I find it interesting that everyone has a picture, or little movie in their own head as to the meaning of a song. The thing that strikes me most is the contrast to the actual meaning that the songs lyrics actually truly have to the writer most of the time. This song is one that for me, has that stark contrast. Although the lyrics from this somber sounding Pet Shop Boys song is about death, and a friend that passed in 1989 from AID's. To me it's always been more of the way I view myself, and how I'm viewed by friends, and my family, and the fact that it ends with a passage from the bible only adds to it's quirkiness for me. I kind of see myself as that quirky, funny, odd guy that marches to the beat of his own drum, lives life with no regrets, and looks at life with a sense of cynical sarcastic, but optimistic humor. I thought in knowing that straight away, it might help you the reader understand a bit of my reasoning behind my writing sometime. I had a personal blog several years ago, and I found it to be very a great way for me to express myself, when sometimes I had trouble stating what I wanted to say. For some reason in the fall the weather affects me greatly in a sort of melancholy, reflective, and creative way all at once, so this is why I've chosen to blog once again. I hope you will enjoy my musings, and will share some of yours as well.
Phillip A. Raney
Lyrics: Your Funny Uncle
A windy day
The cars in slow formation
Not far away
A final destination
One mother's son
His father's distant gaze, regretting
Where they went wrong
He always found it too upsetting
Me and my friend
We lived our lives completely
From start to end
You and your friend, so sweetly
With strength and pride
In spite of everything, and swimming
Against the tide
To obstinately hope of winning
And at the end
Your funny uncle staring
At all your friends
With military bearing
And stopped to stand
To smile and speak of you directly
Goodbye, shake hands
Like you did everything correctly
To wipe away the tears
No more pain, no fear
No sorrow or dying
No waiting or crying
These former things have passed away
Another life begins today
