Ride Like the Wind
Christopher Cross
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It is the night
My body's weak
I'm on the run
No time to sleep
I've got to ride
Ride like the wind
To be free again
And I've got such a long way to go (such a long way to go)
To make it to the border of Mexico
So I'll ride like the wind
Ride like the wind
I was born the son of a lawless man
Always spoke my mind with a gun in my hand
Lived nine lives
Gunned down ten
Gonna ride like the wind
And I've got such a long way to go (such a long way to go)
To make it to the border of Mexico
So I'll ride like the wind
Ride like the wind
Gonna ride like the wind!
Accused and tried and told to hang
I was nowhere in sight when the church bells rang
Never was the kind to do as I was told
Gonna ride like the wind before I get old
It is the night
My body's weak
I'm on the run
No time to sleep
I've got to ride
Ride like the wind
To be free again
And I've got such a long way to go (such a long way to go)
To make it to the border of Mexico
So I'll ride like the wind
Ride like the wind
And I've got a long way to go (such a long way to go)
To make it to the border of Mexico
So I'll ride like the wind
Ride like the wind
Gonna ride like the wind!
Ride!
Gonna ride like the wind!
Gonna ride!
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So, some troll, probably the most numerous beast
on the Internet today, decided to comment about
my Music & Lyrics Playlist,
of which this gem is part.
He wrote:
"Cool. Supermarket music."
I had to laugh at that, because it's true:
in compiling these, my favorite songs over the course
of my life, oftentimes I hear them playing
in the supermarket, and I think:
"I love this song! I'd forgotten it!"
There is an inbuilt ageism in our culture,
one that excuses cruelty towards not just people
who are getting along in years
(however you define "getting along in years")
but also towards art, clothing, vehicles,
technology, hairstyles, as well as
speech, food, sex ...
pretty much everything you can think of.
That ageism is excused wholesale, and those who
are judged as "too old" are excluded and shunned,
especially if they have the kahones to
proudly list their favorite whatevers from
yesteryear.
"Run Like the Wind" is a great song, one nearly 50 years old.
Its age doesn't take away from its greatness one bit,
no matter what anyone may think, including you, the reader.
The oh-so-edgy music you cleave to today will, I assure you,
doofus, be playing in your local supermarket tomorrow;
I hope for your sake, as well as the human species' sake as a whole,
that the ageism you so casually practice will be a thing
of the past when that inevitably happens.
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Digital Art: Windblown by yours truly
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