The song is haunting
Like an echo chamber
Skeeter Davis
Sings it soulfully
They play it as a soundtrack
In the series
‘Too Close’
And what a series that!
Emily Watson
Plays psychologist
Denise Gough
The ‘crazy mummy’girl
Why are the streets
Not full of broken people?
– May be they are
Maybe we just don’t see
And all the while
Skeeter Davis sings
‘Why does the sun keep on shining?
Why does the sea rush to shore?
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world?
‘Cause you don’t love me anymore’
We all meet the end of the world
That day of loss
Through death or love gone wrong
And life goes on and on
As if the same old song
Don’t they know?
Don’t they know you’re gone?
All my life I’ve heard that voice
So haunting
So beautifully sad so all alone
So sing it Skeeter
Sing it one more time
Let lovers know
Love’s sorrow and its tone
Brian Fahy
7 June 2021
+ I only discovered today that ‘Skeeter’ is a nickname for mosquito, used to describe people who have lots of energy.
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