*Note: The following two songs are best sung/listened to in a moving vehicle.
These Words // Natasha Bedingfield
Scene: It's a balmy, sun drenched mid-July afternoon in 2005. Two girls glide between corn fields and cow fields on a spur-of-the-moment road trip to a cabin on a lake in Marquette, Wisconsin. They met recently, blending smoothies and sharing secrets about sex and forming every sentence into a title by George Orwell. There were no hesitations from the get-go. There was instant sisterhood. On this road trip, these words lifted out of their lungs in truth, for each other, for a long long time, even forever.
Five years later, one of the girls asked the other to be her bridesmaid. Tomorrow, they will celebrate freedom, insanity, vanity and the true exquisiteness of the words I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU!
Hurricane // Bob Dylan
Scene: A foggy late night in April, 2011, just south of Burlington, Vermont. A boy. A girl. A song, a test. The lyrics burst out of them like their hearts had been for 3 months previous. Every word came out like Maine maple syrup, passionate and precise. She loved that he knew it, he loved the way she sang. They discussed the fact that they were in the midst of a genius, a legend, a prophet. It seemed only appropriate as they had driven through Paterson earlier that day, and even more appropriate seeing as they had been screeching their tires away from the pigs of law.
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