{"id":283,"date":"2006-12-04T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T08:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=283"},"modified":"2019-04-03T09:57:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T16:57:02","slug":"i-reach-for-the-dream-i-was-dreaming-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2006\/12\/04\/i-reach-for-the-dream-i-was-dreaming-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"I reach for the dream I was dreaming last night…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Big,What can you say?<\/p>\n

It is<\/span> a big, nasty world and through most of its history, a lot of folks have thought things were getting nastier all the time.<\/p>\n

Whether we’re straying ever farther from the Garden<\/span> — or we’re simply a pessimistic race drawn to the dark view — I’ll leave to the philosophers, moralists, and poets.<\/p>\n

Me, I like to, you know, accentuate the positive.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sure, things look pretty dark right now… the coastal cities will be flooded within the lifetime of the kids in our schools. The oceans will be depleted of significant food stocks even sooner. Probably most animal species alive today will be extinct in a 100 years. But not the cock roaches. The cock roaches will survive.<\/p>\n

So, you know, we can look forward to that.<\/p>\n

Some kind of continuity.<\/p>\n

I know I’m looking at translating my AYoS blog into cockroach and burning special archive-quality compact discs which I’ll scatter in land fills for the cockroach anthropologists to find.<\/p>\n

I can just see the hard-drinking, self-styled adventurer cockroach who’ll make the discovery of the first AYoS disc, which he’ll excitedly write a series of academic papers about…<\/p>\n

This I believe.<\/p>\n

Or maybe not. Still… could happen. Prove it couldn’t.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, bottom line… we ain’t here forever. Be alive now.<\/p>\n

Big, Nasty World<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Internet Archive page for this recording<\/a>
\nOctober 8. 2006 version<\/a>
\nMarch 10, 2006 version<\/a><\/p>\n

Big, Nasty World<\/span><\/p>\n

I wake up each morning
\nand I reach for my bible
\nI reach for my razor
\nand I reach for my gun<\/p>\n

I reach for the dream
\nI was dreaming last night
\nbut every single morning
\nthat dream is gone<\/p>\n

’cause it’s a<\/span>
\nbig nasty world<\/span>
\na terrible place<\/span>
\nIt’s hard to stay alive<\/span>
\nand it’s hard to keep the faith<\/span><\/p>\n

its a rotten world<\/span>
\na grim shabby place<\/span>
\nbut out of the endless depths of time
\nyou’re here today<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m tired of living
\nand I’m tired of dying too
\nI’m tired of tomorrow
\nand all the shhh that I’ve been thru
\nI’m tired of forever
\nand I’m tired of yesterday
\nI’m tired of never
\nand the man the child became<\/p>\n

’cause it’s a big nasty world…<\/span><\/p>\n

I used to love ya baby
\nand you know that’s true
\nI used to love God
\nand you know that too
\nI used to love myself
\nIt was the hardest of all
\nI loved the whole GD world
\nbut that was before the Fall<\/p>\n

’cause it’s a<\/span>
\nbig nasty world<\/span>
\nterrible mean place<\/span>
\nIt’s hard to stay alive<\/span>
\nand it’s hard to keep the faith<\/span><\/p>\n

its a rotten world<\/span>
\na grim shabby place<\/span>
\nbut out of the endless depths of time<\/span>
\nhoney, you’re here today<\/span><\/p>\n

(C)1992, 2006, TK Major<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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