i blow bubbles when you are not near

i've been on a bit of a country music kick lately. it started with sugarland late one friday night.


"all i wanna do oo oo oo oooo whoo oo oo oo oo ooooo whoo oo oo oo oo ooo whoo ooooooo."


then yesterday i was driving to bemidji and for a good span of the trip there are limited radio stations. however, the country stations seem to be the most solid of them all going through those small towns.


it got me thinking more and i'm pretty sure i'm a small town girl at heart.
i enjoy being able to see the stars at night. i appreciate the freedom of enjoying wide open spaces. i like going into town and running into people i know at the grocery store check out line. heck, i like gravel roads. i sound like a dork. but it's true.


as i was driving yesterday a song came on the made me laugh out loud. the song itself isn't funny but it reminded me of songs of which i (or my friends) have misunderstood the lyrics.


i thought for the longest time that the one in this song i heard yesterday was "there might be a little dust on the Bible". in actuality, the correct words are, "there might be a little dust on the bottle".


i remember the day i cracked up in my car when a friend corrected me and informed me that it wasn't a song about God's Word, it was a song about wine. whoops.


i always thought the next line was good, "but don't let it fool ya about what's inside" made sense with the Bible. lol if i had actually listened to ALL of the other lyrics talking about the cellar and cleo williams making wine perhaps i would have caught on. (i'm shaking my head right now.)


listening to the whole song is helpful. context, suzanne. context.


when i was 5, i thought "walkin' in memphis" was "walkin' in medford" which is a nearby small town to where i grew up and thought that was pretty cool that medford was mentioned in a hit song.


then i rememberd my friend in high school. he thought the lines of "i try" by macy gray were "i try to say goodbye and i choke/i try to walk away and i stumble/though i try to hide it, it's clear/my world crumbles when you are not near" was "i try to say goodbye and i choke/i try to walk away and i stumble/though i try to hide it, it's clear/i blow bubbles when you are not near"


i kinda like the bubble version.