
Yesterday was a day where I uploaded a song I would have written in the raw style of my younger years.
Today?
THIS MORNING: I sat in The Den and thought of how myself as Frail Autumn would interpret the ‘18 years was 50 years ago’ song. So I quickly went through the motions and emotions of what I’ve been doing over the last months. Experimenting on this GarageBand malarkey and hopefully capturing a tune or three.
Like yesterday, this is not a finished song. Basically, reality is that I am waiting for the other Frail Autumn (time of life) guys to join the fray and add the beauty of their own souls to this musical equation. As in all things of elder later life, everything tends to slows down. So it could be next Autumn by the time it happens. Only joking……
Anyways, here’s me now. Yesterday was the chaos of me as back when. And no…..I would not love to be able to step back in time in the blink of a ‘Yesterday’. I love my skin as it is today thank you very much.
It’s the season where the reason is to chase your dream
Blow your blues away
There’s no profit in the pocket of an empty room
Sitting and wasting the days
Don’t hide in the corner in your tip-top hat
Dreaming that you’re back on the stage
Throw down some colour on the black on white
Brighten up every page
You look like an angel all dressed in rags
Miles from your relevant age
Life has a choice of a million kinds
To Escape the cage.
When you’re shattered and you’re tattered and your life’s a mess
It all feels wrong, not right
Pick up your grief from the Autumn gloom
Kick it out into the night.
Stop hiding in the corner in your tip-top hat
And think it doesn’t suit your age.
Become the prophet in the corners of a worn down mind
Pen a tune and seize the day
Sing na, na, na, na, na na
Na na na na na
And chase the blues away. Hey!
Gone are the promises that held your hand
Leading you into the fight.
What once was…. is now has been
Drag yourself into the light
Living was forgiving was for those who did
Played the game and won the prize
No taste of the fruits of a richer kind
Turn everything said to lies.
Eighteen years was fifty years ago
