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September 10, 2010 · Life In Song 1970's

Young Man In A Hurry-Song 017

“Life In Song” #17: “Young Man In A Hurry” This is about as autobiographical as they come. Nothing else to say. I believe this is the first and only time I’ve ever recorded this song. So again, that’s part of what this “life in song” project is all about, preserving some of these songs that haven’t been recorded yet.

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Young Man In A Hurry | March 1978 | Song #17

A young man in a hurry
A wind in the weeds sort of fellow
Avoiding the cracks in the sidewalk
As if they were his special worry
He’s the same old case of the man in the crowd
Resenting each unsaid “hello”

Refrain:
He calls himself a stone wall
But he’s really just a stone
He calls himself an island
But he’s really just alone
(and he’s only seventeen but he sometimes feels quite old)

He’s the son of a farmer’s son
His mother’s also quite real
He spent his high school years dreaming
Of his music and some special someone
Who would wipe the clouds from his far searching eyes
And teach him the things that two people can feel

Refrain: (And he’d like to be a highway but as yet he’s still, only a road)

He’s a twentieth century Galahad
He envisions his life as a quest
He knows he’s a hopeless romantic
His realities make him feel sad
But he sees the goals of his life like road signs
And his death as a traveler’s rest

Refrain: ( And he’d like to be a novel but as yet he’s still only a poem

There are so many things left to go unsaid
Things too deep to be seen in the eyes
That this lover of human companionship
Ends up speaking with rocks instead
And he sings a version of his life’s song
But he pads it quite well with white lies

Refrain: (and he’d like to climb the mountain but he’d rather stay close to home)

Tuning: Standard, Capo 2nd fret.

Tuning: Standard, Capo on 2nd fret


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Mark, this song and message really hit home for me today. You have put a grown man in tears. Thank You for what you do. Sometimes I think you sound kind of cheesy, and then others, I think you are a genius, and I’m beginning to realize that you actually care about helping people. So hard to “get out of your own way” sometimes…thanks for the reminder.

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Hi Mark, You write some great songs! I really enjoyed listening to all of them on Spark and Flame. Thank you for all that you do. Keep up the good work! All the best.

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Love the “Key To Your Cage” album. I hear so many different influences and styles woven throughout the songs, really keeps it interesting from start to finish!

Dan Z

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Hi Mark, I just had to tell you this. I emailed my 3 granddaughters the song you wrote who are sisters with the youngest being 11 years old, has cerebral palsy and is very smart, is able to talk, very funny, uses a computer, is able to write, now is learning to play drums, emails me ‘Thanks. I do.’ I loved the song and listened to it 3 times.

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