Doctor My Eyes
Doctor, my eyes have seen the years And the slow parade of fears without crying Now I want to understand I have done all that I could To see the evil and the good without hiding You must help me if you can Now that I am able to withdraw funds from my IRA without penalty, I find that I am circling back to some of the music of my youth. Not surprising, really. There is a well-chronicled connection between music and memory. As the road ahead grows shorter and the miles pile up behind me, music is a great bridge to those traveled miles. The songs that resonate with me now perhaps weren’t favorites of mine at the time of their release, but they were there, playing along in the background. I’m currently fixated on Jackson Browne’s “Doctor My Eyes.” Included on his self-titled 1972 debut album, the song reached number 8 on the Billboard charts and established the songwriter as an emerging talent. He wrote the song in 1969. How
