Well folks, we're nearing the end. Not long now until the final entry on February 19th, 2025. The last major theme to close us out revolves around the Passing of Time. If the first few months of this project were tough, they're actually a cakewalk compared to what we're about to go through. We're getting old and life perspectives are changing as they should - AKA we're closer to dying than when we were born. Some of these songs represent the heaviest weights that we've carried since knowing them. Some are as recent as 2023 and 2024, but I know in my heart of hearts that even if they came out in 1989 they would have made this list - they are that profound to me.
So if you're an artist that made this project from here on out you should feel humble and proud...you achieved what you set out to do...make music that people feel and love...thank you.
Shannon’s Perspective:
You've always shared my deepest thoughts
You follow where I go
This song is very moving but I am even more moved by what this represents and means to Larry, so I'm gonna let him have this moment. Just know the above lyrics are dedicated to him.
It might be worth revisiting Eye In the Sky way back on August 2nd, 2024 during our Grew Up Loving theme.
Sure I grew up loving this song, but it is so much deeper and had more to do with this current theme of Passing of Time. And if I had to name the very first song I ever fell in love with, it would be this one.
Can you imagine that? An 11 or 12 year old boy and this is the very first song you fall in love with?
On one hand, that's a pretty fucking depressing thought. At that time, I presumably had my whole life in front of me and I'm already obsessed with the end of my life. I was just beginning to discover that girls were more than just an annoyance!
But on the other hand it definitely helped guide who I would become. How I would treat others and how I wanted the people who eventually got to know me would remember me.
It's honestly pretty hard to write this right now. I can't believe that I've known this song for the better part of 40 plus years and the effect it had on me every single time I listened to it.
Thankfully, Social Media can help illustrate the sentiment I feel via Wiregate - just make sure you watch the video prior to reading anything about it. I am Dan; this song is his spool of wire. Shannon IS NOT Dan's wife.
In essence, my 40 plus year journey of loving music started with this engineer - this album - this song. I just can't fathom that much time has gone by, what all has happened in my life and what is still to come.
When they ask me if I knew you
I'd smile and say you were a friend of mine
When they ask you if you knew me
Remember that you were a friend of mine
For the record, I've only and will only achieve 50% of the title of this song...
Old and Wise
The Alan Parsons Project
As far as my eyes can see
There are shadows approaching me
And to those I left behind, I wanted you to know
You've always shared my deepest thoughts
You follow where I go
And oh, oh, when I'm old and wise
Bitter words mean little to me
Autumn winds will blow right through me
And someday in the midst of time
When they ask me if I knew you
I'd smile and say you were a friend of mine
And the sadness would be lifted from my eyes
Oh, when I'm old and wise
As far as my eyes can see
There are shadows surrounding me
And to those I leave behind, I want you all to know
You've always shared my darkest hours
I'll miss you when I go
And oh, oh, when I'm old and wise
Heavy words that tossed and blew me
Like autumn winds, will blow right through me
And someday in the midst of time
When they ask you if you knew me
Remember that you were a friend of mine
As the final curtain falls before my eyes
Oh, when I'm old and wise
As far as my eyes can see...
30th Anniversary
Our Story - Shannon's Perspective
Our Story - Larry's Perspective
Ghost of a Chance (Rush) and why?
Ghost of a Chance 