Han and Luke

In keeping with my last blog on Star Wars and friendship, I dusted off, and reworked, an old song of mine with a Star Wars theme. I wrote it for Stu Roberts.

It’s sappy and sentimental. But some songs are like that. Hope you like it

https://vimeo.com/149767721

Han and Luke

Long, long ago…in a neighborhood far, far away…
My car was “The Falcon”
And you were Luke
And we lived out our childhood days.
Two boys named Stu
And a movie review
And the pledge to be friends for always
Looking back through the shadows
I can now see
What it all still means to me

Han Solo and Luke Skywalkerß
Flying through eons of space
Fighting the Empire of the Adult World
And living a blood brother’s grace
In that no-man’s land between childhood and man
We lived live like our time was a free
Han Solo and Luke Skywalker
You and me.

Short holidays that were gone in a blaze
Replaced the long days of before
We could relive the past
But that never lasts
And we we’d just get hungry for more
So we grew and we changed
And our lives rearranged
But the old pledge still carried us through
And after we changed and we grew
We could still remember…

Han Solo and Luke Skywalker
Flying through eons of space
Fighting the Empire of the Adult World
And living a blood brother’s grace
In that no-man’s land between childhood and man
We lived live like our time was a free
Han Solo and Luke Skywalker
You and me.

We went off to college
and got us some knowledge
But returned home will still the same brain
And now, the more things stay the same the more that they’ve changed
Because now my Falcon can’t get me round town
And now we’re both married and settled on down
And the free days are far…far away and in between.

But wherever we go and whatever we do
And whatever the distance between me and you
And whatever they call us, by professional names
And however successful and grown up life games
Some where in you and me
There will always be

Long, long ago…in a neighborhood, far, far away…