[Sterix]

So, a while ago on one of the Friday Night Zoom meetins, @PaulAds (I'm pretty sure it was Paul as he uses the phrase in his profile) mentioned that he'd tried and failed to use the phrase "haemorrhaging enthusiasm" in a song. At the time I figured I'd give it a go myself but I only managed to get "haemorrighing" in one. Anyway, was having a bit of a mess around with lyrics today and thought I'd give it another shot. This time successfully!

So this one is for Paul.

ROUND AND AROUND

Lately I've been all out of kilter
I've been feeling like everything's wrong
Haemorrhaging enthusiasm
For the joie de vivre soul of a song

It was the song that was playing the night that we met
The one we first danced to. The one when you left.

And it goes round and around
In the dead of the night
I can't help but hear it
When I close my eyes
And I can't drown out the sound
Of you saying goodbye
But why did you steal it
And make it a lie?

I was caught off guard. Well, you walked in
While the song was on the radio
At first I thought it was an April's fool
But it was summer and a hammer blow

You left me there, our song playing, and stood in shock
It's like you wanted to hurt me as much as you could

And it goes round and around
In the dead of the night
I can't help but hear it
When I close my eyes
And I can't drown out the sound
Of you saying goodbye
But why did you steal it
And make it a lie?

INSTRUMENTAL

And now the radio's playing it once again
I thought I was healing but in the end...

...it goes round and around
In the dead of the night
I can't help but hear it
When I close my eyes
And I can't drown out the sound
Of you saying goodbye
But why did you steal it
And make it a lie?

Round and around
In the dead of the night...

Drown out the sound
Of you saying goodbye...

And it goes round and around
In the dead of the night
I can't help but hear it
When I close my eyes
And I can't drown out the sound
Of you saying goodbye
But why did you steal it
And make it a lie?

[PaulAds]

Excellent lyric, Martin!

Thanks for having a crack at this...it was one of those phrases that I stumbled into and thought "Ooh...I like the sound of that" but never got any further with it. I am going to use that as the title of the album I'm (still) finishing off...

[hardtwistmusic]

This is one of your best.