Coming of age is a young person's transition from childhood to adulthood. The age at which this transition takes place varies in society, as does the nature of the transition. It can be a simple legal convention or can be part of a ritual, as practiced by many societies. In the past, and in some societies today, such a change are associated with the age of sexual maturity (Early-Adolescence); in others, it is associated with an age of religious responsibility. Particularly in western societies, modern legal conventions which stipulate points in late adolescence or early adulthood (most commonly 16-21 when adolescents are generally no longer considered minors and are granted the full rights of an adult) are the focus of the transition. In either case, many cultures retain ceremonies to confirm the coming of age, and significant benefits come with the change. (See also rite of passage.)
Coming of age is often a topic of fiction. In literature, a novel which deals with coming of age is called a bildungsroman. Similar stories told in film are called coming-of-age films.
David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961), more widely known by his stage name The Edge (or just Edge), is a musician best known as the guitarist, backing vocalist, and keyboardist of the Irish rock band U2. A member of the group since its inception, he has recorded 12 studio albums with the band and has released one solo record. As a guitarist, The Edge has crafted a minimalistic and textural style of playing. His use of a rhythmic delay effect yields a distinctive ambient, chiming sound that has become a signature of U2's music.
The Edge was born in England to a Welsh family, but was raised in Ireland after moving there as an infant. In 1976, at Mount Temple Comprehensive School, he formed U2 with his fellow students and his older brother Dik. Inspired by the ethos of punk rock and its basic arrangements, the group began to write its own material. They eventually became one of the most popular acts in popular music, with successful albums such as 1987's The Joshua Tree and 1991's Achtung Baby. Over the years, The Edge has experimented with various guitar effects and introduced influences from several genres of music into his own style, including American roots music, industrial music, and alternative rock. With U2, The Edge has also played keyboards, co-produced their 1993 record Zooropa, and occasionally contributed lyrics. The Edge met his second and current wife, Morleigh Steinberg, through her collaborations with the band.
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor degree at Barnard College in New York City, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University.
She was both a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and Western culture and a respected, if controversial, academic anthropologist. Her reports about the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures amply informed the 1960s sexual revolution. Mead was a champion of broadened sexual mores within a context of traditional western religious life.
An Anglican Christian, she played a considerable part in the drafting of the 1979 American Episcopal Book of Common Prayer.
Mead, the first of five children, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but raised in Doylestown. Her father, Edward Sherwood Mead, was a professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and her mother, Emily (Fogg) Mead, was a sociologist who studied Italian immigrants. Her sister Katharine (1906–1907) died at the age of nine months. This was a traumatic event for Mead, who had named this baby, and thoughts of her lost sister permeated her daydreams for many years. Her family moved frequently, so her early education alternated between home-schooling and traditional schools. Born into a family of varying religious outlooks, she searched for a form of religion that gave an expression of the faith that she had been formally acquainted with, Christianity. In doing so, she found the rituals of the Episcopal Church to fit the expression of religion she was seeking. Margaret studied one year, 1919, at DePauw University, then transferred to Barnard College where she earned her bachelor's degree in 1923.
Yeah...
Come experience... life as we know it
As some of you should know it, yeah, yeah
Place, Marcy, Brooklyn
Actions... well, y'all know the actions
Uhh, I got this shorty on my block always clockin my rocks
He likes the style and profile I think he wanna mock
He likes the way I walk, he sees my money talkin
to honies hawkin I'm the hottest nigga in New York and
I see his hunger pains, I know his blood boils
He wanna, run with me, I know this kid'll be loyal
I watched him make a few ends, to cop his little sneakers and gear
then it's just enough for re-up again
I see myself in his eyes, I moved from Levi's
to Guess to Versace, now it's diamonds like Liberace
That's just the natural cycle, nobody wanna be like Michael
where I'm from, just them niggaz who banned from a gun
We out here trying to make hard white into cohhhhld green
I can help shorty blow out like Afro-Sheen
Plus I can relive my days of youth which is gone
That little nigga's peeps, it's time to put him on
It's time to come up (and hold my own weight, defend my crown)
Gots to lock it down and when they rush (stand my ground)
It's time to come up (stick up my chest, and make some loot)
Gots to lock it down and when they rush (stand on my own two)
I'm out here slingin bringin the drama, tryin to come up
in the game and add a couple of dollar signs to my name
I'm out here servin disturbin the peace, life could be better
like my man reclined in plush leather seats
He's sellin weight, I'm sellin eight... balls
sixteen tryin to graduate to pushin quarters y'all
I ain't gon' sweat him I'ma let him come to me
If he give me the nod then these niggaz gon' see
I'm tired of bein out here round the clock
and breakin day, and chasin crackers up the block for my pay
I'm stayin fresh, so chickens check
I'm tryin to step up to the next level, pushin Vettes to the Jets
Diamonds reflect from the sun, directly in your equilibirum
and stunned I'm waitin for my day to come
I got the urge, to splurge, I don't wanna lifetime sentence
just give me the word
Hey fella I been watchin you clockin
Who me holdin down this block it ain't nothin
You the man nigga now stop frontin
Hahahh I like your style
Nah, I like YO' style
Let's drive around awhile
Cool nigga
Here's a thou'
A G? I ride witchu for free
I want the longterm riches and bitches
Have it all; now listen to me
You let them other niggaz get the name, skip the fame
Ten thou' or a hundred G keep yo' shit the same
On the low?
Yeah, the only way to blow
You let your shit bubble quietly
AND THEN YOU BLOW!
Hey keep your cool
The only way to peep a fool is let him show his hand
Then you play your cards
Then he through dealin I understand
Don't blow your dough on hotties
The only thing I got in this world is my word and my nuts
and won't break em for nobody!
Hah, I like resume, pick a day, you can start
Coming of age ain’t about what you do
It’s giving in to what’s predefined
When you trade all your dreams for compromise
It is never what you have in mind
One shot of happy, two shots of sad
That’s how our lives are aligned
The path that you chose has got highs has got lows
But it’s never what you have in mind
I must say that I still wonder why it disappears
Must say that I still wonder why
The years keep tumbling by
Coming of age ain’t about who you meet
It’s about the people who leave you behind
Your brothers, your parents, your lovers, your friends
It is never what you have in mind
One shot of happy, two shots of sad
We know we might run out of time
But when it comes to living, dying is the easy part
Not exactly what you had in mind
I really doubt that I’ll find out why it disappears
I really doubt that I’ll find out
What these years are all about
You might ask if these thoughts that I just summed up
Are of any importance to you
Maybe not but when things don’t turn out like you
planned
It helps to know that they never do
Besides, if each shot of happy
Comes with only two shots of sad
Then coming of age is not so bad
Then coming of age is not so bad
All my life I've been waiting
For someone like you
That I could believe in
All that I'm wanting, all that I'll say
Just take what confines us, we'll throw it away and
Say it
No need to hold, hold your tongue
Say it
It's just a question of, how we've come to this place of change
We're turning the page, we're coming of age
Today is the day, where choices are made, a coming of age
I know now, just what's worth fighting for
Is to stand on our own and finding our place in this world
Where there's no falling in line, no sense of regiment
No coloring words to hide what they really meant
And just say it
No need to hold, hold your tongue
Say it
It's just a question of, how we've come to this place of change
We're turning the page, we're coming of age
Today is the day, where choices are made, a coming of age
We can break these chains
Just take them in hand and tear them away
Tear them away
Be free
Say it
No need to hold, hold your tongue
Say it
It's just a question of, how we've come to this place of change
We're turning the page, we're coming of age
Today is the day
Where choices are made, a coming of age
We can break these chains
Just take them in hand and throw them away
Dressed to kill and
lookin’ dynamite
with her high-laced
stockings and her
sweater so tight
I asked her her name
she said her name was "Maybe"
Well she walked up to me
and she asked me to dance
I said, "I am lookin’
for some wild romance"
She gave me a wink
she said I should
think about it, maybe
She said, "What you got babe
is what I need
Your kind of love
got me on my knees"
I’m so tied up
What you got
got a hold on me
your kind of love
make a man outta me
I’m so tied up
you got me so fired up
(chorus)
Little sister hits the stage
She can’t help it
she’s coming of age
Little junior, he’s
all in a rage
Did you notice
she was comin’ of age?
If looks could kill
I’d be dead on the floor
You got me all tied up
honey, beggin’ for more
Somebody call a doctor
I think I’m goin’ crazy
She said, "What you got babe
is what I need
Your kind of love
got me on my knees"
I’m so tied up
What you got
got a hold on me
your kind of love
make a man outta me
I’m so tied up
you got me so fired up
Little sister hits the stage
She can’t help it
she’s coming of age
Little junior
he’s all in a rage
Did you notice she was
come, come, coming of
Wooh ooh ohh
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
(instrumental)
Little sister hits the stage
She can’t help it
she’s comin’ of age
Little junior
he’s all in a rage
Did you notice she was
come, come, coming of
(repeat)
She's come, come, coming of age
Yeah she come, she come, she come
Coming of age, don’t understand how I feel
I live for her smile, it makes my world reel
She’s always been there for me, she’s my best friend
In my heart I always see her face
Passion is raining down
Feelings have been concealed
Now the truth must be revealed
My eyes they speak to me
They tell me the time is now
To take her love and set the stage
The wheels are in motion somehow
My eyes they speak to me
They tell me the time is now
To take her love and set the stage
The wheels are in motion somehow
There came at once, a point in time
When we would understand
She is now a woman and I am now a man
The visions rage within, there is evidence of that
We’re all we ever had
This was a plan of divine circumstance
It is obvious our meeting was not by chance
My eyes they speak to me
They tell me the time is now
To take her love and set the stage
I'm fallin' in love
I'm fallin'
I'm fallin'
In love, with you
Girl, i'm fallin'
I'm fallin'
I'm fallin'
In love, with you
Girl i've really been thinking
Just let me ask you
How do you feel about being in love?
And what does love mean to you?
Funny you keep saying
Home alone we start playing?
That's what people think we do
When i'm alone with you
You whisper through the phone that you love me
Stop fooling me, it's on, listen to me
I don't want to scare you
But i've got to tell you
What is in my heart for you, Baby
(Chorus)
I'm fallin'
Said i'm fallin'
(i'm fallin'in love, with you)
I'm fallin'
In love, whith you
I'm fallin'
In love, in love with you baby
I'm fallin
(Bridge)
No, i don't mean to scare you
I'm fallin'in love, with you
Girl i just have to tell you
I'm fallin in love
Said i'm fallin in love with you
Girl you catch me staring
Into your eyes i'm fearing
You telling me that you believe
That i'm too serious for you
But now that i got your attention
I'm not ashamed girl to mention
All of the time that you held on to me
And whispered baby, baby love me
I can't tell you i love you
I can't stop thinking of you
Baby you see
I just go to tell ya
Just how much you mean to me
I'm fallin'
(Chorus)
Baby i don't want to play anymore
It's time to get serious girl
Let's get serious
Let's get serious
ooh, oh oh oh
Thank you mama
And to the rising sun i turn my head
I'm thinking of all the things that mama said
Oh, will i be ready to make it on my own?
She said boy be careful and watch what you do
Always be thankful, i'm telling you
Cos you never know, one day you might have to stand-
alone
She said be independent don't depend on no man
Take every emotions like a grain of sand
The road is hard but you can make it
If you take a stand
And i'll never forget it
(Chorus)
Sometimes when i'm down
I want to turn around (i want to turn around)
There's just so many things running through my head
(I look down the road)
I look down the road
(No no no no no no no)
How far can i go?
I think of all the things that mama said
As i thought to lay my head to rest
My mind is working hard to digest
all the missing pieces that she's given to me
She said child if you're flying you must down for a
landin
Lean not to your own understanding
If you got a hunch, ha, make sure that hunch is right
She said child walk alone if that's what you do
But always be open for a hand or two
If you listen to mama, my baby, you're gonna be alright
I'll never forget it
(Chorus)
The things mama said (Yeah)
No no no no no
I want to thank you for everything you did
(Chorus)
No no no no no
Thank you