Lyrics for (my) life

Today is going by kind of slowly, but I don't mind. I worked late last night, until 7. One of the girls in our department is on vacation, so I'm doing most of her job and all of mine this week. It's keeping me busy!

I am meeting ER and her roommate for margaritas after work, so I'm looking forward to that. :) And I just bought the Carrie Underwood cd last night. I listened to it once this morning, but I'm back to classic rock. I'll listen to it again after work. It's a really good cd.

My favorite song is called "I Ain't in Checotah Anymore." I feel like living in a city now and outside of Oklahoma, I can understand more of the song than if I were still there. Checotah is a small town in OK, and I've actually never been there, but the song talks about things like dragging Main on weekend nights, and we definitely did that in high school. (Actually, if you want to get technical, it was called "going uptown," and we drove in a four-block square around downtown. But still, it's the same idea.) The chorus of the song says: "I'm in a world so wide, it makes me feel small sometimes. I miss the big blue sky -- the Oklahoma kind." And I know exactly what she means! You can't see the stars here at night. You see ... airplanes. And buildings.

Then, there's the very first song on the cd, "Wasted." It reminds me a lot of my relationship with my college sweetheart. Everyone -- including us -- knew we didn't belong together. We broke up a zillion and one times, and we got back together a zillion. We went through a lot together. But it wasn't as good as it could have been, and I knew it. I just kept hoping it would get there. The lyrics of "Wasted" express it well:

"For once this second, she almost turned around.
But that would be like pouring rain back into a cloud.
So she took another step and said, 'I see the way out,
and I'm gonna take it.'

(chorus) I don't wanna' spend my life jaded,
Waiting to wake up one day and find
That I've let all these years go by
... Wasted"


And then, there's the new song. The one that's been played on the radio, evidently (I don't listen to country stations very often), "Some Hearts." It reminds me a lot of my relationship with K:
"Now who'd have thought someone like you could love me
You're the last thing my heart expected
Who'd have thought I'd ever find somebody
Someone who makes me feel like this

(chorus) Well I guess some hearts
They just get all the right breaks
Some hearts have the stars on their side
Some hearts, they just have it so easy
Some hearts just get lucky sometimes
Some hearts just get lucky sometimes."


Don't you just love songs that make you feel like the lyrics apply to your life?