Yes, it is a little sappy and sentimental. And it is dated, but at age 66 I can relate even if I was never a hippie. (Kind of anti-hippie even if I hung out with people who could be card carrying members of that tribe including my bride, but that’s another story).
First heard this song blaring from the juke box at the Village Idiot deep down First Avenue in the East Village back in the 1980’s. Feel in love with it then. But those days are long gone too.
He’s got young friends into new wave
But he’s just too friggin’ old
And he dreams at night of Woodstock and the day John Lennon died
How the music made him happy and the silence made him cry
Yeah, he thinks of John sometimes
And he has to wonder whyYouTube: https://youtu.be/-gz-kj8NXCA?si=2iewvGDF-5Hm9ij0
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5fv9qtXwNV6Xx3P9bRed5i?si=e654a604cd9345e4