Friday, March 26, 2010

"Time makes you bolder and children get older; I'm getting older, too"


Smashing Pumpkins cover Fleetwood Mac's Landslide. It would be impossible to express what this song, that never resonated with me until I was in my 40s, means to me. "So, take my love and take it down..."

Meum cum sim pulvis et cinis

4 comments:

  1. Oh my... you have no idea what this song does to me. It always resonated with me at some level, from when I first heard it when I was in college and then in my 40's when a long term relationship I was in fell apart.

    Peace to you today my brother.

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  2. Peace to you, too, Fran

    I told my wife last night that when I was 24 I never thought twice about this song, but at 44 it takes on a lot of meaning.

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  3. I played this song many times while in Baghdad last year. It seemed to capture the essence of the growing up I started to do there.

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