The Heart’s Always Seventeen
I’m listening to old music and looking at old photos tonight. I wish I had more skill with Logic Pro X or LumaFusion… Instead I guess I’ll just try to post a few images here to accompany my song ‘Back In the Day’. In case you listened to it and hadn’t guessed (you DID listen to it, didn’t you…?) it’s autobiographical.
Back in the day when I was a kid, In the summer of sixty three
Here is a photo of an old black DeSoto
In the back seat are my brother and me…
Those were the days when time moved slowly
That’s how it seemed to me
The anticipation of summer vacation
My dog and my family and me.
Back in the day when I was in high school
The blizzard of ‘seventy four
We were riding along singing old Christmas songs
‘Till Amy got stuck in the storm
Those were the days when life was simpler
That’s how it seems to me
And there in the snow
It was Ronnie and Joe, Deanna and Amy and me…
(Note: and Alice! Dear Alice, here you are, on the left next to Ronnie, Amy, Joe and Deanna. I never forgot you and I never will. I just didn’t remember that you were part of this particular adventure…!)
Though children move on, pack those dreams away…
Caught up in the day to day, and the years roll on
But the heart’s always seventeen.
Well those were the days, and where did the time go?
Seems like it was just yesterday…
All the times and the places, the friends and the faces
Moved on to go our separate ways
Those are the days that I still remember…
Tomorrow’s a dream away
When you get to the end, you can “Just Call A Friend”
And together, go back in the day…