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so, i'm sitting here, and listening to the logical song by supertramp and thinking about just how wonderfully written this song is. it's affected me since i first heard it in the 70s and holds more and more meaning every year i'm alive.
it made me think of another song that hits even more directly, to me at least, the ascent of stan by Ben Folds...
i'm definitely a nostalgic person, and a kid at heart, at once comfortable and at odds with aging, so i think about how profound the process of aging is, and music like this can defintely stir up emotions and cause me to reflect on my own age and place in my life.
what songs make you consider your own age, or the process of getting older, or make you feel nostalgic about the past?
When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful,
a miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical.
And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily,
joyfully, playfully watching me.
But then they send me away to teach me how to be sensible,
logical, responsible, practical.
And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable,
clinical, intellectual, cynical.
There are times when all the world's asleep,
the questions run too deep
for such a simple man.
Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned
I know it sounds absurd
but please tell me who I am.
Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you a radical,
liberal, fanatical, criminal.
Won't you sign up your name, we'd like to feel you're
acceptable, respecable, presentable, a vegtable!
At night, when all the world's asleep,
the questions run so deep
for such a simple man.
Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned
I know it sounds absurd
but please tell me who I am.
it made me think of another song that hits even more directly, to me at least, the ascent of stan by Ben Folds...
Pangs of silence
From the room upstairs
How’s the view there?
Do you read what they’re saying about you?
That you’re no fun
Since the war was won
In fact, you have become all of the things you’ve always run away from
The ascent of Stan
Textbook hippie man
Get rest while you can
So where’d the years go?
All the time we had?
Being poor was not such a drag in hindsight
And you wonder why your father was so resigned
Now you don’t wonder any more
The ascent of Stan
Textbook hippie man
Textbook hippie man
Get rest while you can
Stan: Once you wanted revolution
Stan: Now you’re the institution
Stan: How’s it feel to be the man?
It’s no fun to be the man
And now, watch it all go down
The ascent of Stan
Textbook hippie man
(Stan)
Textbook hippie man
Get rest while you can
Stan: Once you wanted revolution
Stan: Now you’re the institution
Stan: How’s it feel to be the man?
It’s no fun to be the man
i'm definitely a nostalgic person, and a kid at heart, at once comfortable and at odds with aging, so i think about how profound the process of aging is, and music like this can defintely stir up emotions and cause me to reflect on my own age and place in my life.
what songs make you consider your own age, or the process of getting older, or make you feel nostalgic about the past?