A soul with no footprint

35 years ago, aged 13, I bought this album, cos it was cheap.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_Enough_to_Eat

At the time I thought this track one of the weaker ones:







Time has told me
You're a rare rare find
A troubled cure
For a troubled mind.

And time has told me
Not to ask for more
Someday our ocean
Will find its shore.

So I`ll leave the ways that are making me be
What I really don't want to be
Leave the ways that are making me love
What I really don't want to love.

Time has told me
You came with the dawn
A soul with no footprint
A rose with no thorn.

Your tears they tell me
There's really no way
Of ending your troubles
With things you can say.

And time will tell you
To stay by my side
To keep on trying
'til there's no more to hide.

So leave the ways that are making you be
What you really don't want to be
Leave the ways that are making you love
What you really don't want to love.

Time has told me
You're a rare rare find
A troubled cure
For a troubled mind.

And time has told me
Not to ask for more
For some day our ocean
Will find its shore.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5HsQsmJsRY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9HRo-9mqrQ&feature=related

Another genius who died young - at 26

Level Two

Came out of the konbeeni (convenience store) tonight on the way home, and as I got on my bike overheard a newly-arrived Ozzie being questioned by his Japanese mate, in English, and realised I'd reached level two:

"Do you like Japanese food?"

"Yeah - I really like sushimi

[not sure, but I guess this might translate as 'sushi-viewing'? He must have meant 'sashimi' - slices of raw fish]

and the other day I had some really nice grandmother"

[he said 'sobo', but no doubt meant 'soba' - noodles].

So I cycled off feeling like I have eventually moved up a gear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IUqN9ozmhw&NR=1

You're there

I know you're there -
You don't say it but you care -
And I think you know
I care for you -

you know
I care -
I do

Delayed gratification

http://www.ted.com/talks/joachim_de_posada_says_don_t_eat_the_marshmallow_yet.html

Freedom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Group

The simplicity of tunes

...and the wild mountain thyme
grows around the blooming heather

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZkjrgS_lKY

PS Claim to fame - Kate once sang me a song - ie. I was the only one in the audience, in Wensum Lodge, warming up - I was very early, trembling like a schoolboy. HGS were tucked up in bed over the road.


I got your letter today
And I miss you all so much here
I can't wait to see you home
And I long for your touch dear
I still believe that there's gold
At the end of the world
And I'll come home
To Illinois
On the day after tomorrow

It is so hard
And it's cold here
And I'm tired of taking orders
And I miss old Rockford town
Up by the Wisconsin border
What I miss you won't believe
Shoveling snow and raking leaves
And my plane it will touch down
On the day after tomorrow

I close my eyes
Every night
And I dream that I can hold you
They fill us full of lies
That everyone buys
About what it means to be a soldier
I still don't know how I'm supposed to feel
About all the blood that's been spilled
And my plane
It will touch down
On the day after tomorrow

You can't deny
That the other side
Don't want to die
Any more than we do
What I'm trying to say,
Is don't they pray
To the same God that we do?
Tell me, how does God choose?
Whose prayers does he refuse?
Who throws the dice?
And who spins the wheel
On the day after tomorrow?

I'm not fighting
For justice
I am not fighting
For freedom
I am fighting
For my life
And another day
In the world here
I just do what I've been told
We're just the gravel on the road
Will God on his throne
Please get me back home
On the day after tomorrow?

And the summer
It too will fade
And with it brings the winter's frost, dear
And I know we two are made
Of all the things that we have lost here
I'll be twenty-one today
I've been saving all my pay
And my plane it will touch down
On the day after tomorrow
And my plane it will touch down
On the day after tomorrow


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM6SQvQKl0Q

Shining through

It's good to look back, once in a while,
but it's great to look forward,
and perfect to be here and now