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influential songs in my lifetime, Bruce’s Hungary Heart may have been the one that came the closest to making me do something really crazy.
It occurred in the early 80’s somewhere around the time that the Charles County College president Jay Carsey just up and “disappeared” and left his wife (click here.) Since he too was nicknamed Jay, I always saw some connection with him and on some level his actions resonated with me.
So here I was driving out 249 one afternoon following some doo dahs around the household and Bruce’s song comes on the radio. I turn it up and sing along only substituting the lyrics as follows:
I actually did make the left on Rt. 5 and got up to about Redgate before I sobered up some, listened to the third verse and said “Naw, this may not be the best of ideas.”
Everybody needs a place to rest,
Everybody wants to have a home.
Don’t make no difference what nobody says
Ain’t nobody like to be alone
So I turned back around and did whatever it was I’d started out to do. (Think I was going to Dyson’s for some 2X4s.) But it was that close. Good thing Bruce’s third verse put everything in perspective. However, every time that song plays now, I get a little bit of a wistful feeling wondering what might have been had I just kept going.