I’ve been trying to think of an elegant way of working a certain simile into my current WIP. It occurs towards the end, but was one of those things I had to write down so I didn’t forget it. The situation is that the protagonist and his lover have been separated, and the protagonist now realises how much he misses his lover, he’s kind of got used to him being there almost by accident. I keep coming back to this idea of a comparison to a parasite which has burrowed under the protagonist’s skin, the first feeling when it’s removed is relief, shortly followed by the realisation that he actually misses it.
Only I wanted to put it much more elegantly. 
All day it’s been bugging me that I’ve heard this or something similar somewhere before. I quickly discounted the idea that it was a book, it started playing over and over in my head and I knew it was a song. But it was right at the edge of my brain and although I could vaguely ‘hear’ the tune I couldn’t hear the words.
Then tonight on the way home, I suddenly knew what it was. Possibly that was the point at which I stopped so desperately trying to remember. Anyway, it’s a Tim Minchin song and I’ve embedded a YouTube video of it below. Probably not one to watch if you’re very easily offended. But it kind of exactly sums up how my hero feels.
