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Tom Petty Wildflowers
This is the gem I'd forgotten. "The days went by like paper in the wind.Everything changed then changed again. It's hard to find a friend." Ain't that aging? Ha...this album is a good friend. The guitar solos and lyrics are the best of the 1990s. "Good to be King" is so much more melodic than I remembered...this wall of soft, fluff cloudsound with this underlying guitar that would kill any current Wilco fan.
And "Wildflowers", the title track, it's a song I told my 8th grade teacher summed me up better than anything on the first writing assignment I remember REALLY working at and being proud and exhausted with. The lyrics were me then, and to a large extent, are me now. And I'm living it.
You belong among the wildflowers
You belong in a boat out at sea
You belong with your love on your arm
You belong somewhere you feel free
