This looks like something I wrote
just a few months before I left
Staten Island for navy bootcamp
down in Orlando Florida
from the date that's penciled in.
Kind'a sounds like I was disappointed
in my friends or something?
Don't know why, because I'm still
friends with ALL of them...
and a lot of us are still hanging out
even still to this day.
I must have felt emotionally fucked up
I guess. And yeah... it was a bit
of a weird time for sure.
I took that title from a WHO song.
It's a lyric from an album they
put out in1975...
The song it came from is
I like the whole mess of words here!
Remember...
this is but a snapshot in a moment
of time in my life... pretty cool right!
Could be anyone of our lives in fact!!
You Can Count Them
On One Hand
A young man asked
Where has the time gone
20 years passed
And not a one I can depend on
They seem to come and go
In different stages
Tall and short
And varied ages
I know who I am
And what I can do
But there's someone out there
Who I just don't know
And that someone is you
I sit and dream
And wonder aloud
While the meaning of the word
Gets lost in a crowd
Some they do
And some they don't
Some they will
But some they won't
Do they realize what it is
Have they ever experienced it
Are they scared of it
Many don't know
Many don't care
Will you please explain it
If you dare
I have an idea of what it could be
But there's no one out there
Who will turn the key
The lock is on
But not for long
Because I think it's time
For another song
My place of birth
Is a wonderful land
But the salt is gone
Now it's just bland
The people I know
Are all I've got
But when I leave
I refuse to say forget me not
For if they do
Then I was right from the start
It's not that I don't care
Or don't give a shit
But it's the good times we've had
Sometimes they just don't fit
This is how I feel right now
August 6, 1981
I've got a lot of shit in front of me
in the next 4 years
But when it's all over
And we're coming to an end
I hope that I find a person
I can truly call... a friend
tommy
"How many friends have I really got
That love me
That want me
That'll take me as I am!"
Pete Townshend
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