{"id":349,"date":"2007-09-15T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=349"},"modified":"2015-10-29T17:01:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T00:01:30","slug":"another-year-older-and-closer-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2007\/09\/15\/another-year-older-and-closer-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Another year older and closer to…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Triple
\nS<\/span>omewhere, a long way away, he heard the alarm on his cell phone ring.<\/p>\n

On the TV, someone was talking about Guy Lombardo. He reached out from the couch to stab the TV remote. Someone was talking about how, over the next day or two, western civilization as we knew it would be grinding to a near-standstill, despite the cheerfully over-confident predictions of the technocrats. He stabbed again, got up, started making a mug of espresso on the little Krups machine.<\/p>\n

It was now about 10 minutes to zero, Y2K…<\/p>\n

<\/span>With a steaming mug of dark, dark joe held under his nose, he led himself back to the office and plunked down at his computer. He browsed the news on the web, checked in with a couple of his favorite BBs, where a handful of stay-at-homes were wishing each other a “happy millennium.”<\/p>\n

He waited. In the other room he heard the live coverage cutting to Ghiradelli Square in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

The hands finally ticked straight up… 3 hours after the flip into the new year, New York time.<\/p>\n

For an hour or so he poked around the applications he had out in the field. No sign of impending Western Civilization collapse in his little corner of the world.<\/p>\n

He padded out to the living room, where the TV still blathered on. A live shot of revelers drifting away from Times Square.<\/p>\n

He went to bed and dreamt fitfully of moon colonies, robot housekeepers, and flying cars.<\/p>\n

Triple Zip Flip<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n\n

more stream & DL options<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

lyrics<\/span><\/span>
\nTriple Zip Flip<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Some people say its the end of the world
\nI say “C’mon all you boys and grab a girl”
\nSome people tell you it’s the end of time
\nI say “all the more reason to get off the dime”<\/p>\n

It’s been a long long journey <\/span>
\nhope you liked the trip<\/span>
\nc’mon everybody <\/span>
\ndo the Triple Zip Flip<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe there’ll be famine, maybe flood
\nfor sure there’ll be suffering and rivers of blood
\nbut that’s just one more year like all the rest
\nanother year older and closer to death<\/p>\n

It’s been a long long journey…<\/span><\/p>\n

The mighty shall tremble
\nthe wicked shall fall
\nabout the same time the good folks
\nlearn how not to crawl<\/p>\n

judgement will come
\njudgement is due
\nlet’s just hope they don’t
\njudge — me and you<\/p>\n

It’s been a long long journey…<\/span><\/p>\n

its just like the prophet said long ago
\nfirst there is Knowledge then the neighborhood goes
\none little taste it all gets way out of hand
\nwrite a few lines of code make a world out of sand<\/p>\n

they say Information just wants to be free<\/span>
\nso far it’s been trapped inside of you and me<\/span>
\nbut I hear that Info has got a new plan<\/span>
\ngo live in cyberspace and make a monkey out of man<\/span>
\n
\nIt’s been a long long journey <\/span>
\nhope you liked the trip<\/span>
\nc’mon everybody <\/span>
\ndo the Triple Zip Flip<\/p>\n

<\/span>(C)1996 TK Major<\/span><\/p>\n


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