Eight Lanes Of Danger Aug 8 2011

Before this blog morphed into what it has become today, it was started as a convenient way to share songs and stories that I’d writen or co-written. So I thought it was high time to begin re-including some of my songs into my posts.

I’m aware that everyone likes different types of music and that a given song will have people who like and hate it. That’s ok with me. There are many great songs that I’m not fond of and some probably mediocre ones that for some reason I like a lot. Each to their own.

“Eight Lanes of Danger” is a country song with perhaps a bit of rock thrown in. I co-wrote it last year with Denis Loiseau. The seed of the song is that I was driving on an 8-lane freeway when I thought how awful it would be if a dog was trapped on the wrong side of the freeway from his home (I know, my mind sometimes goes to strange places).

As we wrote the lyric we realized that a shy or introverted person who sees and longs for and/or falls in love with someone from across a crowded room at a party might have similar feelings of fear that the dog I imagined might feel.

So the song morphed into one of hopeful love, but retained some of the dog/puppy imagery.