surlyclown

So, it's late. Merry Chirstmas.

2006 Top Five Songs
(as chosen by my shuffling prognosticating iPod)

5. 'Beauty Fades' - Caitlin Cary
When there's nothing left to say
in the dimming of the day
Will you still be the one
When beauty fades away?

Trixel and I have talked and joked about growing older...hell, we are older, so it's good to know we'll do it together. Wrinkles and all.

4. 'Stones in the Road' - Mary Chapin Carpenter

In the song she recalls a childhood in the 60's being told to clean your plate for all the starving kids of the world and being instilled with a greater sense of the struggles of the real world via the civil rights movement. She contrasts that with an adulthood via these lines:
The starving children have been replaced by souls out on the street
We give a dollar when we pass, and hope our eyes don't meet
We pencil in, we cancel out, we crave the corner suite
We kiss your ass, we make you hold, we doctor the receipt
And the stones in the road leave a mark from whence they came
A thousand points of light or shame, baby, I don't know

Makes you think.

3. 'Hell's Bells' - AC/DC
I'm a rolling thunder, a pouring rain
I'm comin' on like a hurricane
My lightning's flashing across the sky
You're only young but you're gonna die

When I was picking up my father's ashes at the mortuary, there was a viewing of someone's grandmother going on in the main parlour. The music playing was the kind of cheese-tastic cliche organ music you'd think they'd play during such a thing. I thought to myself I'd much prefer 'Highway to Hell.' Ippy prefers this one however.

I don't think there's a hell. Then again I don't think there's a heaven either. I'd like to think that when you die your soul, your 21 grams of spirit, is embraced by the free-flowing energy of the cosmos along with everyone and everything else that passes on. This energy encompasses all the knowledge and wisdom of the universe, past, present and future--the 'mind of God' if you will. Either that, or you just eat dirt for a long time.

2. 'Sweet Cycle' - Tito and Tarantula
Speaking of eating dirt, this particular song espouses the comfort of returning to the earth and being literal food for life.

Let My Arms Be A Tree
Let My Eyes Be A Bee
Let My Hair Be
A Bed Of Roses
Let My Lips Kiss The Ocean
Let My Feet Feed
An Earthworm
Oh It's The Sweet Cycle Of Life

1. 'Hard Times' - Johnny Cash
Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears
While we all sup sorrow with the poor
There's a song that will linger forever in our ears
Oh, hard times, come again no more

Yeah, I can definitely agree that I've had it with the hard times for awhile. 2007 will be better.

And to all, a goodnight.