Steve Forbert
Strange Names and New Sensations
Thirty More Years
A little girl is standing at your door on Halloween,
The face of expectation and of trust in everything;
A little boy has thrown some heavy stones into a pond;
Dusting off his hands, he's feeling proud of what he's done.
Chorus
The geocentric days are gone and Earth is still a sphere,
Objects in the mirror may be just as they appear,
We spin around the sun and call each trip we make a year,
Thirty more years of this and, people, I am out of here (out of here).
The trees turn into buildings and the weeks turn into months,
Itââ¬â¢s one thing or another or itââ¬â¢s evââ¬â¢rything at once;
Thereââ¬â¢s two sides to each story, yes, and sometimes many more
And four bananas make a bunch and two times tenââ¬â¢s a score.
Repeat chorus
Bridge
If we werenââ¬â¢t in so much trouble I would say that things were fine
and smile as I went walking and just wave on down the line;
If there werenââ¬â¢t so many problems I would say that itââ¬â¢s okay
And smile as I went walking and just wave on down the way.
Mothers hate war more in genââ¬â¢ral than Joint Chiefs of Staff,
Battleground statistics donââ¬â¢t add up in schoolhouse math;
The male of this here species lives for eighty years or so,
Starts to see the mess heââ¬â¢s made and then itââ¬â¢s time to go.
Repeat chorus
Itââ¬â¢s often said that life is strange, but, hey, compared to what?
I asked this question years ago, it's still worth asking, but
It all seems stranger now, I think, but that could be just me
And I've no all-time gauge of strange for objectivity
Repeat chorus
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- Young, Guitar Days
- Compromised
- Over With You
- The Place And The Time
- Miscellaneous
- Strange Names and New Sensations
- Classic Protest Songs
- Jackrabbit Slim / Alive on Arrival 35th Anniversary Edition
- The Bottom Line, New York, September 12, 1988...
- Cornerstones: Sony Legacy CD Sampler
- Jackrabbit Slim
- Be Here Now
- Be Here Again (Live Solo 1998)
- A Year in Your Life: 1980, Volume One
- Radio Daze: Pop Hits of the 80s, Volume 1
- Ulli Wengers One Hit Wonder, Volume 11
- Back to the US of A
- The Best of Steve Forbert: What Kinda Guy?
- Singers and Songwriters: 1980-1982
- Folk, Gospel & Blues: Will the Circle Be Unbroken