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[MoVolvos]

Ooof. He wasn’t aging well in 2004.

There are way too many artists who don’t retire gracefully and think they are still in their heyday…

Billy Joel for example.

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When you think you have everything in life to make life good, you'll forget what is really needed to make life good and function.

Metabolic Syndrome was top on my mind. Can have MS for years before the damage kicks in. Ask me how I know as I begin my 3rd year without insulin and no Metformin even though this runs on Dad's side of the family. Was able to get Dad off his Metformin after using it for probably 20 years. I have no penchant for alcohol but not against it even on a daily basis for health. Chinese medicine and even Biblical medicine allows for it. Even the Queen of England had her daily drinks.
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In his 2016 autobiography, Collins acknowledged that he had struggled with alcoholism following his retirement and third divorce. At that point he also stated that he had been sober for three years.[278]

In January 2017, Collins said he was a type 2 diabetic and had received treatment with a hyperbaric chamber after developing a diabetic abscess on his foot that became infected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Collins
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I salute anyone who struggles with addiction, but it’s hard to be sympathetic at the same level, to the rock star crowd with unlimited resources, vs a guy dealing with real world stress at home, with a W2.

[MoVolvos]

I salute anyone who struggles with addiction, but it’s hard to be sympathetic at the same level, to the rock star crowd with unlimited resources, vs a guy dealing with real world stress at home, with a W2.

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You are correct at 72 currently, he looks a worn 90ish. Dad is 93 and looks much better than him. He sat to sing in his latest final tour.
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[MoVolvos]

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Perhaps by weeks end and next week it'll feel like it .
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You know this is good when the kids like it and thinks it's a fun song.
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[matthew1]

[MoVolvos]

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Could find the link to issues with the MVS so will mention it here. System still Logging me out frequently but shown being signed in by the Green Dot.
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Silver sands of Saint Augustine
Fire in the ground
Between my bitter teeth
We're dancing on the poisoned in their graves
At the end of the night
We'd all seen better days

I know you tried
I know you're cursed
I know your best was still your worst
When Hollywood was calling out your name
Saint Augustine

If I stayed behind
Would you let your hair grow?
I will forget
The favors that you owe
I'm dreaming of car wrecks and thunderstorms so bright
Let's bury ourselves
And go haunt someone tonight

I know you tried
I know you're cursed
I know your best was still your worst
When Hollywood was calling out your name
Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine
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You can delete this if you wish Matt as it does reference the life of Augustine.
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Found this meaning of the song.

https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/353 ... 858582724/

"I think the St. Augustine referred to in the song might be the actual person. He was converted to Christianity, embraced it as truth, and became a saint, but eventually left this sect of religion. Although he no longer practiced Christianity, he could not bring himself to refute his testimony about what he believed to be true.

I don't think this song is religious, but I do think it is about someone who turned their back on the narrator just as St. Augustine turned on religion. Although the subject has abandoned either this love, familial tie, or friendship for something completely opposite, he or she cannot deny this past relationship. "Hollywood" could either refer to the actual place. It could also have a metaphorical meaning because Hollywood is geographically opposite of St. Augustine within the continental United States, just as the subject is completely opposite of the person they used to be.

"I know you tried I know you're cursed I know your best was still your worst When Hollywood was calling out your name Saint Augustine"

That part gets me every time."
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I like this meaning to the song but I couldn't find in his Wiki that he turned his back on his faith. So "Hollywood" being the world, opposite of his new life still draws him and brings him down in the inner man, as in line with the experience of the Apostle Paul, but ultimately he overcomes by his faith in Christ (not mentioned in the song).

Romans 7:24
24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
25Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

Good song and lyrics but I wouldn't say as the song interpreter that it's not religious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo

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