In My Arms Instead

by

Randy Rogers Band

All the leaves have turned to rust
The air is getting thin
I can see my breath
The night is rolling in

The sky is grey
It’s cold as a stone
It’s just the kind of day
I can’t stand to be alone

Cause you, you’ve been on my mind
And I wish you were here
Beside me tonight lying in this bed
Cause I, I’m just not the same
I walk down these streets; I swear I hear your name
But it’s just in my head
I wish you were in my arms instead

I wasn’t thinking about you
When I thought I saw your car
I can’t escape you for long
You know I never get too far

You’re everywhere I go
Cause you’re everywhere I’ve been
You’re everything I’ve wanted
And I want you back again

Cause you, you’ve been on my mind
And I wish you were here
Beside me tonight lying in this bed
Cause I, I’m just not the same
I walk down these streets; I swear I hear your name
But it’s just in my head
I wish you were in my arms instead

I have to find a way, That’s just how it is
I’m stuck here in this place

Cause you, you’ve been on my mind
And I wish you were here
Beside me tonight lying in this bed
Cause I, I’m just not the same
I walk down these streets; I swear I hear your name
But it’s just in my head
I wish you were in my arms instead

I have had this song stuck in my head all week, so I figure what the heck I'll use it for my blog post. This is just one of the many reason I love the Randy Rogers Band. I have always liked this song a whole lot but until I watched the music video I had a completely different veiw of it. The lyrics for this song are pretty self explanitory on what he wants. He obviously wants the woman he loves to be with him and he misses her dearly. Now the twist that threw me through a loop about this song was the fact that originally I had just thought it was just another song about a man losing a woman and moping about with some minor chords, but then I watched the music video. Through the whole video I just kept confirming to myself my original thoughts until it reached the end, and as he sang the last line "I wish you were in my arms instead" a tombstone flashed across the screen. At that moment my heart just dropped, I couldn't help but think how selfish and closed minded I had been I honestly wonder if there is a real story behind this song.

Broken Window Serenade

by

Whiskey Myers

A couple of pretty flowers
Is what I brought I to you
I saw you through a broken window
With a different point of view

You had signs of depression
From a long line of sin
And your face tells a story
Bout the places you have been
I love you so,
I thought you should know

And that muddy waters flowin
As you take my hand
Past the creek down by the holler
Through your daddies land
I could buy you a diamond
But I cannot change your world
Cuz I aint got no money
Youll never be my girl no no
I thought you should know

You was gonna be a singer
Or be a movie star
But you cant catch no breaks baby
And Hollywood is hard

Now you work down at the time out
Off 155
And youre dancing for your dollar
Just tryin to stay alive
It hurts me so
I thought you should know


You feed your addiction
With your crystal meth
And I plea for your life
as it takes you to your death

You make your deal with the devil
As your looks begin to fade
I saw you laughin through the tears
As you slowly slipped away
I watched you go
I thought you should know
Yeah I watched you go
I thought you should know

That cold rain is pourin
As they lower you in a grave
I can barely recognize you
In your fragile state

No more signs of depression
From a long time ago
I throw in a pretty flower
As they slowly laid you low, it was a rose
I thought you should know
Yeah it was a rose
I thought you should know

A couple of pretty flowers is what I brought to you
I saw you through a broken window
With a different point of view..

I have always loved Whiskey Myers which is why I find it so hard to bevieve that I have just now discovered this song within the last week or so. I absolutly love this song, and it is by far one of their best songs. I believe this song is about a man who believes he loves this girl and I think they even had something to begin with but it slowly grew apart. I think he still loves her though which is why he cant get over her and which is why he had essentially followed her entire life. He cant help but just watch as she strives to go out for bigger and better things but the only thing that comes out of it is an even harder life. This almost reminds me of Jennies charactor in the movie "Forest Gump" but instead of coming back and getting better her life is taken by the choices that she has made. This is really a tragic song, he has lost the woman he loves but no matte where she went or what she did he still loved her to the very end. . . to bad he never stepped up maybe things could have been different. 

Iris by Goo Goo Dolls

And I’d give up forever to touch you
'cause I know that you feel me somehow
You’re the closest to heaven that i’ll ever be
And I don’t want to go home right now

And all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breathe is your life
’cause sooner or later it’s over
I just don’t want to miss you tonight

And I don’t want the world to see me
’cause I don’t think that they’d understand
When everything’s made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am.

And you can’t fight the tears that ain’t coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies
Yeah you bleed just to know you’re alive

And I don’t want the world to see me
’cause I don’t think that they’d understand
When everything’s made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

And I don’t want the world to see me
’cause I don’t think that they'd understand
When everything’s made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

And I don’t want the world to see me
’cause I don’t think that they’d understand
When everything’s made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am

This song is one of my favorites, but it has posed some sort of a challenge looking for what it really is trying to say. Then I was enlightened when I realized it was written for a movie and after reading the summary of the movie it makes a whole lot more sence, the movie is City of Angels in case you were wondering im going to go try and watch it soon. But before I found out about the movie I was actually starting to come to a conclusion about the song. I feel like this song is a timeline of a relationship between a man who feels like life is too go to be true between him and his girl. The first stanza I believe is the man feeling like he is in a place of isolation from his girl he really wants to be with but he cant. the second stanza is about the man finally getting to be with his girl, but he feels like its not going to last almost like he doubts himself to being of high enough standard for her. the fourth stanza i believe is the man feeling like things are too good for to be true he feels like he must be dreaming or not even be alive anymore. the chorus is the man just wanting to disappear to aviod the shame of not being good enough for her and they world wouldnt understand what they are doing together he feels like his relationship isnt meant to be at all but he just wants to be remember.

So Close Now by Eli Young Band

I've got the streets memorized
I see the faces embedded in my mind
I can't keep on fighting the urge to go
But I've got nothing in common with the town I've come to know

So I am...

Chorus:
So close now to walking away
About to walk the path I've gotta take
I am packing up - heading out
Cuz' I can't sleep I'm dreaming way too loud
I'm so close now, so close now
to getting out

The same old lines, the same routine
Nothing changes - that's not good for me
I need a break. I need something new
I need to replace these old worn out broken shoes

Chorus:
I am so close now to walking away
About to walk the path I've gotta take
I am packing up - heading out
Cuz' I can't sleep I'm dreaming way too loud
I'm so close now, so close now
to getting out

I've got that truck all loaded down
I should've known how hard it'd be to leave this town

I am....

So close now to walking away
About to walk a path I've gotta take
I am packing up - heading out
Cuz' I can't sleep I'm dreaming way too loud
I'm so close now, so close now
to getting out

 

Yes this song is a relatively short song but the message that I get out of it is huge. Even though it may have been written for a different purpose, I can relate to it on the most personal level possible. It is one of those song that one feels like it was written just for you. Being a senior in high school and only a few months away from graduating I'm feeling the strong urge to go ahead on move on and start the next chapter in my life. This song practically embodies my complete feelings towards this step in life. I have grown up in the same town my entire life and the only time I moved was when we stepped up from a trailer to a double wide about 50 yards up the drive way. I know everything there is to know about my town, but knowing about and being apart of are two different things. This song screams my name, I have lived here my whole life, I know all there is to know, and now I am ready to move on, but theres just one thing I'm worried about. "I've got that truck all loaded down/I should've known how hard it'd be to leave this town", I havent reached that stage yet, but when that time comes to turn that key and start the engine, my whole world is going to change.

Wicked Twisted Road by Reckless Kelly

My first love was a wicked twisted road
I hit the million mile mark at seventeen years old
I never saw the rainbow much less a pot of gold
yeah my first love was a wicked twisted road

My first love was a castle in the sky
I never thought I'd make it 'till I had the guts to try
and I sat up in my tower while the whole world passed me by
yeah my first love was a castle in the sky

My first love was a fearless drive in rain
scared to death I thought I'd never see her face again
they say god was crying so I guess he felt my pain
yeah my first love was a fearless drive in rain

My first love was a wild sinful night
I ran out with the big dogs guess I had more bark then bite
even thought I won the battle in the end I lost the fight
yeah my first love was a wild sinful night

My first love was an angry painful song
I wanted one so bad I went and did everything wrong
a lesson in reality would come before too long
yeah my first love was an angry painful song

My first love was a wicked twisted road
I hit the million mile mark at seventeen years old
I never saw the rainbow much less a pot of gold
yeah my first love was a wicked twisted road

My first love was a wicked twisted road


I believe this song to be a tragic testiment of a man who had love and let it go due to his mistakes. The opening line "my first love was a wicked twisted road" sets the stage for the rest of the song by telling us that his love was all over the place, obscure, and unpredictable. He goes on through out the song giving more examples of how things went bad for his love. He describes these short comings as "castle in the sky", "fearless drive in rain", "wild sinful night" and "angry painful song". All of these are describing what went wrong in the relationship, but I also believe these to be a story of a downward evolution of the relationship. Each stanza, with the exception of the first and last which are acting more as an introduction and conclusion of the whole relationship, describes different point of the relationship and how he messed things up. Stanza 2 I believe talks about how he had distanced himself from his problems and he thought we wasnt going to be able to get through them until he tried to and in the process of that he alienated himself from everyone else. Stanza 3 is the starting point of where he starts letting it slip away. He has stopped working at his problems and has now just left it up in the air as you could say. He started to pity himself without trying to fix it. Stanza 4 is the point where he started pulling away from the relationship and started trying to do his own thing. He was trying to live life with out thinking about what he still had behind him. And stanza 5 is the realization of what he has done and that there is nothing left for him because he pushed and ran away from eveything he had. This is a very sad song of the wrong doings of a man who lost love because of his actions and his regets to the choices he made.