‘Since you’ve been gone I can do whatever I want’
I tried to get tickets to the “SNL 50” celebration that aired last night. No dice.
The audience was star-studded, so I suppose the few tickets available for the unwashed masses would have been in the basement of 30 Rock.
In any event, I didn’t love the Sabrina Carpenter and cast’s butchering of a Taylor Swift tune and her own song during some wedding scene. But Miley Cyrus was perfection.
I heard her sing “It’s been seven hours and 13 days since you took your love away” and got chills.
That’s how Prince originally sang the song.
Sinead O’Connor, another legend, changed it to “seven hours and 15 days” in her version.
Chris Cornell, best version hands-down, said “seven hours and 16 days.”
I’m not going to claim to know why each of them changed the number.
Like, today marks 611 days since my momma left me.
“All the flowers that you planted, mama
In the backyard
All died when you went away, oh.”
So, my version would’ve been that “it’s been seven hours and 610 days.”
If, say, Taylor Swift would want to record it that way, I’m totally open.
Kelly said the other night that I didn’t get to do all the things I wanted over the past several years.
I said that’s not true, and she backed off. I said I did what “we” wanted to do. And I’m good with that.
She said OK well now you can do all those things you waited to do.
“Since you’ve been gone I can do whatever I want
I can see whom ever I choose
I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant, oh yeah
But nothin’, I said nothin’ can take away these blues.”
You know what I do now? Not much. Spend three grand on a hotel in NY or Vegas or NOLA — that I barely even see — or sit home eating my weight in CityPop Denver popcorn.
Seriously, my capacity for peanut butter popcorn is alarming.
Anyway I’ve been sleeping on that Prince/Sinead/Cornell song. Maybe as I eat my hot cheese popcorn today, I’ll research why they might have tweaked that lyric.
I mean, I could also burn down Mar-a-Lago on this “unpresidented” Presidents Day. That sounds fun, too. More fun, really.