I've always prided (is that a word?) myself in the fact that I know lyrics of songs. I'm pretty good at it and I might be good at Don't Forget the Lyrics but I'd never be chosen just because that's the way life goes. Country music is another story for me. It's not even that I don't know the lyrics...it's that I don't get the lyrics. There are quite a few songs that I've realized lately I just haven't understood. The most lyrically mystic is a certain Ms. Reba McEntire, the red-head herself. Below is a chat between friends concerning two of Ms. McEntire's finest.
(Please forgive me for the lack of capitalization and punctuation. This is how we do.)
Sarah: moon
Erin: yes?
Erin: hang on. i gotta get some tea before my throat explodes
Sarah: i've listened to Reba's "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" for the majority of my life and I still don't think I have the story down
Erin: wait what?
Erin: how?
Erin: ?
Sarah: i can't remember from the beginning to the end who the characters are
Sarah: i always thought it was that Enos' boy Seth who was killed at the end
Sarah: but apparently it was Andy, the friend at the bar
Sarah: i'm going to write a blog about it
Sarah: trying to work out the confusion that maybe others feel but have been too ashamed to admit
Sarah: (i put toot ashamed at first)
Erin: TOOT!!!
9:20 AM
Sarah: go get your tea
Erin: i already did
Sarah: enos boy?
Sarah: so quick
Sarah: isn't that what it says?
Erin: amos
Erin: amos boy
Sarah: amos boy seth?
Erin: his name is seth amos
Sarah: oh
Erin: LOL
Erin: this is great
Sarah: ok, so brother's been away, right?
Sarah: he stops by webbs to have a beer before he goes home to his wife.
Erin: right
Sarah: he meets his friend andy who tells him that his wife has been with seth amos
Erin: andy tells him that his wife's been seeing seth and andy has ALSO been with her.
Sarah: ok, so andy loses bro as a friend
Erin: right.
Erin: bro goes and gets his shotgun and goes to andy's house (is that right?)
yes
Erin: andy is dead (tracks too small for andy to make)
Erin: bros mistake was firing the shot just to flag them down
Erin: (georgia patrol)
Erin: then brother gets hung.
Erin: (in a dirty trial)
Erin: and reba was the one that killed andy
Erin: and also brothers cheating wife
Erin: you see?
9:25 AM
Erin: she delivers the punch (little sister don't miss when she aims her gun) or something
Erin: have i lost you?
Sarah: phone
Sarah: let's read the lyrics
Erin: you tell that person we are discussing IMPORTANT THINGS.
Sarah: yeah, customs and duties for an australian shipment
Erin: d-d-d-d-dang!
Sarah: right?
Erin: do you get it now?
Sarah: i used to think that the judge in the town had love stains on his hands
Sarah: how did the sister know?
Erin: i was always confused about 'Fancy' until I learned about prositution.
Sarah: reba is not afraid
Erin: i thought it was Glove Stains until i figured it out.
Erin: it doesn't matter how she knew.
Sarah: it's blood stains right?
Erin: yes.
Erin: i assume.
Erin: i can't imagine it would be anything else.
Sarah: and i guess he had been with her too?
Sarah: the judge?
9:30 AM
Erin: was there a video for this song?
Sarah: there was
Erin: maybe that will help.
Sarah: i don't think so
9:35 AM
Sarah: i've seen the video
Erin: would it help if i wrote it out as a short story?
Sarah: i just don't understand how reba knew
Sarah: yes
Erin: i'll do it. for you.
Sarah: are you doing this now?
Erin: not right now. but i will.
9:40 AM
Sarah: this won't be like the andy roddick story, will it?
Erin: ugh
Sarah: remember?
Erin: UGH
Sarah: fancy confused me too
Sarah: i thought she was getting adopted
Erin: hahahahaha
Erin: in a sense...
Sarah: yeah
Sarah: then i thought she was his maid
Sarah: is she still in the biz?
Erin: who?
Sarah: fancy
Erin: no. she got out.
Sarah: oh
Sarah: how did she make her money?
Sarah: that was quite the business suit she had on
Sarah: maybe she's the madam
9:45 AM
Erin: yeah i think she became a madam.
Sarah: so she still is in the biz
Erin: right but she's a lady
Sarah: ahahaha....she moved up in the business
4 comments:
I read this whole thing and it is so fantastic that I don't even care that it was happening at work. I might read it again out loud.
Again with the Reba love? I just don't understand it. I did, however understand from the first time I saw the video about "Fancy". It causes me to question my upbringing that I knew that was going on.
Just another reason why I continue to miss you.
I love Reba. I love Fancy. However, I'm 28 years old and this is the first time I'm realizing what Fancy's mama turned her into. I'm shocked...and saddened.
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