Apparently our driver only owns one cd. Every morning and afternoon we listen to the same 18 tracks playing over and over again, I think it’s called something like “NOW: That’s what I call dreadful Chinese pop music”, it was completely soul destroying at first but these days it just washes over me as I sit in dazed stupor, dribbling down the window.

Once I burnt a cd and played it on the journey to work, the driver nodded along and said “hao ting” (or something) but on the way home when I tried to play it again it had disappeared, the driver shrugged his shoulders, he had no idea where it could have gone (presumably launched out of the window when he popped for lunch).

Anyway, today I have this dreadful song stuck in my head, it’s a kind of soft rock ballad with an English chorus, I just can’t shake it, it goes like this:

FLY WIZ MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

IN THE PERFEC WORRLLLLLLLLLLLLL

COME WIZ MEEEEEEE

JUS-A LIKE-A BIRRRRRRRRRRRR

I wish the voices would come back, they drowned out everything…