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When the ragged dog they gave me has been ten years in the grave
And señorita play guitar, play it just for you
My rosary has broken and my beads have all slipped through
You've hung up your great coat and you've laid down your gun
You know the war you fought in wasn't too much fun
And the future you're giving me holds nothing for a gun
I've no wish to be living sixty years on, on, on
Yes I'll sit with you and talk let your eyes relive again
I know my vintage prayers would be very much the same
And Magdelena plays the organ, plays it just for you
Your choral lamp that burns so low when you are passing through
And the future you're giving me holds nothing for a gun
I've no wish to be living sixty years on
Here I am
When I'm sixty years of age
Here I am
In the land of the morning star (Sixty years on)
Here I am
When I'm sixty years of age
Here I am
In the land of the morning star (Sixty years on)
Here I am
When I'm sixty years of age
Here I am
In the land of the morning star (Sixty years on)
Here I am
When I'm sixty years of age
Here I am
In the land of the morning star (Sixty years on)
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oh sh1t
to be clear 2023 minus (spring of )1963 = oh sh1t. how the F did that happen?
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![motor](https://img.radioparadise.com/emoji/icon_motor.gif)
![cowboy](https://img.radioparadise.com/emoji/icon_cowboy.gif)
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still drumming, still riding, smoking, drinking, and dancing.
so how the F?
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At 76, I have no wish to be living 60 years on. But should that transpire, I will be suitably amazed, and would hope to still have my hearing, although no doubt technology could take care of that for me :-)
So many of his songs are so poignantly beautiful. For someone my age it brings back the excitement of teenage years... Personally, the lyrics truly resonate. At 64 years, I feel I a good 10-years past my shelf life and all I'm doing is consuming precious resources that should be going to someone younger and more productive. I feel I should be put on a Golgafrincham Ark Fleet Ship B (sorry, just had to get a HHGTTG reference in)
Nobody wants to be livin' (at) 60 years on....
Oh really?
I dunno about that. From where I sit I'd like another 60 years, please. So long as I keep my health and, more importantly, my mind of course.
Because while I am no spring chicken I still retain a desire to see/know what's around that next bend in the road. So while I have my health, my mind, and am no burden on others, I say let's keep on truckin' on.
I plan to keep goin' until I can't. So excuse me there's a bend up ahead....
Highlow
American Net'Zen
At 76, I have no wish to be living 60 years on. But should that transpire, I will be suitably amazed, and would hope to still have my hearing, although no doubt technology could take care of that for me :-)
Nobody wants to be livin' (at) 60 years on....
Oh really?
I dunno about that. From where I sit I'd like another 60 years, please. So long as I keep my health and, more importantly, my mind of course.
Because while I am no spring chicken I still retain a desire to see/know what's around that next bend in the road. So while I have my health, my mind, and am no burden on others, I say let's keep on truckin' on.
I plan to keep goin' until I can't. So excuse me there's a bend up ahead....
Highlow
American Net'Zen
At 60+ I like to think that I can take all of the things I learned and use them. As a Computer Scientist things are just starting to get interesting.
My first job in computers was at one of the largest centers in the World (at least by computing capacity). I have more capacity on my desktop now.
Your typical cell phone has more power than the first search engine. Think about that for a second.
Yes I'll sit with you and talk let your eyes relive again
My 12 year old granddaughter recently showed interest in learning to play the guitar. I never asked her or forced her to play and have just waited, hoping she would someday be interested as she is always singing something (quietly) as she hangs around our place. I happened to be re-learning this beautiful song, so I just used it as an example, since I knew she wouldn't want me to try to play what she likes (not cool). We had the best time learning a few chords. She loved the idea that minor chords often convey a sadness. She noted the buzzing bee sound at the begining, the ragged dog, the rosary beads, the reference to old age (she loves to point out my age). I don't know how far she will want to take music, but this was yet another time for me to enjoy the power of music to bring us together.
wish we were so lucky.
Elton John before he became a parody of Elton John. He was a great one once upon a time.
c.
Oh lord. Maybe it would be better if people in their early twenties didn't try to write melodrama about what it's like to be "sixty years on". Trust me, it's really not so bad.
We -are- that much healthier and in better shape.
there are a lot of younger people who lack coping skills; our elders went through some real shit that we 'youngsters' only thought we went through. COVID lessons for the most part were ignored or misunderstood by a large portion of the population (not just younger people). enjoy life as it can be prematurely taken from us.
This is so ignorant.
But these days? I say give me 60 more years. Please? 🤣
Highlow
American Net'Zen
We -are- that much healthier and in better shape. Our parents did not have antibiotics growing up. Their water was not as pure. They did not have the anti-virals or vitamins in everything. They did not spend as much time running about in our underwear outdoors. They bequeathed us a very healthy world. We didn't notice when the dying seemed to end in the 70s. As a child I went to many funerals for family, friends, relatives, adults and children.
Now, we annoying. We're running about; having sex, exercising, eating healthy, spending, spending, spending. Our parents didn't have the ability or wherewithal to do any of these things. The lessons of the songs still speak to the loneliness of old age. Then and now the old are very lonely. TV is not a companion and the internet only simulates human relationships. We have made it so we can live longer, healthier and lonelier. Did we win-?
This is so ignorant.
there is a good life after 60. Keep listening to RP
True about so many bands and singers, not all, but the majority.
I've often wondered why. Do they just get comfortable ? run out of ideas ? Find it more difficult to take risks ?
It's a terrifying prospect.
maybe it doesn't have to be this way ?
Oh really?
I dunno about that. From where I sit I'd like another 60 years, please. So long as I keep my health and, more importantly, my mind of course.
Because while I am no spring chicken I still retain a desire to see/know what's around that next bend in the road. So while I have my health, my mind, and am no burden on others, I say let's keep on truckin' on.
I plan to keep goin' until I can't. So excuse me there's a bend up ahead....
Highlow
American Net'Zen
You know the war you fought in wasn't too much fun
And the future you're giving me holds nothing for a gun..."
I've always been disappointed with that line. Seems like Bernie phoned it in. Or used it as a placeholder, then never went back and reworked it. Just seems too trite, maybe?
But that is nit-picking. My minor disappointment doesn't stop me from listening to it over and over.
From that first discordant hum, dark and brooding, the song is a classic.
c.
It's a terrifying prospect.
I agree, but I also think most of the tracks on that album were his best renditions - lucky sods who actually got to see him perform them live! Any RP listeners out there who were there and are still here?
I live with one of these.
I have to force myself to interact with him.
TBI and now more neuro problems.
Such a waste of an artistic talent.
Horrifying indeed. But I know what you're talking about. It's sad, really. There but for the grace of god go I, eh?
Anyway...I wonder how 'ol Sir Elton feels about this song, now that he's on the north end of that 60 years on point. Funny how time can change a perspective, eh?
Highlow
American Net'Zen
For me: 9 - OUTSTANDING but weak lowering to 7 but not Skip yet
For me: 9 - and a strong 9, though leaving it at 9, Long Live RP!!
You're on drugs.
Or you're an extra in Groundhog Day.
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For me: 9 - OUTSTANDING but weak lowering to 7 but not Skip yet
Was very surprised to eventually discover it was Elton John. Good work, sir!
It's just that he and Bernie made such an incredible body of work, and his later work can't match it.
Almost never mentioned, but it's one of my favorites. After Tumbleweed, Honky, Don't Shoot, but still a good album.
c.
No I change to 9 - O U T S T A N D I N G
3:30 pm - Harry Manx - Death Have Mercy
3:34 pm - Elton John - Sixty Years On
3:38 pm - Porcupine Tree - Lips Of Ashes
This album and Tumbleweed Connection for me represent his high watermark, as did so many other albums of that day. Whatever motivated the introspection-the Viet Nam war in part I think-of that era generated some brilliant poetry set to music. Why it devolves-who knows, all we can do is savor the time and moment. RP keeps all the great music of then and now in our minds with an amazing mix.
Bernie Taupin gets credit for the lyrics
Get it: Experience it, enjoy it - 11-17-70 a masterpiece.
Listening to this now.
High dudgeon indeed.
Get it: Experience it, enjoy it - 11-17-70 a masterpiece.
however this still gets a strong 8
Agree. I heard the Opera House version first, strangely enough.
I'm impressed. His early music was definitely part of the musical output in the late 1960s/early 1970s that made the period one of the most creative in contemporary popular music.
however this still gets a strong 8
My thoughts exactly. I still can't believe I've just rated him (not sure if this is the proper pronoun) an 8.
Good comment.
Indeed.
Ha - I can still remember when I thought that line made sense.
(Looks for, and fails to find, grizzled geezer emoticon.)
My sentiments exactly.
The Beatles and Elton pull it off on many occasions
dig deeper
Also Smashing Pumpkins, Psychedelic Furs (sleep comes down), Alison Goldfrapp, XTC etc...
We -are- that much healthier and in better shape. Our parents did not have antibiotics growing up. Their water was not as pure. They did not have the anti-virals or vitamins in everything. They did not spend as much time running about in our underwear outdoors. They bequeathed us a very healthy world. We didn't notice when the dying seemed to end in the 70s. As a child I went to many funerals for family, friends, relatives, adults and children.
Now, we annoying. We're running about; having sex, exercising, eating healthy, spending, spending, spending. Our parents didn't have the ability or wherewithal to do any of these things. The lessons of the songs still speak to the loneliness of old age. Then and now the old are very lonely. TV is not a companion and the internet only simulates human relationships. We have made it so we can live longer, healthier and lonelier. Did we win-?
Into this ever braver and newer world stride the internet billionaires who are prepared to colonize Mars, develop genetic editing technologies to eliminate diseases at the embryo level, prolong (their) lives well beyond what we know today. In the process, more of the work performed by actual humans will be done "better" by robots and computers, freeing the masses to do whatever they choose with the degraded planet left in the wake of the immortals. Or not...
This is an amazing song from Elton John when he had integrity.
Perspective of younger folks. If you think back to your 20's you probably had the same perception. Now it is very different. I was talking to a friend about how frail there 85 year old aunt was. Suddenly dawned on me my dad would have been 85 this year, he passed at a very young age. 85 does not seem as old as it once did.
We -are- that much healthier and in better shape. Our parents did not have antibiotics growing up. Their water was not as pure. They did not have the anti-virals or vitamins in everything. They did not spend as much time running about in our underwear outdoors. They bequeathed us a very healthy world. We didn't notice when the dying seemed to end in the 70s. As a child I went to many funerals for family, friends, relatives, adults and children.
Now, we annoying. We're running about; having sex, exercising, eating healthy, spending, spending, spending. Our parents didn't have the ability or wherewithal to do any of these things. The lessons of the songs still speak to the loneliness of old age. Then and now the old are very lonely. TV is not a companion and the internet only simulates human relationships. We have made it so we can live longer, healthier and lonelier. Did we win-?
"You've hung up your great coat and you've laid down your gun
You know the war you fought in wasn't too much fun
And the future you're giving me holds nothing for a gun..."
I've always been disappointed with that line. Seems like Bernie phoned it in. Or used it as a placeholder, then never went back and reworked it. Just seems too trite, maybe?
But that is nit-picking. My minor disappointment doesn't stop me from listening to it over and over.
From that first discordant hum, dark and brooding, the song is a classic.
c.
Gotta agree with you CC. "You know the war you fought in wasn't too much fun" is embarrassingly bad on many levels. But the song is still great.