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Subj : Okay, now I'm depressed...
To   : alt.tv.nypd-blue
From : topcat
Date : Sat Sep 10 2005 15:44:43

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.nypd-blue

I was watching an old Hope/Crosby movie on AMC this morning. Is it possible
to be nostalgic for a time you weren't even alive?

With all our modern conveniences and technology, are we *really* a better
society? I'm starting to doubt it. I'm not even looking forward to the
Christmas holidays. It's all so commercialized. You try to talk to somebody
and their cell phone goes off, or yours does. You try to call somebody about
something and you get their damn voice mail. You try to get some company you
have business dealings with to answer the phone, and you get a corporate
directory. Everybody has so many ways to stay "in touch" as they're trying
to avoid you.

I guess every generation longs for a simpler time and as I was watching that
movie, where there was no internet, there was no OPEC, there was no
red-state/blue-state America, there was no cursing or murders or rapes or
armed robberies, I started to understand why. It just seemed like so much
more of a civil society.

So I'm going to put on my "These Days" CD and wallow for a while. This song
fits my mood to a tee....

"These Days" - Bon Jovi

I was walking around, just a face in the crowd
Trying to keep myself out of the rain
Saw a vagabond king wear a styrofoam crown
Wondered if I might end up the same
There's a man out on the corner
Singing old songs about change
Everybody got their cross to bare, these days

She came looking for some shelter with a suitcase full of dreams
To a motel room on the boulevard
Guess she's trying to be James Dean
She's seen all the disciples and all the "wanna be's"
No one wants to be themselves these days
Still there's nothing to hold on to but these days

These days - the stars seem out of reach
These days - there ain't a ladder on these streets
These days - are fast, love don't last in this graceless age
There ain't nobody left but us these days

Jimmy shoes busted both his legs, trying to learn to fly
From a second story window, he just jumped and closed his eyes
His momma said he was crazy - he said momma "I've got to try"
Don't you know that all my heroes died
And I guess I'd rather die than fade away

These days - the stars seem out of reach
But these days - there ain't a ladder on these streets
These days are fast, love don't last-in this graceless age
Even innocence has caught the midnight train
And there ain't nobody left but us these days

I know Rome's still burning
Though the times have changed
This world keeps turning round and round and round and round
These days

These days - the stars seem out of reach
But these days - there ain't a ladder on these streets
These days are fast, love don't last-in this graceless age
Even innocence has caught the midnight train
And there ain't nobody left but us these days

These days - the stars seem out of reach
These days - there ain't a ladder on these streets
These days - are fast, nothing lasts
There ain't no time to waste
There ain't nobody left to take the blame
There ain't nobody left but us these days

TC

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