Occasionally a song will loop through my brain. It may loop a few hours, or a few days. It may drive me crazy (if it's silly), or charm me (if it's emotional. The older I get the more emotional I'm becoming). No doubt you've had the same experience. Clearly, there are deeply rooted reasons this happens. Gordon Lightfoot has been my mental guest for some time. Presently, Carefree Highway is the "vehicle" racing through my brain. Sometimes I blog another's lyric, simply because it seems so perfect. This is one of those times. Who knows? Maybe my Monarch is somewhere on the same highway. I like to think so.
Picking up the pieces of my sweet shattered dream
I wonder how the old folks are tonight.
Her name was Anne and I'll be damned if I recall her face.*
She left me not knowing what to do.
Carefree highway, let me slip away on you.
Carefree highway, you seen better days.
The morning after blues from my head down to my shoes.
Carefree highway, let me slip away, slip away on you.
Turning back the pages to the times I love best
I wonder if she'll ever do the same?
Now the thing that I call living is just being satisfied
With knowing I got no one left to blame.
Carefree highway, I got to see you my old flame.
Carefree highway, you seen better days.
The morning after blues from my head down to my shoes.
Carefree highway, let me slip away, slip away on you.
Searching through the fragments of my dream shattered sleep
I wonder if the years have closed her mind.
I guess it must be wanderlust or trying to get free
From the good old faithful feeling we once knew.
Carefree highway, let me slip away on you.
Carefree highway, you seen better days.
The morning after blues from my head down to my shoes.
Carefree highway, let me slip away, slip away on you
Let me slip away on you
Carefree highway, I got to see you my old flame.
Carefree highway, you seen better days.
The morning after blues from my head down to my shoes.
Carefree highway, let me slip away, slip away on you.
* But I do recall her face. Oh, yes...I do,
Monday, March 9, 2015
Carefree Highway (Gordon Lightfoot)
Posted by The Dashboard Poet at Monday, March 09, 2015
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I absolutely loved this song as well. Isn't it wonderful, if melancholy at times, to hear an old song? Some take us back to places and people in a way that nothing else would. Gordon does that for me. High school romance, partying like there was no tomorrow. And of course, there were the songs that I wanted to play so bad, but my fingers wouldn't obey. I should go back to some of those old tunes, for I could surely play them now.
This post makes me want to post some of old favorites. Watch for them.
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