Curious Incidents of a Flailing Mermaid

Ice Cream [Barrel of Monkeys]

Our next stop on our Sarah McLachlan tour is Just Like Me, which was on the Fumbling Towards Ecstasy album (1997) and Mirrorball (1999)



For me, this song is simply about feeling good. I don’t think I have a story attached to it or a real reason for liking it.

Although, thinking about it, back in the day, I'm pretty sure this was one of those songs that I would skip. I don’t think I had a reason for doing that, either.

Strange.

But I've included it here because it made me smile and connected the dots.

Just before I started compiling these ten Sarah McLachlan songs, I received a review for this poem: "Ice Cream Day" 

The poem is silly. I probably spent way more time trying to make it look like an actual ice cream than I did thinking about the words of the poem. I know, I know, terrible.

However, the reviewer had chosen the item that was most likely to make me smile and most likely remind me of my different levels of creativity. They didn’t know this. It is about 1000 years old, and they probably just reviewed a totally random item. But it happened to be this one, and I'm glad it was.

So, I've chosen Sarah's Ice Cream as a reminder to myself that even things that make no sense can still be fun (my ice cream poem makes sense but barely 😂)


Your love is better than ice cream
Better than anything else that I’ve tried
And your love is better than ice cream
But everyone here knows how to fight

And it’s a long way down
It’s a long way down
It’s a long way down to the place
Where we started from