Hearing What We Want To Hear
Cherry-picking relevant lyrics from 50-year-old tunes — Volume 12
There is nothing that can be done about it. Those ancient tunes just appear in one’s brain, unsolicited. They have become part of the very fabric of one’s dated thinking.
And in context or out, certain lines are incredibly on point.
It’s getting to the point where I’m no fun anymore
Clearly! Aches and pains have made me one of those old complainers I swore I’d never be.
Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud
That bit about being tough? Grinning and bearing? Hogwash!
I am lonely
Those who regularly feel loneliness deserve our empathy. And membership in Sargent Pepper’s Band.
Don’t let the past remind us of what we are not now
Oh, please, don’t. A particularly poignant lyric. Let us look forward, not back, even if it means what appears to be a reduced existence. Courage, comrades! Let the new reality be an adventure in realms previously unseen.
Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart
Let us laugh.
And as time goes on, should we lose our faculties, perhaps the most appropriate lyrics are at the end of the song.
Do-do-do-do-do, do, do, do-do-do-do
Do-do-do-do-do, do, do, do-do
