New song alert!When he was a kid he'd lie on his back in the sand just above the tideline where it dropped away to the bay, listening to the murmur of his grandparents talking by the firepit, watching the stars shimmer and wave above the fire, red glowing bits tracing the undulations as they crossed the starfield.
Sometimes, if no one else was nearby to be bothered, his grandfather would turn on the Sony transistor radio quietly, tuning in KFI 130 miles to the north, the reassuringly familiar voice of Vin Scully calling a Dodger game suggesting there was continuity even in an era when you could carry a radio in your coat pocket, Russian satellites were circling the globe -- and the Dodgers would move from Brooklyn to L.A.
Dedicated readers will remember I posted a link to a discussion of an earlier version of this song in the songwriter's forum I've been moderating for the last few weeks. The discussion there and your comments here helped me greatly. The changes were mostly not dramatic -- but the extended discussion of the how many clowns section did prove especially helpful and I think it resulted in getting a lot closer to what I was after.
I was tempted to say that I wished I could have incorporated everyone's suggestions -- but in a very real way I did.
So I thank my friends there and here for their generous and thoughtful comments and suggestions. There wasn't a bad one in the lot.
How Many Times Must I Fall Down?
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lyrics
How Many Times Must I Fall Down?
How many roads
must I walk down
before I can sleep in the sand?
How many times
must i fall down
before I can
take someone's hand?
How many doors
must I kick in
before I find
the magic one?
How many dreams
must I tear apart
before I see how it's all done?
How did i get here?
where have I been?
How long have
I been this way?
I remember a time
I remember a place
I just don't
remember the way
How many clowns
does it take to screw down
a reason for a man
to exist?
How many times must
I see the light?
There must be
something I missed...
How did i get here?
where have I been?
How long have
i been this way?
I remember a time
I remember a place
I just don't remember the way
How many roads...
(C)2007, TK Major
