How could I not offer this song?  “By chance,” perhaps the phrase is nonsense.  From another angle of view “chance” is a place holder for ignorance, the cause and effect chain that I did not take into account.  There’s much that I do not take into account.  Anyway, by chance I heard this one played on the radio yesterday.  The lyrics, the tune, came like the dead-on-target, shot of a sniper to my awareness, — waking me up.  One shot, one kill.

Caution
By the Killers  (released August 2020)

And there is nothing
I wouldn’t do
There is nothing
I wouldn’t give
There is nothing
Compelling me

Let me introduce you to the featherweight queen
She got Hollywood eyes
But you can’t shoot what she’s seen
Her mama was a dancer
And that’s all that she knew
‘Cause when you live in the desert
It’s what pretty girls do

I’m throwin’ caution
What’s it gonna be?
Tonight the winds of change are blowin’ wild and free
If I don’t get out
Out of this town
I just might be the one who finally burns it down

I’m throwin’ caution
I’m throwin’ caution

Never had a diamond on the sole of her shoes
Just black top, white trash
Straight out of the news
Doesn’t like birthdays
They remind her of why
She can go straight from zero
To the Fourth of July

I’m throwin’ caution
What’s it gonna be?
Tonight the winds of change are comin’ over me
If I don’t get out
Out of this town
I just might be the one who finally burns it down

I’m throwin’ caution
I’m throwin’ caution (Throwin’ caution)
I’m throwin’ caution
I’m throwin’ caution (Throwin’ caution)

‘Cause it’s some kind of sin
To live your whole life
On a might’ve been
I’m ready now

Composed by Mark August Stoermer, Shawn Everett, Jonathan Rado, Brandon Flowers, Ronnie Jr. Vannucci, Alexander Cameron

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Let us be human.  — Ludwig Wittgenstein