'She Lied To Me'

Don't They All, Eventually?

Okay maybe I short-changed you all with the last entry. I did write it late at night. There's gotta be more to these stories right?

Here's something.
A long time ago I had this friend who was deeply in love with this girl he met at university. They also had another friend in the same faculty and the three of them would hang out regularly. The guy - Gary - was deeply love with Molly and Molly to all intents and purposes, was in love with Gary. They were like their own perfect couple living in their perfect bubble.

The third wheel was Gloria, and she was a funny sort who was never really in deep relationships with any man. She'd just sort of casually date guys and imply they had wild sex and then split up. Yet she kept hanging around Gary and Molly. Very odd.

Now, at some point Molly fell out of love with Gary. She didn't know it had happened until one day she thought she didn't feel the buzz of being in love. Instead, she found herself attracted to another guy in the faculty, Roderick. Try as she might she couldn't keep thoughts of Roderick out of her head; and so she confided in Gloria what to do. Gloria offered the strange advice that Molly had been going out with Gary long enough and that Gary had a "dependent personality" so maybe Molly should move on.

And so Molly told Gary she wanted to split up. It was a bolt out of the blue for Gary - who was afflicted with paranoia ever after then - but she didn't explain to Gary why. She instead made up this story about how she wasn't feeling like they were clicking any more and the pressure was too much. Gary being an intuitive kind of guy asked Molly if there was another man involved. Molly denied it vehemently, and swore to all that she held important there was nobody else.

Gary was shocked that Molly had stopped loving him, but he let her go. After all, what can a guy do about it if the woman says she wants out? Two weeks later he ran into Gloria and he explained what Molly had said. Gloria in turn explained her conversation with Molly, and how she had given guidance to Molly such that Molly should get out of the relationship. Gary asked Gloria why on earth she would give such fucked up advice. Gloria replied because she had long been attracted to Gary, and that Molly had been with Gary for quite a while now. If Molly had ceased to value Gary, then she should vacate the picture so that she could have her turn.

"So how'bout it?" she asked; and naturally Gary turned her down because the thought of being with a conniving woman like Gloria revolted him. Life's like that.

What bothered Gary the most about the whole sequence was Molly's lie that there as no other man involved. There clearly of was a man in the picture, and that's what precipitated the breakup. The lie essentially gutted Gary. That is why he asked me to write a song about it.

Gary's dead now. As one of my oldest friends, I really miss him. I guess this song is in memory of him and his suffering.



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