I would like to think the thief looked like the car thief from Rocko's Modern Life
Sometime last night a rock was thrown through my mother’s car window to steal my father’s wallet which was lying in the front cup holder of the car. Luckily there was no money in the wallet and after a night filled with cleaning up glass and cancelling credit cards the entire event has just shaped into one large inconvenience. But, in the spirit of idiotic thieves attempting to steal money I thought today I would search my useless music knowledge filled mind and spot a song that has to do with stealing. So without further ado I bring you Pentangle.
Pentangle, not the five pointed star famously used on the shield of Sir Gawain in the English poem “Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight” (I apologize, British Literature), is a British folk-rock band who was active in the late 1960’s to early 1970’s. A version of them still exists and tours today. In 1968 they released their most well known album entitled Sweet Child, and along with the folky jazz songs came bonus tracks and the horrible song title that has sparked the lyric of the day, “Let No Man Steal Your Thyme.”
Okay laugh it up because I know I am. Here are your lyrics:
” Let no man steal your thyme, Let no man steal your thyme.
For when your thyme it is past and gone
He’ll care no more for you”
-“Let No Man Steal Your Thyme,” by Pentagle off of Sweet Child
I am sure your initial reaction to this is simply, Matt, where in the heck are you finding these lyrics and bands. This stuff is really odd. Yes, indeed it is odd, and it also is a miserable metaphor for losing ones virginity. It is a song that is promoting abstinence poorly. It also portrays men pretty terribly. But, wait, I may just be looking into these lyrics way too much. Let us take them for what they are. If a shady man comes along and he is staring at your particularly herby thyme garden menacingly please, for thyme’s sake, do not let him take it.
This thyme looks tempting
The Music Court 
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