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March 2 – 8, 2020

Selected by Joe Horn

Note from Joe: A few decades ago, instead of saying, "I don't think that's correct," people would just bark "WRONG!" I wonder if Waylon Jennings' hit song started that brief fad, or merely capitalized on it.

Wrong

by Steve Seskin and Andre Pessis.
Sung by Waylon Jennings. Click HERE to listen to his 1990 hit recording (MP3, 6.9MB)

It was a picture perfect wedding.
We had the whole world at our feet.
Everyone thought we were heading
Down a lovers' easy street.
We'd have a house out in the country,
A picket fence, the whole nine yards.
They said our love would last forever.
It was written in the stars.

    WRONG!
    I should have known it all along.
    When the future looks too bright...
    Can't be anything but right...
    WRONG!

I was all but devastated
When she told me we were through.
In a while the heartache faded,
And I found somebody new.
I swore that this time would be different.
I had it all figured out.
I wouldn't make the same mistakes.
I knew what love was all about.

    WRONG!
    I should have known it all along.
    When the future looks too bright...
    Can't be anything but right...
    WRONG!
    Everything was going strong.
    The sky was always blue...
    I thought my dreams had all come true...
    WRONG!
    WRONG!

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Poem of the Week ... on temporary hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic ...

March 2 – 8, 2020

Wrong

Poem of the Week
... on temporary hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic ...