Today went by in a blur. But not a good blur. It was a headache-filled, cold-bones blur punctuated by sharp metaphorical body blows and annoyances. Usually when things go by in a blur, the day doesn’t sting as much. As I navigated the fog, I kept singing the Talking Head’s Once in a Lifetime.
In particular, I kept shaking my head to myself saying “same as it ever was”.
“And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world.
Here a twister comes, here comes the twister
Same as it ever was, same as it ever was
Same as it ever was, same as it ever was
Once in a lifetime, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by“
Sometimes, actually quite often, things don’t change. No matter what, the hamster wheel keeps spinning. Same as it ever was.
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Great song. And yeah, same as it ever was.
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Indeed! Cheers
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“Don’t let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy” (EAgles)
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Yes! Yes! 🙂
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You seem to have been focused on fog for the last few posts.
But it’s all right now
I learned my lesson well
You see, you can’t please everyone
So you got to please yourself
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That is true. Everyone has a different demand and at times, immediate. Need to be true to oneself…
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Oh Dear Lord
New York New
York Non-Profit Health
Care Amazing CEO
Who Just
Keeps Going Going
A Real Energizer Bunny
Yes i Kid You Not i was
Looking at my Wife And
Singing The Similar Lyrics
Before this Visit today Wondering
How She Can And Still looks the
Same After 32 Years of Marriage
True the Lyrics Went Like this And
It’s True i Was Actually Raised in
A Hundred-Year-Shot-Gun Home
Down Town On the River Yet of
Course if it was Similar Property
in New York, New York, it Probably
Would Have Sold For More than 20,000 Bucks
Back in 1983 Or So Then to the Gulf Power CEO In Town
Yes Singing These Lyrics Watching My Wife Wear No Makeup
“And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself, “Well… how did I get here?” Well, Well, Well,
My God i’ve Spent So Many Years of my Life Decades Here and There
In A Wash, Rinse, Dry Cycle of A Routine That Didn’t Stimulate Near my
Human Potential then
Watching Paint Dry
Writing One Word
In A Pass Down Log
Working For the Military
At First Yep Just the Word
“Routine” to Log in What i Did
Every Day for Years Looking at
the Budget Book to Save More Money
Than Paycheck-to-Paycheck Yet Even After
3 Degrees How Do Ya Do it Only Moving From
Three Dollars and Sixty Nine Cents As 369 Might
Provide the Meaning of Life For Tesla Yet What Do
You Do Starting at 24 Making that much Still Barely
Making Over 5 Bucks an Hour at 30 And Freshly Married
Now i Relax in Heaven Excelling in Human Potentials i Never
Dreamed About Before Never Worrying About Making Another Penny
And Honestly i Kid You Not, Some Days Like Today, i Wonder if that 40th Day with
No Sleep in The Hospital in April of 2008, When i Thought it Was the End of the Line
And They Gave me A Shot to Put me Down With All the Pain and Sleepless Numb then
Yes i Muse Now
Maybe i Did Go
Away For Real
Maybe this
Really is
Heaven
Yet if so
i Didn’t Earn
it and it would
Make it Feel so
Empty if i was Just
Another One of ‘The Bosses’ ‘Sons’…
Same As it Ever Was Change Makes Life Worth Living..:)
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