For this week’s Thursday Inspiration prompt, Jim Adams has asked us to respond to this challenge by either using the prompt word “wrong,” or going with the above picture, or by going with anything else that we think fits.
Last week my wife had an appointment with her doctor and asked me to drive her into San Francisco. She told me the appointment was for 10:30 in the morning and we arrived at her doctor’s office at about 10:20. I dropped her off, found a nearby parking space, and went to a coffee shop across the street from the doctor’s office to wait for her to be done with her appointment.
About five minutes later my wife came to the coffee shop and sat down next to me. “That was fast,” I said.
“Right place, wrong time,” she said. “My appointment isn’t until 11:30.”
So, of course, the song “Right Place, Wrong Time” seems to be the prefect fit for this week’s Thursday Inspiration prompt.
“Right Place, Wrong Time” was a song by American musician Dr. John (Malcolm John Rebennack Jr.). It was the first single from his sixth album, In the Right Place, and became his biggest hit single. During the summer of 1973, the song peaked at number nine on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. It is ranked as the 24th biggest hit of 1973.
Dr. John was known for his “gumbo” of rock, blues, jazz, funk, and New Orleans voodoo mysticism. In an interview about this song, with Dr. John, he said, “That was my life for a long time. At the same time I was in the wrong place at the right time, and the right place in the wrong time, too. That was the problem. We’re always shifting those gears.”
Who of us hasn’t, at some point in our lives, been at the right place at the wrong time? Or the wrong place at the right time, perhaps.
I been in the right place but it must have been the wrong time
I'd have said the right thing but I must have used the wrong line
I been in the right trip but I must have used the wrong car
My head was in a bad place and I'm wondering what it's good for
I been the right place but it must have been the wrong time
My head was in a bad place but I'm having such a good time
I been running trying to get hung up in my mind
Got to give myself a good talking-to this time
Just need a little brain salad surgery
Got to cure this insecurity
I been in the wrong place but it must have been the right time
I been in the right place but it must have been the wrong song
I been in the right vein but it seems like the wrong arm
I been in the right world but it seems wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong
Slipping dodging sneaking creeping hiding out down the street
See me life shaking with every ho' I meet
Refried confusion is making itself clear
Wonder which way do I go to get on out of here
I been in the right place but it must have been the wrong time
I'd have said the right thing but I must have used the wrong line
I'd have took the right road but I must have took a wrong turn
Would've made the right move but I made it at the wrong time
I been on the right road but I must have used the wrong car
My head was in a good place and I wonder what it's bad for
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