Well, who do you think you're fooling?
You say you're having fun
But you're busy going nowhere
Just lying in the sun
You tried to be a hero
And commit the perfect crime
But the dollar got you dancing
And you're running out of time
And you're messing up the water
And you're rolling in the wine
And you're poisoning your body
And you're poisoning your mind
And you gave me Coca-Cola
'Cause you said it tasted good
Then you watch the television
'Cause it tells you that you should

Ooh, how can you live in this way?
(Why do you think it's so strange?)
You must have something to say
(Tell me why should I change?)
There must be more to this life
It's time we did something right
I said "Child of vision, won't you listen?
Find yourself a new ambition"

I've heard it all before
You're saying nothing new
I thought I saw a rainbow
But I guess it wasn't true
And you cannot make me listen
And I cannot make you hear
So you find your way to heaven
And I'll meet you when you're there

How can you live in this way?
(Why do you think it's so strange?)
You must have something to say
(Tell me why should I change?)
We have no reason to fight
'Cause we both know that we're right
I said "Child of vision, won't you listen?
Find yourself a new ambition"

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Breakfast in America was an seminal album, which wrapped up the 1970s for me. Amazingly good songs with both tunes and lyrics. Last year, I purchased a pair of Magneplanar speakers for my 58th birthday. My old BIA CD sounded flat and listless on the new speakers. After a little research and reading a few blogs, I purchased an imported CD of Breakfast in America remastered in Germany. My goodness what a difference like night and day - same album, same songs, but a digital remaster at Sony Studios in Hamburg, Germany. After 38 years this album still sounds great - I just listened to it this past weekend.

Child of Vision, The Logical Song, Breaklfast in America, Gone Hollywood and Just Another Nervous Wreck all have a common them running through them. It speaks about the disillusionment in our materialistic society and our culture of consumption. In many ways, the album follows in the footsteps of another group, my all-time favorite and another seminal album of the early 1970s, Pink Floyd and Dark Side of the Moon.

Dark Side of the Moon and Breakfast in America, bookend the 1970s as two great and spectacular albums, by groups that both hit their pinnacles of achievement in the 1970s. I grew up as kid and teenager in the 1970s and these two albums capture my life and how my generation was lost during that era and only the music kept us going. As I approach my retirement, I will continue to listen to these albums of my life, over and over again, much to the chagrin of my wife. May the force be with you and live long and prosper.

Breakfast in America was an seminal album, which wrapped up the 1970s for me. Amazingly good songs with both tunes and lyrics. Last year, I purchased a pair of Magneplanar speakers for my 58th birthday. My old BIA CD sounded flat and listless on the new speakers. After a little research and reading a few blogs, I purchased an imported CD of Breakfast in America remastered in Germany. My goodness what a difference like night and day - same album, same songs, but a digital remaster at Sony Studios in Hamburg, Germany. After 38 years this album still sounds great - I just listened to it this past weekend. Child of Vision, The Logical Song, Breaklfast in America, Gone Hollywood and Just Another Nervous Wreck all have a common them running through them. It speaks about the disillusionment in our materialistic society and our culture of consumption. In many ways, the album follows in the footsteps of another group, my all-time favorite and another seminal album of the early 1970s, Pink Floyd and Dark Side of the Moon. Dark Side of the Moon and Breakfast in America, bookend the 1970s as two great and spectacular albums, by groups that both hit their pinnacles of achievement in the 1970s. I grew up as kid and teenager in the 1970s and these two albums capture my life and how my generation was lost during that era and only the music kept us going. As I approach my retirement, I will continue to listen to these albums of my life, over and over again, much to the chagrin of my wife. May the force be with you and live long and prosper.

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@althotos Well, it’s pretty hard to argue with a fellow boomer who bookends his musical formative years with Supertramp and Pink Floyd. About the latter's Dark Side of the Moon, in Vancouver they’d have midnight screenings at the Planetarium and we'd all drop acid and sit back in those groovy reclining chairs and watch the constellations go by as the theater's powerful sound system injected Pink Floyd's hypnotic soundtrack directly into our communal cerebral cortex.<br /> <br /> Yes, it was a time of uncertainty and strife, but that’s all part of being young. To have had the wherewithal to accept entirely new visions of what music could be, we teenaged boomers might have been a little too much in love with ourselves, but we knew a good thing when we heard it. And we still do. Our musical idols have more than stood the test of time.

Johntechwriteron October 03, 2018