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Green Arrow
In the last days of university in Charlottesville, I’d often listen to ‘I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One’. The weather was getting warmer. I’d get in the car, often with friends, we’d drive around. All the routes and roads and past the pastures and horse farms on 22. Up to Monticello. Across from the house was Mountaintop Farm. We’d go up there to watch the sun rise and follow the curvature of the Earth. Feel it spin. Stare at the burnt crimson of the sun as it crept around the corner coming for us. Laughing.
There was one day I was driving back to DC and I was on 29 and I’d just graduated and had things packed up in the back of the car. I was listening to ‘Green Arrow’ and listening to the crickets chirping, both in that song and elsewhere, outside. Listening to the slide of the guitar. Feeling things slip away and flow through my fingers and hands.
What I mean to say is this: It’s really quite a lovely piece of music and you should take a listen, preferably in a warm summer night in the South, driving through Madison county, passing the concrete expanses of Sheetz and 7-11 and watching the cows stare at you from around the bend of the road and then coming upon Mountain Run Lake which is in Culpeper and near many car dealerships.
Give it a shot.
Tags: green arrow, i can hear the heart beating as one, yo la tengo
