Wasted on the Way

I've become increasingly aware in recent years that certain things resonate very differently as you get older. In a good way, I think...

Search YouTube for Crosby Stills and Nash, Wasted on the Way. Good stuff.

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Look around me
I can see my life before me
Running rings around the way
It used to be
I am older now
I have more than what I wanted
But I wish that I had started
Long before I did

And there's so much time to make up
Everywhere you turn
Time we have wasted on the way
So much water moving
Underneath the bridge
Let the water come and carry us away

Oh when you were young
Did you question all the answers
Did you envy all the dancers
Who had all the nerve
Look round you know
You must go for what you wanted
Look at all my friends who did and got what they deserved

And there's so much time to make up
Everywhere you turn
Time we have wasted on the way
So much water moving
Underneath the bridge
Let the water come and carry us away
And there's so much love to make up
Everywhere you turn
Love we have wasted on the way
So much water moving
Underneath the bridge
Let the water come and carry us away
Let the water come and carry us away

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Amen

Makes me more glad that I got to see Graham Nash live in a very small venue every time I think about it...

This video, and others like it, make several undeniable points. First, CSN is a group where the whole is greater than the sum of the individual parts. Second, Stephen Stills is an underrated treasure. Third, if you try to isolate David Crosby's vocal part anchoring the melodic middle between Nash's top end and Stills' gruff lower end, you can begin to understand why the band was willing to try to accommodate his bulls#$t for so many years.

On that sidetrack, this video of a Byrds reunion in 1990 has more of David Crosby's fantastic backing vocals on Turn Turn Turn. And then a mile-high mess with Bob Dylan, but I digress.......

Anyway, there is wisdom in these lyrics...