Today's Happy Hour Soundtrack

Another two-fer, where we have the Stones leading off with a cover of one of the Temptations' signature songs...

That's the cover, here's the original:

Well I heard a cryin' man is half a man
With no sense of pride
If I have to cry to keep you I don't mind weepin'
If weepin' gonna keep you by my side

Ain't too proud to beg, sweet darlin'
Please don't leave me, don't you go
Ain't too proud to plead, baby, baby
Please don't leave me, don't you go

Well, that's just WRONG and it never, ever works.  I say that with the benefit of hindsight and most specifically the knowledge that I (a) own one of these tee shirts and (b) it was absolutely, positively the wrong thing to do.  The appropriate response, once we determined the relationship was beyond salvation, would have been "OK, then.  Get the fuck OUT!"  The only saving grace about my exercise of extreme self-degradation was the fact that very, very few people witnessed it.  It was pathetic, believe me, and it's one of the very few things in life I would change, given the chance.

But, Hey!  "Love makes fools of us all, big and little."  Truer words ne'er spoken.