{"id":21851,"date":"2021-08-04T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T21:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=21851"},"modified":"2021-08-07T22:00:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T22:00:48","slug":"life-island-times-ch-ch-ch-ch-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/life-island-times-ch-ch-ch-ch-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Life & Island Times: Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes"},"content":{"rendered":"
Editor’s Note:<\/strong> Marlow is dead on this morning. Two men in a truck are bringing the remnants of Big Pink life down to the farm this morning, to help fill up a couple corners of the Loading Dock area with miscellany. The Ch-ch-ch-changes are happening here. Some of the debris included two manuscripts of books put aside years ago for some details that kept, you know, ch-ch-changing. They are fun, and confidences shared by people who no longer are among the living. Which will be all of us, presently, which includes David. Cool on the Piedmont this morning, a little closer to September weather. Things do change, don’t they? Below is from the Green Notebook, a quick (and handwritten) drive-by account of a year we used to call “1979.”<\/p>\n
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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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For private, not-so-obvious reasons, I\u2019ve been listening to a selection of great rock and roll songs that involve occasional stuttering (My, My, My, My, My Generation . . . K-K-K-K-K-K-Katmandu . . .\u00a0\u00a0J-J-J-Jive Talkin . . . Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes . . . Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Barbara Ann . . . D-D-D-D-D-Digital . . . B-B-B-B-B-Bad to the Bone . . . Buh-buh-buh-Bennie and the Jets . . .\u00a0\u00a0Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Oom-Mow Mow . . . .).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Their lyrics get me in the mood or groove to listen to and understand what\u2019s being said inside the Beltway . . . as in a \u201chey, what\u2019s that sound, everybody look — what\u2019s goin down\u201d\u00a0kind of way.<\/div>\n
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Yet, should we accept the fact that we are being asked to sacrifice our later years as if we are in detention for whatever it was that we, our parents, our grands, our greats and our country\u2019s historically Great might have done, said, or thought wrong?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Their incessant braying for our confessions telling them what sins they think we did and we still commit makes me ask why do they care about long past things that are no more and whose admissions fix mothing of current import?\u00a0\u00a0They see us and our dead as they want to see us and them . . . in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions.\u00a0\u00a0They don\u2019t see us as brains, hard workers, achievers, innovators, teachers, defenders, parenters, mentors \u2013 no, just criminals.\u00a0\u00a0Correct?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0They\u2019re just so comfortably and self-assuredly numb and brainwashed\u2026<\/div>\n
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At the end of these music appreciation and meditation sessions, I must admit that despite the passage of 50 years David Bowie\u2019s\u00a0Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes\u00a0still rings true.\u00a0\u00a0Oh yeah.\u00a0\u00a0Mmm . . .\u00a0\u00a0Dave\u2019s not here.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0D-d-d-dammit.<\/div>\n
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Still don’t know what we were waiting for<\/div>\n
During our time running wild thru a million dead-end streets and<\/div>\n
Many the times we thought we’d had it made<\/div>\n
It seemed the taste was not so sweet<\/div>\n
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So, we turned ourselves to face ourselves<\/div>\n
But we never caught a glimpse<\/div>\n
Of how some oldsters might have seen us as fakers<\/div>\n
We were much too fast to be self-test takers<\/div>\n
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Ch-ch-changes<\/div>\n
We turned and braced for the strange<\/div>\n
Ch-ch-changes<\/div>\n
Didn’t want to be rich men<\/div>\n
Thought just being cool<\/div>\n
Would allow us to rule the world<\/div>\n
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Ch-ch-changes<\/div>\n
We turned and embraced the strange<\/div>\n
Ch-ch-changes<\/div>\n
But just settled to be kind men<\/div>\n
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Time did change us<\/div>\n
But they still can’t trace our time<\/div>\n
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Today\u2019s children go on and on<\/div>\n
As they try to change \u201ctheir\u201d world<\/div>\n
They\u2019re turning to see the strange<\/div>\n
They’re quite unaware of what they’re going through<\/div>\n
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Ch-ch-changes<\/div>\n
They\u2019ve turned to see us as strange<\/div>\n
Ch-ch-changes<\/div>\n
Can’t tell them to grow up and out of it<\/div>\n
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Ch-ch-changes<\/div>\n
They\u2019ve turned to see us as strange<\/div>\n
Turned but not faced their strange<\/div>\n
Ch-ch-changes<\/div>\n
Where’s their shame, they’re up to their necks in it<\/div>\n
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Time may change em<\/div>\n
But they can’t trace time<\/div>\n
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Strange fascination, fascinating them<\/div>\n
Ah, changes are taking the pace they\u2019re going through<\/div>\n
Ch-ch-changes<\/div>\n
They\u2019ve not turned to face their strange<\/div>\n
Ch-ch-changes<\/div>\n
Pretty soon now they’re gone get older<\/div>\n
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PS Sorry, Dave, for the appropriation.<\/div>\n
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