It's been a long time since we lost our beards We dropped to wear the hair above our ears And it was the choice we called Nowadays we are bald Like the hair, so is our thinking Enshrined in reason without linking To awesome dreams and charming winking This boundless loss will make us shrinking (Solo) It's been a long time since we lost our beards We dropped to wear the hair above our ears And it was the choice we called Nowadays we are bald Like the hair, so is our mind Everything is kind aligned
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Achims melody reminded me on the old flowerpower songs of the sixties. Everyone had long hair and visions. The text takes the idea and turns in into a hommage to the sicties. Jo
Anyone remembering "Barclay James Harvest"? This song is my hommage to these fine English soft rockers. My big brother possessed some LPs of BJH that I enjoyed listening to back when I was a teen. Jo's lyrics are fitting perfectly to the melody, giving the song a pleasant ironic note. But don't think these lyrics are autobiographical! One can just envy Jo for his juvenile mop of hair. Achim