2 songs because it's my home stretch

So I am in my last week of my M.A. program and then it will officially be summer.  Time to re-read Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince before the movie comes out and to read New Moon and the other books in the Twilight series.  And of course to work on school papers, communication conference presentations and other things to "get a head start" on my Ph.D.  

It is also summer because my small mountain town has multiplied times ten in the last two weeks with tourists and vacationers.  Its a good thing I live outside city limits and live five minutes away from "the bar."  With this has come bonfires, PBR drinking, and dancing to bluegrass in the wee morning hours.  My friend also just left for Wisconsin last night because she is pregnant and in need of help from her parents.  She announced her marriage last night and we celebrate complete with again campfire, PBR, and bluegrass.  We also took pictures of the happy couple and I think for the first time in my life I was considered a bride's maid.  They danced to Wagon Wheel (Old Crow song) and partied it up.  It was the start to my summer even though I still have a paper to write, and a presentation to give.  

My goal this summer is to live up this mountain living because I may never do it again until I am old and grey.  So it is time for BBQ, hikes, the lake, camping in a new tent, and loving the people around me who have so graciously let me into their lives for the last is it two years (maybe three.)  It's been a blast and I can't wait to make this summer memorable.

So two songs...love songs...for those I love...and for the place I live.

Natalia Zuckerman's, Only Trees

I can't find the lyrics for this song but sometimes we have to experience the performance and shy away from textocentrism.

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Second...

Yellow Brick Road, Kris Delmhorst

This is a song dedicated to me...because yes...everything is about me

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I'm off to see the wizard in his castle on the hill
And I never once have known him and I do not know him still
Because his face it is magnificent but you'll never see his hands
And the way he throws his voice around I don't know where he stands

I'm off to see the wizard with his curtain and his crowd
But my hands are not trembling and my head it is not bowed
Cause I'm not looking for any answers, no truths to be revealed
All that I am asking is to show me something real

I'm not on no yellow brick road, got a mind and a heart and guts of my own
I'm not looking for a one to set me free
I'm not on no yellow brick road, I'll find my own way home
I'm just looking for someone to walk with me

Hey you behind the curtain tell me what is it you see:
From where you sit does it appear that everyone is on their knees?
Their eyes are wide and hopeful and the line grows at the door
Do you sit up there and wonder how you'll ever give them more?

Well I'm not on no yellow brick road, got a mind and a heart and guts of my own
I'm not looking for a one to set me free
I'm not on no yellow brick road, I'll find my own way home
I'm just looking for someone

Don't say that it's not lonely up above the crowd
Don't tell me you don't find yourself longing for the ground
And when I asked him one more time won't you tear the curtain down,
He said don't you know there's nothing here but me,
And I said baby who'd you think I came to see?

I'm not on no yellow brick road, got a mind and a heart and guts of my own
I'm not looking for a one to set me free
I'm not on no yellow brick road, I'll find my own way home
I'm just looking for someone to walk with me

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