Jim Croce - Thursday

Good THURSDAY morning my RP Brothers and Sisters!

I have two things to relate to you this morning... The first is that it is THURSDAY and that is my day to work at my IT job at my son's company... and so I will be on and off RP as time and tasks permit! Please forgive me if i do not respond or post as I usually do... I will try to make that up later in the day, but I have been cutting off at 5-6PM to spend time with my wife as she get's a bit miffed if I spend all my time at my computer! I guess I can't blame her!

The 2nd thing I wish to relate to you is that it is THURSDAY, and my first song for my Early Thursday morning Music Interlude is a short song by Jim Croce, titled simply "THURSDAY"!!!

Background Detail:

James Joseph Croce (/ˈkroʊtʃi/; January 10, 1943 – September 20, 1973) was an American folk and rock singer-songwriter. Between 1966 and 1973, Croce released five studio albums and numerous singles.

His first two albums were commercially unsuccessful, failing to chart or produce any hit singles. During this period, Croce took a series of odd jobs to pay bills while he continued to write, record, and perform concerts. After forming a partnership with songwriter and guitarist Maury Muehleisen, his fortunes turned in the early 1970s. His breakthrough came in 1972; his third album You Don't Mess Around with Jim produced three charting singles, including "Time in a Bottle", which reached No. 1 after his death. The follow-up album, Life and Times contained the song "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", which was the only No. 1 hit he had during his lifetime.

The day before the lead single to his fifth album, I Got a Name, was released, Croce, along with five others, were killed in a plane crash, at the height of his popularity. Croce's music continued to chart throughout the 1970s following his death. His wife, Ingrid Croce, was his early songwriting partner and she continued to write and record after his death, and his son A. J. Croce himself became a singer-songwriter in the 1990s.

LYRICS:
"Thursday" - Jim Croce
Well it started out just like a dream
And like a dream I knew
That what we had would have to end
'Cause I was looking for a life-time lover
And you were looking for a friend

Someone to be there
After all your nighttime lovers had gone
The way they came
Someone who knew the way
To help you play
Your daytime game
It's not the same

Well, I started out pretending
That I ought to mean enough to you
To make you want to change
Then I came to realize
That there was just too much of you
You had to rearrange

And I couldn't bear to wait around
For all your nighttime lovers to go
The way they came
And it came to hurt too much for me
To have to play your daytime games
No one to blame

It started out just like a dream
And like a dream I knew
That what we had had to end
'Cause I was looking for a life-time lover
And you were looking for a friend

I was looking for a life-time lover
And you were looking for a friend

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Dorothy Sachs / Irvin Graham / Louis Haber