reaction

After watching a few country music videos, i got to thinking: Everything seems to work the way it should on tv. All those love songs always have a happy ending, and there is always something to be learned. Darryl Worely has this video (i miss my friend) where he sings a song to the girl he wrote it for. Her reaction is just how it should be: she nods when he mentions something specific, and at the end, she cries as she realizes just what he's singing about. anyways, i was just thinking about how that has never happened to me... ever. I sang a song to my ex-girlfriend, that i wrote about her after we had dated for a while. i sang everything alright, but i must have done something wrong because she just said "that was nice". Yeah, disappointing isn't it? Well i wrote here another song a few months later. I really meant evey word in that song, and it took a while to write. her reaction was the same. Maybe i just had too much time to think about what her reaction would be like. But i expected her to at least appreciate it. well maybe the songs just sucked... However, a year ago, i wrote a song about my best friend back in elementary school. I think it's my favorite song i've written so far (especially when i play it on my 25th anniversary taylor guitar baby!). Well i never had the chance to show him the song, until like two months. I've thought about how it's kinda weird to write a song about your friend and then sing it to him... but we used to be in a band, and he writes songs too- so i thought he would like it. anyways, i played that song, and i had no idea what his reaction would be. he just kinda reacted the same way my ex did. well, he seemed to like it more, but i couldn't really tell. I'm not sure what the point of this was- but i'm supposed to have some life changing advice so... All i can think of is, i probably should have taken my ex's reaction as a sign of where things would go. and as for my friend... i think that he thought about the song on his drive home. and i think the song made him think about all the stuff we did when were kids, but he (being a guy) didn't really express how he felt- and that's probably what i would have done. So there you have it. Two of the same reactions from two different people, but one understood something that the other didn't. Um, i guess this would fall under the 'don't judge a book by it's cover' category.
-steve