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Monday, September 12, 2011

"Red Dirt Road"

No matter what this world throws at you, you have to know that once you get to where you're supposed to be going, what you're supposed to be doing, and find where you belong you will find that place that sparks everything in you.  Although I have yet to get there, I think that once you do it's like releasing bottled up lightning.  Every tear, every hurt, and every pain you have ever felt becomes worth it.  When I think of what's out there to experience, I think of this boundless open field with the bluest sky you could ever imagine.  I think of space and red dirt roads.  Sounds crazy, but the second I think of what a red-dirt childhood could be like, I think of this song.  This is one of those songs that you wish you lived, well at least I do.

I could understand having a sore spot when it comes to a really twangy, forced, country sound...but for the life of me I cannot understand how anyone could not love and live country songs.  It's like then do you not like life?  Country = life.

FM Radio:
Singer: Brooks & Dunn
Songwriters: Kix Brooks, Ronnie Dunn
Song: "Red Dirt Road"

I was raised off Rural Route Three,
Out past where the black top ends.
We'd walk to Church on Sunday mornings,
Race barefoot back to Johnson's fence.
That's where I first saw Mary,
On that roadside pickin' blackberries.
That summer I turned a corner in my soul,
Down that red dirt road.

It's where I drank my first beer.
It's where I found Jesus.
Where I wrecked my first car:
I tore it all to pieces.
I learned the path to Heaven,
Is full of sinners an' believers.
Learned that happiness on earth,
Ain't just for high achievers.
I've learned; I come to know,
There's life at both ends,
Of that red dirt road.

Her Daddy didn't like me much,
In my shackled up GTO.
Oh, I'd sneak out in the middle of the night,
Throw rocks at her bedroom window.
We'd turn out the headlights,
Drive by the moonlight.
Talk about what the future might hold,
Down that red dirt road.

It's where I drank my first beer.
It's where I found Jesus.
Where I wrecked my first car:
I tore it all to pieces.
I learned the path to Heaven,
Is full of sinners an' believers.
Learned that happiness on earth,
Ain't just for high achievers.
I've learned; I come to know,
There's life at both ends,
Of that red dirt road.

I went out into the world,
An' I came back in.
I lost Mary:
Oh, I got her back again.
An' drivin' home tonight,
Feels like I've found a long-lost friend.

It's where I drank my first beer.
It's where I found Jesus.
Where I wrecked my first car:
I tore it all to pieces.
I learned the path to Heaven,
Is full of sinners an' believers.
Learned that happiness on earth,
Ain't just for high achievers.
I've learned; I come to know,
There's life at both ends,
Of that red dirt road.







Sugarland's Version...Better than the original!

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