Didn't Check the Weather

This oldie was recorded originally around 2006, but then I recorded it again in my basement apartment in Chicago around 2007/2008.  It's funny comparing a song like this to "You, You, You, You, and Me."  That song is all about a sense of peaceful rootedness; this one is pure wanderlust.  Different times, different parts of the story, you might say.   

"Didn't Check the Weather"

Instrumentation: guitar

I didn't even check the weather

Maybe I don't have my act together

Car's packed with the bare bones

With only a map in hand

Well, change is a funny thing

You want it without knowing what it will bring

But I think it's a song I can sing

If only I can find the band

I know that holes can't be filled

But live in one and your hopes are stilled

You'll never see what's around

Only depths so profound

So I am climbing out

Scratch and claw, despite the doubt

Travelling down this long, winding road

New life awaits and hopes abound

Thanks for listening to what I've said

I got sick of the conversation in my head

Your eyes say there's a story of your own

They've seen what they never thought they would

So come and take a walk with me

Your burden will lighten eventually

Ice melts to water, then it turns to air

Breathe it all in, you'll find the good