This Sunday started the first of a very exciting weekly journey for me. My regular segment with Helen Desbois on #TheRewind takes a look at my #project me story and the "country comforts" song that saw me through that time in my life.
We spoke so much about the special life lessons and messages that country music shares with us and that it's not all about broken hearts (well not the slow miserable version of a broken heart anyway), cows and tractors.
So I decided to begin with a ?truly toe tapping song with such a strong life lesson. Through my project me journey, one of the greatest and most humble lessons I have had to learn is that living with consciousness, faith or any form of spiritual knowledge does not make us exempt from the every day stuff that life just throws at us.
You know, those "why me" moments when you thought you were smart enough, clued up enough, telling yourself the truth enough, smiling enough, praying enough kind of moments.
Sugarland is one of my favourite country duos and the added twang with upbeat tempo of this song is always so pleasantly?surprising?to me that it has such a powerful lesson: Life happens ... it happens... ?and we weren't allowed to say on air ... shit happens!!
Missed my alarm clock ringing
Woke up, telephone screaming
Boss man singing his same old song
Rolled in late about an hour
No cup of coffee, no shower
Walk of shame with two different shoes on
Now it's poor me, why me, oh me, boring
Boring the same old worn out blah blah story
There's no good explanation for it at all
Ain't no rhyme or reason
No complicated meaning
Ain't no need to over think it
Let go laughing
Life don't go quite like you planned it
We try so hard to understand it
The irrefutable, indisputable fact is
Pshh It happens
My trusty-rusty had a flat
I borrowed my neighbors Cadillac
"I'll be right back," going down to Wally World
That yellowed light turned red too quickly
Knew that truck the moment it hit me
Out stepped my ex and his new girl
"Sorry 'bout your neck baby"
But it is poor me, why me, oh me
Boring the same old worn out blah blah story
There is no good explanation for it at all
Ain't no rhyme or reason
No complicated meaning
Ain't no need to over think it
Let go laughing
Life don't go quite like you planned it
We try so hard to understand it
The irrefutable, indisputable fact is
It happens
Ain't no rhyme or reason
No complicated meaning
Ain't no need to over think it
Let go laughing
Life don't go quite like you planned it
We try so hard to understand it
The irrefutable, indisputable fact is
It happens
Yeah, the irrefutable, indisputable, absoluteable, totally beautiful fact is...pshh, it happens
Catch Helen and myself every Sunday at 10:45am (SA time) on Chai FM for "country comforts" on The Rewind ... but make sure you're listening from 9am to 12pm because it's one awesome show from this radio diva, Helen Desbois.
