4th of July

Lately I have been listening to this song by Shooter Jennings* called "4th of July"**. There is a line in the chorus that I really liked, "You were as pretty as can be, sittin' in the front seat, Lookin' at me. tellin' me you love me and you're happy to be with me on the 4th of July." I thought is was a great line in a song about traveling across the country and having a good time together. While my iPod says I have only listened to it 22 times it feels like I have listened to it more. Anyway, I really like this song.

So yesterday I was trying to figure out one of the words in the song so I looked up the lyrics and boy was I surprised. Here is the first verse of the song:

Alone with the morning burning red on the canvas in my head
Painting a picture of you
And me driving across country, in a dusty old RV
Just the road and its majesty
And I'm looking at you with the world in the rear view

So it turns out that this song is about a guy driving across the country alone using his imagination to remember a beautiful woman he used to know and love. I know Barney would be proud. It was funny but I think I started to like the song even more. This reminded me of so many trips to Utah, "just the road and its majesty," and remembering some of the good times with the fabulous women I have loved and yet they are not here and I am alone. I think I might try to make this the ring tone on my phone...

*Warning, this site contains ASCII character based graphics that only an old nerd would love and a bunch of people acting like hippies. Enter at your own risk!

**Warning, this video contains a bunch of young people acting like hippies. Watch at your own risk!