This is a very confusing time. I suspect that this is just part of the process, and I am eternally grateful for a year ago when I began learning how to separate myself from my emotion. Thanks again, S. I will go no further.
I sincerely miss the days when country songs were this simple. At a workshop last Thursday, someone played a song by D0n Willi@ms. To me, his voice is the voice of country music - perhaps a shade behind Hank, Sr. but not by very much. I really appreciate this song of his tonight, and am truly going to try to write this simply tomorrow and hope someone gives a damn.
I am not normally one to post song lyrics, but I think these are just perfect. If you don't own this recording, do yourself and Don a favor and buy it. It will make a rainy night particularly valuable. It seems particularly valid right now, but I think it was and always will be valid. That's why I have loved it since I could walk.
I Believe in Y0u
(R0ger Cook/Sam Hogin)
Performed by Don Willi@ms
I don't believe in superstars
Organic food and foreign cars
I don't believe the price of gold
The certainty of growing old
That right is right and left is wrong
That north and south can't get along
That east is east and west is west
And being first is always best
But I believe in love
I believe in babies
I believe in Mom and Dad
And I believe in you
I don't believe that heaven waits
For only those who congregate
I like to think of God as love
He's down below, He's up above
He's watching people everywhere
He knows who does and doesn't care
And I'm an ordinary man
Sometimes I wonder who I am
But I believe in love
I believe in music
I believe in magic
And I believe in you
I know with all my certainty
What's going on with you and me
Is a good thing
It's true
I believe in you
I don't believe virginity
Is as common as it used to be
In working days and sleeping nights
That black is black and white is white
That Superman and Robin Hood
Are still alive in Hollywood
That gasoline's in short supply
The rising cost of getting by
But I believe in love
I believe in old folks
I believe in children
I believe in you
But I believe in love
I believe in babies
I believe in Mom and Dad
And I believe in you
PS (sorry) - Just sitting here reading this, fact-checking in my non-journalistic way, I read it again and said "Yeah. That's why I want to do this." And the town is telling me not to. That leads to confusion.
But damn, that's beautiful.
3 comments:
I was at the auto body shop the other day and the receptionist had country music playing at her desk. I heard a song called "Red Neck Yacht Club." It is quite possibly the worst thing I had ever heard...worse than any "pop" song on the radio.
Please do whatever you can to correct this abomination.
After hearing that song ALLLLLL SUMMMERRR LLOOOONNNNGGG, I actually don't hate it in principle as bad as I did at the beginning of the summer. Funny thing is, it's actually a suburban yacht club, because mobile homes generally don't float.
What's even sadder? Depending on which poll you believe, that song spent from 1-6 weeks at #1 this summer.
vviaozvv
And since when have you listened to what you "should" do in this lifetime? I think your blessedly refreshing stubbornness and refusal to abide by conformist rules should bleed eloquently into your writing. Do what you feel. It's enough.
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