Be A Friend - Show You Care

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This old gal…

Went to a thing for winter Texans…won two tickets for a theater show…a tribute band…celebrating the music of Paul Simon…

Little me loved Simon and Garfunkel…spent hours in the bedroom singing with their albums…the black disc spinning on the little record player…

Got to the theater early…waited patiently…people watched…admired the surroundings…

And then…the magic started…the band talented…the music powerful…the harmony…the lyrics…taking an old gal back…way way back…

Knew every song…every single song…wanted to grab a glass of wine…dance and sing in the aisles…celebrate the past…the days of youth…

Wanted to sit quietly…cry humbly…remembering the past…the days of youth…mourn silently…the inevitable passing of time…

But it takes going back…to remember what’s important…that song…ten year old me crooning from the bedroom floor with conviction…

If you need a friend…I’m sailing right behind…like a bridge over troubled water…I will lay me down…like a bridge over troubled water…I will ease your mind…

A powerful message…a timeless message…a let your hair down and sing at the top of your lungs kind of message…

Be a friend…show you care…
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And this husband of mine…agrees…