Someone said, “Life’s a song.” The chorus is the part that repeats itself. More than that, time has a way of digging up the past and making it shine like a brand-new diamond. I have always loved music for inspiration and enjoyment.

Does anyone remember Quicksilver Messenger Service? Somehow their music is more relevant today than it ever was back in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Most strikingly, one of the verses in the song “What About Me?” says, “I feel like a stranger in the land where I was born.” Man, does that shoe fit. “You poisoned my sweet water”… hello, East Palestine, Ohio. “My world is slowly fallin’ down and the air’s not good to breathe, and those of us who care enough, we have to do something.” Thanks, China.

“And I feel the future trembling as the word is passed around, ‘If you stand up for what you do believe, be prepared to be shot down.'”

How about Donald Trump … “I’m a fugitive from injustice.” Did you ever think they would dog a president like that? They don’t have a crime, but they’ll dream one up and try to make it stick.

That’s not us! Is it?

Anyway, the song goes on to say, “Though you may be stronger now, my time will come around. You keep adding to my numbers as you shoot my people down … What you gonna do about me?”

How about from “Abraham, Martin and John,” recorded by Dion. “… My old friend John … He freed a lot of people, but it seems the good, they die young.” Is there a shadow government that is responsible for events that changed our country so drastically since John, Bobby and Martin?