Ten Years
Ten years
Flashes past
On a journey
Into a haze;
A journey without rules.
A life
Drifts along
Changing
Passing
Slowly
Inexorably
Dwindling
Until
Finally
It ends
Leaving us bemused.
Opher – 19.9.2024
I was looking back. Ten years seem to have disappeared in a flash. It’s like time has speeded up. My life is hurtling along towards an inevitable conclusion.
I’ve only just got started!
I haven’t sorted where I’m going yet!
Where has all the time gone?
How could he possibly remember all those rules he made up? How could he know he was at a party unless one of his advisers told him? He didn’t even bring a bottle (drank everybody else’s!).
All perfectly reasonable to say goodbye to hard-working colleagues – except that nobody else was allowed to – not even visit dying relatives! Rules that he had made and was enforcing on others!
Well Nobody told me either. Not that we’d have Trump and Brexit.
When I first heard this album I thought it was light. I did not think it said much. I’ve changed my mind. It says a lot
I never thought I’d see days like this.
“Nobody Told Me”
Nobody told me there’d be days like these
Nobody told me there’d be days like these
Nobody told me there’d be days like these
Strange days indeed — strange days indeed
Everybody’s runnin’ and no one makes a move
Everyone’s a winner and nothing left to lose
There’s a little yellow idol to the north of Katmandu
Everybody’s flying and no one leaves the ground
Everybody’s crying and no one makes a sound
There’s a place for us in the movies you just gotta lay around
Nobody told me there’d be days like these
Nobody told me there’d be days like these
Nobody told me there’d be days like these
Strange days indeed — most peculiar, mama
Everybody’s smoking and no one’s getting high
Everybody’s flying and never touch the sky
There’s a UFO over New York and I ain’t too surprised
Nobody told me there’d be days like these
Nobody told me there’d be days like these
Nobody told me there’d be days like these
Strange days indeed — most peculiar, mama