Have you heard this recent release by Kenny Rogers? I caught it quite by accident on the radio a couple of days ago and I’ve listened to it several times since then. My husband and I have spent the last ten years together and so a song called The Last Ten Years gets my attention. The music is melodious and Kenny Rogers as always sings beautifully – but it’s the lyrics that haunt me when I listen to it. It’s the lyrics that speak to my heart and my memories of the last ten years.
The Lyrics
Oh, the last ten years, it’s been quite trip
Over thirty-six-hundred spins around without a cosmic slip
But within the realm of our atmosphere
We’re ’bout as out of whack as we’ve ever been in a million years
We watched the Y2K scare in a panic
An’ we watched as time proved Nostrodamus wrong
An’ we watched as Mother Nature shook the planet
An’ cellular replaced the telephone
We lost Charlie Brown, Ray Charles an’ Johnny Cash
We even lost Superman, mhm.
I remember the days I read about losing Charles Schultz, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash and Christopher Reeve. I was saddened by each loss and though we still have our memories, their catalog of works and more. I stayed up till 2 a.m. on the December 31, 1999 into January 1, 2000 in order to watch our systems to make sure the Y2K updating worked well and we’re still coping with the clean up from Katrina and more.
Well, the last ten years, look at the hills we’ve climbed
The best golfer’s black, the best rapper’s white an’ it’s about damn time
But we best beware, there’s a brand new fight, you see
An’ I hate to say we might be our own worst enemy
We watched Oklahoma sifting through the damage
An’ we watched a US President get caught
We watched shareholders watch their savings vanish
We all cried when we watched those towers fall
We lost Minnie Pearl, Ron Reagan and Sam Ahan
We even lost Superman, mhm.
My husband is a huge fan of Tiger Woods. My mother and grandmother met Ronald Reagan years ago in Great Britain. Who could have missed the Monica Lewinsky scandal and yes, I watched the twin towers fall and I cried – and it is still a grief filled memory.
Expensive gas an’ free downloads
The dot-com boom, an’ reality shows
What’s gonna happen next is anybody’s guess
Satellite radio and hybrid cars
Hand-held computers an’ a trip to Mars
It’s all become a part of who we are
In the last ten years.
Gas prices have made it a struggle in the last couple of years. We worked in the dot-com industry and we felt the pinch as the stocks fell and I’ve never been a fan of the reality shows. We use hand-held computers and NASA is planning a big Mars trip and the song is right – all of these things are a part of who we are. It’s a part of where we came from and it’s a part of who we are now and it’s a part of where we are going.
That was our last ten years and I look forward to the next — have you heard this song?
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