You know, I’d sooner forget, but I remember those nights
When life was just a bet on a race between the lights
You had your head on my shoulder, you had your hand in my hair
Now you act a little colder, like you don’t seem to care

For a hot minute before I fell off the knife edge I thought some songs and smart words would save me.

One song, in particular. Here are four versions of it.

Let The Day Begin (The Call)
Cover version of it decades later, by Simple Minds
Another cover from the next generation (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club)
BMRC’s Live Version

The song was written by The Call’s frontman, Michael Been. An Oklahoma boy, born 1950.

I quote his song The Walls Came Down all the time, and the last time I did I dug harder and found LTDB.

I was hoping it would be the antidote to the bleak hopelessness of TWCD but it didn’t work out exactly that way.

The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is his son Robert’s band.

In 2010, Dad Michael was serving as the sound man for BMRC on tour in Belgium when he died of a heart attack at age 60.