Now, if only I could sing….

So, I randomly at the recommendation of others, download music to run to.

I rarely listen to the radio or watch TV, so I never know any new music.  If they don’t play it in Spin class or while I’m at the grocery store, chances are I haven’t heard it.  So my repertoire of music written after 1999 is generally techno and elevator music.

So I usually google running music and download what people suggest.  Then if I don’t like it, I just delete it.  Eventually.  More likely, I never get around to deleting it and then get annoyed with myself every time I’m out and have to listen to it again.

Well, for some bazaar reason, someone recommended a country song.  And it’s really more of a love song, not a very fast song… I have no idea why they recommended it for running.

And truth is I have heard it before, vaguely, it’s Lady Antebellum (which I never understood, it’s not just one chick that’s the name of the whole band?).  I don’t generally listen to country music, but this one is decent, as far as the whole genre goes. 

It came on my headphones on my run this morning, and while I was thinking of things I needed to get done as this week DH heads training for several weeks, I couldn’t help but think that while the song is all well and good, their reasons for needing their love differ from mine on a daily basis.

Sure, I can be all romantic and such, but I am pretty sure I would write the song differently. If I could write songs.  Which I cannot.  But if I could, they would be song about love after kids and morgages and life happens.  You know, when just being desperately and hopelessly lovesick isn’t the main reason you find yourself missing your lover.

So I did rewrite it, in my head.  Cause that’s what I do at 5:30 a.m. while I’m running the same streets of my town for the millionth time.

To save you the pain, I’m going to go ahead and NOT sing it.  But I will include this video so you can get the tune, in case you get out even less than I do and don’t know it.

My new lyrics….  (which sounded way funnier before dawn this morning than they do now as I type them….)

I Need You Now

Little tiny Lego heads scattered all around the floor
 I’ve given up on cleaning, cause I just can’t fight it anymore
And I wonder if you’ll be able to call at all
For I think I’m going to lose my mind

It’s a quarter after one, there’s 2 kids in our bed and I need you now
Have no way to call but the smallest just threw up and I need you now
And I don’t know why I put up with this
I just need you now

Now baby’s crying and I just want to sleep for one hour more
 Cause I just can’t watch dance for even just one hour more
And I wonder if you’ll be able to call at all
For I think I’m going to lose my mind

It’s a quarter after one, I think I heard a noise and I need you now
Have no way to call but the minivan broke down and I need you now
 And I don’t know why I put up with this
 I just need you now

woah woaaah.

Guess I’ve only got a few month left to go…..

It’s a quarter after one, I just finished cleaning puke and I need you now

And I have no way to call but I can’t work the PVR and I need you now

And I guess I know why I put up with this

I just need you now

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