Stolen Pleasures

TTTO “Guilty Pleasures” by Steve Savitzky

Now the CD player is blaring

Music I got from a friend

I sing, windows open, through traffic I drive

And the lyrics I’m craving to bend

And I know that I ought to be stronger

And I know that it just ain’t right

But the muse is incessantly calling

And I’m gonna be losing this fight

It is such a pleasure

Destroying treasures

Although I still know it is wrong

The devil takes mimes,

And violent crimes

I can scare you all off with a song

Now some people think it’s insulting

Some think that the old tune is marred

When it’s bent out of shape, sings of Harry or Snape

They would like all such things to be barred

But just give me a tape with new folksongs

Traffic as heavy as hell

A red light or two, where there’s nothing to do

And to save all the lyrics, a cell

There’s a thing I can do with the rhyme here

A twist I can give to a word

There’s a joke I can play on a story

You’ll get if you’re really a nerd

If the tune wasn’t really that catchy

I wouldn’t be singing along

So if I have come up with new lyrics

It means I am liking this song

Well I finally got where I’m going

The song will be up on the blog

I might live in fear for a short time

I might have to hide in the fog

Now some men think it is sinning

And others just think I waste time

But if it makes people laugh, I am winning

When I make up a joke and a rhyme