What Have I Become / My Sweetest Friend?
April 29, 2003, 03:04 pmI finally got around to getting the Johnny Cash album, American IV: the Man Comes Around. Oh man, oh man. I watched the DVD of Hurt over and over, and cried. It gets me each time I hear “What have I become?”
When listening to any Johnny Cash song, I can easily imagine my grampa (or one of my clients who has a strong resemblance to Santa Claus) singing with his voice. And – especially when I listen to Hurt – I think about Johnny Cash and how he used to be such a handsome, gutsy young man and how he's old and frail and seems to be on the verge of dying. And I think about my grampa's deteriorating health and how one day my dad will be old and frail.
I was listening to it while I was driving home yesterday, on the verge of tears, thinking about Megan's dad. He's big and strong and has a barrel chest like a tree trunk, but years from now, he'll be old and small and unable to take care of himself. It's so tragic.
But I love, love, love the Man Comes Around. It's so rockin'.