IT TAKES ONE A LONG TIME TO BECOME YOUNG

PLAYING JONI, JAMES & CAROLE

Playing old Carole king, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell stuff......old and newer albums. Lots of inspiration from those poets. You don't need the music, just the verses......that's all you need to understand...and gain inspiration. Joni, especially was a brilliant lyricist....poetry so descriptive, so personal, heart-wrenching, yet
insightful about her life, her weaknesses, her loves, her losses. Listen to Her newer album, gretaest hits re-done with an orchestra and a newer, different, mature arrangement.
She wrote the song "Both Sides Now" first recorded by Judy Collins years ago. But Joni's rendition is from a view of one who has lived a long life, and looks back in irony at how little she really knew about life, love,  clouds, rain, living. Her verses are magical;

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way that you feel
As every fairyale comes real
I've looked at love that way..

Another example of her lines so appropriate and so richly formated or the piece designed the song "A Case of You". the middle refrain goes this way:


Oh you are in my blood like holy wine
Oh and you taste so bitter but you taste so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you
I could drink a case of you darling
Still be on my feet
I'd still be on my feet.....

The image of drinking a case of someone you loved, it's quite unusual...and so powerful.......

James Taylor i've listened to forever, since his first album produced by Apple and signed by The Beatles. to a contract.. His music is happy, meloncholy, wistful, and gives me inspiration to just keep going forward.
He has so many beautiful songs, has a Christmas album, but one song i really love to heaer is called: "Secret O' Life.

Just a brief few lines from this.The secret of life is enjoying the passage
of time
Any fool can do it
There ain't nothing to it


The secret of love is opening up your heart
it's okay to feel afraid
There ain't nothing to it
But don't let that stand in your way
"cause everyone knows that love is
the only road
And since we're only here for awhile
Migh as well show some style
Give us a smile...


Now the thing about time is that time
Isn't really real
It's just your point of view
How does it feel for you
Einsteinsaid  said he could never
understand it all
Planets spinning through space
The smile upon your face
Welcome to the human race.

this is just what I've been listening to lately...and any line or feeling, melody from a song that sends me into my "poet mode"..and singers (including , of course the master, BoB Dylan) who are tremendous lyrically, melody is secondary to their need to write and just keep writing.

Dig out some old tear jerking "This is when my girlfriend left me" sad ol' songs and rediscover the lyrics, the words, the pace, the passion.............and get inspired........!!! Gosh we've all got a trove of memory stuffed somewhere in some part of our brain cells.........dig out music, photos of old friends, mountains you skied during Spring break. The days when we DIDN'T enjoy the Passage of Time...we were so damn busy thinking we had to be busy.........what does that mean anyway? To each his own.......my business is clomping on these keys and wriing pretty damn good poems, and some really pathetic, lame-brain ones.

HAPPY DAY TODAY, GOD IS SMILING YOUR WAY, TODAY..{/;c}