Twenty Years Down - (The Beatles)

It seems an appropriate time to re-air this one, as the Beatles released their new digitized versions of their music yesterday.

 

All you left were your plastic pieces

Cloaked in covers of light and sound,

Whatever happened to spill our leases,

Wreck our passage and check our treaties

Twenty years down?

 

Often I’ve thought of the way you made it

Poked your tongues at the hand-me-downs,

Sang your songs of the maid, and laid it

Track on track, and the way you played it

Close to the ground.

 

And we all laughed at your small perfection

Simple lads in a world of wine,

We caught the spell of your sweet confections,

Song on song of your funny mentions

Of you, of me and mine.

 

The world was well that you had your way in,

Nobody hurt, or suffered or lost,

Nothing we thought that we had no say in,

Love was the word that we thought to play in

That took no count of the cost.

 

But now your shadows lie dim within us

And every laugh has a shattered sound,

Left to the rest of our lives, we spin us

Ever the wake of the dream that in us

Ran aground!

 

David Lewis Paget

 

12 June 1984

Reviews

[Ferg]

Nice poem, David. Different from your usual, but then again, you wrote it 25 years ago! I like the plays on words and references to "albums." (Did she just say album? What the heck is that? She must be old! :)
"It's been a hard days night....and I been working like a dog..........but when I get home to you.....you make me feel all right" :)

[Valentine]

Never my favorite group of singers but they really made a big splash here and around the world..Different style way back then huh mate..love and God bless you and Lyn...Kathie

[Mark]

Many of us may guage the present in the context of the past, and many of us may judge today's music according to what WE grew up with. Each generation has its own preferences, its own predilections. It is all about one's level of innocence in the end...

[Norma J. Jessee]

Your style is a model of clarity David, your prose so smooth it goes down like a vintage wine.
You are a literary phenomenon.

I grew up during the beatles rein, I know I may sound crazy but they were not my favorite, I leaned more to the side of the Monkey's. Davy was my heart throb. I loved their songs. Guess I came from a more gentle, tamer breed. lol

[Wildfleour]

This had a different feel and movement from the pieces you've penned. I've grown accustomed to precise narratives, but I must say I truly enjoyed this lyrical piece.