I’ve added a new subcategory to the Music category called “Themes.”  As I was listening to music the other day at work, I realized a lot of my favorite songs have a similar subject, theme or characteristic.  So I thought I would post some of these and you can suggest songs for me to try or give me ideas for other themes.  In case I haven’t mentioned it before, I love comments.

Today’s theme is driving. I love any song that talks about driving or going somewhere. It’s probably because I love to drive especially since I got the coolest car ever.  I have always wanted to just get in my car and drive until I run out of gas, fill up and then come back. Until I do that, I’ll just settle for taking the long way home.

So this post’s title is a line in one of my driving songs.  It is “Days Go By” by Keith Urban. Click More to see my list and some of my favorite lyrics for each song.

• Christina Aguilera – Cruz
  “As I’m driving, I’m captured by the view; So much beauty, the road becomes my muse; The heat is rising, and my hand surfs through the wind; Cool, calm, collective as a child that lies within”
• Barenaked Ladies – Go Home
  “If you think of her as joan of arc; Shes burning for you, get your car out of park; If you think of her as catherine the great; Then you should be the horse to help her meet her fate; If you need her, you should be there, go home”
• Dierks Bentley – Settle for a Slowdown
  “But your wheels just turn down the road ahead; if it hurts at all, you ain’t showed it yet; you’re just a tiny dot on that horizon line; come on tap those brakes baby just one time; I know there’s nothing stopping you now… but I’d settle for a slowdown”
• Kenny Chesney – What I need to do
  “This old highway seems to understand; Leadin me on to somewhere no one knows my name; I got the window rolled down; I got the radio up; I’m doin all I can to get my mind off us”
• Kelly Clarkson – Go (Ford commercial)
  “Let’s Go; Let’s Jump Right In; Screamin’ To the Wind; Feel The Fire Within; I Can’t Ignore This Burnin’ In My Soul; C’mon Baby, Let’s Go”
• Matchbox Twenty – Rest Stop
  “Just three miles from the rest stop; And my mouths too dry to rage; The light was shining from the radio; I could barely see her face; But she knew all the words that I never had said; She knew the crumpled-up promise of this; Broken down man – and as I opened up the door”
• George Strait – Run
  “Find a truck and fire it up; Lean on the gas and off the clutch; Leave dallas in the dust; I need you in a rush; So baby run”
• Keith Urban – Days Go By
  “And the days go by…; I can feel ‘em flyin’; Like a hand out the window as the cars go by…”
• Keith Urban – Who Wouldn’t Wanna Be Me
  “And the sun is shinin’; This road keeps windin’; Through the prettiest country; From Georgia to Tennessee; And I got the one I love beside me; My troubles behind me; I’m alive and I’m free; Who wouldn’t wanna be me”

That’s my list so far.  If I think of any more, I’ll add them.