Big Al Holcombe: February 2012

One of Pops favs through the yrs.

Every generation Blames the one before And all of their frustrations Come beating on your door I know that I'm a prisoner To all my Father held so dear I know that I'm a hostage
To all his hopes and fears I just wish I could have told him in the living years Crumpled bits of paper Filled with imperfect thought Stilted conversations I'm afraid that's all we've got You say you just don't see it He says it's perfect sense You just can't get agreement In this present tense
We all talk a different language Talking in defence Say it loud, say it clear You can listen as well as you hear It's too late when we die To admit we don't see eye to eye So we open up a quarrel Between the present and the past We only sacrifice the future It's the bitterness that lasts So Don't yield to the fortunes
You sometimes see as fate It may have a new perspective On a different day And if you don't give up, and don't give in You may just be O.K.Say it loud, say it clear You can listen as well as you hear It's too late when we die To admit we don't see eye to eye I wasn't there that morning
When my Father passed away I didn't get to tell him All the things I had to say I think I caught his spirit Later that same year I'm sure I heard his echo In my baby's new born tears I just wish I could have told him in the living years Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear It's too late when we die To admit we don't see eye to eye

Phil Collins

My dad instilled a deep love for Phil Collins in me. I think this song summed up his life pretty well. This song along with the New World Son tune below I think allow you in to his life in a profound way. Lyrics under video

All Of My Life lyrics

All of my life, I've been searching

For the words to say how I feel.

I'd spend my time thinking too much

And leave too little to say what I mean

I've tried to understand the best I can

All of my life.

All of my life, I've been saying sorry

For the things I know I should have done

All the things I could have said come back to me

Sometimes I wish that it had just begun

Seems I'm always that little too late

All of my life

Set 'em up, I'll take a drink with you

Pull up a chair, I think I'll stay

Set 'em up, cos I'm going nowhere

There's too much I need to remember, too much I need to say

All of my life, I've been looking

But it's hard to find the way

Reaching past the goal in front of me

While what's important just slips away

It doesn't come back but I'll be looking

All of my life

Set 'em up...

All of my life, there have been regrets

That I didn't do all I could

Making records upstairs, while he watched TV

I didn't spend the time I should

It's a memory I will live with

All of my life

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Perhaps

I would like to think that in the recesses of my father's mind he felt like this songs describes. A lot of time I think he did. Of course never really had the outlet in his personality to show it. Scared of really giving himself over to trusting ppl who loved him. Fear of getting hurt? A built in shame that he could never put a face on and destroy. Countless failures due to this lack of faith in the family that wouldn't hurt him. I don't know I speak as a child that had a tumultuous relationship that never really got to where I wanted it to, but pretty close. So I post this song as a hope that he felt this way sometimes on weekends we spent together as a little man trying to please his daddy.

I Miss You Bro!

Big Al Holcombe

Please pause for a moment with a moment of silence....

21 gun salute

The Few. The Proud. The Marines.

Semper Fi Bro, Semper Fi. It has been said when your parents die

An ongoing evolving Tribute

One of Pops favs through the yrs.

Phil Collins

Big Al Holcombe Show

This video brought Bro so much Joy!

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Perhaps

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Thinking bout my daddy. Next Stop....

It is finished! posted by Big Al before He took flight,,,,