“I am not young enough to know everything”
- Oscar Wilde
It's Friday and time for words that have moved us. But first, a happy birthday to my longtime buddy, P.J. out in Colorado Springs. P.J.'s one of the very first people I met when I moved to Memphis in late 1986. I hadn't known him ten minutes when he and I separately ended up one night at the notorious Antenna Club. I guess that was a clue that we'd get along alright. Since then we've worked together, climbed mountains, run races, played softball, gone to baseball games, skied (him well, me not so much) and laughed about life. He found a great girl to go through that life with him. Whatever else he gets for his birthday, I know he knows that's the best gift ever.
Words!
Counting Crows/God of Ocean Tides: Who gets closer to poetry in their work than Adam Duritz?
Close the door on a short night
Lift the lid on the daylight
6:09 West Tennessee time
And I buy all my days
At the same place where the girl sells her nights
To a god of ocean tides
The Guggenheim Grotto/I Think I Love You: Years ago, the early aughts, I heard this song on one of those compilation cds of new artists. You know, the kind they used to sell at the Starbucks counter. This lyric has stayed with me for 25 years now.
You see, it's not that I do or don't believe
It's that I just don't not believe
Dolly Varden/I Come to You: Another discovery of the early 2000s, this Chicago band. More lines I wish I'd written. Also, dig the guitar tone on the solos. So fine.
And when my chest is open wide
You could pull yourself inside
Someone else's turn now.