ATF: Then and Now

This weekly series will include as many of my all-time favorite tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way that your musical tastes can be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions that you might dare to make.  I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [Molly Hatchet]

Flirtin’ With Disaster

Molly Hatchet

I’m travelin’ down the road

And I’m flirtin’ with disaster

I’ve got the pedal to the floor

My life is runnin’ faster

I’m out of money

Out of hope

It looks like self-destruction

Well how much more can we take

With all of this corruption

We’re flirtin’ with disaster

Y’all know what I mean

And the way we run our lives

It makes no sense to me

I don’t know about yourself

Or what you plan to be yeah

When we gamble with our time

We choose our destiny

I’m travelin’ down that lonesome road

Fell like I’m draggin’ a heavy load

Yeah

I tried to turn my head away

I feel about the same most every day

Speedin’ down the fast lane

Playin’ from town to town

The boys and I have been burnin’ it up

Can’t seem to slow it down

I’ve got the pedal to the floor

Our lives are runnin’ faster

Got our sights set straight ahead

But ain’t sure what we’re after

Fliritin’ with disaster

Y’all know what I mean

You know the way we run our lives

It makes no sense to me

I don’t know about yourself

Or what you want to be yeah

When we gamble with our time

We choose our destiny

Yeah we’re travelin’ down that lonesome road

Feel like I’m draggin’ a heavy load

Don’t try to turn my head away

I’m flirtin’ with disaster every day

You are too baby

It ain’t for everybody

Yeah

Come on man

Flirtin’ with disaster yeah

Y’all know what I mean

You know the way we run our lives

It makes no sense to me

I don’t know about yourself

Or what you plan to be

When we gamble with our time

We choose our destiny

Yeah

We’re traveling down that lonesome road

Feel like I’m draggin’ a heavy load

Don’t try to turn my head away

I’m fliritin’ with disaster every day

Link: [Kansas]

Carry On Wayward Son

Kansas

Carry on my wayward son

There’ll be peace when you are done

Lay your weary head to rest

Don’t you cry no more

Once I rose above the noise and confusion

Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion

I was soaring ever higher

But I flew too high

Though my eyes could see I still was a blind man

Though my mind could think I still was a mad man

I hear the voices when I’m dreaming

I can hear them say

Carry on our wayward son

There’ll be peace when you are done

Lay your weary head to rest

Don’t you cry no more

Masquerading as a man with a reason

My charade is the event of the season

And if I claim to be a wise man

Well it surely means that I don’t know

On a stormy sea of moving emotion

Tossed about like I’m a ship on the ocean

I set a course for winds of fortune

But I hear the voices say

Carry on our wayward son

There’ll be peace when you are done

Lay your weary head to rest

Don’t you cry no more

No

Carry on

You will always remember

Carry on

Nothing equals the splendor

Now your life’s no longer empty

Surely heaven waits for you

Carry on our wayward son

There’ll be peace when you are done

Lay your weary head to rest

Don’t you cry

Don’t you cry no more

No more

Lyrics From: [elyrics.net]

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