Reeling In The Years

[stevenstrange]

Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of my 18th birthday. On the eve of this momentous occasion I was driving in my truck and listening to Sirius channel 14, Classic Vinyl, when Neil Young's Sugar Mountain came on. Now, this song made me feel sort of old when I first really listened to it in college when I was merely nineteen. The experience of the

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[beckersunc]

Happy belated birthday, Steve!

[nalabean]

Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of my 18th birthday
lol steve....happy birthday

i hope to be young forever...
think thats something that rides more in the heart?

[gravenimages]

I can see that the leaf is beginning to turn. But what did I expect? To be young forever? Sadly, I think I did. Or at least I think I expected to be relatively young for nearly forever.
nods yes

i was twenty-one years when i wrote this song
i’m twenty-two now but i won’t be for long
time hurries on.
and the leaves that are green turn to brown.
and they wither with the wind
and they crumble in your hand

once my heart was filled with the love of a girl
i held her close but she faded in the night
like a poem i meant to write.
and the leaves that are green turn to brown.
and they wither with the wind
and they crumble in your hand

i threw a pebble in a brook
and watched the ripples run away
and they never made a sound.
and the leaves that are green turn to brown
and they wither with the wind
and they crumble in your hand

hello, hello, hello, hello
good-bye, good-bye, good-bye, good-bye
that’s all there is.
and the leaves that are green turn to brown.
and they wither with the wind
and they crumble in your hand.
~ paul simon happy

[zoomcity]

I expected the same. The other day I realized exactly what is meant when 'they' say that young people think they'll live forever. I did. I think I really did.

Happy Anniversary.