“Way over yonder is a place I have seen
In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.”
Carole King (1942) Nasa
Way Over Yonder
Song lyrics, Tapestry (1971)
Way Over Yonder
Song lyrics, Tapestry (1971)
“Way over yonder is a place I have seen
In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.”
Carole King (1942) Nasa
Way Over Yonder
Song lyrics, Tapestry (1971)
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
Song lyrics, Paul Simon (1972)
Context: I'm on my way, I don't know where I'm goin',
I'm on my way, I'm takin' my time, but I don't know where.
Goodbye to Rosie, the Queen of Corona
See you, me and Julio down by the schoolyard.
“I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor
Incidentals (1904)
Variant: I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
Source: Breathing Tokens
“Now there's no *beeping* way in hell I'm gonna go over because I'm a little afraid of animals.”
Ben Kowalewicz (1975) musician
From "The Diary of Billy Talent":
“Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.”
Will Carleton (1845–1912) poet.
Over the Hill to the Poor-house (1872).
“I can bend my own rules way, way over, but there is a place where I finally stop bending them.”
John D. MacDonald (1916–1986) writer from the United States
Travis McGee series, The Turquoise Lament (1973)
Context: Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will. Integrity is not a search for the rewards of integrity. Maybe all you ever get for it is the largest kick in the ass the world can provide. It is not supposed to be a productive asset. Crime pays a lot better. I can bend my own rules way, way over, but there is a place where I finally stop bending them. I can recognize the feeling. I've been there a lot of times.
From now on, Lawton Hisp was not going to have a very nice life. They might never come after him, but it just wasn't going to be very joyous from now on.
Happy New Year, Mister Hisp.
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964), Boots of Spanish Leather
“Here I am
And I stand
So tall
Just the way I'm supposed to be
But you're on to me
And all over me”
Sara Bareilles (1979) American pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist
"Gravity"
Lyrics, Careful Confessions (2004)
“The world's in a bad way, my man,
And bound to be worse before it mends”
Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) American poet
"The Stars Go Over The Lonely Ocean" (1940)
Context: The world's in a bad way, my man,
And bound to be worse before it mends;
Better lie up in the mountain here
Four or five centuries,
While the stars go over the lonely ocean...
