"When you're alone and life is making you lonely
You can always go...downtown
When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry
Seems to help, I know...downtown
Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city
Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty
How can you lose?"
I was yearning to be on this block.
So much happened.
That song always made Mom sad.
She would heave a sigh, "Oh, Berta..."
As I'd start off in my mod clothes- looking so smart and sexy.
I expected a lot from that block!
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In later years Mom would tell me that the song "Downtown" made her think of me (could it be that she got us confused?)and that it made her sad . . . why I cannot imagine. Downtown was interesting in those days. Now it is not that bad, but for a while it was urban renewed into a wasteland.
Memory is such a fickle friend. I wish that mom never was sad cuz of me...
she often lamented my arrival.
Now you know why I looked so sad.
xoxo
mom projected her dreams onto you enjah. she wasnted you to go to the bright lights of new york and be the artist she couldn't.
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