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Title: Don Henley - My Thanksgiving
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Published: Oct 21, 2006
Author: Don Henley
Post Date: 2006-10-21 11:03:36 by christine
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Sometimes I think about you
I wonder how youre doing now
And what youre going through
The last time I saw you
We were playing with fire
We were loaded with passion
And a burning desire
For every breath, for every day of living
And this is my thanksgiving
Now the trouble with you and me, my friend
Is the trouble with this nation
Too many blessings, too little appreciation
And I know that kind of notionwell, it just aint cool
So send me back to sunday school
Because Im tired of waiting for reason to arrive
Its too long weve been living
These unexamined lives
Ive got great expectations
Ive got family and friends
Ive got satisfying work
Ive got a back that bends
For every breath, for every day of living
This is my thanksgiving
Have you noticed that an angry man
Can only get so far
Until he reconciles the way he thinks things ought to be
With the way things are
Here in this fragmented world, I still believe
In learning how to give love, and how to receive it
And I would not be among those who abuse this privilege
Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge
And I dont mind saying that I still love it all
I wallowed in the springtime
Now Im welcoming the fall
For every moment of joy
Every hour of fear
For every winding road that brought me here
For every breath, for every day of living
This is my thanksgiving
For everyone who helped me start
And for everything that broke my heart
For every breath, for every day of living
This is my thanksgiving Poster Comment: I love this.
A lot of things have happened
Since the last time we spoke
Some of them are funny
Some of em aint no joke
And I trust you will forgive me
If I lay it on the line
I always thought you were a friend of mine
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#1. To: Sam Houston (#0)
When it comes to heroes, Renegades are mine..
La liberté offre à l'homme une chance d'être meilleur---Freedom offers one the chance to become a better person. ---Albert Camus Verbum sapienti... ;)
Don Henley was born in 1947 so he realizes what a paradise this country used to be compared to what it is now. Maybe it's good those under 30 don't realize how much better things were back in the day Henley's generation came of age. It's good for those in power anyhow. The youth are docile, thinking things have always been this bad. If they knew what had been taken from them, they might be out in the streets a la the '60s.
Who wants forgiveness, let him/her first seek it with contrition and a willingness to do penance. Especially when haunted by a ghost, not of a dead love, but of a dead man. Someone I never knew, who had what I once wanted. He may not have died if I had just ignored someone eight months ago---as my heart told me to. That's the only forgiveness I've been thinking of and seeking---not for anyone's hurt feelings, not for lovers' games, not for pledges of love that are oh so easily retracted and disavowed with coarse abuse alternating with soothing platitudes, not for statements and claims that are made today and forgotten tomorrow...., but for a human life. Compared to him, I've lost nothing but some sleep. That's the "Heart of the Matter," indeed.
#2. To: christine, Zipporah (#0)
#3. To: christine (#0)
Outstanding thoughts - thank you.
#4. To: christine (#0)
#5. To: christine (#1)
I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter
Because the flesh will get weak
And the ashes will scatter
So I'm thinkin' about forgiveness
Forgiveness
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