Pretty Persuasion

Reckoning (1984): track four, side one.

Black Friday. Cook-from-frozen turkeys are 30% off. While you're out, better get a new HDTV. You know you want one. The money you're saving on the turkey justifies it. Try saying no to this face. 

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It's what I want, hurry and buy

All has been tried, follow reason and buy

Cannot shuffle in this heat, it's all wrong

Try to put that on your sleeve it's all wrong, it's all wrong

He's got pretty persuasion

She's got pretty persuasion

God damn, pure confusion

She's got pretty persuasion

It's what I want, hurry and buy

All has been tried, follow reason and buy

And I put that in this heat, it's all wrong

Try to wear that on my sleeve, it's all wrong, all wrong

He's got pretty persuasion

She's got pretty persuasion

God damn, pure confusion

He's got pretty persuasion

In the light I saw quite a scene in there

It's what I want, hurry and buy

all has been tried, follow reason and buy

Try to put that in this heat, it's all wrong

Cannot wear that on your sleeve, it's all wrong, all wrong

He's got pretty persuasion

She's got pretty persuasion

God damn, pure confusion

He's got pretty persua... 

Harborcoat

Reckoning (1984): track one, side one.

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Have you ever known anyone who never went out and tried? Someone who was so rooted in her own sense of self-entitlement that she balked at the idea of working for something. You know, that person who dropped out of school and then never started anything, never started anywhere. Because she's too good for that. Holding out for management position.

Then maybe she fell on hard times when, well into adulthood, her parents made her move out. Maybe she shoplifted her clothes. She had to. It wasn't her fault. Shitty parents. They didn't want her to have nice things. 

In reality, the parents thought this would be the push that made her start something, start somewhere. But they were wrong. All it did was cement the idea into her head that the world was against her.

Maybe her parents said she could come back, but she wouldn't. She had her pride. She'd rather sleep on the street. Her time would come. Until then, she had her iPhone. Her parents kept paying for that. They're not total assholes.

As the years fell away, this poor, hard-done-by girl endured much at the hands of the universe. How long would she have to wait? How long would it be until her ship came in? She was ready, after all. Ready to take what's rightfully hers, whatever it was. Unfairly, yet patiently, she waited in the harbour for that ship. She waited relentlessly to start. 

Maybe she's still there.

Have you ever known anyone who was so completely rooted in her own sense of self-entitlement that it led her to her downfall?

You don't know anyone like that? Funny, neither do I.