Name: Married To Harry Dresden
Duration: P00H04M28S
Description: This is a commissioned song I did for a friend, to celebrate her husband's birthday. He apparently has the same effect on tech. Also, his favorite group is Dire Straits, so I kinda leaned into it.

Married To Harry Dresden

from We Don't Talk About Torgo by Tom Smith

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This is a commissioned song I did for a friend, to celebrate her husband's birthday. He apparently has the same effect on tech. Also, his favorite group is Dire Straits, so I kinda leaned into it.

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We went out to the movies and the car’s battery died
So did the battery of the car parked right next door
My husband sighs and apologizes, he did it again,
It’s his technology killing magic field once more

It's not easy being married to Harry Dresden
We go through gadgets at a rate the Geek Squad fears
He just walks by, and my laptop starts to die,
I’ve gone through forty six phones in just two years.

I know he's got a lot of responsibility
I know he saves the world every month or so
But while he's out solving crimes, I wish for simpler times,
When The fanciest tech we had was the radio

It's not easy being married to Harry Dresden
Our color TV now only shows black and white
He shrugs and says “color didn't really improve it”
But The Wizard of Oz and Avengers don't look right

Of course nobody knows our little secret,
So the service people don't know what to think
Repairmen tried two times to fix our doorbell chimes,
But all we get is a little bitty “dink”

No washer-dryer, dishwasher, or furnace
Somehow he even broke our woodfire stove
It's something new every day, he can't even use plug and play,
Our basement is a dead electronics treasure trove

It's not easy being married to Harry Dresden
Most modern conveniences are taboo,
But when push comes to shove, he's still the man I love,
So I’ll read the Little House books and just make do,

Even without technology, This is where I want to be
So Harry Dresden, it's me in love with you.

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from We Don't Talk About Torgo, track released August 6, 2021
Image by Joe Viego. Used without permission.

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Weird Al with more books, JoCo with more jokes, Carlin with more Cthulhu. Since 1985, Tom Smith has been breaking hearts, minds, and laws of propriety and physics with his insane blend of sf/fantasy, Life With Computers, pop culture, politics, and puns. More than twenty albums later, he maintains the best is yet to come. ... more

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