David B. Calhoun’s Blog

Things in my life are changing. Hopefully for the better. But in any case, things are changing.. I’ll be seeing less of my friends I’ve grown to be fond and familiar with and I’m jumping into something that I hope will work out for the best. It was fun while it lasted, but it just can’t last forever.. and it’s time to move on, in more ways than one.

I’ve been listening to this song recently, and it really echoes my sentiments about working with my friends at Javaground. The killer that makes the entire song for me is the last verse. Bob Dylan, probably sings this part the best (”I wish, I wish, I wish in vain…”).

I kind of like the Peter, Paul & Mary version of it for the rest of the song, but that version is missing a lot of the emotion that’s in the original.

While riding on a train goin’ west,
I fell asleep for to take my rest.
I dreamed a dream that made me sad,
Concerning myself and the first few friends I had.

With half-damp eyes I stared to the room
Where my friends and I spent many an afternoon,
Where we together weathered many a storm,
Laughin’ and singin’ till the early hours of the morn.

By the old wooden stove where our hats was hung,
Our words were told, our songs were sung,
Where we longed for nothin’ and were quite satisfied
Talkin’ and a-jokin’ about the world outside.

With haunted hearts through the heat and cold,
We never thought we could ever get old.
We thought we could sit forever in fun
But our chances really was a million to one.

As easy it was to tell black from white,
It was all that easy to tell wrong from right.
And our choices were few and the thought never hit
That the one road we traveled would ever shatter and split.

How many a year has passed and gone,
And many a gamble has been lost and won,
And many a road taken by many a friend,
And each one I’ve never seen again.

I wish, I wish, I wish in vain,
That we could sit simply in that room again.
Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat,
I’d give it all gladly if our lives could be like that.