Watching the Wheels by John Lennon
Some of you in the audience may recall that this was the song accompanying my solo portion of the slideshow from Marianella and my wedding (if you don't recall and you were at the reception that night, well. . .I won't hold it against you). I didn't realize it at the time, but it was released posthumously following Lennon's murder and was the final single released of Lennon's work.
While the song was Lennon's response to those who questioned his choice to take an extended sabbatical from recording new music in the late '70s, so he could raise his children, I have long identified with it for entirely different reasons. Specifically the lyrics, "people say I'm lazy, dreaming my life away" is an internal argument that I've been squaring away with much of my adult life. I've appreciated the sentiment from one of our musical luminaries that indeed, it's fine to sit back and watch shadows on the wall and wheels go round and round.
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