Now, this song is a cut from an album a few years back but I only recently got around to getting a copy for myself. Weird Al has had a terrific run as a humorist. His skills are so much more than ‘filking’ popular songs as a profession. He’s a writer, a director, and a man with a sharp eye for what the culture is up to at any particular moment.

This song. Skipper Dan has a pathos to it that just tugs at my heart. It isn’t a funny song, though it’s performed in that same style he will use for his fake love songs, but rather captures in just a few minutes the pain of a dreams that refuse to realize.

For all the dreamers that life has rolled under its’ impersonal tires, I give you Skipper Dan.