Mid-Life Crisis Songs #74: Engine Fire

Driving home on Monday afternoon, I saw a car at the side of the motorway with its engine on fire. (The driver & passenger were a safe distance away and a van had stopped to help them.) 

I told Louise and Sam about this when I got home, and remarked that you don't often see engine fires these days; they were much more frequent when I was a kid. Sam asked why, and I told him I guess it's because cars are a lot safer nowadays than they were back in the 70s and 80s... and as I said it, I felt another pang of nostalgia for simpler times. I'm not saying I want to see more burning cars, although in a way, I am. 

Three days and counting...

Yesterday when I was young

So many happy songs were waiting to be sung

So many wild pleasures lay in store for me

And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see

I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out

I never stopped to think what life was all about

And every conversation I can now recall

Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all