Sunday, June 22, 2008

Add to Your Day -- from 35 years ago

For years, when I heard this song, it prompted a feeling of passing childhood in my mind, -- a certain nostalgia for easier times.  I have always liked the music and the perfect voicing which goes with it.  But, later I found it was not about those things at all.  

Still, that old feeling comes back. Goodbye Land of Oz. CLICK  



When are you gonna come down
When are you going to land
I should have stayed on the farm
I should have listened to my old man

You know you can't hold me forever
I didn't sign up with you
I'm not a present for your friends to open
This boy's too young to be singing the blues

So goodbye yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plough

Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny back toad
Oh I've finally decided my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road

What do you think you'll do then
I bet that'll shoot down your plane
It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics
To set you on your feet again

Maybe you'll get a replacement
There's plenty like me to be found
Mongrels who ain't got a penny
Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground

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