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A different time, a different world

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A different time, a different world

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So many times I catch myself saying things like: "when I was a kid, we didn't wear bike helmets, and somehow we lived", or "we only had like 3 channels, and I can remember how our first remote was on a cord" or "It used to be that only the kids who were good made the team and played, not everyone who showed up" and things like that.

Well, I was listening to the country station today (all my regular stations had commercials playing or were in 'talk morning' mode..and I was too lazy to dig out a CD).  The song that was playing was sung by a generic sounding country singer.  The song wasn't too exciting to listen to, but the lyrics were spot on.

I dug it up, and it's a Bucky Covington (which I guess was on American Idol at one time??) song called "A Different World".  Here are the lyrics: 

We were born to mothers who smoked and drank
Our cribs were covered in lead-based paint
No childproof lids
No seatbelts in cars
Rode bikes with no helmets
and still here we are
Still here we are

We got daddy's belt when we misbehaved
Had three TV channels you got up to change
No video games and no satellite
All we had were friends and they were outside
Playing outside

It was a different life
When we were boys and girls
Not just a different time
It was a different world

School always started the same everyday
the pledge of allegiance, then someone would pray
not every kid made the team when they tried
We got disappointed but that was alright


 

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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top
And oh yeah, by the way, if memory serves the part about lead-based paint on cribs would have been dealt with back in the 70s for sure.


Not really, terp. On new cribs, sure, but back when I was born, most parents were using cribs that had been handed down for twenty years or so.

And even if lead based paint had been dealt with, plastic with lead based coloring had not. As I mentioned on another thread, I was working with plastic with lead based coloring in 1996 for over two years before I was informed there was lead in the plastic.
Reply #27 from JoeUser Forums Top
What, you thought Bucky WROTE the song? Jennifer Hanson, Tony Martin, and Mark Nesler wrote it. However, I have no idea how old they are.
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Reply #28 from JoeUser Forums Top

What, you thought Bucky WROTE the song? Jennifer Hanson, Tony Martin, and Mark Nesler wrote it. However, I have no idea how old they are.

No.  I was certain that Bucky Covington didn't write it and that a team of hit-makers was responsible for the song.  My comments were in regards to my thinking that it's not a song that seems appropriate for a younger singer.  Again, if someone older sung the song, it would seem to be more autobiographical.  As is, with Bucky Covington singing it it *sounds* auto-biographical unless you know something about him.  If you are aware of his history and his age, then it seems out of place.

If it were coming from someone in the 40 - 55 age range, it would seem like that person was singing their own life story.

 

On a side note, are you aware that the song Mississippi Girl (Faith Hill sang it) wasn't written by Faith Hill?  Again, considering the lyrics, it is very auto-biographical.  But again, it was turned out by other writers and presented as a song that just had to be on her Fireflies album (CD).

Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top

If it were coming from someone in the 40 - 55 age range, it would seem like that person was singing their own life story.

You really don't have to be that old.  I am 35 and can relate to the song on how we grew up. It also depends on where you grew up.

album (CD).

Hehe...remember "records"..or 8-tracks...or the days of tapes?  I'm glad those days are gone.  CDs are so much better.  Oh, wait, I forgot MP3's!

 

Reply #30 from JoeUser Forums Top
I like the song, but can't help but think that there's no way that Bucky Covington lived through all of those things. Much of what is mentioned in the song happened or changed back in the 60's and 70's. Covington has to be all of 35 years old, if that (maybe 36 or 37 now since it's been a few years since he was on Idol), so chances he lived through a lot of what he's singing about are next to nil.


I moved to Puerto Rico in 1984 at the age of 8 and this song basically describes life in my small town almost perfectly. I lived there for 8 years so I guess I can say I did thru most if not all of those things. except maybe the smoking and drinking while pregnant part. But I did witness it myself. This gives Bucky a possibility of having experienced it, though I doubt it as well.
Reply #31 from JoeUser Forums Top
LOL, I'm pretty sure his mom did smoke and drink while pregnant and I'll bet he spent most of his days in a lead-paint-covered baby jail, chewing on the bars.

It explains him perfectly.
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Reply #33 from JoeUser Forums Top

, I'm pretty sure his mom did smoke and drink while pregnant and I'll bet he spent most of his days in a lead-paint-covered baby jail, chewing on the bars.

It explains him perfectly.

Oh, that wasn't nice. 

Reply #34 from JoeUser Forums Top

Can you really take anyone named Bucky too seriously?   I think the writers picked a lot of poor examples but I get the idea.  I was born in 1970 in BFE and can relate to pretty much all of it except my parents didn't smoke or drink.  They used to drive us around in the bed of a pickup while cutting down trees for firewood though.  They have creative memory about how safe they kept us though, or, they explain those things away with "things were different back then."

Now that they are grandparents, they see it fit to complain how dangerous it is to let out kids play in the front yard or walk to school even though they set us loose on 17acres of forest on our own (we could have died a million ways doing the stuff we did in the woods).

There are things I miss about the past but there are even more that I enjoy about the here and now.  I do miss being able to fix a car without a computer.  I miss the innocence that kids don't seem to be afforded these days.  But I don't think many of us would go back.