[first turn up the base, squash the muddy mid-tones, and fiddle with the high end

… until you get the sound just right.  now you’re ready to ‘listen’

to my ride home from vacation which was uncharacteristically childless

since there were 3 cars and 3 grown-ups

and i somehow ended up quietly

behind the wheel

by myself.]

‘feel the rain on your skin

no-one else can feel it for you’

(unknown late 80’s artist)

‘sooner or later you sleep in your own space

either way it’s ok, you wake up with yourself’

(billy joel ‘my life’)

*insert smokin’ tom petty harmonica here*

‘when we were weak, we told ourselves we were strong,

and when we were very weak we told ourselves we were very strong’

(‘fresh air’ with terry gross)

‘baby, i’m ‘n luv wi’chou.’

(random reggae because i so am a radio channel surfer)

‘teen age hopes knock, knocking at the door

leave you with nothing while asking for more’

(indie rock)

‘what you are is what you are or were’

(80’s weekend angst)

‘don’t go changing, to try and please me

you’ve never let me down before.

don’t imagine, you’re too familiar

and i don’t see you anymore…’

(just a little more billy)

*note the mad bass and the swirl of the leslie (organ) in this next one by ‘the who’.

it’d be a shame to miss it since only the smallest clip has become the csi theme song*

‘… get down on our knees and pray we won’t be fooled again…’

‘smoking guns – hot to the touch

would cool down if we didn’t use them so much.’

(hall & oates dance/pop)

‘and even as i wander i’m keeping you in sight

you’re a cool breeze in the window

of a long, hot summer night

and i’m getting closer…’

(reo speedwagon)

and then i was at the grocery to stock up the empty fridge feeling ‘confungry’

(confused and hungry as defined by motel 6 of  “we’ll leave the light on for you” fame),

but almost home, sweet home.

‘ready’ taken from 14:8 in first corinthians.