Some People Get By

It’s 1990 or 1991 and I’m at the local student nightspot and it’s near the end of the night and the DJ is playing this deliriously cheesy Sisters of Mercy song (cheesy even for them: Sisters of Mercy + Jim Steinman producing = madness) and I’m probably leaning against the bar or something, zoning out, not doing much of anything, and next to me there’s this dude, one of those dudes you see around and nod at but somehow never really talk to or get to know, and at one point as Andrew Eldritch’s histrionics hit a highwater mark the dude turns to me and shrugs and says “I don’t want more, I just want some” and both of us laugh for what feels like a good minute or so. Still never really did talk to him much after that though.

• The Sisters of Mercy, “More” (buy here)