Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road
When are you gonna come down?
When are you going to land?
I should have stayed on the farm
I should have listened to my old man
You know you can't hold me forever
I didn't sign up with you
I'm not a present for your friends to open
This boy's too young to be singing
The blues…
It’s May now. It’s the end. It’s the curtain call, the finale B, the coup de grace. The last chapter. The end that comes before the beginning. Life was supposed to have a death after high school before starting up again. Unfortunately, I am learning that life does not even begin until after I step through the “O”.
Yes. A final door.
(*Sigh*) How typical.
So goodbye, Yellow Brick Road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plough
Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny back toad…
I have all these assignments to finish before the week is over. I also need to find a musical score for the song I want to do for the senior musical showcase. I’m only in there because I was shoved in at the last minute. If I don’t find the music, that will be one more dream from my high school days never realized. It’s from Big River and it’s called “Free at Last”.
Oh, I've finally decided my future lies
Beyond the Yellow Brick Road…
It’s good to see that all my friends have dreams and goals to accomplish after high school. One friend wants to be the richest, greatest editor ever. Another wants to be a vet.
What do you think you'll do then?
I bet that'll shoot down your plane
It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics
To set you on your feet again
Maybe you'll get a replacement
There's plenty like me to be found
Mongrels who ain't got a penny
Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground.
Another wants to study law and be a negotiator in hostage situations. And another, one of my best friends, wants to be a hospital administrator, own a hospital chain, and perhaps eventually he will put IHC out of business. If he has time, he has joked, he will also own a Panda Express chain.
So goodbye, Yellow Brick Road!
Where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse,
I'm going back to my plough
Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny back toad…
And me? I don’t know what I want. Except that I don’t want to wake up on June 2nd, 2006.
Oh, I've finally decided
My future lies beyond the Yellow Brick Road.
posted by Alexander at 8:43 AM
3 Comments:
I suddenly feel like everything ended. Two seconds before I started typing actually... I was thinking about my feelings on this subject. It's like... Do I even have to step through the "O"? I think the rest is mostly formalities. I think it's done for me. I think that the fact that I'm writing this will mean that there's an encore and I'm yet to be shoved off that stage... But somehow OHS does not seem a part of me any more.
Friday, May 12, 2006 11:08:00 PM
Wanting that, Marcus, is enough. Attaining that is enough. You'll have your dreams to fulfill; you already do. You're already on your way, even if you don't quite know where you're going yet.
It's enough.
Saturday, May 13, 2006 9:09:00 PM
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