Train

“River in the rain
Sometimes at night you look like a long white train
Winding your way away somewhere
River I love you, don’t you care?
If you’re on the run
Winding some place just tryin’ to find the sun
Whether the sunshine whether the rain
River I love you just the same
But sometimes in a time of trouble
When you’re out of hand and your muddy bubbles
Roll across my floor
Carryin’ away the things I treasure
Hell there ain’t ain’t no way to measure
Why I love you more than I did the day before
River in the rain
Sometimes at night you look like a long white train
Winding your way away from me
River I’ve never seen the sea”

—Roger Miller – River In The Rain 

Train We All Ride: R.I.P. GC

“And then the day before he died I went to see him
I was grown and he was almost gone
So we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen
And sang another verse to that old song
Come on, Jack, that son-of-a-bitch is comin’
We’re desperados waitin’ for a train
Was like desperados waitin’ for a train
Like desperados waitin’ for a train
Like desperados waitin’ for a train”

—-Guy Clark, Desperados Waiting For The Train

MAY 4, 1970

Peace, Allison, William, Jeffrey, Sandra. Some of us will never forget.

INTIMACIES

“Gales have their personalities, and, after all, perhaps it is not strange; for, when all is said and done, they are adversaries whose wiles you must defeat, whose violence you must resist, and yet with whom you must live in the intimacies of nights and days.”

——Joseph Conrad, The Mirror of the Sea: Memories and Impressions