Dear Chicago

December 30, 2008
Author: tfitch

I found a song today named Dear Chicago by Ryan Adams. You can listen to it here.

I thought I’d bastardize the lyrics since I’ve got nothing much else to do right now. Amazingly there were several phrases I didn’t even have to make any changes to (and yes, that’s partly because I’m lazy).

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Dear Chicago,
You’ll never guess.
You know the trade pick you said I’d get someday?
Well, I’ve got something to confess.

You dropped from the league on a Friday.
Never asked me if for anything from you.
I just laughed and couldn’t believe it,
Said “that’s impossible to do.”

My life’s gotten simple since.
And it fluctuates so much.
Happy and sad and back again.
I’m not crying out to much.

Think about you all the time.
It’s strange and hard to deal.
Think about you lying there.
And the arena lies so still.

Nothing breathes here in the cold.
Nothing moves or even smiles.
I’ve been thinking some of Cosmo.

But there’s bars out here for miles.
Sorry about the draft pick.
Every fan you wasted.

I thought the thing you said was true,
We’d get a draft pick in ’09 from you.

The wind’s feeling real these days.
Yeah, baby, it hurt’s me some.
Never thought I’d feel so blue.
New York City, you’re almost gone.
I think that I’ve fallen out of love,
I think I’ve fallen out of love . . . with you

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I know the remaining pick from the Cosmo trade will be awarded to the team by the league, so it’s not lost. But IIRC from the Sting going tits up the pick was awarded at the end of the round it was due. And for a first round pick that’s a large change. If Chicago had finished middle of the pack the pick goes from maybe 5th to 13th. That’s just the way it is, but I wanted to say something about it.

Finally, I won’t miss your name. Your X was horrible and you were an embarrassment to the real Shamrocks. And my feelings for the X apply to Portland too, but they managed to put in the logo so well I kinda forgive them.