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Songscape #3: The Shining

It was one of those days where you wake up and the whole world has gone to blazes. It's running late and if you don't move your arse, you are going to have to spend money that you don't have on a potentially stroke-inducing cab trip through the morning traffic.

It was one of those days where Murphy's Law ruled. You can't find your this-and-that, and the shirt you want to wear is not ironed, etc. After stumbling out of the bathroom and throwing the essentials (iPod, wallet, cigarettes etc) into your bag, you struggled into your adidases and dashed out of the house.

Muttering and cursing under your breath the entire time, you keep checking to see if you've forgotten anything, hoping that something halfway decent will start playing to drive the monday blues away. Dodging in between cars, while the opening chords*of Badly Drawn Boy's "The Shining" trickle out, you suddenly look up at the sky and there is a faint sliver of rainbow among the gathering clouds. You can barely make out the red and the blue bits and the rest sort of just blends into the sky. But it is a rainbow nonetheless.

You stared at it for a while, forgetting that you were in the middle of the street. A car horn blasts through and you moved out of the way in time. The day just got that wee little bit better.

* Sorry, I can't find the entire mp3 for "The Shining." The opening chords can be streamed from Amazon while the part where the vocals start can be streamed from here.