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About a year and a half ago, I put together a 2-CD set of assorted songs that I titled, "Funeral For A Friend." I had been thinking of making a compilation like this for many years. In my own mind, I thought it might be nice for family to play this at my funeral. Though we did not play songs from it at Rob's service, he had a copy of these CD's and I wonder now if he listened to it, and enjoyed it. I know that he liked at least some of the bands and songs.

Anyway, one of the songs on this set is called, "Father And Son," and it is probably not one of the songs that he would have liked. But it is one of the very few songs that I have ever requested that actually got played on the radio. It was played on the Armed Forces Korea Network (AFKN) shortly after he was born in Korea in 1980, while I was stationed there in the Air Force. How strange it is for me, for this song to come full circle through my son's life, and be so poignant.

Father And Son (Cat Stevens, 1970)

Father
It's not time to make a change,
Just relax, take it easy.
You're still young, that's your fault,
There's so much you have to know.
Find a girl, settle down,
If you want you can marry.
Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy.

I was once like you are now, and I know that it's not easy,
To be calm when you've found something going on.
But take your time, think a lot,
Why, think of everything you've got.
For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not.

Son
How can I try to explain, when I do he turns away again.
It's always been the same, same old story.
From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.
Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away.
I know I have to go.

Father
It's not time to make a change,
Just sit down, take it slowly.
You're still young, that's your fault,
There's so much you have to go through.
Find a girl, settle down,
If you want you can marry.
Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy.

Son
All the times that I cried, keeping all the things I knew inside,
It's hard, but it's harder to ignore it.
If they were right, I'd agree, but it's them you know not me.
Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away.
I know I have to go.

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