The Best drug

I aint smoking anything. No needles or substance but I am high as I could be. I'm listening to good ol country music and I could not feel better. Call me crazy, and maybe there are people out there that feel the same, but I get a buzz off a hard core country ballad. It sends chills up and down my spine and takes me to a world above the world we know. I cant explain it but ever since I was old enough to be able to hear and understand a good country song I have had this feeling. I imagine singing it myself an touching peoples soul. Wether I'm playing it on guitar or just hearing it on the radio I get this way. It does something for my inner being that takes all troubles away and heals all hurt. Maybe that's why its always been more to me than just music. Its my life; its my drug. I will never forget, my Dad said one time at one of his shows "I believe God has a corner in heaven for country singers like me." I remember thinking I hope so because because I cant live without it. Who I am and what I do is a product of how I was raised and the fact the country is in my blood. I understand there's people out there who think what I am is stupid but that's because they don't understand. Its in my veins its running through. My grandfather writes country songs and my Dad taught himself how to play guitar when he was 15. I write songs and play guitar; its a family tradition. My Dad knew since he was my age and even younger singing was what he was born to do. If he don't get the chance I sure will. After High School, I planned on going to college in Wyoming or Montana but at the same time I know I belong in Tennessee. Either way I am leaving this town, and I ain't coming back until I become what I was born to be. A country singer. If that means I might not ever see Mifflin County again then so be it but my life will be poured into what I love and what I have to do to. That is the best drug there is.