It's a Heartache

The taxi ride took just over an hour. The roads weren’t too bad and the car could drive carefully around debris mudslides. There were some trees partially blocking the road. The driver played classic 1980s CD all the way kicking off with Bonnie Tyler’s “It’s a heartache”, moving on to classics from Leo Sayer, Randy van Warmer and F.R. David. I had forgotten how bad some of the songs were in the same decade that brought us the Cure, the Smiths and New Order. It was funny though because we found that we knew most of words and sang along for a laugh to lines like “you left in the rain without closing the door, I didn’t stand in your way”. What self-pitying lyrics there are in songs like “Feelings” and “Endless Love”! I have never heard so many of them played all together before. Our tattooed taxi driver with the shaved head may have looked like a hard-knock, but he was obviously a big teddy bear.