Soundtrack to Life

This is a photo I took many years ago of a special place in the neighborhood where I grew up. It used to have a great old barn that my friends and I went in one time when it was raining. It was full of loose hay and we had a lot of fun there. We had to climb a barbed wire fence and dodge our way around some unruly cows to get there, but it was worth it. The old barn eventually collapsed and this one was built in its place. It makes me think of this song; "40 Mile Town."

Eric Johnson (From his Ah Via Musicom album 1990)


YouTube: 40 Mile Town

I got a way I can find you
Down the Melody Ranch, I know you're there most everyday
That's where you like to spend some time alone
I need to talk to you
Tell you what I feel like, warm hellos in the morning mist
You're the magic that turns my heart around

Seems to me, we're really living way too fast
Oh when we should let the story of love last
Sometimes I just want to go and drift away...
And move on to some forty mile town

I got a way I can see you
Close my eyes and start to watch the ancient water flow
A crystal dance that paupers know so well
That's the way kings keep dreamin'
Hold their head up high and live below forty mile skies
The way that it can be in ocean towns

Things of this world guess we never really own
Oh that mountain falls and then we're goin' home
We should try to make the best and get away...
Work on towards our forty mile town

Seems to me we really need to feel love more,
Oh an ordinary smile opens the door
Sometimes all I want to do is dream away...
Wake up in some forty mile town