Watching The Wheels
John Lennon

People say I'm crazy
Doing what I'm doing
Well, they give me all kinds of warnings
To save me from ruin
When I say that I'm okay, well they look at me kinda strange
"Surely, you're not happy now, you no longer play the game"

People say I'm lazy
Dreaming my life away
Well they give me all kinds of advice
Designed to enlighten me
When I tell them that I'm doing fine watching shadows on the wall
"Don't you miss the big time boy, you're no longer on the ball?"

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go

Ah, people ask me questions
Lost in confusion
Well, I tell them there's no problem
Only solutions
Well, they shake their heads and they look at me, as if I've lost my mind
I tell them there's no hurry, I'm just sitting here doing time

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round

I just had to let it go
I just had to let it go
I just had to let it go

[ https://youtu.be/39Em6t0G7Fc ]

https://youtu.be/P-EyfRqKGP4

"Oh good, my way ... which way's my way?"

https://youtu.be/-8Ramwd35kA

"She's tough -- but these days you never know."

B^|)

https://youtu.be/tJ2qi9KfEZ8

"They trip through the day and waste all their thoughts at night." [but if you] "Hang on to your ego, then I know you're NOT gonna lose the fight."

-Egopriest ("...you gotta wield it with an axe, son!").

Yes, in my mind are always the three-fold division of your mind and your convictions, the world in which you live and the life you live in it.

So there are, according to Leonard Peikoff's DIM Hypothesis, three modes of integration that may apply to your three areas differently (for instance, I work to stay Integrated [I], but I live in a Disintegrating world [D}, and my life is compartmentalized as a result [d]. So my "DIM Key-Code" is [idD], not too pretty. :^/

To counter that, I (and most people probably) pull more toward rationalism or stoicism [m], but that only gives credence to the full-blown mystics [M], the zero, rather than the hero, in my soul.

My objection was purely formal, and should have been a lot shorter and concise. Mostly I'm just fishing for more than you are apparently willing to divulge (e.g., the why).

I mean, I think the world of Rachmaninoff and would have a lot to say about his this, or a particular recording to recommend (I own several on CD).

So I wasn't trying to shame you or downplay music you love. I just wanted most of all to draw some pet distinctions I've worked hard to identity over the years between "formal" and "informal" music.

In today's conceptual chaos it is even harder to talk about something as abstract and personal as music, or to defend any "'standards'" at all (scare quotes noted).

I agree, excellent lyric reminiscent of Galt's case against the mystics of spirit, teachers and worshippers of self-inflicted wounds.

I also recognize the excellent bassist from Brian Wilson's "Smile."

That was okay! :^D

I must have sang this one to my now 2.5 y/o niece Zoe a hundred times -- and watched the Youtube video a few dozen more: https://youtu.be/lAOSZjzL80I

I myself prefer the Bobby Short (at the Cafe Carlyle) version of this song from "Bobby Short Loves Cole Porter," the lyrics of which are (from memory).

Rap Tap on Wood:

"If you wanna ring that bell not once, but twice,
If you wanna roll and roll those lucky dice,
If you wanna share your journey's end with sweet music and love,
If you wanna lick this world of men and micky-mice
Take my advice:

"When you wake up one day, look over yourself and say, "You're very good,"
Rap tap on wood.

"When with each fresh success you're conscious that you impress the neighborhood,
Rap tap on wood.

"When every meal you take is made of milk and honey,
When every stock you stake is making mints of money,
When every heart you break is such a cinch it's funny...careful sonny,
Rap tap, rap tap, rap tap tap tap tap tap tap.

"You'll knock out your good news
and you'll never, never lose
if you just put on your dancing shoes
and rap tap on wood!"

And from one of my poems:

"To solve the riddles beguiling the world,
dance today to the rhythms of logic:
no method besides will conjure the clues."

B^)

You might like the book, "Mathematics is About the World: How Ayn Rand's theory of concepts unlocks the false alternatives between Plato's Mathematical Universe and Hilbert's Game of Symbols" by Robert E. Knapp, PhD, Princeton, class of "73:

https://mathematicsisabouttheworld.com

That was one of the very first bass lines I had to master in high school back in the summer of "89. It was so beyond me at first, but yeah, Black Sabbath and Ozzy's songs contain some great motivational anthems for the John Galt Revolution.

I particularly like a song what might describe some of your better (History?) students: https://youtu.be/Q3gQSPMHPm0 (I'll be doing a more general post with the proto-DIM plot-theme).