Ok, I'm on a mission now... I know it's a small thing, compared to world hunger and the global economy crash, but still, this may be something I can actually do something about.  It's my mission to get KUPL to stop playing that stupid Jimmy Wayne song, Do You Believe Me Now.

For one thing, the song itself is creepy when you actually listen to the
lyrics.  It's the sort of thing that's meant to be romantic, but just comes
off as some weird stalker ex-boyfriend kind of song.  The guy is lamenting
the fact that a woman has moved on from him to someone else, and saying  (in essence) "I told you he was trying to take you away from me - I warned you to stay away from him - it's obvious that you were weak and fell for his lies and if you had just stayed away from him, we'd still be together.  As long as you didn't talk to any other guys who might be interested in you.  In fact, perhaps you should have just stayed home alone, just to be safe.  Oh, and no telephone privileges.  And would you have minded wearing this shock collar so that I could be sure that if I happened to look away from you for a minute, you wouldn't stray off and accidently be tempted to talk to some other guy?  Because you women are weak like that."

Ok, I may have been reading a little bit more into the song than was actually there, but really...  here's the lyrics.  Tell me what you think...

Do you remember
the day I turned to you and said
I didn't like the way he was looking at you?
yeah
How he made you laugh
you just couldn't get what I was saying
it was my imagination

(Chorus)
So do you believe me now?
I guess I really wasn't that crazy
and I knew what I was talking about
Every time the sun goes down
he's the one that's holding you baby
yeah me I'm missing you way 'cross town
so do you believe me now?

I'm kicking myself
for bein' the one foolish enough
giving him the chance to step in my shoes
ohhh
He was biding his time
when he saw our love was having a moment of weakness
he was there between us

(Chorus)

oh yeah, I bet now you see the light
oh yeah, what's the use in being right...
when I'm the lonely one tonight?

(Chorus)

For another thing, the damn thing was released back in March of 2008.  That means I've been having to listen to this nonsense for a year now.  It peaked in the charts back last September (that would be 6 months ago).  And yet, they keep playing this nonsense.  And it's not like I listen to this station constantly throughout the day - I mostly just listen to the radio in the morning when I'm getting ready for work.  But somehow in that 1 hour of the day, when they maybe play 6 to 8 songs between the commercials and the news and the traffic and the banter, I've still heard this 1 song at least three times in the past week.  Come on, KUPL - let it die!  (And don't even get me started on the severe overplaying of the Taylor Swift debacle - I've given up the ghost on getting that reedy voiced nonsense off the air.)