Gone Fishing -- Chris Rea

Guest poem sent in by G. Balakrishnan

(Poem #1415) Gone Fishing I'm going fishing I got me a line Nothing I do is gonna make a difference So I'm taking my time And you ain't never gonna be happy Anyhow, anyway So, I'm going fishing And I'm going today I'm going fishing Sounds crazy I know I know nothing about fishing But just watch me go And when my time has come I will look back and see Peace on the shoreline That could have been me You can waste a whole lifetime Trying to be What you think is expected of you But you'll never be free May as well go fishing -- Chris Rea

Chris Rea, unfortunately is not too popular, at least in the circles I have
moved around in.  However I really feel that he is one incredible song writer.

'Gone Fishing' somehow for me conveys a sense of total freedom. It's a
different sort of feeling when you just let yourself go at something especially
if you have never done it before and know nothing about it. In addition the
song also has this subtle carefree attitude towards a lot of mundane things we
end up doing day in and day out without really ever stopping and looking at
them objectively.

Govind

Chris Rea website:
  [broken link] http://www.helsinki.fi/~wikgren/chrisrea.html