Where would I be without a few good friends, without my family? To imagine how different my life could be, I would have never known about books which have changed my life.  There’s music which has transformed by sense of self, my being in the world, that I would never discover without a recommendation. This tune comes recommended by my oldest daughter.

The tune created by Fever Dolls from Burlington Vermont is entitled Gennifer Flowers.  The lyrics are a selfie, an impromptu snap shot of us.  Are we not all become “dancing monkeys” against a surreal backdrop of more streaming entertainment, and a tsunami of advertising than we could possibly consume?  Who would live without our iphone in hand, that seduction of engineering science used to communicate with anyone, anywhere, and to entertain ourselves?  A world changing tool in our hands!  We fortunate, materially affluent worship at the altar of technology, do we not? Are we the fortunate?

Who is Gennifer Flowers?  Perhaps you are not old enough to remember.

During Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential election campaign, Flowers came forward to say that she had had a 12-year extramarital relationship with Clinton, and that he had assisted her in securing a job as an administrative assistant with the Arkansas Appeal Tribunal.  The State of Arkansas fired Flowers in early 1992 for failing to show up to work.

After Clinton denied having a relationship with Flowers on 60 Minutes, she held a press conference in which she played tape recordings she had secretly made of phone calls with Clinton. Clinton subsequently apologized publicly to Mario Cuomo for remarks he made about the then-Governor of New York on the tapes, in which he had said that Cuomo acted like a mafioso.

In January 1998, President Bill Clinton testified under oath that he had had a sexual encounter with Flowers.   — Wikipedia

Enjoy !

Gennifer Flowers

by Fever Dolls

Adam says to Lillith, girl the verdict’s returned
And submission is what he ordered or your body to burn
Lillith says to Adam I’ll save you the trip
And she jumped into the fire like it didn’t exist
Singing songs to seven sisters while the skin left her lips
I’d rather die than compromise a single sin I’ve committed
She cut her wrists on politics
And the power of making money turning powerful tricks
Getting mixed up in the offices of ethically-lapsed fact detainment
And if I got the power to take it, the power to fake it
Gennifer Flowers got the power to shake her debasement
And if I tell you that I’m one step closer to God
And if I tell you that I’m one step closer to God
That’s the step that’ll send you past the edge of the top
Don’t forget the mess that you left at the bottom
Hey Commander, what’s the answer at hand
You got a five step plan to keep your ass in demand?
Step One: Harness the water flowing under the moon
Step Two: Harness the debt unless it’s hard to reduce
Step Three: Harness the strength of populations removed
Step Four: Harness the promise that we never renewed
Step Five: Just hold a vote so we can tell them we tried, I’m yelling
Skinned alive, skinned alive, goodness all good saints have died
You’re coming down
Quit messing around or you’ll break it
I know a pretty little place where we can get caked and wasted
And if I’ve got the power to take it, the power to fake it
Gennifer Flowers got the power to shake her debasement
Shake her debasement
Shake her debasement
Shaker her debasement
And if I’ve got the power to take it, the power to fake it
Gennifer Flowers got the power to shake her debasement
Hold me, hold me baby
I think the state of the world’s starting to shape me
And when you’re shaking it girl, you start to change me
The five o clock report says we’re crazy
Pull it together cause we’re coming apart
And the preacher says the devil loves a sensitive heart
Eddie made a record cause he wanted to prove
(It’s the face of a venerable kind)
That he could harness the feel of when he played in a room
(Passing the space where they spent all their time)
But the feeling fell flat
(And the youth fall disgraced by their animal minds)
And his songs sound pretty vacant
(Singing love lost the race, but she loves what she finds)
And if I’ve got the power to take it, the power to fake it
Gennifer Flowers got the power to shake her debasement
Shake her debasement
Shake her debasement
Shaker her debasement
And if I’ve got the power to take it, the power to fake it
Gennifer Flowers got the power to shake her debasement