Life That Is Mine

Band: George Thorogood & The Destroyers

Grandpa climbs the stairs to the top of the houseboat and inserts a cassette tape into the deck player. It’s Saturday, and dawn just broke. The dock is quiet, everyone still sleeping from partying the night before, but this does not deter the Dock Master from cranking the speaker and pressing play. George Thorogood and the Destroyers “Bad to the Bone” is the summer time alarm clock for “AA Dock” aka “The Party Dock”.

Those summers were the best of my childhood. Raystown was never the same after he got sick. But at least I still have the memories…

Album: O Brother Where Art Thou?

This was the first soundtrack I ever purchased. The harmonies have a way grounding you. Reminds me of summers at my Uncle Bobs cabin, catching crayfish in the crick. The art of storytelling in music is something that has been lost in popular music.

Shine on you crazy diamond.

Threatened by shadows at night, And exposed in the light.

Shine on you crazy diamond.

Well you wore out your welcome With random precision, Rode on the steel breeze.

Come on you raver, you seer of visions, Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!

Created: 2018

Collection: American Oddities

Date: 5/26/24

By: Amber H.

What's impossible? Well, they forgot

This world keeps spinning, and with each new day

I can feel a change in everything

And as the surface breaks, reflections fade

But in some ways, they remain the same

And as my mind begins to spread its wings

There's no stopping curiosity

Created: 2018

Never know how much I care

When you put your arms around me

I get a fever that's so hard to bear

You give me fever

When you kiss me, fever when you hold me tight

Fever!

In the mornin', a-fever all through the night

Created: 8/25/2020