walking along

hitchhiking is not an efficient means of travel.  maybe in terms of carbon footprints it is, but not if we're counting in raw footsteps.  went to find the way to some trails i'd like to backpack through sometime in the near future.  along the way i stuck my thumb out at probably a hundred cars, buses, trucks and scooters.  one really swell fella (it's always the finest people that stop to pick up somebody off the side of the road) gave me ride for a few miles towards my destination.  he was driving around with his mother, an ancient woman sitting in the front seat who i did not get a real good look at.  she didn't move or say anything.  he said he lived on the north shore. 

you start judging cars in the split seconds they take to zoom by.  i can distinguish a rental car from a good fifty feet.  these are no good, although their pasty passengers typically smile at the novelty of a happy idiot strolling along a magnificent road.  and i had so much time to stroll along the magnificence this afternoon, it's hard to say whether it was my happiness or my idiocy that kept me smiling all the way home.  i took to singing somewhere along the seven or eight miles i walked back.  

i started singing, "i'm walking along with my feet/ i like to sing to the sound that my feet make/ cha cha ch ch cha ch ch cha."  this and various lyrics that popped out of the countryside carried me all my rhythmic way.  before i started singing i thought back through as many things as i could think of that happened to me in this calender year.  i came to the daunting conclusion that 2008 was possibly the best calender year of my life.  

so here's the way the song was going by the time i got home and picked up the guitar:

i like to think that i can fall in love 

like everybody else

i'd like to think that i can fall in love again

i'd like to think

i like to think while i walk along alone

i like to think that it won't be long

til i get home

i like to sing to the sound 

that my feet make

i'd like to give a little more 

than i can take

i'd like to think that i can do with a little less

but i always think there's gotta be more than this

i'd like to think

that i can fall in love with anybody else.

well i've been to the mountain

and i've been to the sea

i've seen a thousand stars

i've seen a thousand stars

i keep writing songs about love.  but johnny cash said that that is what music is about, so i'd like to think it's alright. 

(that last part isn't really part of the song)