlists, I'll jot down some of the suggestions to post about at a later time. And, well, I guess that "later time" has now arrived because I am going to use this week to post about one suggested video from each of my four playlists.

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Merry Christmas!!

Since my blog is named after the song, "Heartbreak Beat", by The Psychedelic Furs, I figured that it would be apropos to select that track from Playlist I for today's suggested tune. Plus, the song, "Tenderness", by General Public is such a great Christmas-y track! Who couldn't use a bit more tenderness in his or her life?

Here's a fantastic tenderness-inspired tale for Christmas Day. I have mentored a little girl in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program for five years now. Every year, I have figured out a way to make sure that she and her brother and her Granny have had a Christmas celebration. This year, my family and I pooled our money together to get them each a gift card in the amount of $120.00, plus a few presents to unwrap on the side. I was set to take everything over to their house on Monday evening, but before I left work that day, my attorney called me in to the conference room. Not only did I receive both a Christmas bonus and a raise that made my jaw drop to the table, but he also whipped out his checkbook and wrote a check in the amount of $500.00 for me to give to my Little Sister's family. I seriously almost started crying right then and there!

So next time you want to talk smack about the greediness of the legal profession and of attorneys, I want you to remember my story and know that there are tender-hearted and kind people working in that field. Sadly, they are few and far-between, but they do exist!!

I don't know when to start or when to stop
My luck's like a button
I can't stop pushing it
My head feels light
But I'm still in the dark
Seems like without tenderness there's something missing
Tenderness
Where is the
Tenderness
Where is it?

I don't know where I am but I know I don't like it
I open my mouth and out pops something spiteful
Words are so cheap, but they can turn out expensive
Words like conviction can turn into a sentence

I held your hands
Rings but none on that finger
We danced and danced
But I was scared to go much further with it
Just half a chance
Make sure that one night you're here,
But next night you're not
It always leaves me searching for a little

Tenderness
Where is the
Tenderness
Where is the
Tenderness?

Whistling in the graveyard
Calling up your girlfriend
Just trying to make her understand
You're squeezing the telephone like it was her hand
No question (so many questions)
She's going to catch you out boy
It all seems so underhand
Now she's the only thing that ever made you feel like a man, man
Madman, madman

Tenderness
Where is the
Tenderness
Tenderness
Tenderness
Where is it?

I held your hands
Rings but none on that finger
We danced and danced
But I was scared to go much further with it
Just half a chance
Make sure that one night you're here,
But next night you're not
It always leaves me searching for a little

Tenderness
Where is the
Tenderness?

I'm just sick to death of second best, pet
Why should the morning always find you unimpressed?
Is your love like a button?
You can't stop pushing it?
Oh this all night longing can be such a long time