So I’m sitting here listening to the radio…

Here’s super tramp years before their time..
Sounds like 2022 to me yeah?

When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful
A miracle, oh, it was beautiful, magical
And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily
Oh, joyfully, oh, playfully watching me
But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible
Logical, oh, responsible, practical
Then they showed me a world where I could be so dependable
Oh, clinical, oh, intellectual, cynical
There are times when all the world's asleep
The questions run too deep
For such a simple man
Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned?
I know it sounds absurd
Please tell me who I am
I said, now, watch what you say, they'll be calling you a radical
A liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal
Oh, won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable
Respectable, oh, presentable, a vegetable
Oh, take, take, take it, yeah
But at night, when all the world's asleep
The questions run so deep
For such a simple man
Won't you please (oh, won't you tell me)
Please tell me what we've learned?
(Can you hear me?) I know it sounds absurd
(Oh, won't you tell me) please tell me who I am
Who I am, who I am, who I am
Ooh
Hey
'Cause I was feeling so logical
Yeah
D-D-D-D-D-D-D-Digital
Yeah, one, two, three, five
Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah
Ooh, it's getting unbelievable
Yeah
Getting, getting, yeah, yeah
Uh, uh, uh, uh

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SStarfish ·

Over civilized.... i think society's focus is off.. when they should be teaching people have to live and be independent and thrive naturally ..

I like watching this old couple far away who harvest grain and fruit and nuts and berries and hay and have a cow and chickens and turkey and cat and goat and bunny and cook in a wood stove and don't need anything from anyone.. just their own hard work..

calicuz · 56-60, M

Yes.....
Nothing has changed, over the years. There were those, in those days, who saw the madness, just the madness was a little more subtle back then.
The madness is still the same though.

Great song though!!!

OogieBoogie · F

This song.

Man , i remember hearing this for the first time.
Waiting to reconrd it on tape on Casey Kasems top 40 while the DJ's talked over it.

It was deep and ethereal and sad .
Individual Humanity encased in a song.

It still feels as it did when i first heard it.

🥺