Bob Brown:  

" A DAY IN THE LIFE " "Rock and roll is the music that inspired me to play. There is nothing conceptually better than rock and roll. I dig it and will never leave it." - John Lennon "There's a lot of random in our songs ... writing, thinking, letting others think of bits- then bang, you have the jigsaw puzzle" - Paul McCartney Paul also wrote : "Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs. And what's wrong with that? I'd like to know, 'cause here I go again." ~~~ For: Mrs. Howard and Mr. Loynd who encouraged us all ... to seek ... to find ... to improve ... to be kind. And for you former grammer schooler's of Campo Elementary, I also wish to aknowledge Mrs. LeMare (who taught us to read and write). Mr. Williamson (who took us on all those exciting field-trips). And Mr. Campbell (who helped us realize our potential). My thanks and respect to each of them. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. Someday I hope you'll join us and the world will live as one. Sincerely, Bob Brown THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD I read the news today, oh boy ! About a lucky man who made the grade. and though the news was rather sad, well I just had to laugh, I saw the photograph ! There are places I'll remember all my life, though some have changed, some forever, not for better, some have gone and some remain. All these places had their moments, with lovers and friends I still can recall, some are dead and some are living, in my life I've loved them all. Though I know I'll never lose affection for people and things that went before, I know I'll often stop and think about them. Day after day, alone on a hill, the man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still. He sees the sun going down and the eyes in his head see the world spinning round. Well on the way, head in a cloud, the man of a thousand voices talking perfectly loud ! We were talking about the love we all could share, when we find it to try our best to hold it there. With our love we could save the world...if they only knew. I'm gonna try with a little help from my friends. I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping... while my guitar gently weeps. As I'm sitting here doing nothing but aging, still my guitar gently weeps. I'm painting the room in a colourful way, and when my mind is wandering there I will go. I'm taking the time for a number of things that weren't important yesterday and I still go. Each day just goes so fast, I turn around it's past. A lifetime is so short a new one can't be bought, but what you've got means so much to me How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people ? Now that you know who you are, what do you want to be ? And have you traveled very far ? Far as the eye can see ? My mother was of the sky. My father was of the earth, but I am of the universe. Turn off you mind, relax and float down-stream. Lay down all thought surrender to the void that you may see the meaning of within. That love is all and love is everyone. There's nothing you can do that can't be done. Nothing you can sing that can't be sung. There's nothing you can make that can't be made. No one you can save that can't be saved. Nothing you can do , but you can learn how to be you in time. There's nothing you can know that isn't known. Nothing you can see that isn't shown. Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be. It's easy... ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE ! Sounds of laughter, shades of earth are ringing through my open views, inciting and inviting me . Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns, it calls me on and on across the universe. You're asking me will my love grow ? I don't know, I don't know ! You stick around now it may show. I don't know, but I hope so. Many times I've been alone and many times I've cried, anyway you'll never know the many ways I've tried, but still they lead me back to the long and winding road. One day you'll find that I have gone, but tomorrow may rain so I'll follow the sun. I need to laugh, and when the sun is out I've got something I can laugh about. I feel good in a special way. It's getting better all the time ! In the beginning I misunderstood, but now I've got it the word is good. Now that I know what I feel must be right. I mean to show ev'rybody the light. Give the word a chance to say, that the word is just the way. It's the word I'm thinking of, and the only word is LOVE ! If you're listening to this song you may think the chords are going wrong. But they're not; he just wrote it like that. Isn't he a bit like you and me ? I was alone, I took a ride. I didn't know what I would find there. Another road where maybe I could see another kind of mind there. Ev'rywhere I go the sun comes shining through. It means so much to be a part of a heart of a wonderful one. Just a smile would lighten everything ! Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes and she's gone Without going out of your door you can know all things on earth. Without looking out of your window you can know the ways of heaven. Arrive without travelling. See all without looking. And the time will come when you see we're all one , and life flows on within you and without you. Well, here's another place you can go where everything flows. The sun is up, the sky is blue, it's beautiful and so are you. The wind is low the birds will sing that you are part of everything To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under Heaven. And maybe it's the time of year. Yes, and maybe it's the time of man. We are stardust, we are golden, we are ten billion year old carbon. And we got to get ourselves back to the garden. With the eyes of a child you must come out and see that your world's spinning 'round and through life you will be a small part of a hope. Of a love that exist. Old man passing by, tell me what you sing. Though your voice be faint I am listening. Traveling eternity road, what will you find there ? Carrying your heavy load, searching to find a piece of mind. You'll see us all around, turning, spinning, forever changing, there's no beginning. Take a look up there, planets everywhere. I can see it all from this great height. I can feel the sun slipping out of sight. And the world still goes on through the night Isn't Life strange ? Each day passes by. How hard man will try ? You know it makes me want to cry ! Wish I could be in your heart, to be one with your love. Wish I could be in your eyes, looking back there you were, and here we are. Each breath that we breathe with love we must weave to make us as one. And the sounds we make together is the music to the story in your eyes. It's been shining down upon me now I realize. Between the silence of the mountains and the crashing of the sea, there lies a land I once lived in and she's waiting there for me. Listen to the tide slowly turning, wash all our heartaches away, we're part of the fire that is burning, and from the ashes we can build another day ! I know you're out there somewhere. I know I'll find you somehow. Yes, I know it's going to happen, I can feel you getting near. And soon we'll be returning to the fountain of our youth. The mist is lifting slowly, I can see the way ahead. And the stregnth of the emotion is like thunder in the air, 'cause the promise we made each other haunts me to the end. Soon you will see me, because I'll be all around you. But where I come from I can't say. And don't be alarmed if I'm slightly delayed, because tomorrow's another day. May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung. May you stay forever young! TECHQUA IKACHI ! Bob P.S. I hope my words will be recieved with the same full measure of compassion with which they were imparted. You see, the sentiments entered here are not intended to be a message to the world, but rather are extracts from a letter I wrote some time back to a very dear friend. A letter that was never mailed. She died in April of 2005, just three weeks before my letter was completed. She enjoyed this sort of babble and often would beguile me into believing I was creating art. I impugn her opinion of my so-called artistic ability, but nevertheless dedicate this "letter" to the girl with kaleidoscope eyes. If you glean something useful from this hodgepodge of emotions, then my meager attempt to appeal for universal compassion may not be in vain. P.S.S I'm 56 years old. Divorced. I have three beautiful daughters ; Sara, 33 - Dinah, 31 - and Hazel, 25. I have two grandchildren ; Avah, 5 - and Hayden, 4. I manage a carpet cleaning business in San Diego, and live in Lakeside . I paint oil on canvas landscapes, collect vintage Route 66 Indian trading post souvenirs and have an extensive collection of old soda pop bottles, most of which I find along the shoulders of old Highway 80 between Descanso and Jacumba. I dabble at writing. I'm working on a Collector's Book i...Expand for more