A Year To The Day

A year to the day, I started working where I work now. Well, not right now, as it's my last day of vacations. There's a chance I'm attending the Pearl Jam concert later today... what a way to end the vacations time !!!

The post title is also one of the songs I like from "Van Halen 3". Here goes its full lyrics:

"I woke up to yet another day
Grown to expect, expect more of the same
Except for, for a subtle change
And that is, I'm slowly fading away

Harvest moon, soon will pass
Crop is gone, left only chaff
A bitter pill, and an overcast
A flag unfurled, at half mast
Ahhhhh...

A year to the day
Since you went away
A moment in time
When you were last mine
I'm here standing still
Yeah! With more time to kill
Hey! I barely survived
Yeah, I barely survived

Like pouring salt on an open wound
Memory filling, filling this empty room
I'm as bare, I'm as bare, as a barren womb
Still like the air, in a whitewash tomb
Ahhhhh...

A year to the day
Since you went away
A moment in time
When you were last mine
I'm here standing still
Hey! With more time to kill
I barely survived
Yes, I barely survived

A year to the day!
Year to the day!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
A year to the day!
Three sixty-five!
Three sixty-five, five, fiiive!
Ahhhhh..."

      in "A Year To The Day" by Van Halen

About this song, in their 1998 tour, Eddie's solo would begin in the middle of it, when he hits that artificial harmonic before the second chorus... instead of the chorus, the band would leave (for a beer, I suppose) while EVH would do "his" thing.

This song had a tentative title of "365" but was changed in the last minute. I still like that album although it seems that I'm alone in that regards. "Once", "From Afar" and "Without You" are my favorites.