Living With A Song In My Heart

My dad Conan the Barbarian is the perfect person to whom

the lyrics of ‘Burning Bridges’* apply, he burned his bridges

everywhere especially to the hearts of his sons, my brothers

Attila the Hun, Peter Pan and Tom Thumb, Conan refused to

listen to good advice from Peter regarding his pension - lost

 

Half of everything to the revenue and gave the rest to Tom

Thumb who squandered it with glee figuring life owed him for

having to grow up with Conan the Barbarian as father figure -

my dad estranged everyone, except the truly humble salt-of-

the-earth types who could see behind the mask - all the love

 

And pain that made him into an archetypal Conan: I liked the

illiterate types my dad brought home, but deplored a soft heart

that made him an easy target for every poverty-stricken parasite,

when I was small I didn’t know that he saw law of possession

as an obstacle to his providing for the underprivileged, as he

 

Pillaged and pilfered, I sat on a glass mountain and stared at

the stars dreaming about the fairy tales that would become the

Diskworld series created by Terry Pratchett - - dad’s presence

in my life left me inured to joining the ranks of the sycophants

serving rich politicians - and I thank him also for choosing

 

The Queen of Hearts as consort - & for my three wonderful

brothers and most of all, for my twin sis The Duchess, who

always bullied everyone daring to mess with me, Conan did

the most important things right: he married my mother and

collected books, music and stories so that I could become

 

Alice in Wonderland living with a song in my heart…

….…………………………………………..

 

Lewis Carroll: ‘Alice in Wonderland’

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*Mike Curb Congregation - Burning Bridges

(from 'Kelly's Heroes') Lyrics

[https://www.songlyrics.com/mike-curb-congregation/burning-bridges-from-kelly-s-heroes-lyrics/]

 Friends all tried to warn me

But I held my head up high

All the time they warned me

But I only passed them by

They all tried to tell me

But I guess I didn't care

I turned my back and

Left them standing there

 

All the burning bridges that have fallen after me

All the lonely feelings and the burning memories

Everyone I left behind each time I closed the door

Burning bridges lost forevermore

 

Joey tried to help me find a job

A while ago

When I finally got it I didn't want to go

The party Mary gave for me

When I just walked away

Now there's nothing left for me to say

 

All the burning bridges that have fallen after me

All the lonely feelings and the burning memories

Everyone I left behind each time I closed the door

Burning bridges lost forevermore

 

Years have passed and I keep thinking

What a fool I've been

I look back into the past and

Think of way back then

I know that I lost everything I thought I that could win

I guess I should have listened to my friends

 

All the burning bridges that have fallen after me

All the lonely feelings and the burning memories

Everyone I left behind each time I closed the door

Burning bridges lost forevermore

 

Burning bridges lost forevermore