Fiona Apple - Why try to change me now?

I hurt my wrist yesterday at work. We were in the midst of moving metal bookshelves, one was stuck, so I attempted to jam it loose with my fist. Bad idea. What makes me think that I'm still in my twenties? As this song says I can be such a clown. Lucky nothing's broken, I just have inflammation in my wrist. I was in such pain last night. I feel better today.

While I was stuck in traffic, on the way back home from the doctor, this new Cy Coleman cover by Fiona Apple came on this mix I made just for today. I sat there mesmerized by Fiona's vocal, a torch song made famous by the likes of Sinatra, and Apple makes it her seductive own. It takes a true vocalist to best the great ones. And Apple is in their class. I wish she would make an album of torch song classics. Maybe one day.

I love the lyrics. They rarely write them like they used to. Apple's version made me smile in the car on the way to In and Out for a pseudo-celebratory burger. I can't stop playing this song. It makes me wish I still smoked. The perfect song to light a cig to and listen to in a bar.

"I'm sentimental
So I walk in the rain
Ive got some habits
That I cant explain
Could start for the corner
Turn up in spain
Why try to change me now
I sit and daydream
Ive got daydreams galore
Cigarette ashes
There they go on the floor
I go away weekends
And leave my keys in the door
But why try to change me now
Why cant I be more conventional
People talk
People stare
So I try
But thats not for me
Cuz I cant see
My kind of crazy world
Go passing me by
So let people wonder
Let em laugh
Let em frown
You know Ill love you
Till the moons upside down
Dont you remember
I was always your clown

Why try to change me now
Dont you remember
I was always your clown
Why try to change me
Why try to change me now."