Common Themes
I realized that there is a common thread found through several of my favorite songs.
Songs are:
1) I Hope You Dance (Lee Ann Womack)
2) If You're Going Through Hell Lyrics (Rodney Atkins)
3) PHOTO FINISH (Chris LeDoux)
From I Hope You Dance I hear the message of press forward, try harder, don't fear the unknown, don't fear what appears 'hard' for everyone-it may or may not be for you-so try anyway. From If You're Going Through Hell I hear the message of press on, don't worry what others may think, just do it. From Photo Finish I hear press forward, and if you didn't plan well enough to make sure that it can work out-serves you right if you break the laws. I also learned from it that some people just don't know how to grow up-his final line, 'If I could do it again I wouldn't have drove so slow'. Yeah-he'd be like the over confident truckers who take the 6th South exit in Salt Lake too fast, their load shifts, and the truck rolls. Sometimes it's just plain smart to drive slow-period.
I Hope You Dance
I hope you never lose your sense of wonder
You get your fill to eat
But always keep that hunger
May you never take one single breath for granted
God forbid love ever leave you empty handed
I hope you still feel small
When you stand beside the ocean
Whenever one door closes, I hope one more opens
Promise me that you'll give fate a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance
I hope you dance
I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Living might mean taking chances
But they're worth taking
Lovin' might be a mistake
But it's worth making
Don't let some hell bent heart
Leave you bitter
When you come close to selling out
Reconsider
Give the heavens above
More than just a passing glance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance
(Time is a wheel in constant motion always)
I hope you dance
(Rolling us along)
I hope you dance
(Tell me who)
I hope you dance
(Wants to look back on their years and wonder)
(Where those years have gone)
I hope you still feel small
When you stand beside the ocean
Whenever one door closes, I hope one more opens
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
Dance
I hope you dance
I hope you dance
(Time is a wheel in constant motion always)
I hope you dance
(Rolling us along)
I hope you dance
(Tell me who)
(Wants to look back on their years and wonder)
I hope you dance
(Where those years have gone)
(Tell me who)
I hope you dance
(Wants to look back on their years and wonder)
(Where those years have gone)
If You're Going Through Hell Lyrics
Well you know those times
When you feel like there's a sign there on your back
Says I don't mind if ya kick me
Seems like everybody has
Things go from bad to worse
You'd think they can't get worse than that
And then they do
You step off the straight and narrow
And you don't know where you are
Use the needle of your compass
To sew up your broken heart
Ask directions from a genie
In a bottle of Jim Beam
And she lies to you
That's when you learn the truth
If you're going through hell
Keep on going, don't slow down
If you're scared, don't show it
You might get out
Before the devil even knows you're there
Well I been deep down in that darkness
I been down to my last match
Felt a hundred different demons
Breathing fire down my back
And I knew that if I stumbled
I'd fall right into the trap that they were laying, yeah
But the good news
Is there's angels everywhere out on the street
Holding out a hand to pull you back up on your feet
The one's that you've been dragginig for so long
You're on your knees
You maight as well be praying
Guess what I'm saying
If your going through hell
Keep on going, don't slow down
If you're scared don't show it
You might get out
Before the devil even knows you're there
Yeah, If you're going through hell
Keep on moving, face that fire
Walk right through it
You might get out
Before the devil even knows you're there
If you're going through hell
Keep on going, don't slow down
If you're scared don't show it
You might get out
Before the devil even knows you're there
Yeah, If you're going through hell
Keep on moving, face that fire
Walk right through it
You might get out
Before the devil even knows you're there
Yeah, you might get out
Before the devil even knows you're there.
PHOTO FINISH
At seven this morning I got on the phone and said to hold my Bronc as long as
you can
My car broke down in Billings and they just got it back together
I'll be photo finishing in to old Cheyenne
We'll here I am in Sheridan and its 9 o'clock in the morning and times a going
fast
I just pulled her over had some coffee and a donut and i bought the car a brand
new tank of gas
Well I don't know if I'm gonna make it, its nine-fifteen
I'll be lucky if i ever get there
By god what it that I hear, is it a siren, sure enough he got me on his radar
He pulled up behind me and turned on those flashing lights a sign that i knew
meant pull it over
So i stomped on my brakes and as i skidded to a halt, I wiped out three
reflector posts along the shoulder
He got outta his car and was a walkin real slow so I jumped out and met him
half-way
He jerked out his gun and said mister are you crazy, I ain't never seen nobody
drive that way
I told him take it easy and he could put up that cannon the way he was shakin
it just might go off
He put up the gun as I explained my situation he listened to my story then he
coughed
He wrote me out a ticket, that seemed to take forever. I took it and as I
headed for my car
That cop he hollered after me and said 揌ey cowboy you better slow down cause
you can't outrun this radar!As I rolled on down the road i was a cursin and a
swearing about the ticket that I had just acquired
I wondered if i ought to pay it our just throw it out the window, but i might
just set the damn thing afire
So I gunned it once again and was a traveling down the highway with the gas
pedal a mashed to the floor
When I came around a curve and right there in the highway there was more damn
sheep than I ever seen before
I'm going to fast to ever stop, so I just close my eyes as the car rolls on
through the herd
When I opened up my eyes again there's a sheep on the fender and that sheepherder's saying some mighty awful words
The sweats a drippin off my hands as I barrel through old Wheatland I'm a
nervous wreck and i must be a sight
The flies inside this old car are buzzin all around me.
Guess my 24-hour deoderant quit last night
60 50 40 30 20 miles more the rodeo starts in another 18 minutes
I pull in through the main gate and I hear the anthem playing,
I can't believe it thank God I finally made it
There's only one more obstacle a standing in my way.
Its a nitwit with a weekend badge
He standing by the gate and as I slide her to a halt,
He yells where in the hell you goin so dog gone fast
I tell him that I'm entered and i ain't got time to talk
My horse is in the chute and i'm late
He says i need to get a pass from the secretary my eyes get red my heart fills
up with hate.
I yell you dirty so and so you better let me through he asked if I'd repeat
that once again
So I whacked him in the mouth and a left him lyin there on his back a kicking
in the sand
I got there just in time to see my Bronc come runnin out his head and tail was
a held way up high
I swear he looked right straight at me and grinned and gave horse laugh and me
I just stood there and cried I turned around feelin helpless and fairly
dumbfounded
I looked and what did I see 3 highway patrolmen and a gateman with a fat lip
and
They were all a lookin right at me
Sittin in the cell now I've done a lot of thinkin about that wild run I made a
month ago
I'm sorry that I'm in this rotten situation
If I could do it again I wouldn't have drove so slow
If I could do it again i wouldn't have drove so slow
Songs are:
1) I Hope You Dance (Lee Ann Womack)
2) If You're Going Through Hell Lyrics (Rodney Atkins)
3) PHOTO FINISH (Chris LeDoux)
From I Hope You Dance I hear the message of press forward, try harder, don't fear the unknown, don't fear what appears 'hard' for everyone-it may or may not be for you-so try anyway. From If You're Going Through Hell I hear the message of press on, don't worry what others may think, just do it. From Photo Finish I hear press forward, and if you didn't plan well enough to make sure that it can work out-serves you right if you break the laws. I also learned from it that some people just don't know how to grow up-his final line, 'If I could do it again I wouldn't have drove so slow'. Yeah-he'd be like the over confident truckers who take the 6th South exit in Salt Lake too fast, their load shifts, and the truck rolls. Sometimes it's just plain smart to drive slow-period.
I Hope You Dance
I hope you never lose your sense of wonder
You get your fill to eat
But always keep that hunger
May you never take one single breath for granted
God forbid love ever leave you empty handed
I hope you still feel small
When you stand beside the ocean
Whenever one door closes, I hope one more opens
Promise me that you'll give fate a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance
I hope you dance
I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Living might mean taking chances
But they're worth taking
Lovin' might be a mistake
But it's worth making
Don't let some hell bent heart
Leave you bitter
When you come close to selling out
Reconsider
Give the heavens above
More than just a passing glance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance
(Time is a wheel in constant motion always)
I hope you dance
(Rolling us along)
I hope you dance
(Tell me who)
I hope you dance
(Wants to look back on their years and wonder)
(Where those years have gone)
I hope you still feel small
When you stand beside the ocean
Whenever one door closes, I hope one more opens
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
Dance
I hope you dance
I hope you dance
(Time is a wheel in constant motion always)
I hope you dance
(Rolling us along)
I hope you dance
(Tell me who)
(Wants to look back on their years and wonder)
I hope you dance
(Where those years have gone)
(Tell me who)
I hope you dance
(Wants to look back on their years and wonder)
(Where those years have gone)
If You're Going Through Hell Lyrics
Well you know those times
When you feel like there's a sign there on your back
Says I don't mind if ya kick me
Seems like everybody has
Things go from bad to worse
You'd think they can't get worse than that
And then they do
You step off the straight and narrow
And you don't know where you are
Use the needle of your compass
To sew up your broken heart
Ask directions from a genie
In a bottle of Jim Beam
And she lies to you
That's when you learn the truth
If you're going through hell
Keep on going, don't slow down
If you're scared, don't show it
You might get out
Before the devil even knows you're there
Well I been deep down in that darkness
I been down to my last match
Felt a hundred different demons
Breathing fire down my back
And I knew that if I stumbled
I'd fall right into the trap that they were laying, yeah
But the good news
Is there's angels everywhere out on the street
Holding out a hand to pull you back up on your feet
The one's that you've been dragginig for so long
You're on your knees
You maight as well be praying
Guess what I'm saying
If your going through hell
Keep on going, don't slow down
If you're scared don't show it
You might get out
Before the devil even knows you're there
Yeah, If you're going through hell
Keep on moving, face that fire
Walk right through it
You might get out
Before the devil even knows you're there
If you're going through hell
Keep on going, don't slow down
If you're scared don't show it
You might get out
Before the devil even knows you're there
Yeah, If you're going through hell
Keep on moving, face that fire
Walk right through it
You might get out
Before the devil even knows you're there
Yeah, you might get out
Before the devil even knows you're there.
PHOTO FINISH
At seven this morning I got on the phone and said to hold my Bronc as long as
you can
My car broke down in Billings and they just got it back together
I'll be photo finishing in to old Cheyenne
We'll here I am in Sheridan and its 9 o'clock in the morning and times a going
fast
I just pulled her over had some coffee and a donut and i bought the car a brand
new tank of gas
Well I don't know if I'm gonna make it, its nine-fifteen
I'll be lucky if i ever get there
By god what it that I hear, is it a siren, sure enough he got me on his radar
He pulled up behind me and turned on those flashing lights a sign that i knew
meant pull it over
So i stomped on my brakes and as i skidded to a halt, I wiped out three
reflector posts along the shoulder
He got outta his car and was a walkin real slow so I jumped out and met him
half-way
He jerked out his gun and said mister are you crazy, I ain't never seen nobody
drive that way
I told him take it easy and he could put up that cannon the way he was shakin
it just might go off
He put up the gun as I explained my situation he listened to my story then he
coughed
He wrote me out a ticket, that seemed to take forever. I took it and as I
headed for my car
That cop he hollered after me and said 揌ey cowboy you better slow down cause
you can't outrun this radar!As I rolled on down the road i was a cursin and a
swearing about the ticket that I had just acquired
I wondered if i ought to pay it our just throw it out the window, but i might
just set the damn thing afire
So I gunned it once again and was a traveling down the highway with the gas
pedal a mashed to the floor
When I came around a curve and right there in the highway there was more damn
sheep than I ever seen before
I'm going to fast to ever stop, so I just close my eyes as the car rolls on
through the herd
When I opened up my eyes again there's a sheep on the fender and that sheepherder's saying some mighty awful words
The sweats a drippin off my hands as I barrel through old Wheatland I'm a
nervous wreck and i must be a sight
The flies inside this old car are buzzin all around me.
Guess my 24-hour deoderant quit last night
60 50 40 30 20 miles more the rodeo starts in another 18 minutes
I pull in through the main gate and I hear the anthem playing,
I can't believe it thank God I finally made it
There's only one more obstacle a standing in my way.
Its a nitwit with a weekend badge
He standing by the gate and as I slide her to a halt,
He yells where in the hell you goin so dog gone fast
I tell him that I'm entered and i ain't got time to talk
My horse is in the chute and i'm late
He says i need to get a pass from the secretary my eyes get red my heart fills
up with hate.
I yell you dirty so and so you better let me through he asked if I'd repeat
that once again
So I whacked him in the mouth and a left him lyin there on his back a kicking
in the sand
I got there just in time to see my Bronc come runnin out his head and tail was
a held way up high
I swear he looked right straight at me and grinned and gave horse laugh and me
I just stood there and cried I turned around feelin helpless and fairly
dumbfounded
I looked and what did I see 3 highway patrolmen and a gateman with a fat lip
and
They were all a lookin right at me
Sittin in the cell now I've done a lot of thinkin about that wild run I made a
month ago
I'm sorry that I'm in this rotten situation
If I could do it again I wouldn't have drove so slow
If I could do it again i wouldn't have drove so slow
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