drive to dream, to live, we could see the world tonight

What's On: Anberlin - Autobahn

I really love this song. Its really kind of bittersweet, and at the same time it embodies everything I love.

Drive to dream to live, we could see the world tonight...

And we're driving just as fast as we can
and we're racing to outrun the wind
It's just me and you and you and me
so wild eyed, so young, bright eyed and free
And we're trying to get out of here
and a small town romance draws ever near
And I swear we're in a movie
the highlight comes when you kiss me

I've always loved traveling, and taking long car trips - even though I've never been the driver during one of them, and it might disillusion me a bit if I have to drive for eight or nine hours straight, but I love driving.

I love the freedom, and the ability to go anywhere. I love not being limited by how tired I am or how much my legs hurt, or how hot or cold it is outside, and the speed... rolling the windows down and turning the music up and its a whole new world just for me.

And seeing that road roll out in front of me is a glorious feeling. I generally avoid country music in huge amounts, because my family are huge country freaks and that's ALL they listen to, so I get enough of it just being in the same house/car.

But there are a couple of country songs that also personify this love of mine, Jo Dee Messina's "Heads Carolina, Tails California"

Baby, what do you say we just get lost?
Leave this one horse townlike two rebels without a cause.
I got people in Boston.
Ain't your daddy still in Des Moines?
We can pack up tomorrow.
Tonight, let's flip a coin

Heads, Carolina Tails, California.
Somewhere greener, somewhere warmer.
Up in the mountains, down by the ocean.
Where? It don't matter, as long as we're goin'
Somewhere together. I've got a quarter.
Heads, Carolina Tails, California.

We can load what we own in the back of a U-haul van.
Couple modern day Moses', searchin for the promised land.
We can go four hundred miles before we stop for gas.
We can drive for a day, and then we'll take a look at the map.

Heads, Carolina Tails, California.
Somewhere greener, somewhere warmer.
Up in the mountains, down by the ocean.
Where? It don't matter, as long as we're goin'
Somewhere together. I've got a quarter.
Heads, Carolina Tails, California.

We're gonna get outta here if we gotta ride a Greyhound bus.
Boy, we're bound to outrun the bad luck that's tailin' us...

and Lonestar's "What About Now"

And that road rolls out like a welcome mat
I don't know where it goes but it beats where we're at
We always said someday, somehow
We were gonna get away, gonna blow this town

What about now, how 'bout tonight
Baby for once let's don't think twice
Let's take that spin that never ends
That we've been talking about
What about now, why should we wait
We can chase these dreams down the interstate
And be long gone 'fore the world moves on and makes another round
What about now

We've been puttin' this off baby long enough
Just give me the word, and we'll be kickin' up dust
We both know it's just a matter of time
'Til our hearts start racin' for that county line

I long to do that... Just pack up everything I feel like taking with me, stop at the nearest gas station and fill up, and then just...


Go.