Hurt Reynolds: the great divide
Gather closely, my friends, and I will tell you a love story that transcends time. A tale that can only be told through the sound of music. Once upon a time I was a young man very much naive to the correlation of love with happiness. I dealt the cards, I created the heartbreaks, and ultimately I had created an achilles heel in my heart that was unaccustomed to being completely attached, because after all, I'm a bad motherfucker and I don't get too close to women because I'm a desperado. I'd been out riding fences my whole life and when my horse died and I started owing money all over town, I'd just sling my denim jacket over my shoulder and hit the highway. My boots were the only guys I trusted, and I survived on a steady diet of marlboro reds and shots of rye. I'd had my share of wild nights out with senoritas that were absolutely scourges on the face of womankind, but those are the most fun, right? Right. One night I was out on the town with a wild wild one and she seemed to mirror in me exactly what I hated about myself. We were in a saloon and she had one upped me in front of all my amigos and drank more liquor than an indian on the first of the month. Long story short, while she was on her back in the hallway talking to the roof....I noticed the most beautiful little thing in the corner.... She had eyes as blue as raw turquoise and she kept to herself for the most part.... I kept thinking to myself how I'd wished I wasnt there with that other woman, so I could run to the bathroom to part my hair to the side and try to put on the charm, but alas I couldnt. Time went on and I kept riding fences on the range, doing the thing that I did best; being a cowboy. Then one day, I was out at the rodeo riding a bull, hanging on for the life of me....the crowd was going wild and there they were.... those piercing blue eyes again...it was her..... I fell off the bull on purpose just to finish up and talk to her....and I knew I had to see her again..... something inside me just snapped....I stopped feeling like a cowboy... I just had to be by her side.... We must have talked for a week solid, about how life had been unkind to us.....about long nights on the range....about everything....she sung the same songs I sung... and before I knew it.... I was in love with her... I was now doing things that I never imagined, without second thoughts. I found myself not being able to be as cold to the world as I had before... I found myself thinking of things to say that would make the little lady smile, and I started doin' stuff that my woulda made my amigos slap my hat off and call me a traitor to mankind. Waking up every morning without cigarettes and whiskey was a hard transition, but being able to kiss the back of her shoulder and havin' someone to watch the sunset with was taking its place without much fuss on my end. My hair got long, and I got too used to being in love and one day the cowboy just came back and I pushed her away.... I was afraid.... I started riding the range solo again.... and years went by.... my hair got greyer....and I realized that life without her was just not what I wanted... I fought so hard to get her back.....but it took a couple of failed times.... we both must have lived a hundred times over, in between the times we were together...the whole time I knew I loved her....I was just stuck in my ways... Ages later...the cowboy is gone....my hair is long and grey....and we still hold hands and reminisce about that first time she told me she loved me, when I was out back of a saloon on christmas, sick as a dog off whiskey and refunding all of my drinks onto the earth. I reckon if you can love a man in his worst time, then he owes it to you to love you until he rides off into that big sunset in the sky. Decades pass, and I think of the songs that made me think of those big blue eyes through all the years...The cowboy in me wanted to leave this unreleased....but the longhaired conscious man who has since grown a heart inside me, made me put it out there for all of you other desperados out there in a state of identity crisis. Don't be afraid to love someone with everything you got, partner, because the frontier is huge, and it's no place for just one man. Cheers.
Tracklist
Weezer- Heartsongs
Bob Seger and the silver bullet band- Main Street
Lou Reed- Take a walk on the wild side
Rod Stewart- reason to believe
Cat Stevens- Wild world
Crosby Stills Nash- Just a song before I go
Simon and Garfunkle- The Sound of silence
Bob Seger and the silver bullet band- Against the wind
Neil Young- Heart of Gold
Fleetwood Mac- The Chain
Bloc Party- Tulips
Smashing Pumpkins- Thirty three
The Cranberries- Linger
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