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Half The World Away…
“Who knows where the road may lead us, only a fool would say who knows who we’ll meet along the way follow the brightest star as far as the brave may dare what will we find when we get there?” La Sagrada Familia – Alan Parsons “In a big country, dreams stay with you, like a lover’s voice fires the mountainside” In A Big Country – Big Country “I’m leavin’ on a jet plane don’t know when I’ll be back again” Leavin’ On A Jet Plane – John Denver “it doesn’t matter where you go in life …what you do…. …or how much you have… it’s who you have beside…
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Days Are Numbers
I don’t know if I’m supposed to get permission to do this, but bloggers are always reproducing quotes so why not song lyrics. These are the full lyrics to a rather wonderful song, “Days Are Numbers (The Traveller)” by the Alan Parsons Project. A song we very much relate to….especially just now….. The traveller is always leaving town He never has the time to turn around And if the road he’s taken isn’t leading anywhere He seems to be completely unaware The traveller is always leaving home The only kind of life he’s ever known When every moment seems to be a race against the time There’s always one more…
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Joe Biden & David Bowie: A Thought For Friday
In recent days we have seen Joe Biden announce multi trillion dollar spending plans based largely around social welfare and other public spending, as the reverberation of the end of the Trump era continues. Just over fifty years ago,at the start of the 70s, David Bowie released the album “The Man Who Sold The World”, containing the track “Saviour Machine”, which opens with these lyrics…. “President Joe once had a dream The world held his hand, gave their pledge, So he sold them his scheme for a saviour machine. They called it The Prayer, its answer was Law Its logic stopped war, gave them food Oh how they adored till…
