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[napman]

Since nobody's in the MOOD. It's been lonely and cold without any song around this campfire.

So here I go (again) for some intermission until we are in the mood again.

A song for one of my old friends who I've a privilege to be his friend since I came over from Thailand to California 40 years ago and he happened to be another bass player too. He just passed away last Monday (Jan 23rd).

Let me celebrate his life with this song. No we won't be sad 'cause everthing and everone must come to an end. The question is "Are we living, learning, loving and be helpful to another souls or not?????"

This friend of mine won't make it to the "Parkbench" with me when I'll be 70 years of age, and it's only 5 more years for me

Simon & Garfunkel's "Old Friends"

Old friends, old friends,
Sat on their parkbench like bookends
A newspaper blown through the grass
Falls on the round toes
of the high shoes of the old friends

Old friends, winter companions, the old men
Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sunset
The sounds of the city sifting through trees
Settle like dust on the shoulders of the old friends

Can you imagine us years from today,
Sharing a parkbench quietly
How terribly strange to be 70

Old friends, memory brushes the same years,
Silently sharing the same fears...................