I have found ANOTHER (there seems to be an endless supply) fantastic song that is sure to take you back to some great memories, great times, in your life.
This is a song that was written and performed by Jackson Browne in 1977.
It was written while he was driving to the studio each day to make The Pretender, according to Rolling Stone magazine: "I was always driving around with no gas in the car," Browne is quoted. "I just never bothered to fill up the tank because — how far was it anyway? Just a few blocks."
The song may be meant to describe the rigors of a musician's day-to-day life on the road, and its effect on his life as a whole, in connection with the themes of much of the album, but the lyric is more generally applicable, as well:
- Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels —
- Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields.
- In '65 I was seventeen and running up 101
- I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on ...
- The lyric's ages and years match up with Browne's:
- In '69 I was twenty-one and I called the road my own
- I don't know when that road turned onto the road I'm on.
- You know I don't even know what I'm hoping to find ...
- Running into the sun, but I'm running behind.
- I'm sure you figured it out. Today's offering is 'Running on Empty' by none other than Jackson Browne, one of my all time favorite artists. Now, this video has the lyrics included so......you know what to do. Enjoy!
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Until next time, live in peace.
Kimmie
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