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  • Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas.

  • Has it been five years ? Six ?

  • lt seems like a lifetime, the kind of peak that never comes again.

  • # Love is but a song we're singin' #

  • San Francisco in the middle '60s...

  • was a very special time and place to be a part of...

  • - but no explanation... - # We can make the mountains ring #

  • no mix of words or music or memories...

  • can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive...

  • in that corner of time in the world, whatever it meant.

  • # Though the bird is on the wing #

  • # And you may not know why #

  • There was madness in any direction...

  • - # Come on, people, now # - at any hour.

  • - # Smile on your brothers # - You could strike sparks anywhere.

  • # Everybody get together #

  • - # Try to love one another # - There was a fantastic universal sense...

  • that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.

  • And that, l think, was the handle.

  • # Some may come and some may go #

  • That sense of inevitable victory...

  • over the forces of old and evil.

  • Not in any mean or military sense-- we didn't need that.

  • Our energy would simply prevail.

  • We had all the momentum.

  • We were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.

  • - So now, less than five years later... - ## [ Continues ]

  • you can go up a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west...

  • and with the right kind of eyes...

  • you can almost see the high-water mark...

  • that place where the wave finally broke...

  • and rolled back.

  • - # Try to love one another right now ## - [ Waves Gently Crashing ]

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