A time waster

When you have an earworm and for once you want to undulge it rather than exorcising it and either you don't know the name of the song or worse, you do know the name of the song and youtube is full of songs with that name or a similar one and you keep clicking and clicking trying to find the particular song.

I had no idea how popular lemon trees were as a topic for Greek and Middle Eastern folk and popular songs. Many of them are nice, but none is that particular song I want.

Edit: found it. This group appears to be Hungarian? And the drummer has green hair.

2nd edit: I also found the lyrics.

József Attila

I was looking at a Hungarian ensemble of Greek folk musicians this morning and of course I ended up with a giant playlist of the group Sebő and of course I ended up looking up the Hungarian socialist poet József Attila, whose poems are in a lot of their songs. This translation, by Vernon Watkins, is from here.

Grief

By József Attila, 1929

In my eyes grief dissolves;
I ran like a deer;
Tree-gnawing wolves
In my heart followed near.

I left my antlers
A long time ago;
Broken from my temples,
They swing on a bough.

Such I was myself:
A deer I used to be.
I shall be a wolf:
That is what troubles me.

A fine wolf I'm becoming.
Struck by magic, while
All my pack-wolves are foaming,
I stop, and try to smile.

I prick up my ears
As a roe gives her call;
Try to sleep; on my shoulders
Dark mulberry leaves fall.

spell check hijinks, part I don't remember

Wants to change "ill" to "i'll." Right, without capitalization. What the actual? Did they leave "ill" out of the dictionary? Did someone add "I'll" without capitalization?

And did they do it in the last couple of hours? Because I swear the last time I looked at this sentence spell check had no trouble with it.

On a related front I sure do use the word "really" a lot. I'm changing a lot of them where I find them. Also, I use "but" and "and" at the beginning of sentences frequently enough that it looks like a tic. Have to change a few of those too.