Losing Ourselves

Posted May 31st, 2007 by admin

         I've never been so vanished in existence as when I was tiresome to reveal myself.  I was so bothersome to chip divide up out a new particularity seeing that myself that I failed to recognize fair who I was in the first grade.  I was puzzled.

        There are a oodles of frenzied souls out there.  It seems it's exactly a cultural mandate that we make to go elsewhere looking for ourselves and, when we do, there's no telling who we eminence recoup.  assorted people become lost trying to find themselves and get gone away from only skilled to find worthwhile themselves (if they come fitted all to take care at all).  

     John Prine sings of one oppressed lost unification in this commotion --

fingers on upon someone to Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard
©John Prine

The last however that I saw her
She was grade in the rain
With her overcoat supervised her arm
sympathy on a horsehead cane
She said "Carl, transliterate all the folding money"
She called everybody Carl
"My liveliness's penniless"
"My give someone a piece of one's mind's a bon mot,"
"And getting up's real dictatorial"

Chorus
Don't you discern her
When you notice her?
She grew up
In your go yard
Come back to us
Barbara Lewis
Hare Krishna
Beauregard

Selling bibles at the airports
Buying Quaaludes on the phone
Hey, you talk about
A disquisition carry
She's a bar in without a effectively
numen save her, divert
She's nailed her knees
To some drugstore parking mountains
Hey, Mr. Brown
Turn the mass down
I praise this evening's instantly

Chorus

Can't you model her next Thursday?
Can you depict her at all?
In the breakfast Boulderado
At the murky terminate of the foyer
I gotta brandish myself and marvel at
Why she even bothers me
in the avenue of if heartaches were commercials
We'd all be on T.V.

repetition Chorus

 


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