(Image: Tom Red/Private Media)

She co-wrote “The Way We Were” and “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”. So, in the manner of… and in memory of… and with apologies to the recently passed Marilyn Bergman, one half (with husband Alan) of one of the greatest lyric-penning couples of the 20th century, may we present a, well, variation on the Bergman classic “The Windmills of Your Mind”.

With the great Henry Mancini supplying the music, sing along with…

“The ScoMos of Your Mind”

Round and round and round…

Like a ScoMo in a spiral, like a deal within a deal

Never-bloody-ending in an ever-spinning spiel

From a molehill to a mountain, as the week’s case load balloons

And Jenny’s at the chemist’s, says she’ll be back soon

Like a clock whose hands are ticking but, look, it’s not a race

And a story that keeps changing so the Liberals can save face

Endlessly circling you’ll find

When ScoMo’s in your mind

[Take a breath, enjoy the refrain, try not to think about the PM]

Like a logic you can’t follow with a logic of its own

That leads you to a hotel where the sun has never shone

Full of refugees revolting, who’ve been forgotten it would seem

Until a Djokovic fell on them, TV lights went on high beam

Thirty-dollar RATs, dead cats, a chain with no supply

Thanks for nothing; Gerry Harvey, you’ve gone quiet, I wonder why

The headache that won’t unwind

Cos ScoMo’s in your mind

Like that fish on a platter, you’ve been carved down from the head

“Summer we’ll be open!” — was that something that they said?

Travellers queue along the wall filling forms for antigen

There were drums of it before but, ehhh, that was then

Like a toddler saying “I DIDN’T”, its stuck hand turning in a jar

Without News Corp spinning, would you have got this far?

[Slowing]

When you knew that you had stuffed up, did you even care

That come the autumn there’d be three new variants here?

Like the porkies that keep flyin’

Like the furphies that unwind

Like the pearlers in the oyster

Spinning Jennies out of time

[OK, back to the original version]

Thanks for the words, Marilyn

As the images unwind

In the ScoMos of your miiiiiind

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