Sawyer Brown - The Walk

I'm going to #2 Son's JROTC Ball tonight.  I missed it last year because I was at FOB Borepatch in Austin, now I'll be able to experience how he's mostly grown up.

In a way that's a depressing thought.  Of course you don't want your kids to stay kids forever.  Of course there's a satisfaction in seeing them grow to honorable manhood.  But it reminds me that this road we all walk ultimately has an end.  The meditation, of course, is on the journey, not the destination.

Of course, there's a Country Song about that.

Sawyer Brown is a band that walks that same road of growth.  Starting out as a really unremarkable country pop group, they matured into balladeers with some depth.  That journey I see so clearly today is one of those themes.

Dang it.

The Walk (Songwriter: Mac McAnnaly)

Down our long dusty driveway
I didn't want to go
But I set out with tears in my eyes wondering
Daddy took me by the hand
Looked out at the school bus and his little man and said
"Don't worry boy it will be all right"

Cause I took this walk you're walking now
Boy, I've been in your shoes
You can't hold back the hands of time
It's just something you've got to do
So dry your eyes I understand just what you're going through
Cause I took this same walk with my old man
Boy, I've been in your shoes

Down our long dusty driveway
I set my mind to go
I was eighteen and wild and free and wondering
Daddy took me by the hand
Looked at the world and at his grown man and said,
"Don't worry boy it will be all right"

Cause I took this walk you're walking now
Boy, I've been in your shoes
You can't hold back the hands of time
It's just something you've got to do
So dry your eyes I understand just what you're going through
Cause I took this same walk with my old man
Boy, I've been in your shoes

Down our long dusty driveway
This time we both would go
He had grown old and gray
And his mind was wandering
Daddy took me by the hand
Said, "I know where we're going and I understand
Don't worry boy it will be all right"

This walk will be interesting tonight at the JROTC Ball.