Aired Aug 18th, 2025
I wanna again welcome you to The 4:05 Coffee Break, guys. It's hot out there. Get your cup of coffee, glass iced tea, cool, tall, glass of lemonade. Let's see what's happening. Spring wheat, $5.30 a bushel.
OK Solberg:550 pound steer calf. Listen to this. 409. 409, just like the household cleaner. Butcher Hog in Iowa, 53¢ a pound.
OK Solberg:And a 100 pound fat lamb in Billings, 1.78 a pound. But guys, there's more, much more. It's a new week. Anyone out there heartbroken? Anyone out there like old sixties and seventies songs?
OK Solberg:Doc, pick any out from this list that I'm gonna do. Anyone out there heartbroken? If it's true that misery loves company, then I got just the thing for you. Did you know that grief throws a party and invites everyone to attend? Oh yeah, it's true.
OK Solberg:Tragedy doesn't like an empty room. So gather around, folks. Let me share my despair. I gotta tell you my story. In a pawn shop in Chicago on a sunny summer day, I found myself there and it was just last summer and the memories came flooding back.
OK Solberg:See, guys, I had a girlfriend, a beautiful girlfriend. Her name was Eleanor Ruby. Eleanor Ruby was something. I mean, really something. I remember finally asking her out.
OK Solberg:I said, you got a thing about you. I I can't live without you. I really want you, Eleanor, near me. My heart tingled wildly as I said, I really think you're groovy. Let's go out to a movie.
OK Solberg:What do you say now, Eleanor? Can we? She smiled. I melted. I didn't even have to think.
OK Solberg:The words came on their own. Sugar pie, honey bunch, do anything you ask me to. Can't help myself. I want you and nobody else. With the date made, the time came.
OK Solberg:I stopped to pick her up. Her mother answered the door. I was on cloud nine. I said, missus Brown, you've got a lovely daughter. See, when a man loves a woman, can't keep his mind on nothing else.
OK Solberg:As she walked down the staircase, my my knees grew weak and my voice did tremble as I said, wow. You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair. Ruby, are you contemplating going out somewhere? Oh, we went to the movie, that's for sure. But the night was young.
OK Solberg:I said, well, now what do you wanna do? She smiled that smile and said, just listen to the music of the traffic in the city. Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty. How can we lose? The lights are much brighter there.
OK Solberg:We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares, and go downtown. And we did. We went downtown. Do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight. Oh, oh, the night we had.
OK Solberg:As I dropped her off, I said, you made me cry when you said goodbye. Ain't that a shame? Now, guys, that coming week, it felt so good it hurt. Ain't no sunshine when she's gone. Well, Thursday finally came and I called her up and I said, hello darling, nice to see you, it's been a long time.
OK Solberg:We visited a bit and I felt romantic and said, put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone. Let's pretend we're together all alone. Oh. And it was then, guys, that she got cold, cold as the echo in my chest when she left me hollow. She said, you're no good, you're no good, you're no good, baby, you're no good.
OK Solberg:I know a man ain't supposed to cry, but these tears I can't hold inside. Oh, the games people play now every night and every day now. Bring back that loving feeling. Woah, that loving feeling. Oh, it's crying time again.
OK Solberg:She's gonna leave me. Now I hadn't eaten in four days. I finally got a burger, not because I was hungry, but because I knew I needed something. When I got home, I couldn't eat it because when I think about the good love she gave me, I cry like a baby. Living without her is driving me crazy.
OK Solberg:I cry like a baby. It hurts to be in love and so you cry a little bit. Day and night, night and day, it hurts to be in love this way. It was after 2AM tossing and a turning. Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.
OK Solberg:Only the lonely know this feeling ain't right. Oh, too many teardrops for one heart to cry. Too many teardrops for one heart to carry on. I'm gonna cry. 96 tears.
OK Solberg:Living without you is driving me crazy. I cry like a baby. I did get to sleep because I dreamt about her but it wasn't much. You get up every morning from your alarm clocks warning, take the 08:15 into the city, there's a whistle up above and people pushing, people shoving. But I feel tears well'n up from deep inside like my heart's gonna break and a stab of loneliness sharp and painful that I may never shake.
OK Solberg:You might say that I was taking it hard since you gave me the final goodbye, but don't you wager that'll hide the sorrow when I break right down and cry. Now the race is on and here comes pride up the back stretch. Heartaches are going to the inside. My heart's out of the running. True love scratched for another's sake.
OK Solberg:The race is on and it looks like heartaches, and the winner loses all. Now if there's a smile on my face, it's only there to fool the public. You know, People say I'm the life of the party because I tell a joke or two. Although I might be laughing loud and hearty, deep inside I'm blue. Baby, take a good look at my face.
OK Solberg:You'll see my smile looks out of place. You look a little bit closer, it's easy to trace, yeah, the tracks of my tears. Oh, I made it through the morning and head to Tiny's for lunch. She's always on my mind. She's acting single.
OK Solberg:I'm drinking double. I hide my pain. I drown my troubles. My heart is breaking like tiny bubbles. She's acting single.
OK Solberg:I'm drinking double. I made it through the day, don't know how I did, and I refrained from saying take this job and shove it, I ain't working here no more. My woman done left and took all the reasons I was working for. I got home, slouched in my chair, I closed my eyes, I know I should laugh but I cry because your love has passed me by. You took me by surprise, you didn't realize that I was waiting.
OK Solberg:Time goes slowly but carries on and now the best years have come and gone, you took me by surprise, I didn't realize that you were laughing. Now, I taught the weeping willow how to cry, and I showed the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky and the tears that I cried for that woman are gonna flood you big river and I'm gonna sit right here until I die. Thy end, Here's to all the lonely hearts out there. If misery loves company, then the songwriters know all about it. Here's a bible verse, the lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
OK Solberg:Psalm thirty four eighteen. Oh, and PS, Thea's home waiting for me. Just didn't want you to think otherwise. So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.