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\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n T<\/span>his is not a murder ballad.<\/p>\n It’s a song about a long-haul trucker coming to the realization that his marriage is over. He thinks about it when he drives. He thinks about it when he lies awake in the sleeper in the back of the cab. And he prays about it in a little church on the way home. Simple, hunh?<\/p>\n That’s what I thought.<\/p>\n But I had to stop performing it because people kept coming up afterwards and saying, “Man that’s dark. <\/span>It’s so seething and brink-of-violence. So, how does he kill her?”<\/p>\n And… as I read the lyrics now, they may be vague but, yeah, depending on how you read them, they could also be a bit ominous. But, really, what I had in mind was a guy simply breaking out of that thrall of indecision… just before you finally give up on someone you were positive would change your world. Not that, you know, I was ever such a sap. But people have been…<\/p>\n E<\/span>ver think of all the great songs that started with the phrase “wake up”?<\/p>\n Yeah… well, I just checked, and, as of today, four of the songs so far<\/span> (out of 71 songs since September 22) from A Year of Songs have the words “wake up” in the first 3 words of the song — and one more has “woke up.”<\/p>\n Don’t ask me why. If I had to guess, I’d say I was subconsciously on a quest to come up with a line with the classic elegance of “Woke up this morning \/ got myself a beer” (Jim Morrison) — which, I’ve always felt, pretty much sez it all.<\/p>\n\n