One Great Song

     It’s likely that, if you remember the Youngbloods at all, you remember them for “Get Together,” the anthemish Sixties tune that everyone seemed to be humming, whistling or otherwise abusing back then. It evoked a lot of warm-fuzzies among the warm-fuzzy-head set...but musically, it was nothing special.

     Here’s the Youngbloods’ best piece, by my wholly idiosyncratic standards:

The time has come now for me to leave you
To stop my foolish hanging on
To yesterday's dream of tomorrow's true love
The shadow cast by children's new love
There is no time for tears or talking
There is no time for you
No time for you

Time has painted all my dreams blue
Pieces falling all around you
Around you around you around you

The doorstep of your heart is cluttered
With broken dreams and pieces of the
World we once lived in a world for dreamers
A world of warm words sparkling colors
That shone to keep us through days of wishing
And nights of coming true
Coming true

Time has painted all my dreams blue
Pieces falling all around you
Around you around you around you

The place is empty my eyes are red now
But hopelessness is not forgotten
Days of living and nights of dying
Streets of talking rooms of crying
Where is the end to all this sadness
Where is the end of you
The end of you

Time has painted all my dreams blue
Pieces falling all around you
Around you around you around you
Around you around you around you

– Jesse Colin Young –

     I’ll be back later with the usual crap.