The Jets lost. Another season with an optimistic start has pretty much gone down the perennial tubes likes many seasons before.I’d like to say that this is a fluke but lacking late-season performances have plagued this franchise for so many lost years and I do not even know the half of it. While I stare in the face of another long winter waiting time until the optimism of spring brings back Spring Training and baseball, I certainly need a bit of a pick-me up to get me smiling again. Yes, I understand that me being down because of a sports team is incredibly superficial and rather dumb but, even in my knowledge that sports are simply a form of entertainment and the world is always experiencing crisis beyond the meaningless stranglehold of sports, I cannot shake the inevitable feeling of annoyance that my wonderful Jets and Mets always seem to bring me. So, let us turn to music and I will reveal to you all my perfect pick-me up song.
I could not resist
“Beautiful World” by Colin Hay (who was the lead vocalist of Men at Work in the 80’s) appeared on Company of Strangers, Hay’s 7th solo album which was released in 2002. The song’s lyrics are just uplifting and truthful. In perhaps one of my favorite verses in any song, Hay sings:
“And still this emptiness persists
Perhaps this is as good as it gets
When you’ve given up the drink and those nasty cigarettes
Now I leave the party early at least with no regrets
I watch the sun as it comes up I watch it as it sets
Yeah this is as good as it gets.”
In it, I just feel like he sums it up quite pleasantly and ingrained in this lyric and song is a message of accepted optimism. Perhaps, no matter what, this is as good as it gets. Do not have any regrets and live life with a smile. Accept the bad and try to make it good. My, my, my it’s a beautiful world (Just look at it that way).
Check out the song and don’t worry, be happy (Bobby McFerrin ain’t bad either):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS8g6UuPCnQ&feature=PlayList&p=A6F88D16B0CC2DEA&index=0&playnext=1
The Music Court 
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