July 7, 2011

Songs You Sing To Yourself As You Lie Awake At 4:30am



"Kathy, I'm lost," I said, though I knew she was sleeping
"I'm empty and aching and I don't know why..."

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  1. On the same line of thought, how about Paul Simon's song, from sometime in the '70s, called "Amercian Tune." That one always comes to mind when I get really pensive and contemplative:


    Many's, the time I'v been mistaken
    And many times confused
    Yes, and often felt forsaken
    And certainly misused
    But I'm all right, I'm all right
    I'm just weary to my bones
    Still, you don't expect to be
    Bright and bon vivant
    So far away from home, so far away Irom home

    And I don't know a soul who's not been battered
    I don't have a friend who feels at ease
    I don't know a dream that's not been shattered
    or driven to its knees
    But it's all right, it's all right
    We've lived so well so long
    Still, when I think of the road
    we're traveling on
    I wonder what went wrong
    I can't help it, I wonder what went wrong

    And I dreamed I was dying
    And I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly
    And looking back down at me
    Smiled reassunngly
    And I dreamed I was flying
    And high up above my eyes could clearly see
    The Statue of Liberty
    Sailing away to sea
    And I dreamed I was flying

    We come on the ship they call the Mayflower
    We come on the ship that sailed the moon
    We come in the age's most uncertain hour
    and sing an American tune
    But it's all right, it's all right
    You can't be forever blessed
    Still, tomorrow's going to be another working day
    And I'm trying to get some rest
    That's all I'm trying to get some rest



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