ADVENTURES IN SONGWRITING — The Road To Lonesome

After over a month on the road since leaving Florida, I had written a dozen songs, and had purposely made them universally themed and not necessarily about my own journey. However, as much as I enjoy my own company, the open road does get lonely from time to time. And while I don’t actually get to the point of feeling lonesome, the cowboy in me felt that it needed to be romanticized a bit.

I decided to live a life
different than other men
and quite a few would agree to the idea that I ain’t got a lot of good sense
I’ll admit sometimes it gets lonely
every now and then
but I’m traveling the road to lonesome again

When I initially shared this song, a friend reached out to tell me he thought I actually did have a lot of good sense and he appreciated my desire to fight against the establishment and seek a life outside of the mainstream. Nevertheless, there are quite a number of people who would actually say that I don’t have a lot of good sense. Nevertheless, I will take whatever sense I can get, whether it’s common sense, good sense, or otherwise.

I don’t always know why I do what I do
I don’t wish anybody any ill intent
but the false belief in normalcy
is something I could never comprehend
Doesn’t matter where I’m going
It doesn’t matter where I’ve been
I’m traveling the road to lonesome again