{"id":96,"date":"2022-01-03T19:22:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T19:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:20:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T18:20:04","slug":"family-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jlinnallen.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/03\/family-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"FAMILY MOMENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This song is sung by a brother, Ted, and sister, Stevie, who have a relationship of both intense attachment and acid rivalry at the same time. They are from a wealthy, intellectual but dysfunctional family which is under siege and in the process of breaking up, perhaps to be renewed in a better way, perhaps to be extinguished. I always liked the song for its bittersweet awareness of how ragile and crucial the sweet times in life can be. –J. Linn Allen<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFAMILY MOMENTS\u201d from <\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

THE ANARCHIST GIRL<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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STEVIE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

FAMILY MOMENTS SHOULD BE SWEET,<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

COMMON PLEASURES PASSED AROUND:<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DID WE SHARE SUCH MOMENTS?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TALKS THAT NEVER MISS A BEAT,<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WALKS ON OLD FAMILIAR GROUND<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WERE THERE MOMENTS LIKE THAT?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TED AND STEVIE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

IF WE DID, THEY CAME AND WERE GONE —<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOTHING REAL YOU\u2019D WANT TO RELY ON<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TED<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

SILLY GAMES ON RAMBLING TRIPS,<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

KNOWING LOOKS THAT MADE US GRIN,<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FLASHING BY SO QUICKLY.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WORDS THAT SPRANG TO ALL OUR LIPS,<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

STORIES WHERE WE ALL CHIMED IN:<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I CAN\u2019T SAY WHAT THEY WERE.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TED AND STEVIE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

STILL WE WANT TO SAVE SOUVENIRS —<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

THREE OR FOUR IN OUR MINDS WE CAN TREASURE<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ALTHOUGH WE WISH THEY\u2019D MEAN SOMETHING MORE<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

AND THEY WEREN\u2019T JUST SHAPES FADING IN A DUSTY ALBUM<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                         STEVIE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

YES I CAN SEE <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MEMORIES BUT SO VERY FEW<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MOSTLY THINGS WENT BADLY ASKEW<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TED<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

SADLY FOR ME<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TENSION SEEMED TO RULE<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I FEARED I WAS A FOOL<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SO I COPED BY BEING COOL<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TED AND STEVIE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

FEELINGS HAD TO BE SUPPRESSED<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOTHING WRONG COULD BE CONFESSED<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FAMILY SECRETS LEFT UNGUESSED<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BUT OH YES, I RECALL SOME GOOD TIMES <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LITTLE SCENES BACK THEN I CAN CHERISH.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SO WHY DOES THE BAD<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SPREAD OVER ALL WE HAD?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TED AND STEVIE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

THERE WERE MOMENTS, BUT SO RARE.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOW AND THEN I WONDER WHERE<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

THEY ALL WENT OR IF I CARE.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SHOULD I SIMPLY JUST ACCEPT<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

THEY WERE ONCE THERE.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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