Sunday, June 05, 2005

Great Weekend

We just returned from a great camping trip to Cumberland Falls. The highlights of the weekend were P-Man catching a snake (and a lizard), and my mate Peter Yates (an Aussie) dumping box after box of coal from the local river bed on our already roaring campfire. Priceless.

There was one lowlight. Saturday night a local radio station was playing hits from the 80s. As the master of useless knowledge, I rattled off artist after artist - no matter how obscure. Yet, late in the evening, I was doubted by all as to whether I knew who released this song:

If you leave, don't leave now
Please don't take my heart away
Promise me just one more night
Then we'll go our separate ways

We've always had time on our sides
Now it's fading fast
Every second every moment
We've got to--we've gotta make it last

I touch you once
I touch you twice
I won't let go at any price

I need you now like
I needed you then
You always said we'd still be friends someday

If you leave
I won't cry
I won't waste one single day

But if you leave
Don't look back
I'll be running the other way

Seven years went under the bridge
Like time standing still
Heaven knows what happens now
You've got to--you've gotta say you will

I touch you once
I touch you twice
I won't let go at any price

I need you now
Like I needed you then
You always said we'd meet again

My comrades insisted it was Simple Minds...but I knew better. They laughed at my answer (which it turns out was correct). Do you know the 80s group?

1 comment:

Doug Fields said...

You are clearly a member of the 80s dork club.