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0 posted 2002-02-11 07:48 PM



It Happened Again

I can’t stay forty-nine
no, I cannot do this,
all of the time
because good vibrations
come to me
good, good, good vibrations

and I got a good sensation ~
what and where I was long ago
oh the music it transported me
to a place I want to go

back to age nine in sixty-one
when music was fun, fun, fun
and the worst thing on a boy’s mind
was to do some draggin’ in a 409

the night wore on, it did all right
the music was rocking, all ages in sight
Beach Boys were beached, in Kansas
it seems
and for me, behold, a childhood dream!

for I’ve been teased, called
“a beached babe”
‘cause from CA I came
folks wondered at the trade…

for an in-between kind of girl
the sort with naivete
still in her eyes
I can still be surprised
as I come to self-realize
who I was, who I am, and
who I might someday be…

a beached babe who’s happy she’s she…

so last night I transported back
some forty years
the music was all UP
even through the tears
folks on their feet, moving
to the beat
did they all feel it to be as sweet?

but the song that hit hardest
for silent reasons long known
was Brian’s In my Room
I didn’t know then of his foggy gloom
nor the reasons for him to
want to be alone
I just thought then that he wrote it
for me and me alone…

know how it is? when that one
song reaches out to grab
your heart and clutch your throat?
knowing it was for you
and your feelings he wrote?

so my two brains talked away
last night, through the misty haze
of those long ago yesterdays
straight through the Kokomo craze
and all the smiles they’ve brought to me

so go ahead, laugh and have fun
with me,
call me “beached babe” ‘cause
that’s what I be…

for my imagination can take
the waving grain
and I can see the surf roll in
and when the wind is right
smell the salt on the air,
and in sunshine, walk the plains ~
there are times you’ll see
me smile like I’ve not a care…
for the music lives on
in the wind, and in my heart,
and I take it then and share with impart,
because I live again,
and within
the sound of the music’s spin.



repost...
02.03.01
and guess what...
I'm not 49 any longer...LOL


© Copyright 2002 Karilea Rilling Jungel - All Rights Reserved
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1 posted 2002-02-11 08:00 PM


Hey, "beached babe"!

I was just talking about this with a dear friend, and I would not go back...

You are just fine, as you are. Hugs, Kari!!!

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2 posted 2002-02-11 08:00 PM


A blast from the past!

loved this!

~Tier

Martie
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3 posted 2002-02-11 08:03 PM


I see you now, Karilea...coming from the strand, your California dreaming is right here in hand.  
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4 posted 2002-02-11 08:08 PM




(sigh) Sooooooooo beautiful, sweet friend, your gorgeous dreams always make me sigh, this is breathtakingly beautiful! (smiles) The melody will always sing in you, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Karilea, thank you for sharing!



May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

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5 posted 2002-02-11 08:09 PM


This is too cool 'beached babe'...
Love the nostalgia of this one...love the 'remember' of the songs and all...oh, took me off to another time, I'll tell ya!
Love it Karilea...just love it!
~Hugs, Nancy~

~Love transcends time and space~

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with you
6 posted 2002-02-11 08:20 PM


"for an in-between kind of girl
the sort with naivete
still in her eyes
I can still be surprised
as I come to self-realize
who I was, who I am, and
who I might someday be…"


I love this part....
could be a poem on it's own
music is magic
as is this poem

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7 posted 2002-02-11 08:34 PM


this is fantastic...brings back my own set
of memories....My...how I remember those
days....

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