without a thought for tomorrow

~october 9 1940 / december 8 1980~

i often wonder what songs john would have written in his fifties... sixties... granted that john's life experiences are remarkably outside the mainstream... but are there not things we all deal with as our lives progress toward the the enevitable conclusion?

what would he have said in his seventies with most of his life behind him?

i wonder what would john have said about living through his middle ages and becoming an old man? watching his sons become old men too? what would john have written about the onset of crippling geriatric diseases and seeing his precious time slipping away? would he have written anything about it, or remained silent?

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When I was younger
Living confusion and deep dispair
When I was younger ah hah
Living illusion of freedom and power

When I was younger
Full of ideas and broken dreams (my friend)
When I was younger ah hah
Everything simple but not so clear

Living on borrowed time
Without a thought for tomorrow
Living on borrowed time
Without a thought for tomorrow

Now I am older
The more that I see the less that I know for sure
Now I am older ah hah
The future is brighter and now is the hour

Living on borrowed time
Without a thought for tomorrow
Living on borrowed time
Without a thought for tomorrow

Good to be older
Would not exchange a single day or a year
Good to be older ah hah
Less complications everything clear

Living on borrowed time
Without a thought for tomorrow
Living on borrowed time
Without a thought for tomorrow

[john winston lennon]