WE THREE: MY ECHO, MY SHADOW AND ME ( THE INK SPOTS) AND HOW PHYSICAL PHENOMENA PROVIDE YOU WITH COMPANY

 We three, we’re all alone

Living in a memory
My echo, my shadow, and me

We three, we’re not a crowd
We’re not even company
My echo, my shadow, and me

What good is the moonlight
The silvery moonlight that shines above?
I walk with my shadow
I talk with my echo
But where is the one I love?

We three, we’ll wait for you
Even till eternity
My echo, my shadow, and me

“We three we’re all alone. Seems like we’re livin’ in a memory.
That’s my echo my shadow and me.
We three we ain’t no crowd.
Fact is we ain’t even company.
That’s my echo my shadow and me.
You know I been wonderin’ what good is the
moonlight that silvery moonlight that shines way, way up above?
Yeah, I walk with my shadow, I talk with my echo, but where is that gal that I love?”

We three, we’ll wait for you
Even till eternity
My echo, my shadow, and me

We have a song this time. I discovered it listening the fantastic podcast by BobDylan and I also found out that this song, ´My echo, my shadow and me´ was popularized by Frank Sinatra earlier.

This is the way Physics accompanies you; if you want to talk, you have your echo, which is exactly a reflection of your sound waves. With regards to the shadow, can there be anything more faithful that your own shadow? To illustrate this wonderful optical phenomenon, you are bound to remember a little kid discovering his shadow for the first time.  There are two kinds of reaction to this discovery which even are two kinds of attitude to life: some of them run away desperately and others play with it, testing their capacity of imitation.

Someone could think that Philosophy, Art or Religion are also capable to accompany: with the soul. But the soul has the problem of its controversial existence and above all, that which Douglas Coupland wrote in The Gum Thief : ´I don´t deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know  because it hurts