Ch-ch-ch-cha-CHANGES!!!

I always thought that Bowie's lyrics were "Learn to face the strange, Changes". And that made perfect sense to me. Learn to face the strange? Sure why not!

In forming my thoughts for this post, I was thinking that the past 2 years have been loaded with change. No, the past 5 years! No, wait, the past...ehhh, screw it! I'm pretty sure there has never been a time in my life that I felt things were "settled". Maybe when I was 7. Maybe!

Suppose that nothing ever changed. That every day was just the same as the one before. That every meal was the same, every movie the same. How boring life would be! Change is GOOD! Even if it isn't a change we like at the moment, it IS something different. and it will be something different again, time after time after time. And I'm so glad that things are constantly changing. Life is an adventure!

I love TV, I won't lie about it, I love it! And every year at this time, we are blasted with new shows. Some will stay and some won't make it past the first episode. Kinda like the people who enter our lives. We all have that person that is the "longest running soap opera", right? Someone who has been there forever and seen the ups and downs thru to the end with us. I've got mine. Then there's the sitcom that is really funny for awhile, then it turns all serious on you and isn't what you thought it was at the beginning. Or the crime drama! Never a dull moment with that person and lot of bloodshed, perhaps not literal (man, I HOPE not literal) but figurative blood...lots and lots of it.

Ok, I've rambled long enough. My point, LEARN TO FACE THE STRANGE!



Changes
David Bowie


I still don't know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild
A million dead-end streets
Every time I thought I'd got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But I've never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
I'm much too fast to take that test


Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Don't want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can't trace time


I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence and
So the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through


Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Don't tell t hem to grow up and out of it
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Where's your shame
You've left us up to our necks in it
Time may change me
But you can't trace time


Strange fascination, fascinating me
Changes are taking the pace I'm going through


Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Oh, look out you rock 'n rollers
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Pretty soon you're gonna get a little older
Time may change me
But I can't trace time
I said that time may change me
But I can't trace time