My Gen X Playlist: Get Off Of My Cloud – The Rolling Stones

So my initial draft of today’s prompt took some time, but ended up in the trash. I gotta tell you, I wasn’t really inspired by the prompt. In fact, less so with this prompt than any other. When you look at it, the topic is not entirely bad, but it’s not that good either. It’s feels meh.

This topic should be right up my ally. I’m the definition of productive when I’m at work. I’m efficient, focused and don’t waste time, but that’s mainly because I don’t want to work past 10 pm. These days I haven’t been feeling overly productive and that’s probably driving my lack of connection to today’s prompt. Maybe the change in me has to do with my sabbatical, absent of pressures and deadlines. The only self-imposed deadline I’ve been giving myself is this daily blog.

Right now I’m left floating in a cloud of indifference. Let’s hope it’s just today’s uninspiring prompt and not a new chronic condition. Sorry, WordPress. I’m passing on you today. Let’s hope tomorrow you can be a little more inspiring.

Here is a song dedicated to my cloud of indifference. The Rolling Stones released Get Off Of My Cloud in 1965. It was an uninspired song thrown together.

This followed “Satisfaction” as The Stones second #1 hit in the US. Keith Richards said of the song: “‘Get Off My Cloud’ was basically a response to people knocking on our door asking us for the follow up to ‘Satisfaction,’ which was such an enormous hit worldwide. This, to us, was mind-blowing. I mean not only was it a #1 record but, boom! We thought, ‘At last. We can sit back and maybe think about events.’ Suddenly there’s the knock at the door and of course what came out of that was ‘Get Off Of My Cloud.’ Because within three weeks, in those days hey, they want another single. And we weren’t quite ready for that. So it was our response to the knock at the door: Get off of my cloud. And I’m surprised that it did so well. I mean it has a certain charm but I really remember it as a knee-jerk reaction. And it came out better than I thought.”

– songfacts

This uninspired song is not too different from my early draft of today’s prompt. But then again, Get Off Of My Cloud hit #1 on the music charts while my draft swirled around in the toilet bowl. OK, that actually makes it completely different. Plus the fact they are iconic rock stars. There’s that, too. I guess I stand corrected.

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I live on an apartment on the ninety-ninth floor of my block
And I sit at home looking out the window
Imagining the world has stopped
Then in flies a guy who's all dressed up just like a Union Jack
And says, "I've won five pounds if I have his kind of detergent pack"

I said, "Hey, you, get off of my cloud
Hey, you, get off of my cloud
Hey, you, get off of my cloud
Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd
On my cloud, baby"

The telephone is ringing
I say, "Hi, it's me, who is it there on the line?"
A voice says, "Hi, hello, how are you?"
"Well, I guess I'm doin' fine"
He says, "It's three A.M., there's too much noise
Don't you people ever wanna go to bed?
Because you feel so good
Do you have to drive me out of my head?"

I said, "Hey, you, get off of my cloud
Hey, you, get off of my cloud
Hey, you, get off of my cloud
Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd
On my cloud, baby"

I was sick and tired, fed up with this
And decided to take a drive downtown
It was so very quiet and peaceful
There was nobody, not a soul around
I laid myself out, I was so tired
And I started to dream
In the morning the parking tickets were just like flags
Stuck on my windscreen

I said, "Hey, you, get off of my cloud
Hey, you, get off of my cloud
Hey, you, get off of my cloud
Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd
On my cloud"

Hey, you, get off of my cloud
Hey, you, get off of my cloud
Hey, you, get off of my cloud
Don't hang around baby two's a crowd
On my cloud

Hey, you