Right Now

By Van Halen

Don’t wanna wait til tomorrow,
Why put it off another day?
One more walk through problems,
Built up, and stand in our way ,ah
One step ahead, one step behind me
Now you gotta run to get even
Make future plans, don’t dream about yesterday, hey
C’mon turn, turn this thing around
Right now, hey
It’s your tomorrow
Right now,
C’mon,it’s everything
Right now,
Catch a magic moment, do it
Right here and now
It means everything
Miss the beat, you lose the rhythm,
And nothing falls into place, no
Only missed by a fraction,
Slipped a little off your pace, oh,
The more things you get, the more you want,
Just trade in one for the other,
Workin so hard, to make it easier, whoa,
Got to turn, c’mon turn this thing around
Right now, hey
It’s your tomorrow
Right now,
C’mon, it’s everything
Right now,
Catch that magic moment, do it
Right here and now
It means everything
It’s enlightened me, right now
What are you waitin for
Oh, yeah, right now

[Solo]

Right now, hey
It’s your tomorrow
Right now,
C’mon, it’s everything
Right now,
Catch that magic moment, and do it right,
Right now
Right now, oh, Right now
It’s what’s happening?
Right here and now
Right now
It’s right now
Oh,
Tell me, what are you waiting for
Turn this thing around

Lyrics by: Alex Van Halen, Sammy Hagar, Edward Van Halen, Michael Anthony

The snow falls outside, on a mildly chilled autumn day.  Rooftops are covered in a sheet of white.  The roads are merely wet.  The ground is still warm.  Today is a “warm up” for the cold months to come.  I feel gratitude for seasonal change.  The tilt of the earth’s axis, the movement of the jet stream, the thermal dance of atmospheric layers all conspire to stimulate, to immunize against a somnolence of stasis.  Stasis, that steady state, cessation of movement — another word for death.

You wouldn’t want to join the Walking Dead would you?

Don’t you love this tune?  Eddie Van Halen (January 26, 1955 – October 6, 2020) still speaks