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It's cold comfort

To the ones without it

To know how they struggled

How they suffered about it

If their lives were exotic and strange

They would likely have gladly exchanged them

For something a little more plain

Maybe something a little more sane

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For me, it is these very true and very sad lyrics from Losing It:

 

 

 

Some are born to move the world -

To live their fantasies

But most of us just dream about

The things we'd like to be

 

Sadder still to watch it die

Than never to have known it

For you - the blind who once could see -

The bell tolls for thee...

Those lyrics never fail to send chills down my spine, even when I'm just reading them

 

It is even worse when you've lived them.

 

I think everyone has regrets when they get older. Things they wish they'd done. It amazes me how many of Neil's lyrics are about getting older, even when he was young. Old soul in a young body.

 

Funny you mention that because, when I was listening to the song yesterday, I thought how could Neil know this at the age of 28? 27? which is about when he would have written the lyrics.

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For me, it is these very true and very sad lyrics from Losing It:

 

 

 

Some are born to move the world -

To live their fantasies

But most of us just dream about

The things we'd like to be

 

Sadder still to watch it die

Than never to have known it

For you - the blind who once could see -

The bell tolls for thee...

Those lyrics never fail to send chills down my spine, even when I'm just reading them

 

It is even worse when you've lived them.

 

I think everyone has regrets when they get older. Things they wish they'd done. It amazes me how many of Neil's lyrics are about getting older, even when he was young. Old soul in a young body.

 

Funny you mention that because, when I was listening to the song yesterday, I thought how could Neil know this at the age of 28? 27? which is about when he would have written the lyrics.

 

Maybe his parents?

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Remembering when first I held

The wheel in my own hands

I took the helm so eagerly

And sailed for distant lands

But now the sea's too heavy

And I just...I just don't understand

Why must my crew desert me?

When I need...I need a guiding hand...

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Different Eyes see different things

Different hearts beat on different strings

But there are times

For you and me

When all such things agree......

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Neil was a huge reader - he would have absorbed a lot of those sentiments from the Hemingway and the other classics, maybe. I know I always felt wiser than my years when I was a naive high school student and undergraduate reading the "big" books. Now I am fully committed to the conviction that I am really not that bright.
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