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Or taking a ride on a cosmic train.
Switch on summer from a slot machine.
Yes, get what you want to if you want, 'cause you can get anything.
I know we've come a long way,
We're changing day to day,
But tell me, where do the children play?
Well, you roll on roads over fresh green grass
For your lorry loads pumping petrol gas.
And you make them long, and you make them tough,
But they just go on and on, and it seems that you can't get off.
Oh, I know we've come a long way,
We're changing day to day,
But tell me, where do the children play?
Well, you've cracked the sky, scrapers fill the air,
But will you keep on building higher
Till there's no more room up there?
Will you make us laugh, will you make us cry?
Will you tell us when to live, will you tell us when to die?
I know we've come a long way,
We're changing day to day,
But tell me, where do the children play?
A song that was even relevant back then, even more relevant now. Struggling with the 'where do the children pla-ah-eh-eh-he-hey' - always found it a bit of a sign of poor lyric penmanship to stretch a syllable across so many notes.
I happen to really like that part. Go figure.
Art.
Art is for art's sake.
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that's a great picture. that's how i picture him singing this song, that i love.
A song that was even relevant back then, even more relevant now. Struggling with the 'where do the children pla-ah-eh-eh-he-hey' - always found it a bit of a sign of poor lyric penmanship to stretch a syllable across so many notes.
Oh, you're one of those people who dislike a lick, and dismiss the entire song.
It appears that we have been walking through life blindfolded 🤔
And half deaf and dumb too.
She's at the zoo with her grandkids.
Are you sure? I just saw her on Tucker and vine, Near Nancy’s.
He captures the concept of 'opportunity cost' rather well.
Back in the day, I might wondered if this song had an environmental theme to it. Makes sense to the extent that in a modern view economic and environmental are almost perfectly correlated.
seeking leads to knowledge, knowledge leads to wisdom and wisdom led to a certain clarity that I am nothing, yet love tells me I am everything, in between the two, things seem to happen
Never been more disappointed in my short life
We marvel looking into the mirror of all our technology, and gasp in wonder at all that we have done. in truth there is reason to be this way; especially when juxtaposed against our species history and how far we have come.
In one sense we have become gods, except for wisdom.
So here's a cautionary aspect, as noted by this song. Is not the true measure of a culture, of a society, of a civilization, how it supports its young, it's old, its infirmed and its weakest members?
If we are as gods should we not be acting out of the grace in our nature, and not out of its basest components? Where do your children play indeed.
Just some thoughts provoked by this song.
Highlow
American Net'Zen
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Is it because it's really a masterpiece ??
Hmmm. I think I need to listen more often ...
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An important part of this complete breakfast... I mean, adolescence. I got so lucky to have grown up in the 70s.
I like this song 'cause I lost my virginity as it played (ok, it took a little bit longer but not by much)
is really amazing. Mystical folk pop at it's best
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"Well, you've cracked the sky, scrapers fill the air,
But will you keep on building higher
Till there's no more room up there?"
Yeah...maybe...but funny how life works....while we were building tight and high to the sky, all of it requiring cramped little boxes to traverse from low to high, 'ol Mother Nature was chopping tree-cutter style at the bases of all those crystalline edifices we were building.
And she's doing so using the tiny, tiny, tiniest of axes. Chop, chop, WACK! Corvid brings 'em down. Just Mother, endlessly inventive in pursuit of supporting the weave of her web of life.
So it goes don't it?
Highlow
American Net'Zen
An important part of this complete breakfast... I mean, adolescence. I got so lucky to have grown up in the 70s.
High school makeout soundtrack where I was.
Good song and album too.
My personal record is 8
Then we both fell asleep
An important part of this complete breakfast... I mean, adolescence. I got so lucky to have grown up in the 70s.
Right on!
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An important part of this complete breakfast... I mean, adolescence. I got so lucky to have grown up in the 70s.
Terrific song.
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I've noticed that, too.
Me too... so sweet memories!
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Terrific song.
So...Off with his head?
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Back in the naivete of my youth I thought you were touching upon something profound. Here's the strange thing. I think this still and I am well on past those times. The profound is timeless in its scope, and it reaches out to each and every one of us in a fashion most suitable to our feeling its touch.
Highlow
American Net'Zen
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/14/world/middleeast/kimmelman-images-of-aleppo.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
only apparently he never said that.
Exactly! This was a rumor perpetuated for years during a period when Cat Stevens had given up music and was not in the public sphere.
"I never called for the death of Salman Rushdie; nor backed the Fatwa issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini—and still don’t. —Cat Stevens"
I'll never forget the image of Harold and his banjo on the seaside cliff.
"Alot of people enjoy being DEAD" But they are't dead really
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Still sounds great, when he played at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction a couple years ago, it was like he had not lost a beat.
Awesome album and reminds me of this awesome film.
I'll never forget the image of Harold and his banjo on the seaside cliff.
Absof...lutely agree....
This a fine reflection of the prior generation, and a good one at that.
only apparently he never said that.
Are you kidding? It's a direct quote. You can watch the interview for yourself here. The quoted section starts at about 1:40.
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Terrific song.
Awesome album and reminds me of this awesome film.
Q: You don't think that this man deserves to die?
Cat Stevens: Who, Salman Rushdie?
Q: Yes.
Cat Stevens: Yes, yes.
Q: Would you be part of that protest, Yusuf Islam, would you go to a demonstration where you knew that an effigy was going to be burned?
Cat Stevens: I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Stevens%27_comments_about_Salman_Rushdie
only apparently he never said that.
Beautiful song from a really great album. Just amazing ....
She's at the zoo with her grandkids.
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She's at the zoo with her grandkids.
Hah! Reality check!
She's at the zoo with her grandkids.
Q: You don't think that this man deserves to die?
Cat Stevens: Who, Salman Rushdie?
Q: Yes.
Cat Stevens: Yes, yes.
Q: Would you be part of that protest, Yusuf Islam, would you go to a demonstration where you knew that an effigy was going to be burned?
Cat Stevens: I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Stevens%27_comments_about_Salman_Rushdie
Hmmm . . .
What did 25 or 6 to 4 say to you?
Yup, I often got to bed that late.
... and certainly not getting laid as often as Cat Stevens.
Yousuf Islam Version - What an Amazing Voice
Just got off phone with insurance agent having health coverage and deductibles explained...
This song has different meaning today than long ago drinking Boones Farm and eating KFC....
Abraxas spoke to me. Let it Bleed spoke to me. Ummagumma spoke to me. Chicago Transit Authority spoke to me. Woodstock spoke to me. Band of Gypsies spoke to me. Stand Up spoke to me. Disraeli Gears spoke to me. Zepp II spoke to me. Live at Leeds spoke to me. Morrison Hotel spoke to me. ELP spoke to me. Lizard spoke to me. Gasoline Alley spoke to me.
No room for Cat Stevens in that crowd. He was simply too thin, pallid and shallow. Still is.
Hmmm . . .
What did 25 or 6 to 4 say to you?
Abraxas spoke to me. Let it Bleed spoke to me. Ummagumma spoke to me. Chicago Transit Authority spoke to me. Woodstock spoke to me. Band of Gypsies spoke to me. Stand Up spoke to me. Disraeli Gears spoke to me. Zepp II spoke to me. Live at Leeds spoke to me. Morrison Hotel spoke to me. ELP spoke to me. Lizard spoke to me. Gasoline Alley spoke to me.
No room for Cat Stevens in that crowd. He was simply too thin, pallid and shallow. Still is.
Well stated, and still is. I was a little older than 16, and if a girl liked Cat Stevens, I looked for a new girl. That part is still true, too.
Well I think it's fine, building jumbo planes
Or taking a ride on a cosmic train
Switch on summer from a slot machine
Yes, get what you want to if you want, 'cause you can get anything
I know we've come a long way
We're changing day to day
But tell me, where do the children play?
Well you roll on roads over fresh green grass
For your lorry loads, pumping petrol gas
And you make them long, and you make them tough
But they just go on and on, and it seems that you can't get off
Oh, I know we've come a long way
We're changing day to day
But tell me, where do the children play?
Well you've cracked the sky, scrapers fill the air
But will you keep on building higher till there's no more room up there
Will you make us laugh, will you make us cry?
Will you tell us when to live, will you tell us when to die?
I know we've come a long way
We're changing day to day
But tell me, where do the children play?
*******
ABSO'FREAKIN'LUTELY it's still topical.
Highlow
American Net'Zen
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Poor cat.
One of his best.
As for his anti-colonial beliefs........
Say what you want about Cat Stevens, but I really like this song.
Abraxas spoke to me. Let it Bleed spoke to me. Ummagumma spoke to me. Chicago Transit Authority spoke to me. Woodstock spoke to me. Band of Gypsies spoke to me. Stand Up spoke to me. Disraeli Gears spoke to me. Zepp II spoke to me. Live at Leeds spoke to me. Morrison Hotel spoke to me. ELP spoke to me. Lizard spoke to me. Gasoline Alley spoke to me.
No room for Cat Stevens in that crowd. He was simply too thin, pallid and shallow. Still is.
Even then, he appealed to my softer side. The lyrics alone were always worthy of my praise
Abraxas spoke to me. Let it Bleed spoke to me. Ummagumma spoke to me. Chicago Transit Authority spoke to me. Woodstock spoke to me. Band of Gypsies spoke to me. Stand Up spoke to me. Disraeli Gears spoke to me. Zepp II spoke to me. Live at Leeds spoke to me. Morrison Hotel spoke to me. ELP spoke to me. Lizard spoke to me. Gasoline Alley spoke to me.
No room for Cat Stevens in that crowd. He was simply too thin, pallid and shallow. Still is.
I was 7 when this came out. My dad played it alot. Never heard all of those albums until years later. This album still speaks to me.
Abraxas spoke to me. Let it Bleed spoke to me. Ummagumma spoke to me. Chicago Transit Authority spoke to me. Woodstock spoke to me. Band of Gypsies spoke to me. Stand Up spoke to me. Disraeli Gears spoke to me. Zepp II spoke to me. Live at Leeds spoke to me. Morrison Hotel spoke to me. ELP spoke to me. Lizard spoke to me. Gasoline Alley spoke to me.
No room for Cat Stevens in that crowd. He was simply too thin, pallid and shallow. Still is.
I'm with you.
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Well I think it's fine, building jumbo planes
Or taking a ride on a cosmic train
Switch on summer from a slot machine
Yes, get what you want to if you want, 'cause you can get anything
I know we've come a long way
We're changing day to day
But tell me, where do the children play?
Well you roll on roads over fresh green grass
For your lorry loads, pumping petrol gas
And you make them long, and you make them tough
But they just go on and on, and it seems that you can't get off
Oh, I know we've come a long way
We're changing day to day
But tell me, where do the children play?
Well you've cracked the sky, scrapers fill the air
But will you keep on building higher till there's no more room up there
Will you make us laugh, will you make us cry?
Will you tell us when to live, will you tell us when to die?
I know we've come a long way
We're changing day to day
But tell me, where do the children play?