“Were captive on the carousel of time
We cant return we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and roundIn the circle game”
“Take your time, it won’t be long now
Till you drag your feet to slow the circles down”
“Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true
There’ll be new dreams, maybe better dreams and plenty
Before the last revolving year is through”
Circle Gamw by Joni Mitchell
As I sat at the computer today during lunch, I was reading Fragments From Floyd archives when I heard the Circle Game come on the computer. I first heard that song in a movie back around 1972 at the Lowe’s Delman Theatre on Main St. in Houston. The movie was Butterflies Are Free and the singer on the soundtrack was Buffy Sainte-Marie,
Every time I hear that song it pulls me back to an earlier time when it was all ahead of me, now after 34 years I find the words a little more prophetic.