Do you ever just wake up after a period of time and realize you have been living a lie, that the things and people in your life are a farce. Everything I hear on the radio, see on the TV and experience around me does not coincide with what I know. My boss told me a few things this week that were a little less than positive, I have worked for this dude for 8 years faithfully and made him a ton of money and I feel let down. I am pissed off and everything around me is fucking just making it worse. My kids are grown up and it freaks me out that since there are things I cannot go back and fix. I can't maintain good relationships cause my trust has been blown out so many times.
I just keep getting angrier and withdrawing instead of trying to reconcile. People my age are supposed to have grown out of this mode long ago, but I ALWAYS find my way back somehow.
Thank Goodness for Punk Rock and especially Skateboarding which has been there for me this last year like nothing else has. Mabel Davis, Round Rock, Bainbridge, Bellevue, Milton, Kent, Ballard Bowl..Grindline Thanks!!!!!
Insert the song "Skate Away" by Die Hunns here.
Here is another song I like!
I just keep getting angrier and withdrawing instead of trying to reconcile. People my age are supposed to have grown out of this mode long ago, but I ALWAYS find my way back somehow.
Thank Goodness for Punk Rock and especially Skateboarding which has been there for me this last year like nothing else has. Mabel Davis, Round Rock, Bainbridge, Bellevue, Milton, Kent, Ballard Bowl..Grindline Thanks!!!!!
Insert the song "Skate Away" by Die Hunns here.
Here is another song I like!
Skate Away is a great song. I've been pondering whether I should (and/or can) arrange it as an acoustic segue with Jethro Tull's Skating Away on The Thin Ice Of A New Day. A sort of dichotomy of songs. ONly problem is I don't have a copy of Long Legs (that's the right album, right?) and don't know all the words. Plus, I'm not sure how well it would do acoustified. I've done it with so many others, though, I probably could.
Or perhaps I could do Skating Away . . . solo acoustic and segue it into Skate Away with a band joining in.
I love the words to the Tull song, though:
Meanwhile back in the year One,
when you belonged to no-one,
you didn't stand a chance son,
if your pants were undone.
`Cause you were bred for humanity
and sold to society
one day you'll wake up
in the Present Day
a million generations removed from expectations of being who you really want to be.
Skating away, skating away,
skating away on the thin ice of the New Day.
So as you push off from the shore,
won't you turn your head once more
and make your peace with everyone?
For those who choose to stay,
will live just one more day
to do the things they should have done.
And as you cross the wilderness,
spinning in your emptiness:
you feel you have to pray.
Looking for a sign that the Universal Mind has written you into the Passion Play.
Skating away, skating away,
skating away on the thin ice of the New Day.
And as you cross the circle line,
the ice-wall creaks behind
you're a rabbit on the run.
And the silver splinters fly
in the corner of your eye
shining in the setting sun.
Well, do you ever get the feeling that the story's too damn real and in the present tense?
Or that everybody's on the stage, and it seems like you're the only person
sitting in the audience?
Skating away, skating away,
skating away on the thin ice of the New Day.
Skating away, skating away , skating away