Well the World Don't Move to the Beat of Just One Drum...

Pre-song quiz:  Who are the "two" referred to in the lyrics?

 What might be right for you may not be right for some...

A Man is born!  He's a man of needs/means (u pick 'em), then along come two; they got nothing but their genes/jeans...

But they got, different strokes (and it takes... ) diff'rent strokes, (yes it takes), diff'rent strokes to Move the World.

Everybody's got a special kind of story.  Everybody finds a way to shine...

It don't matter that you got... not a lot; so what? They'll have theirs, and you'll have yours and I'll have mine... ... ...*

Cuz it takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world, yes it does, it takes... Diff'rent Strokes to move the world!

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 A.  Arnold and Willis, who joined Mr. Drummond and Kimberly **and Charlotte Rae as the nanny, before she went on to be the house mother for the Facts of Life girls...

*   very "middle child" those lyrics... *you probably don't get what I mean unless you are a balancing middle child.  We're often given more freedoms too, or we take them rather, as it's easier to lose track of us... -)  Not sure if that's true today in the higher-surveillance state, but then again, it is rarer to have true middle children in bigger families (ie/more than 3.  I don't think it works/holds so much balancing power if you just have one in the middle...** 

(I'f you're a first, last or only, nevermind. I'm not even certain all middle children experience this, but it kind of affect how you live your life and see distributions, I think...  Think of some GenXs as middle children, if you do understand what I'm hitting at here... We'll never have "the numbers" or the artificial power that often accompanies that, so we have to find other, more efficient ways to work -- not "win"...)

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If you think about it, Gary Coleman was a bit of the consummate artist in the same way Walter Payton = the consummate athlete.  Both transcended their dimunitive physical forms to find something greater that lived on much past their biological time on Earth, by giving heir all to their chosen crafts.  Walter the player was so much greater than Walter the mortal man.  And Arnold Drummond lent more to his cultural times -- paving the way, with Bill Cosby to racial acceptance -- than any of Gary Coleman's other roles.  They lived and grew greater in their work.

 

**..................  and Together, We'll Be Fine! *** (buried the lede in those lyrics, they did.) 

*** You have to shout/skreetch that part when you sing aloug, btw... Builds morale. ;-)