Innocent Man by Billy Joel. Story by Cher Finver, with The Stereo Stories Band
Listen to Cher Finver of Nevada narrate her story about Innocent Man, backed by The Stereo Stories Band.
Listen to Cher Finver of Nevada narrate her story about Innocent Man, backed by The Stereo Stories Band.
Here and now, a deer disappears over the distant mound. Three ducks peacefully paddle, winding their way ahead of the flowing waterfall gently calling me towards the steep terrain of my nightmares.
Occasionally the tensions in the house would boil over.Ā Our mother would pick a fight over the dinner.Ā Our father would try his best to be diplomatic, interpreting for each of the women as to what they may have meant.Ā We would slink away, hiding in favourite places until things had simmered down.
I am free to find new horizons and make them mine. I am more than my bullies ever imagined and becoming more with each passing day. I refuse to let the past define me.
While the song plays I remember being a wispy 14-year-old who bought batik scarves from the forbidden head shop in town. I twisted them into halter tops which I wore under more demure shirts until I was safely out of the house.
As a Bowie aficionado Jack couldnāt hold a candle to Dennis, but this track burns deep at the best of times, and obliterates him in the worst. Such as now.
Iād drive all night with my brother if I could. It would be escapism of a sort but also a rare chance to spend time, a long time, together. Weād pack sandwiches and snacks and drinks. Chocolate. A football. Some of Peterās surfboards.
Here in my city Iām fretting after my father, lost in the aftermath of a stroke and the creeping invasion of inoperable cancer.
David Oke Belmont, Geelong; November 1998 It was a rite of passage to spend a weekend with Dad as we travelled on a McHarrys coach from Geelong to a country Victorian destination with the International Harvester Choir.
Rick Kane Perth, April 2006 Someone asked, āWhereās the music?ā This would be the cathartic moment. This would be where the pain flowed out as the love poured in.