Retirement song: Saturn Returns

This song is "Saturn Returns," which I did at my retirement party on 22 January 2010. The audio on the guitar is decent, but the vocal is kinda crummy. Still, it's an historical record. Many thanks to everyone who came.

Saturn Returns

A gentleman of a certain age
Hopes to live to turn the page.
He takes his medications when he ought.
It might be time to sing the blues
Cos for thirty years hes paid his dues
And now hes wondering what it is hes bought.

God gave him a wonderful wife
But not the sap for the scholars life
And he wound up in a city by a hill.
He learned the ways of work and woe
And watched the generations go.
Some wheels went round and others stood stock still.

Saturn returns, so keep on moving
Across the lines that it has drawn
Perhaps well learn if were improving
What lies ahead from where weve gone.

All those years he walked the halls
Saw what rises, saw what falls
And finally got too ancient to be tricked.
He danced the dance bureaucracy:
Who gets confined and who set free
Depends on what gets kissed and what gets kicked.

Those who worship managements gods
Must be mindful of the shifting odds
And fashion fades with fortunes numbered days.
But there is grace still to be found
Sowing good seeds in the ground.
Just remember Occams Razor cuts both ways.

Saturn returns, so keep on moving
Across the lines that it has drawn
Perhaps well learn if were improving
What lies ahead from where weve gone.

The gentleman has had his ride
Some roads were clear, and some denied,
Some windows opened in the crystal cage.
The sentence here has run its lease
So let him now depart in peace
Hes a gentleman of a certain age.
Hes a gentleman of a certain age.

Words and Music by W.J. Smith, Copyright 2009, 2010. All rights reserved.

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