To have it happen right as your career is beginning to reach its peak would probably knock many performers off their axis. To lose a son or daughter in a tragic accident is one of those life-altering events that stays with a person forever. But it’s also one that’s rarely ever talked about, and we have so little background on. Don’t blink or you might miss it.It was one of the biggest tragedies to ever befall a major country music star. Let these songs encourage you, if you’re a graduate, because life is like a vapor. Graduation day is one of the most exciting days in a person’s life, but it can also be one of the most worrisome. If so, please feel free to suggest it and we can see if we haven’t missed a song we should have included. Perhaps you can think of another country song that would be appropriate for the graduate on graduation day. If you have a graduate who loves country music, I believe these seven songs would be suitable for them. If these are life's lessons, she'll take this test.” The wisdom in these lyrics, like leaving room for “big mistakes” and knowing the stakes are high, she finally realizes “she won’t be coming back with the rest,” but facing “life’s lessons, she’ll take this test,” and hopefully pass with flying colors. But now she won't be coming back with the rest. She knows the high stakes,” but the graduate can say, “She traveled this road as a child. A place in the clouds, a foundation of stone.” The young woman who graduates “needs wide open spaces. This song asks, “Who's never left home, who's never struck out. Thus, it makes it a very suitable country song for graduation day for the graduate. The song, Wide Open Spaces, by the Dixie Checks, is about someone who’s about to leave the nest and spreading their wings to take flight. That doesn’t mean being disconnected from a parent’s help when it’s needed, as where the mother’s says, “Before you hit the highway, You better stop for gas, There’s a fifty in the ashtray, In case you run short of cash,” and relating to her daughter’s path, “Here’s a map, and here’s a Bible, If you ever lose your way,” and in closing, “make sure you tell daddy. Not that they ever break free from their family, but they are now an adult and they’re ready to enter the world as one. They sing, “I hope the days come easy and the moments pass slow, And each road leads you where you wanna go,” and as if a parent is giving a graduate advice, sings “And if you're faced with a choice, and you have to choose, I hope you choose the one that means the most to you, And if one door opens to another door closed, I hope you keep on walkin' till you find the window.” This may be the wish for every parent, that their child’s “dreams stay big,” but “your worries stay small.” What more could you desire for a graduate than this? Don’t Forget to Remember by Carrie Underwoodĭon’t Forget to Remember, by Carrie Underwood, is a description of a mother saying goodbye to her daughter, and as they “Both tryin’ not to cry…she took my hand and said, ‘Baby, don’t forget to remember me.” A parent’s job is to prepare their children for a future and to live a life of independence from the family. My Wish, sang by Rascal Flatts, is a powerful song about the future, because that’s what graduation day is all about. Kinda happy, kinda sad.” Life sounds a lot like a roller coaster because there’s a lot of “Kinda happy, kinda sad,” sort of up and sort of down. We laughed until we cried.” What friend can’t identify with the former days as being, “Every emotion rolled into one. We sang, and talked, and traveled back in time. We laughed until we cried,” saying “Oh man, we were livin'. In looking back, they remember, “We talked, and drank, and danced, and said goodbye. The song, Laughed Until we Cried, by Jason Aldean, is like someone who’s arrived at a destination (adulthood) and is reminiscing about all the stops along the journey. Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your “better half.” Life is like a vapor it’s a morning mist, quickly burned away by the sun, and then it’s gone, so “Don’t blink.” Laughed Until we Cried by Jason Aldean Wake up and you're twenty-five and your high school sweetheart becomes your wife.” The lesson is, don’t blink, because “You just might miss your babies growing like mine did. In seeing a news story about a man turning one hundred and two year’s old, the man said that the key to a long life is “don’t blink,” because, “Just like that you're six years old and you take a nap and you. That’s what it must seem like to the parents of a graduate and certainly school must now be seen to be the same way for the graduates. It seems that life goes by in the blink of an eye. When people drove through town, we’d say, “Don’t blink, or you’ll miss it.” That’s the idea behind this song from Kenny Chesney. Don’t Blink, by Kenny Chesney, reminds me of what people used to say about the small town I grew up in.
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