Talking to Mom

 

1. Thanks - forgot how talented he was. I had the good fortune to see him on stage at my high school, before (I guess) he peaked. Pity he wasn’t as good a driver as a singer.

   Posted by larryr       02/12/2011  at  09:17 AM  



2. So sad all wis songs, forlorn and regretful not that it stops me loving them, wasnt there a taxi 1 and 2? il look on utube.

   Posted by Chris Edwards       02/12/2011  at  08:22 PM  



3. Funny you should mention that.

   I was just thinking how all the great songs and stories are ultimately sad. Unrequited love, old girlfriends that just didn’t evolve into a more serious relationship. They involve a military ‘last stand’ (Billy, Don’t Be a Hero). Or just, as in Harry’s ‘Cat’s in the Cradle’ song, we just got too involved in transient things. Dan Fogelberg’s song ‘Same Old Lang Syne’ was much the same as ‘Taxi’. A chance meeting with an old girlfriend.

   Think of all the great love stories: Anthony and Cleopatra, Tristan and Iseult. Galahad and Guenivere. (sorry, don’t know how to spell her name.)

   Probably why the old saying is:

   “‘Tis better to have loved and lost, than to never have loved at all.”

   I try, and fail often, to take the other approach… They always say ‘the grass is always greener…” Problem: There’s only one way to test that theory. I’m not willing to do that.

   Not yet.

   Posted by Christopher       02/15/2011  at  07:15 PM  

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