More About Roads

Life is a Highway

Well, life's like a road that you travel on  
There's one day here and the next day gone  
Sometimes you bend, sometimes you stand  
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind
 
There's a world outside every darkened door  
Where Blues won't haunt you anymore  
For the brave are free and lovers soar  
Come ride with me to the distant shore
 
We won't hesitate  
To break down the guarding gate  
There's not much time left today, yeah
 
Life is a highway,
 I wanna ride it  
All night long  
If you're going my way, I wanna drive it 
All night long
 
Through all these cities and all these towns 
 It's in my blood and it's all around 
 I love now like I loved you then  
This is the road and these are the hands  
From Mozambique to those Memphis nights   
The Khyber Pass to Vancouver's lights
 
They knock me down  
And back up again  
You're in my blood 
 I'm not a lonely man  
There's no load I can't hold 
The road's so rough this I know
 I'll be there when the light comes in 
 Just tell 'em we're survivors
 
Life is a highway, I wanna ride it  
All night long 
If your going my way, I wanna drive it
All night long
 
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, yeah
 
Life is a highway, I wanna ride it 
All night long (mmmm yeah) 
If your going my way, I wanna drive it  
All night long
 
There was a distance between you and I (between you and I)  
A misunderstanding once  
But now, we look it in the eye
 
Ooooo...Yeah!
 
There ain't no load that I can't hold  
The road's so rough this I know 
I'll be there when the light comes in 
 Just tell 'em we're survivors
 
Life is a highway, I wanna ride it  
All night long (all night long, yeah hey) 
If your going my way, I wanna drive it
All night long
 
Life is a highway, I wanna ride it  
All night long  If your going my way, I wanna drive it  
All night long
 
Life is a highway, 
I wanna ride it All night long 
If your going my way, I wanna drive it
 All night long
 
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, yeah

I chose the song "Life is a Highway" by Rascal Flatts one, because he
is a favorite artist of mine and two, because I really liked
the extended metaphor present in the song. Flatts is 
comparing life to a highway road. He sings about the many
twists and turns we encounter throughout our life time, the times we
fall and have to stand back up again, the passion we feel
at being alive and how we "break down the guarding door"
in order to accomplish what we want. Flatts also exhibits a great love
for the long winding life he is living and how, despite all the hardships, 
he still has time to stop and enjoy the sights.