A song I like – The Logical Song

Well, this song is not my favorite one but I like it very much. The reason I’m talking about this song is that the day Simon gave the assignment, I was coming back to my home and on my MP3 list was this music piece and when I listened it I thought “this would be a really good song to talk about”.
This song is from an english band called Supertramp and It’s from the album “Breakfast in America”, 1979 (it’s old I know, but I like old songs too - the picture is the album cover).
I couldn’t tell when was the first time I heard it, only I can say I’ve listened it since I can remember.
The reason I like it, it’s because I always liked how it sounded (not the lyrics), cause I didn’t know english at the time, I was very child. But lately, when I learned English and could understand, once I was “wasting my time” on the internet, listening to music and I start to look for the lyrics to understand some words I couldn’t decipher, and when I read the whole lyrics I thought “what a great song!”.
Very deep.

Who doesn’t feel that way sometimes?


The Logical Song – Lyrics

When I was young,
It seemed that life was so wonderful,
A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical.
And all the birds in the trees,
Well they’d be singing so happily,
Oh joyfully, oh playfully watching me.
But then they send me away
To teach me how to be sensible,
Logical, oh responsible, practical.
And they showed me a world
Where I could be so dependable,
Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical.

There are times when all the world’s asleep,
The questions run too deep
For such a simple man.
Won’t you please, please tell me what we’ve learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am.

Now watch what you say
Or they’ll be calling you a radical,
A liberal, oh fanatical, criminal.
Oh won’t you sign up your name,
We’d like to feel you’re acceptable,
Respectable, oh presentable, a vegetable!

At night, when all the world’s asleep,
The questions run so deep
For such a simple man.
Won’t you please, please tell me what we’ve learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am,
Who I am, who I am, who I am

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