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Normal Life

from Visitors by Howard Simon

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It was the early ‘80s, I was living in Berkeley, unattached (and pretty much unmoored) and wondering if I ever would have the kind of life generally considered (then, anyway) as normal. And the guy in the apartment upstairs had a thing for George Winston’s “Autumn,” which is a great record until you hear it several times a day for months on end. I never performed this song back then because I wrote it in a jazz guitar style that I can’t play (!). Thanks to Ed Johnson for being a real musician and allowing this song to come to life!

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Normal Life

Do you hear George Winston through the ceiling tiles?
Do you think of all the lovers with their secret silly smiles?
Do you wonder at the changes sharp as steel like a knife?
Do you worry that you’ll never really have a normal life?

He can sit and dream ‘til midnight, he can sit and dream ‘til dawn
He can think about the woman who responded with a yawn
He can wonder at his friend who’s got a husband, got a wife
He can worry that he’ll never really have a normal life

A normal life with easy days
A normal job that really pays
A normal love who’s always there
A normal life without a care

She might think about the baby that she’d one day like to bear
She might think about the man she’d like to hold if he were there
She might wonder at the years and how she’s managed to survive
She might worry that she’ll never really have a normal life

I should tell you that it really doesn’t matter much to me
I should think about that passion – is it all it’s meant to be?
I should wonder how the peace of men collapses into strife
While I worry that I’ll never really have a normal life

A normal life with endless days
A normal job that weighs and weighs and weighs
A normal love, complacent pair
A normal life, I just don’t care
A normal life, who’d ever dare?

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from Visitors, released June 27, 2016

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Howard Simon San Francisco, California

I am a San Francisco-based singer-songwriter. My songs are about love (romantic and otherwise), family, morality and mortality. If there is a common thread to my songs, it is the people we love, the desire to do right, and the hope and fear, the peace and the struggle that constitute life bring wonder in addition to its joy and sadness, and sometimes loss. ... more

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