Fountain of Youth (Chuck Puckett's SAW: Week 9)

9th installment in the Chuck Puckett Song-A-Week video project: "Fountain of Youth" (c) 2011 Chuck Puckett. Recorded Feb 27, 2011. Visit www.chuckpuckettsongaweek.com for details and other music.


Fountain of Youth

Somewhere deep in someone's mind
I am still eighteen
In someone's world there lives a boy
Who's never seen the things I've seen
Never had the worried moments,
Never boasted in my pride
Never hurt the ones I've loved,
Never cheated, and I never lied

Didn't need to search the whole world over
Sailing oceans vast and deep
Eternal youth was always waiting
In the memories of an old friend fast asleep

There is no way to take life back
Every road leads just one way
We can hold our breath and pretend
But we cannot relive one single day
Somewhere once, somebody knew me
Who only knows how I was then
I'm still alive in their mind
Always will be, and I've always been

And if I've never loved selflessly,
And if I never gave needlessly,
And if I never hoped faithfully,
If I've gazed upon my life and I've sighed
Still somewhere deep in someone's mind
My dreams have never died

Somewhere deep in someone's mind
I am frozen fast in time
Deep inside of all my memories
There are friends that I can find
We're still dancing with abandon
We're still singing around a fire
We're still living for the future
We're still driven by our desire

© 2011 Chuck Puckett

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• music
• folk
• singer-songwriter
• folk-rock
• ballad
• original
• now
• guitar

[charlesgpuckett]

I wonder it's cogency is perhaps dependency on the, ahem, "maturity" of the viewer. We recently had a 40th high school reunion. I definitely found myself thinking of almost all those people, most of whom I never see, exactly like they were back then. Even knowing that time had inevitably wreaked its havoc on them.

[richtbone]

Found myself looking back.....Good music....memories.

I enjoyed,

Ralph R....years ago in INGR

[javajini]

They just keep getting better. At this rate you'll have a best selling album before the year is half out ;-).

[1617auburn]

Always enjoy your weekly offering-- this one is particularly cogent.