Unbelievably crazy

Interested in the history of psychiatry? Then I got a tip for you: the Pest- en Dolhuys in Haarlem. It’s a place where they used to treat the mentally ill as well plague sufferers. Recently it re-opened as a museum.
I finally found the perfect opportunity to get a look at it when my friend Mascha was here last Sunday to visit me. Not that she’s crazy or anything – although she did bring me a microwave oven as a present… - but she’s like the best person you can imagine to go to a museum with.
I can tell you a lot about the museum, its really unbelievable how we treated the crazy up till, well, just decades ago. But you better visit the museum's own website:

pest and dolhuys

Life is Sweet

This one is for the girl,
who says she’s unlucky in love:
You deserve to have the world at your feet
And if one person, one man could be it enough,
Then I wish it could be me, I wish it could be me.

This one is for the boy,
who’s daddy never had time for him:
I wish I could build you a little house
for you to hide in
I’d give you back your summers,
I’d give you back all your summers,
You still have summers...

Life is sweet, life is sweet,
Life is sweet,
Bitter sweet
And the days keep rolling along

This one is for the girl,
Who says those voices in her head,
never leave her alone:
Don’t listen to your teacher,
you’re not crazy,
you’re just smarter than the rest of them.
Paint a picture,
Write a song,
Tell your story,
Bang a gong!

Life is sweet, life is sweet,
Life is sweet,
Bitter sweet
And the days keep rolling along

This one is for the boy,
who’s not allowed to be part of the game:
You don’t need those losers,
I think you’re beautiful.
And you meet a girl
and you fall in love
and it doesn’t work out
Well, it won’t be the first time,
and they don’t make a cure for that

So you eat your breakfast,
read a book,
open up you window,
be alone...

Life is sweet, life is sweet,
Life is sweet,
Bitter sweet
And the days keep rolling along
Rolling along...

- Maria McKee)