2005-01-13 - circa1970
I come home to the place I dwell a sanctuary, all is well, turn on TV, lie on the couch how could I complain or grouch? this place it sets my mind at ease and I survived the 70's back then life wasn't as secure oh it was easy, to be sure, living in my parents home free to hang, free to rome, but haunted by uncertainties and I survived the 70's burned-out from High School partying Each job I worked was so boring It never worked out like it should Tomorrow looked like nothing good My friends all worked toward their degrees Me? I survived the 70's. I started out a long-haired freak I tripped on acid every week I met the queen of all my dreams But even love goes bad it seems My heart got colder by degrees And I survived the 70's My 21st birthday came around I packed the Duster and left town And headed south on 95 I had to keep my dream alive And hide away where no one sees Would I survive the 70's In that island paradise I fought the demons of my vice I often thought of suicide So many nights I groaned and cried Wrestling with some soul disease Did I survive the 70's I joined the Navy to receive some discipline and take my leave of all the drugs and wanderlust I said "go see the world or bust!" I sought to sail the seven seas And to survive the 70's The year was 1979 I tried to leave the mess behind but "everywhere you go," they say, "there you are" and there I'd stay I didn't rehabilitate I got dropped from my learning rate they put me on a ship of fools (I never did too good in schools) I lived off base with sluts and thugs we partied and got off on drugs until one night I almost died which really helped me to decide to move back onto base and turn away from those who never learn and that is how I came to know someone who told me where to go and how to get there, if you please And I survived the 70's
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