07-26-2016, 02:13 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-26-2016, 02:14 AM by Eric the Green.)
(07-26-2016, 12:00 AM)taramarie Wrote:(07-25-2016, 11:51 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: But, beautiful song. And more to come!
It was not read to me as a song, but a poem. That poem had the whole class in tears. It introduced me to the concept of death at the tender age of 5. Read to me by a GI who could not understand why we were crying.
It's funny how we come to the same thing from completely different experiences. I had never heard of the poem or understood the lyrics until today when I made this post. I have known the song since 1966 when it was the theme for the spiritual Transcendental Mustard Seed show on my local station. You have known the poem, apparently since you were 5, and may not have even listened to the song yet. As Leonard Cohen says: Everybody Knows, that's how it goes.