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Tiddlywinks, 1980
Written by NRBQ
This song, which starts off its album, has a playful, simple melody that evokes children's music; it almost sounds like it's being played on toy instruments, with chimes and bells accentuating the soft vocals. Lyrically, it's a love song in which the narrators proclaims his need for a loved one: "Everybody does something in life / I do what I'm required to do / And I can take most anything / But I couldn't last a day without you." All his friends mock him for this apparent change in im; perhaps they find his uxorious slant to be weak-willed and drippy. But he doesn't care; his life has been turned upside down. It's charming and warmly relatable.
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