Monday, March 10, 2014

Musical Monday: What I'm Diggin' On Right Now




The cars in our household are all still stick shift.  In fact, it's one of the reasons I haven't purchased a newer SUV yet...  We also don't use GPS and are perfectly capable of finding our way out of a traffic jam, etc. using a good old map and some common sense.  And I am currently sending my nephew notes in the mail every couple of days to remind him to get his school assignments done before we leave for Palm Springs so he can enjoy a real vacation.  This song says a lot of things that I can agree with.  I am especially drawn to the lines in the chorus:
Hey, whatever happened to waitin' your turn
Doing it all by hand,
'Cause when everything is handed to you
It's only worth as much as the time put in
It all just seemed so good the way we had it
Back before everything became automatic


Full lyrics to Miranda Lambert's "Automatic":

Quarter in a payphone
Drying laundry on the line
Watching Sun Tea in the window
Pocket watch tellin' time
Seems like only yesterday I'd get a blank cassette
Record the country countdown 'cause I couldn't buy it yet

If we drove all the way to Dallas just to buy an Easter dress
We’d take along a Rand McNally, stand in line to pay for gas
God knows that shifting gears ain’t what it used to be
I learned to drive that 55 just like a queen, three on a tree

Hey, whatever happened to waitin' your turn
Doing it all by hand,
'Cause when everything is handed to you
It's only worth as much as the time put in
It all just seemed so good the way we had it
Back before everything became automatic

If you had something to say
You'd write it on a piece of paper
Then you'd put a stamp on it
And they'd get it three days later
Boys would call the girls
And girls would turn them down
Staying married was the only way to work your problems out

Hey, whatever happened to waitin' your turn
Doing it all by hand,
'Cause when everything is handed to you
It's only worth as much as the time put in
It all just seemed so good the way we had it
Back before everything became automatic

Automatic

Let's pull the windows down
Windows with the cranks
Come on let's take a picture
The kind you gotta shake

Hey, whatever happened to waitin' your turn
Doing it all by hand,
'Cause when everything is handed to you
It's only worth as much as the time put in
It all just seemed so good the way we had it
Back before everything became, automatic

Give this one a listen and let me know what you think!

3 comments:

  1. I haven't been doing all that much radio listening, so this was new to me. However, I like it very much. Every time there is a new advance in technology part of me thinks, "Well, isn't that nice?" and another part thinks, "And yet we are losing something."

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  2. I am a HUGE Miranda fan. I sure am glad I don't rely on technology for my existence. I applaud innovation, but I despise anything that lowers quality to increase profit. Won't it be a fun world when men and women go to the local free government lab to select their children's genders, along with the colors of the test tubes needed for the births?

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  3. Hey girl, I dedicated something to you on the Thursday post. I don't think you'll have any trouble figuring this one out!

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