Today is My Birthday

[Rot 911]

49 today. Where in the hell has all the time gone? This song's for me and everyone else that are no longer the young lions.

Stood there boldly
Sweatin’ in the sun
Felt like a million
Felt like number one
The height of summer
I’d never felt that strong
Like a rock

I was eighteen
Didn’t have a care
Working for peanuts
Not a dime to spare
But I was lean and
Solid everywhere
Like a rock

My hands were steady
My eyes were clear and bright
My walk had purpose
My steps were quick and light
And I held firmly
To what I felt was right
Like a rock

Like a rock, I was strong as I could be
Like a rock, nothin’ ever got to me
Like a rock, I was something to see
Like a rock

And I stood arrow straight
Unencumbered by the weight
Of all these hustlers and their schemes
I stood proud, I stood tall
High above it all
I still believed in my dreams

Twenty years now
Where’d they go?
Twenty years
I don’t know
Sit and I wonder sometimes
Where they’ve gone

And sometimes late at night
When I’m bathed in the firelight
The moon comes callin’ a ghostly white
And I recall
Recall

Like a rock. standin’ arrow straight
Like a rock, chargin’ from the gate
Like a rock, carryin’ the weight
Like a rock

Lihe a rock, the sun upon my skin
Like a rock, hard against the wind
Like a rock, I see myself again
Like a rock

[JTO]

Hi Kurt,
Happy Birthday! Yeah, even now I feel a little beat day to day. I'm 37, three kids, struggling to make our life full, happy and safe. If it wasn't for love, this would be just plain toil.

The thing that gets me up every morning is the aspiration for a better future. I don't want to work for someone else until I'm ready to retire, and be exposed to the employers whims. So, I will change my future into what I want. Independance, prosperity, healthy family, P-cars, racing. The good stuff.
Sorry Kurt for the dribble. The lyrics just got me thinking how I don't want to look back with fondness but look forward with anticipation!

Happy Birthday!

Troy

[Overpaid Slacker]

Happy Birthday, Kurt. All the best.

JP

[Shuie]

Happy B-day Kurt!

[Evans, Marv]

Happy birthday Kurt! Just keep the petal to the metal. You still have plenty of time and life left. I'll be turning 62 in a little over a month & am still living life at full speed & plan to until it stops. It's not those who die with the most toys who win, but those who take every chance to live every part of life they enjoy to the max who win.

[nostatic]

if its any consolation, Bob Seeger is older than you.

but you're old...

oh wait, I'm 42. And catching up fast.

My new philosophy is to realize that in 5 years I"ll look back and say, "man I wish I'd done xxx 5 years ago." So do it now while you're "young".

happy b-day. At least you're not 50

[island911]

Happy Birthday, Kurt .. .Rock on.

[speeder]

Happy birthday, big brother, from another Gemini. I turned 45 two weeks ago. Seems like yesterday "My Sharona" was on the charts and I was serving pitchers of beer to drunk-ass jocks at my college bartending job @ U of Minnesota. Oh well, sigh.........

If it's any consolation, I heard recently that "50 is the new 40".

[tabs]

HE HE HE HE HE....Just think you have less years to go than allready have passed.... Oh Tabby Your such a joy to be around... And just remember it's never gona be better health wise than it is right now...one foot on a banana peel and the other in the grave...so smoke, drink, fk and be mary while you still can... Happy B DaY kURT...

[Kevin Taylor]

Happy Birthday Kurt. Now grab that bright orange vest and go for a cycle ride.

K.T.
1973 911 E 2.4 MFI
1965 Devin - 1967 912 Power Plant

[singpilot]

Come back in a year and see if you still feel like a rock (without the little blue pill).


Happy Birthday!

[island911]

LOL . . .though I thought they were purple. . .the pill, not "the rock" thing. . "the little purple pill" ? . . or is that Clarinex? . . .which one is for memory?

[}{arlequin]

Happy Birthday!

[Kevin Taylor]

You said your birthday is 6 / 18 / 1955
which means you are 49 years old and about:
38 years 7 months younger than Walter Cronkite, age 87
35 years 1 month younger than Pope John Paul II, age 84
31 years 0 months younger than George Herbert Bush, age 80
23 years 9 months younger than Barbara Walters, age 72
21 years 7 months younger than Larry King, age 70
15 years 4 months younger than Ted Koppel, age 64
11 years 11 months younger than Geraldo Rivera, age 60
8 years 11 months younger than George W. Bush, age 57
3 years 11 months younger than Jesse Ventura, age 52
0 years 4 months older than Bill Gates, age 48
5 years 2 months older than Cal Ripken Jr., age 43
11 years 0 months older than Mike Tyson, age 37
15 years 1 month older than Jennifer Lopez, age 33
20 years 6 months older than Tiger Woods, age 28
27 years 0 months older than Prince William, age 21



and that you were:
46 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America
44 years old on the first day of Y2K
42 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash
39 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
38 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
37 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center
35 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
34 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
30 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
28 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
28 years old during Sally Ride's travel in space
25 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
24 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began
21 years old on the U.S.'s bicentennial Fourth of July
19 years old when President Nixon left office
16 years old when Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot
14 years old at the time the first man stepped on the moon
12 years old when Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated
10 years old during the Watts riot
8 years old at the time President Kennedy was assassinated
4 years old when Hawaii was admitted as 50th of the United States
2 years old when the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 was launched


K.T.
1973 911 E 2.4 MFI
1965 Devin - 1967 912 Power Plant

[Kevin Taylor]

You said your birthday is 6 / 18 / 1955
which means you are 49 years old and about:
22 years 4 months younger than Yoko Ono, age 71
14 years 1 month younger than Bob Dylan, age 63
11 years 11 months younger than Mick Jagger, age 60
10 years 3 months younger than Eric Clapton, age 59
7 years 1 month younger than Stevie Nicks, age 56
0 years 4 months older than David Lee Roth, age 48
3 years 2 months older than Madonna, age 45
6 years 8 months older than Jon Bon Jovi, age 42
11 years 9 months older than Billy Corgan, age 37
14 years 9 months older than Mariah Carey, age 34
18 years 11 months older than Alanis Morissette, age 30
26 years 5 months older than Britney Spears, age 22



and when these songs were topping the charts
and these events occurred your age was:
Don't be Cruel, Elvis Presley: 1
American Bandstand first airs nationally: 2
Tequila, The Champs: 2
Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper die in a plane crash: 3
The Twist, Chubby Checker: 5
Big Bad John, Jimmy Dean: 6
Sherry, The 4 Seasons: 7
The Beatles first appear live on The Ed Sullivan Show: 8
Downtown, Petula Clark: 9
The 8 track tape player first offered in 1966 Fords: 10
To Sir with Love, Lulu: 12
Hey Jude, The Beatles: 13
Woodstock Music Festival: 14
Me and Bobby McGee, Janis Joplin: 15
ABC TV premieres In Concert: 17
Time in a Bottle, Jim Croce: 18
I Shot the Sheriff, Eric Clapton: 19
Silly Love Songs, Wings: 20
Elvis Presley Dies: 22
Do Ya Think I'm Sexy, Rod Stewart: 23
Another Brick in the Wall, Pink Floyd: 24
John Lennon is shot to death: 25
MTV makes its debut: 26
Who Can it be Now, Men at Work: 27
The recording of We Are The World: 29
Walk Like an Egyptian, Bangles: 31
Didn't We Almost have it all, Whitney Houston: 32
Back In The U.S.S.R. is released exclusively in Russia: 33
Nothing Compares 2 U, Sinead O'Connor: 34
Emotions, Mariah Carey: 36
Fleetwood Mac perform at Bill Clinton's inauguration: 37
The Sign, Ace Of Base: 38
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opens: 40

K.T.
1973 911 E 2.4 MFI
1965 Devin - 1967 912 Power Plant

[singpilot]

That's just a little a little more information than I wanted to know.

[joehahn]

KURT??? WTF??? 49??? you old toad.

you need more cowbell!

joe 68 L

[nostatic]

Originally posted by joehahn
you need more cowbell!

LOL....we *all* need more cowbell.

[12own911]

Happpppppyyyyyyyyyy Birthdayyyyyyyyyyy!!!

[Zeke]

I played ol' Bob's song proudly when I was 49 and still framing houses. I had a 35 inch waist then and still do. You're young. Happy birthday!