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Both Sides Now
August 30, 2023
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I thought I'd be a beatnik when I grew up.
Folk music came out on our radios in the early 1960s...
before I was out of elementary school.
Peter, Paul, and Mary... "If I Had a Hammer"...
Kingston Trio... Sonny and Cher...
The Singing Nun... ! for God's sakes... singing pop tunes... !
patches on the elbows of shirts...
poetry... becoming hipness... sometimes even boldness...
ya...
It morphed... into the hippie movement.
This video may help... if you weren't there...
lots of cool vintage film...
so much was changing and moving...
like a human adolescence...
new freedom... new choices... expressive fun...
playing with revealed truths... and forbidden truths...
like chickens breaking out of their eggs for air...
ready for a journey into the big wide wonderful world...
and not so worried about the hairdo...
Among all these philosophers being born...
Joni is one of the best... ever...
EVER...
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"Both Sides Now"
Rows and floes of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
I've looked at clouds that way
But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on everyone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way
I've looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel
As every fairy tale comes real
I've looked at love that way
But now it's just another show
You leave 'em laughing when you go
And if you care, don't let them know
Don't give yourself away
I've looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, and still somehow
It's love's illusions I recall
I really don't know love at all
Tears and fears and feeling proud
To say "I love you" right out loud
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
I've looked at life that way
But now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads, they say I've changed
Well something's lost, but something's gained
In living every day
I've looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all
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