by Doug H.
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August 26, 2007

The Femme Fatale Blues

October 23, 2008 11:15 PM EDT (Updated: October 23, 2008 11:18 PM EDT)
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Femme Fatale Blues

You know the Lord created woman
Just to break the heart of man.

I say the Lord created woman
Just to break the heart of man.

But when a woman kick me out, Lord,
Why do I just go lookin' again?

---

Well, a woman could make you happy,
But instead she make you sad.

Yes, a woman could make you happy,
But instead she make you sad.

And a man, he can't do nothin'
'Cept to mourn the love he had.

---

(bridge)

---

I got the femme fatale blues.
Tout est mauvais, tout à coup.

I got the femme fatale blues, Lord.
Tout est mauvais, tout à coup.

I wish I didn't love that woman,
But there ain't nothin' I can do.

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Comments: 83

Doug H. Oct 23, 2008, 11:20pm EDT
Here ya go, Tracy. No this isn't (ain't) about you, but since I pinged you with the lyrics, you've got a dog in this fight, too.
Ali C. Oct 23, 2008, 11:21pm EDT
Nice!
Tracy Fabre Oct 23, 2008, 11:22pm EDT
I was just gonna saaaaaaaaaaaaay this looked a little familiar, but WOT YA MEAN it's not about me?

*sniffle*

I knew it, though. I'm no femme fatale. At best, I'm a femme slapyaaroundalittle.
Doug H. Oct 23, 2008, 11:26pm EDT
Thanks, Ali!
Valerie Roars Oct 23, 2008, 11:32pm EDT
Can't we just pretend it's about Tracy???? ;)
Tracy Fabre Oct 23, 2008, 11:34pm EDT
I'm good with that.

But aren't you more of a femme fatale than me, Valerie?
Tracy Fabre Oct 23, 2008, 11:34pm EDT
Maybe we can take turns.
Doug H. Oct 23, 2008, 11:36pm EDT
Oh, Tracy, you are you are you are a femme fatale, but you have not yet broken my heart. Judging from my track record with women (with whom I have spoken), you will break my heart in 7 to 10 days. When that happens, I promise to knock out some lyrics that would make a slug feel like a prince. Then I'll draw up a big pile of leaves as a pillow and go to sleep in the gutter.
Tracy Fabre Oct 23, 2008, 11:39pm EDT
7 to 10 days... hmm.... are there warning signs? Or just a big clock ticking down?

I prefer no breakages in immediate environs.
Tracy Fabre Oct 23, 2008, 11:39pm EDT
Or are you saying the process has already begun without my participation and I should just sit back and wait for the grand lyrics?
Doug H. Oct 23, 2008, 11:42pm EDT
Tracy, stop scaring me! I'm just sayin'. Statistics and all. No, I was just telling Michele last week, I know the breakup is inevitable, but maybe I could postpone it for 1 or 3 or 5 years. Um, in this case, I could not.
Tracy Fabre Oct 23, 2008, 11:45pm EDT
LOL, well, as long as you're flexible, babe.

Reminds me of a line from the movie Eagle Vs. Shark. She says something like, "I have to tell you two things. One, I'm leaving you tomorrow. Two, that could change."
Doug H. Oct 23, 2008, 11:48pm EDT
Oh, yeah. Lay down the stakes. Force the plot to advance. I don't trust myself to continue typing.
Tracy Fabre Oct 23, 2008, 11:49pm EDT
Hmmm.... then... I... have no comment. :-)
Doug H. Oct 23, 2008, 11:52pm EDT
AARGOOH! Tracy! I frickin' know you are a femme fatale... You don't have to prove it! AARGOOH!
Tracy Fabre Oct 23, 2008, 11:54pm EDT
LOL.

But you are WRONG! Put that in your rice cooker and steam it.
Doug H. Oct 23, 2008, 11:57pm EDT
My rice cooker tells me how I should like my rice. Oh, g-d, crying and begging, not gonna happen twice in one week. I'm going to go eat some chocolate. I, um, have great respect for you, Tracy.
Tracy Fabre Oct 24, 2008, 12:01am EDT
It's ironic that the green words above the comment box say "join the conversation" because I have a feeling this conversation started without me and in fact continues without me, so I'm only getting about a third of the dialogue, as it were.

So... chocolate it is! Mazel tov.
Angela A. Oct 24, 2008, 12:45am EDT
I just ate my last chocolate today..
Until 28 days from now..
Then, it begins again.
Sigh.
Te he!
Angela A. Oct 24, 2008, 12:53am EDT
Oh, and your song is lovely Doug.
Too bad I'm married, and can't break your heart.
But, at least you have Tracy.
Doug H. Oct 24, 2008, 1:23am EDT
Twenty eight days without chocolate-- yikes, Angela! That's severe!

I've had my heart broken by married girls before. Engaged girls are the worst.
Doug H. Oct 24, 2008, 1:23am EDT
TRACY -- YOU HAVE MAIL
Susan G. Oct 24, 2008, 2:20am EDT
Hmmmm. Okay. We get the message that Tracy has mail. Perhaps 'splainin' some of this or perhaps not. But what of us innocent bystanders here? What about us?

Let's see. Some chickie named Michelle broke your heart within the last week and Tracy is due to crack it within 10 days. Who do you have warming up in the wings? Sounds to me as if you are some kind of compulsive flirt with a heart condition.

Have I pegged your modus operandi? You juggle multiple flirts in varying stages of development so that you can have your heart broken at regular intervals, thereby giving you the rationalization that you require in order to indulge in your one true love: chocolate?
Jean E. Oct 24, 2008, 8:06am EDT
blues are good ~ love the lyrics ~j
Doug H. Oct 24, 2008, 9:57am EDT
Thanks, Dawn!
Doug H. Oct 24, 2008, 10:00am EDT
No, Michele is my psychiatrist, Susan. No heartbreak there. Otherwise, you know the secret: It's all about the chocolate.
Doug H. Oct 24, 2008, 10:00am EDT
Thanks, Jean & Selene!
Laela Arcus Oct 24, 2008, 10:33am EDT
Hmmmm, Michele would diagnose a chocolate masochist methinks...Hey anything for chocolate, especially the reaaaallyy rich dark kind! Oh, and get your OWN gutter, this one's already occupied >8)
Doug H. Oct 24, 2008, 10:43am EDT
LOL, Laela! Amazingly insightful! There must be another gutter around here somewhere.
Laela Arcus Oct 24, 2008, 11:20am EDT
Yup, gutters are getting scarce in my part of the hemisphere ~ which is a sad commentary on modern life, I suppose. >8/
Patricia J. Oct 24, 2008, 12:02pm EDT
Great song, Doug. Sorry your heart has been broken yet again.
Doug H. Oct 24, 2008, 1:45pm EDT
Thanks, Patti. It's a way of life, I guess.
ann c. Oct 24, 2008, 1:50pm EDT
Who needs a gutter, just find an alley!!! And when one breaks your heart go find another!!!
Tracy Fabre Oct 24, 2008, 2:59pm EDT
Another alley? Okay....
ann c. Oct 24, 2008, 3:34pm EDT
LOL, Tracy!!!!
ann c. Oct 24, 2008, 3:34pm EDT
Or another Ali!!!
Tracy Fabre Oct 24, 2008, 3:57pm EDT
Ironically, Ali's icon is a cat! Ali-Cat!

It's a conthpirathy, I tell ya.
ann c. Oct 24, 2008, 4:00pm EDT
Sthuffering Suthccotash!!!
Tracy Fabre Oct 24, 2008, 4:01pm EDT
*shnicker*
Tracy Fabre Oct 24, 2008, 4:01pm EDT
Shall we run up comments on Doug's post?
Doug H. Oct 24, 2008, 4:08pm EDT
You two! LOL!
Tracy Fabre Oct 24, 2008, 4:10pm EDT
Well, we gotta have a place to talk, dude. Ann and I are starving for excuses not to work. Just sit back and rake in the points and nobody gets hurt.
Doug H. Oct 24, 2008, 4:16pm EDT
LOL! Yeah, there ya go. I told you, it's not mixed case, it's a ransom note.
Tracy Fabre Oct 24, 2008, 4:23pm EDT
LOL! Very astute of you.
ann c. Oct 24, 2008, 4:28pm EDT
Who's a stute?
ann c. Oct 24, 2008, 4:28pm EDT
I don't need an excuse not to work, just an opportunity!!!!
Doug H. Oct 24, 2008, 4:29pm EDT
I am not a stoat? Nor am I a crook.
ann c. Oct 24, 2008, 4:30pm EDT
Besides I miss out on all the Gabfests!!!!! :-(
Tracy Fabre Oct 24, 2008, 4:32pm EDT
I'm a crook.
Tracy Fabre Oct 24, 2008, 4:32pm EDT
But don't tell anyone.
Tracy Fabre Oct 24, 2008, 4:32pm EDT
Ann, why don't you camp out at the library one night (your mate won't mind, will he?) and just Gather until dawn?
ann c. Oct 24, 2008, 4:33pm EDT
Yes, but are you a stute?
ann c. Oct 24, 2008, 4:33pm EDT
Yar, my mate wouldn't care but the library BOARD would!!!
Doug H. Oct 24, 2008, 4:35pm EDT
I think I'm desti tute.
Tracy Fabre Oct 24, 2008, 4:35pm EDT
The key == secrecy.

Ohh... I have a vid of our director.
Tracy Fabre Oct 24, 2008, 4:36pm EDT
Desi Arnaz is poor? Sr. or Jr.?
Tracy Fabre Oct 24, 2008, 4:36pm EDT
Or was Desi your tutor?

Clarity is important, Ed.
ann c. Oct 24, 2008, 4:37pm EDT
Yeah, like I'm gonna sit in the library till dawn with no lights on, no one but me around and in the "bad" part of town?
ann c. Oct 24, 2008, 4:38pm EDT
OR, just bring a laptop and sit in the parking lot and use the library's wireless connection, still in the "bad" part of town!!!
ann c. Oct 24, 2008, 4:40pm EDT
So where is this vid of your director? And BTW I saw on Flickr, some pics of your co-workers!!!
Tracy Fabre Oct 24, 2008, 4:41pm EDT
Ooh, are you in the bad part of town? I thought it was a small town? Can you see the good part of town from there?
Tracy Fabre Oct 24, 2008, 4:43pm EDT
Where's your sense of adventure? Veronica would do it.

;-)

Flickr, huh... well if you go to YouTube and search "electric couch" you'll find a VERY weird "musical number" featuring two of our employees.
ann c. Oct 24, 2008, 4:45pm EDT
No I LIVE in the good part of town and you can't see it from here. Here being the "bad" part.

Yeah, but Veronica wouldn't get fired!!!

Best just to go spend the night with daughter but she has, get ready for it, DIAL UP!!!
Tracy Fabre Oct 24, 2008, 4:47pm EDT
oooh, just like Peter. Wow.

Dial-up users ARE still out there...
Doug H. Oct 24, 2008, 4:49pm EDT
I think he was a tutor. Junior, senior, and everything in between.
Doug H. Oct 24, 2008, 4:55pm EDT
gather is really messed up. I get email notifications when Tracy posts, but not when Ann posts. So strange. Okay, I'm going to get in my car and start commuting.
Susan G. Oct 24, 2008, 5:06pm EDT
I finally get here and everyone's gone. sigh.
Tracy Fabre Oct 24, 2008, 5:39pm EDT
I'm here. But now you're gone. I had a visitor.
ann c. Oct 24, 2008, 5:43pm EDT
I'm finally back. Had a MAJOR internet problem at library and was down for about half hour. Susan put a spell on it!!!! Ha, ha ha!!!
Tracy Fabre Oct 24, 2008, 5:47pm EDT
Is it possible for us to punish her Thereness?

No... that's blasphemy!
Tracy Fabre Oct 24, 2008, 5:48pm EDT
And I'm still looking for coworkers on Flickr. No luck!!!
ann c. Oct 24, 2008, 6:16pm EDT
We must not even think of punishing Thereness. Perhaps I was mistaken about the coworkers, or is that cow orkers?
Tracy Fabre Oct 24, 2008, 6:21pm EDT
I think you had the wrong joint. And there could have been some cows (even male).
ann c. Oct 24, 2008, 6:22pm EDT
"We've got cows" from the movie Twister!!!
Tracy Fabre Oct 24, 2008, 6:22pm EDT
lol, I just flickr-searched "Tracy Fabre"... and that is DEFINITELY not me.
Tracy Fabre Oct 24, 2008, 6:23pm EDT
"cow!"

"another cow!"

"I think that's the same cow."

Love that movie.
ann c. Oct 24, 2008, 6:36pm EDT
Are you really sure?
Cynthia Isis A. Nov 7, 2008, 8:10pm EST
Doug that is a song... wow. Is this the poem you meant?

I have not been here much at Gather.. but I came looking for this.

Doug... all I can say is there are a lot of women who feel this too.. it is the human situation..
great blues tune there .. I can hear it... but yes.. you and I and all people have to keep on keeping the door open to real love... it doesn't work until it works but when you meet the right person it will all be worth it..

and look at it this way.. for those it does not work with.. they are out of the way so the right one can come.

Love ya Dougele,
Ice T
Doug H. Nov 7, 2008, 9:00pm EST
Thanks, Miss T, I appreciate your comment. If heartache were rare, there would be no such thing as the blues. The magic of the blues is that everyone can relate. It seems that most good songs speak of trouble. It's like the plot of a novel-- if there were no conflict and everyone was happy, it would be a pretty boring book. If someone is joyous and blissfully in love, he's got better things to do with his day than sit alone and write a song.

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