Well, it’s just hours until 2006 and I am listening to It Takes a Lot To Laugh, It Takes a Train To Cry. Damn, I love this song. Timeless on a night all about time and its passing.
I try to not get so bogged down with my own intensity, but I revisited Einstein’s Dreams today, and it is even more magical than the ten times before now when my imagination contemplated time in regards to the fictional vignettes thought up by physicist and author, Alan Lightman.
As much as time intrigues me and nostalgia grips me, as I grow older, it is Space that I long for. Paradoxically, I feel too far away from my center here in these Southern parts, but have more open space than I can remember. Maybe I am truly a city dwellar, after all. Little bit country, lot bit Rock-n-Roll.
Which brings me, quite cheesily, to that 70’s song that had me daydreaming out of the back of my parents Hurst Oldsmobile, complete with a T-top, fog-horn, and tinted windows, a la Starsky and Hutch. Ahhh, the good ol’ 70’s…
It was late in December, the sky turned to snow
All ’round the day was going down slow
Night, like a river, beginning to flow
I felt the beat of my mind go drifting into
Time passages
Years go falling in the fading light
Time passages
Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight
Well, I’m not the kind to live in the past
The years run too short and the days too fast
The things you lean on are things that don’t last
Well it’s just now and then my line gets cast into these
Time passages
There’s something back there that you left behind
Time passages
Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight
Hear the echoes and feel yourself starting to turn
Don’t know why you should feel that there’s something to learn
It’s just a game that you play
Well, the picture is changing, now you’re part of a crowd
They’re laughing at something, the music’s loud
A girl comes toward you you once used to know
You reach out your hand, but you’re all alone in those
Time passages
I know you’re in there, you’re just out of sight
Time passages
Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight
-Al Stewart
My resolution in 2006 is to live in the moment. Happy New Year!