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Pity Party Alert! Proceed With Caution. “He’s not Really Heavy: He’s my Brother; I Can Manage.”

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“You ain’t heavy; I got ya Bro’. Hang in.”

Posted for Teela

And for Madelyn

https://texantales.com/2021/03/10/madelyn/

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Here is a no shitter story:

I talked to my “ever-so-cool” step-sister Madelyn, back in the Seventies about this song.

She said to me,

“Lance, what does this song mean to you?”

I said (thirteen years old), I said, “It’s about some dude carrying his brother out of a war zone in a desert, and some guy comes up and says, ‘Is he heavy?'”

And the dude says, “No. He’s my brother.”

Madelyn shook her head while letting out a heavy sign and then just left me there, all alone, wondering why I was not cool.

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Finally!

I have been made ‘whole’ again.

My initial Instincts validated.

Wishing my Belov’d Madelyn were still here.

So I could show her what I found (Purely by accident) today.

Missing her.

“Dear Madelyn, See? I was cool all along.”

(June 2021)

He’s not Really Heavy: He is my Brother; I Can Manage.

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“You ain’t heavy; I got ya Bro’. Hang in.”

Posted for Teela

And for Madelyn

https://texantales.com/2021/03/10/madelyn/

***

Here is a no shitter story:

I talked to my “ever-so-cool” step-sister Madelyn, back in the Seventies about this song.

She said to me,

“Lance, what does this song mean to you?”

I said (thirteen years old), I said, “It’s about some dude carrying his brother out of a war zone in a desert, and some guy comes up and says, ‘Is he heavy?'”

And the dude says, “No. He’s my brother.”

Madelyn shook her head while letting out a heavy sign and then just left me there, all alone, wondering why I was not cool.

“Heavy” had some subliminal meaning in the Seventies

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Finally!

I have been made ‘whole’ again.

My initial Instincts validated.

Wishing my Belov’d Madelyn were still here.

So I could show her what I found (Purely by accident) today.

Missing her.

“Dear Madelyn, See? I was cool all along.”

(June 2021)

Madelyn!

I MISS YOU SO MUCH!

I WILL ALWAYS BE YOUR BROTHER

He’s not Really Heavy: He is my Brother; I Can Manage.

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For My Sister

“You ain’t heavy; I got ya Bro’. Hang in.”

Posted for Teela

And for Madelyn

https://texantales.com/2021/03/10/madelyn/

***

Here is a no shitter story:

I talked to my “ever-so-cool” step-sister Madelyn, back in the Seventies about this song.

She said to me,

“Lance, what does this song mean to you?”

I said (thirteen years old), I said, “It’s about some dude carrying his brother out of a war zone in a desert, and some guy comes up and says, ‘Is he heavy?'”

And the dude says, “No. He’s my brother.”

Madelyn shook her head while letting out a heavy sign and then just left me there, all alone, wondering why I was not cool.

***

****

Finally!

I have been made ‘whole’ again.

My initial Instincts validated.

Wishing my Belov’d Madelyn were still here.

So I could show her what I found (Purely by accident) today.

Missing her.

“Dear Madelyn, See? I was cool all along.”

(June 2021)

Vid cred: sunryse111

Vid cred: The United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own”