Jim's Note: My
song I Want To Be Eight Again, was inspired by an email message I received
on the aus-worldfolk mailing list on Thursday, August 31, 2000. I have no
idea who originally wrote the sentiments expressed below, but a songwriter
takes his or her ideas from where ever s/he finds them, and hopefully
moulds them into something completely new.
Email
That Inspired The Song:
I Want To Be Eight Again
To
whom it may concern
I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have
decided
I would like to accept the
responsibilities of an 8 year-old again.
I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant.
I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make a sidewalk with
rocks.
I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them.
I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my
friends
on a hot summer's day.
I want to return to a time when life was simple; When all you knew were
colours, multiplication tables,
and nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother
you, because you didn't know
what you didn't know and you didn't care.
All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all
the
things that should make you
worried or upset. I want to think the world is
fair. That everyone is honest
and good.
I want to believe that anything is possible. I want to be oblivious to the
complexities of life and be
overly excited by the little things again.
I want to live simple again. I don't want my day to consist of computer
crashes, mountains of paperwork,
depressing news, how to survive more days
in the month than there is money
in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness,
and loss of loved ones.
I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth,
justice, peace, dreams, the
imagination, mankind, and making angels in the
snow.
So . . . here's my checkbook and my car-keys, my credit card bills and my
bank statements. I am officially
resigning from adulthood.
And if you want to discuss this further, you'll have to catch me first,
cause...
..."Tag! You're it."
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