Song for the Week

It's been awhile, right?!

Songs haven't been hitting a (ahem...) chord with me lately. (BAHAHAHAHAHA...I just made myself laugh...it happens....).

But last night I was driving to a new open water swimming (OWS) class.  By myself.  Nerves aplenty.  If you know me you know that I don't like doing new things by myself.  I get very very anxious.  Sweaty palms and all.  BUT, if you know me, you also know I have even MORE anxiety about this 1.2 mile swim I have to do in 19 days, complete with jellyfish.

And there is the dilemma.

Stranger Danger vs Jellyfish.....

So.  I'm driving to this new class.  Thinking about the lake.  Thinking about how well the OWS I went to this past Saturday and telling myself how much of an idiot I'm being for thinking about failing as much as I have been. I have been improving every time I jump in that lake, and this class was going to be no different.

And then this song came on and I be-bopped all the way there.  I'm not posting this because Tom Cochrane and I have the same hair style in this video, but rather for most of the lyrics that hit it home....

The road is rough, yes I know.  And you can knock me down, but I'll get back up.  And so help you if you kick my goggles off my face, I'm going to draft you for 1.2 miles and let you pull my ass in!  Why?  Because now I know how!

Watch out folks...I'm becoming a little shark in that water....

Life is a Highway
Tom Cochrane, Mad Mad World (1991)

Life's like a road that you travel on
When there's one day here and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend, sometimes you stand
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind

There's a world outside every darkened door
Where blues won't haunt you anymore
Where the brave are free and lovers soar
Come ride with me to the distant shore

We won't hesitate break down the garden gate
There's not much left today

Life is a highway
I want to ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I want to drive it all night long

Through all the cities and all these towns
It's in my blood and it's all around
I love you now like I loved you then
This is the road and these are the hands

From Mozambique to those Memphis nights
The Khyber Pass to Vancouver's lights
Knock me down get back up again
You're in my blood I'm not a lonely man

There's no load I can't hold
Road so rough this I know
I'll bee there when the light comes in
Tell 'em we're survivors

Life is a highway
I want to ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I want to drive it all night long

Life is a highway
I want to ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I want to drive it all night long

There was a distance between you and I
A misunderstanding once but now
We look it in the eye

There's no load, I can't hold
Road so rough this I know
I'll be there when the light comes in
Tell 'em we're survivors

Life is a highway
I want to ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I want to drive it all night long

Life is a highway, and I'm still truckin'!
19 days.
Booyah