Moving Along...

My wife and I just got back at 3:30 this morning from a hit-and-run job interviewing trip to South Carolina. We left on Sunday morning and were gone barely 40 hours, around 25 of which were spent on the road. However, my wife has A JOB at a great school to show for it. My dreams of moving back to the great state of South Carolina are one step closer to being realized.

Of the driving, my wife did about an hour and a half of the 25. I like to drive and she doesn't, so that leaves me to be the King of the Road on my own while she sleeps. On every trip, I tote a handful of CDs and over the long drive, I always tend to find a song that really speaks out to me and meets me where I am. I tend to listen to it a dozen times each leg of the trip when I discover the song on the way. On the February trip, it was "Drive," by Incubus - a song that uses driving as some sort of metaphor for taking control of the wheel of your own life. This time, it was "Moving On" by the All American Rejects. You can actually watch the video on their website (I have not seen it, just listened to the song a lot over the past few days).

I know a lot of my fellow bloggers like to post song lyrics, something I usually reserve for various gangsta rap tunes, but I'm going to post the song here, dedicated to AWG, who gifted me the CD in July (Thanks, Andrew!):

THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS LYRICS

"Move Along"

Go ahead as you waste your days with thinking
When you fall everyone stands
Another day and you've had your fill of sinking
With the life held in your
Hands are shaking cold
These hands are meant to hold

Speak to me, when all you got to keep is strong
Move along, move along like I know you do
And even when your hope is gone
Move along, move along just to make it through
Move along
Move along

So a day when you've lost yourself completely
Could be a night when your life ends
Such a heart that will lead you to deceiving
All the pain held in your
Hands are shaking cold
Your hands are mine to hold

Speak to me, when all you got to keep is strong
Move along, move along like I know you do
And even when your hope is gone
Move along, move along just to make it through
Move along
(Go on, go on, go on, go on)

When everything is wrong, we move along
(Go on, go on, go on, go on)
When everything is wrong, we move along
Along, along, along

When all you got to keep is strong
Move along, move along like I know you do
And even when your hope is gone
Move along, move along just to make it through
[x3]

(Go on, go on, go on, go on)
Right back what is wrong
We move along
[fade out]

Thanks to Heather (heatherstar@msn.com) for these lyrics
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