Close Your Eyes

I just came upon the clip below. It's from the 70s when everyone had all that HAIR, hair, long beautiful hair, shinin’, gleamin’, streamin’, flaxen, waxen, give me down to there (hair!) shoulder length or longer, here baby, there, momma, everywhere, daddy, daddy, haiaiaiair! That’s the song 'Hair' from the musical by the same name in case you didn’t recognize it. And this picture is me when I had such hair. And the clip shows Sweet Baby James and his bride Carly Simon before they differed, then feuded and ultimately split with one saying she'd basically just as soon never talk to the guy again and how sad is that?  What makes people think you have to LIKE the other guy every minute to stay married when you know yourself how stubbornly impossible YOU can be?Anyway sit back and let it wash over you. Pretend we can all stay young forever with fine skin and clear voices – then settle for knowing that what we can all do no matter our hands speckle up like robins’ eggs and our eyes get lost in webs of wrinkles is comfort each another with words like these.I really like that “You can stay as long as you like” part. They never tell you that in a tanning bed or after a massage when all you want to DO is stay there basking in the warmth. At least stay with this video for long enough - or else go to the one-minute-and-40 second mark if you’re in a rush. Do it just to see the bloom in young Carly's cheek![youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_D0i7UC9UY&feature=related]

So close your eyes;you can close your eyes, it's all right.I don't know no love songs,and I can't sing the blues any more.But I can sing this song,and you can sing this songwhen I'm gone.It won't be long before another day.We're gonna have a good time.And no one's gonna take that time away.You can stay as long as you like.