You Dropped My Table, Baby
Song Background/Inspiration
A late-night barroom lament where heartbreak speaks fluent SQL - an inner join gone left outer, a deadlock neither lover would release, and a table dropped with no rollback. The oldest blues story there is, told in the language of the trade.
Lyrics
I queried my heart last night
Searched every record, baby, under candlelight
Ten thousand rows of memories, every one came back the same
Every single record... points back to your name
We started as an inner join, two tables beating true
Everything I had, girl, had a match in you
Now I'm a left outer lover, hanging on one-sided and blue
All my rows keep showing... and nothing comes back from you
Query of queries - I keep asking why
Query of queries - and the NULL don't lie
You locked me up in a deadlock, neither one would let it go
Now you dropped my table, baby...
And there ain't no rollback... no more
I used to be your number one, first row in your ORDER BY
Now there's a new WHERE clause, and it's filtering me by
I commit every night, you roll it back
Timed out on your loving... and no retry in sight
Query of queries - I keep asking why
Query of queries - and the NULL don't lie
You locked me up in a deadlock, neither one would let it go
Now you dropped my table, baby...
And there ain't no rollback... no more
So I'll sit here with the archive, of everything we were
Run one last selection on a love...
They say time heals all heartache, indexes it slow and deep
But some queries, darling...
Some queries run forever... while a fool tries to sleep
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