Up On The Roof

Sometimes I'm asked by friends why there's a lot of trouble around; it seems that we're surprised.  Trouble of any kind is apparent in all parts of the globe.  Bombings are now current in London, Egypt and Iraq; corners show utter poverty and unemployment.  Situation is often aggravated by politicians, whom we as citizens should be wary of.  One small thing about a political enemy is exaggerated to astronomical proportions!  Law makers are the first to break the Law!

 

A very powerful appliance that contributes to the chaos is the TV; media becomes very powerful in trashing the minds of people, especially the young.  People, we have a choice!  If you can't do away with the TV completely, at least find better alternatives once in a while.  Maybe think about the following song.  Let's go back to nature!  One reason why I like James Taylor...

 

Up On The Roof

by Gerry Goffin and Carole King

 

When this old world

Starts getting me down

And people are just too much

For me to face

I climb 'way up

To the top of the stairs

And all my cares

Just drift right in to space.

 

On the roof

It's peaceful as can be

And there the world below

Can't bother me.

 

Let me tell you now,

When I come home

Feelin' tired and beat

I go up where the air

Is fresh and sweet.

 

I get away

From the hustling crowds

And all that rat race noise

Down in the street.

 

On the roof's

The only place I know

Where you just have to wish

To make it so.

 

Oh, let's go up on the roof.

At night the stars

Put on a show for free

And, darling, you can share it all

with me.

 

I keep tellin' you,

Right smack dead in the middle

of town

I found a paradise

That's trouble proof.

 

So if this world starts

Getting you down,

There's room enough for two

Up on the roof,

Up on the roof.

 

Ev'rything is all right up on

the roof.

Oh, come on, baby up on

the roof.

Up on the roof.