Hitch a Ride
Boston
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Day is night in New York City
Smoke-like water runs inside
Steel idle trees to pity
Every living thing that's died
Gonna hitch a ride
Head for the other side
Leave it all behind
Never change my mind
Gonna sail away
Sunlight's another day
Freedom on my mind
Carry me away for the last time
Oh yeah
Life is like the coldest winter
People freeze the tears I cry
Words of hell their minds are into
I've got to crack this ice and fly
Gonna hitch a ride
Head for the other side
Leave it all behind
Never change my mind
Gonna sail away
Sunlight's another day
Freedom on my mind
Carry me away for the last time
Gonna hitch a ride
Head for the other side
Leave it all behind
Never change my mind
Gonna sail away
Sunlight's another day
Freedom on my mind
Carry me away for the last time
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There isn't a single note in this song I don't
know by heart, having listened to it
probably thousands of times.
The same goes for the entire album,
in my view the greatest debut album
in history, regardless of genre.
Boston's innate optimism can be found
in spades here, even in a sadder song
like this one.
"Gonna hitch a ride" was, and is still,
something I've sung when deciding to make
a big change in my life,
be it a relationship that needs to die
or a new way of thinking and doing things.
The guitar solo at the end
backpacks off into the unknown
while complementing the main melody.
It's pure and innocent and hurt,
three adjectives that apply to me,
though for many they translate to
naive, impractical, and pathetic.
I'm okay with that.
Those people are long gone,
and they aren't coming back.
I hitched a ride from them,
and I live still,
seeking that purity and innocence,
while owning my own hurt.
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Digital art: Strands of Hope by yours truly
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