Accepting The Verdict: Let Me Down Easy By Rodger Daltrey

I remember a freshman in college who made friends with a senior who was about to graduate and judging from their rapport, they got along very well. The following year, the senior who graduated with high honors became a professor who quickly earned a reputation for being a "terror" who failed students in large numbers and anyone who was lucky to pass, let alone, get high marks who thank his or her class. As the freshman became a junior, he enrolled in his friend's class and soon found out how nerve-racking his standards were. As he and the rest of the struggled with his routine, he did his best to hold on but to no avail and even before he entered his friend's office, he knew he didn't make the grade. Still, he calmly accepted his fate and even shook his friend's hand, signifying that there's no ill and that they're still friends. When I remember this development, I feel like listening to Rodger Daltrey's song "Let Me Down Easy".

Brian Adams sang as back up and there are some similarities in the guitar play, but when Daltrey sings, it becomes a different song altogether. For a song about breaking the bad news, it's pretty upbeat. It's energy offsets any negative vibes which makes a very cool song. When you see the video and the way Daltrey and Adams sing and move, it takes the sting out of doing the bad deed of the delivering the verdict. It's a very upbeat way of taking the bad things that life throws at you.

There are two things that learned from this memory and one thing that I learned from this song. On the former, the first is that just because you know the person, don't expect things to be easy on you because when you're in class or at work, it's either employer-employee or teacher student and you must act and behave accordingly. Second is that be honest with yourself if you know you didn't do well and accept it. The best thing to do try harder the next time you have the opportunity. On the song is that if you've lost, then go out in style with your head held high. If you loose today, maybe you'll win tomorrow.


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Roger Daltrey - Let Me Down Easy

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