Song of the Indeterminate Time Period, 22 June 2K10 (Part the First)

Heard the H-word mentioned when talking about my Grandma and I promised my Mom I'd make this song a SotITP. Well, here it is.

Grandma burned the biscuits
Nearly took the house down with it
Now she's in assisted living
We all knew that day would come

We knew she was too gone to drive
The day she parked on I-65
Found her on the shoulder crying
She didn't know where she was

It's like her mind just quit
Oh, but bring up Grandpa
It's like someone flipped a switch

A front porch light in a blue DeSoto
Couple of straws in a Coca-Cola
You can see it all going down
A handsome boy in Army green
A tear on his face, down on a knee
A shaky voice, a diamond ring
She'll put you in that town

Tomorrow she won't remember what she did today
But just ask about Ellsworth, Kansas, 1948

She takes out his medals
A cigar box full of letters
Sits and scatters pictures
Black and whites of days gone by

We started losing her when she lost him
But to hear her carry on, you'd swear she's 17 again

Football games and leaves a'cracklin'
Walking her home in his letter jacket
You can see it all going down
A perfect night on a front porch glider
Saying good night for the next three hours
Her tired eyes go wide and bright
When she talks about that town

Tomorrow she won't remember what she did today
But just ask about Ellsworth, Kansas, 1948

While the world is fading all around her
Sharing a sundae at the counter
He's going on and on about her
Bet she's right there right now

Tomorrow she won't remember what she did today
But just ask about Ellsworth, Kansas, 1948

-- Rascal Flatts
"Ellsworth"
Me & My Gang (2006)

Song of the Indeterminate Time Period, 22 June 2K10 (Part the Second)

For all that was, that wasn't, that could have been, that did, that didn't...

For Beth.

When you're talking to yourself
And nobody's home
You can fool yourself
You came in this world alone (alone)

So nobody ever told you, baby
How it was going to be
What will happen to you, baby?
Guess we'll have to wait and see

(one, two)

[bridge]

Old at heart but I'm only 28
And I'm much too young to let love break my heart
Young at heart but it's getting much too late
To find ourselves so far apart

I don't know how you're supposed to find me lately
And what more could you ask from me?
How could you say that I never needed you
When you took everything
Said you took everything from me

[bridge]

Young at heart and it gets so hard to wait
When no one I know can seem to help me now
Old at heart but I mustn't hesitate
If I'm to find my own way out

Still talking to myself
And nobody's home
(alone)

So nobody ever told us, baby
How it was going to be
What will happen to us, baby?
Guess we'll have to wait and see

[Piano solo]

When I find out all the reasons
Maybe I'll find another way
Find another day
With all the changing seasons... of my life
Maybe I'll get it right next time
And now that you've been broken down
Got your head out of the clouds
You're back down on the ground
And you don't talk so loud
And you don't walk so proud
Any more, and what for?

[Guitar solo]

Well I jumped into the river
Too many times to make it home
I'm out here on my own, and drifting all alone
If it doesn't show, give it time
To read between the lines

'Cause I see the storm is getting closer
And the waves, they get so high
Seems everything we've ever known's here
Why must it drift away and die?

[Slash lets off another face-melting solo here]

I'll never find anyone to replace you
Guess I'll have to make it through this time
(oh this time)
Without you

I knew the storm was getting closer
And all my friends said I was high
But everything we've ever known's here
I never wanted it to die

-- Guns 'N Roses
"Estranged"
Use Your Illusion II (1991)