One of These Days

Big Frank has been thinking about all the good friends he's known. Neil Young's great song "One of These Days" immediately came to mind. Big Frank has included it below. One of the beautiful things about this song is how it avoids sentimentality and captures the wistful woebegone nature of friendship at a distance, friendship in memory, and like memory lying there, just waiting to be accessed and retrieved. How many times have we all thought about that friend that we haven't seen or heard from in months or sometimes even years. We tell ourselves that we are going to pick up the phone, or send an e-mail . . . one of these days. This song expresses that moment wonderfully well. Big Frank has put on some miles in his life and he has friends scattered like leaves from Washington to to Florida to Arizona to Colorado to Minnesota to Texas to Indiana to California to North Dakota to New York to Poland to Hungary to Singapore to Japan and they are all going to get that long letter - or more likely that long phone call . . . one of these days . . and it won't be long.

One of These Days

One of these days,
I'm gonna sit down and write a long letter
To all the good friends I've known
And I'm gonna try
And thank them all for the good times together.
Though so apart we've grown.

One of these days,
I'm gonna sit down and write a long letter
To all the good friends I've known
One of these days, one of these days, one of these days,
And it won't be long, it won't be long.

And I'm gonna thank,
That old country fiddler
And all those rough boys
Who play that rock 'n' roll
I never tried to burn any bridges
Though I know I let some good things go.

One of these days,
I'm gonna sit down and write a long letter
To all the good friends I've known
One of these days, one of these days, one of these days,
And it won't be long, it won't be long.

From down in L.A.
All the way to Nashville,
From New York City
To my Canadian prairie home
My friends are scattered
Like leaves from an old maple.
Some are weak, some are strong.

One of these days,
I'm gonna sit down and write a long letter
To all the good friends I've known
One of these days, one of these days, one of these days,
And it won't be long, it won't be long.

One of these days, one of these days, one of these days,
And it won't be long, it won't be long.

--- Neil Young