Nostalgia or
Neuroses?
By Wayne Hinton
May 4, 2015
Oh,
Donna, where can you be? The years have taken you away.
You
are in the background now just like Peggy Sue.
Some
were funny, like the boy named Sue,
Emotions
were a major part of every song we knew.
Carol,
Diana, Tammy and long, tall Sally were popular, too.
Heartbreak
Hotel was full and Lonesome Town
Was
where all the broken hearts stayed.
And
we’ll never forget being called Cathy’s Clown.
It
doesn’t really matter if you were leaving on a jet plane
Or
laughing as the tide washed away love letters in the sand,
We
all agreed there ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone,
And
we had to re-write the love letters by hand.
Paul
said it wasn’t puppy love, but it really was,
At
seventeen, it is rarely anything serious.
It
just feels like we will die when the one we think we love
Only
makes us feel delirious.
Don’t
get me wrong … I love the old songs and the memories,
They
were a very large part of my youth.
But
for all the singing about what we called love,
All
we experienced about love was far from the truth.
The
most romantic love is not Romeo and Juliet
Even
though they tragically died together.
It
is the story of grandma and grandpa
Who
grew old together through all the storms they could weather.
Songs
of the youth play with our neuroses
Without
which they would not be popular in their day.
Now
we need to put them where they belong
As
nostalgia and let them lay.
Enjoy
the music that was then, and sing along
We
can recognize the music is easy to dance to,
But,
at the same time, we do not need to retrieve
The
old days when our hormones and neuroses grew.
We
don’t need to be singing the blues anymore
My
prayer has changed and I’m sure yours has, too.
But
the day we stop growing and learning
Will
always make us Mr. Blue.
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