What a song!  The story told by the lyric did not happen to me.  Who knows if it happened to anyone?  I can imagine though.

I grew up close to a wide expanse of woods, and a half mile or so distant was a railroad track.  You could follow the creek and eventually you’d reach the tracks.  I can draw from experience the excitement of spending hours exploring, walking through the woods till reaching the tracks, where the freight trains passed on the high rocky embankment.  You could feel the ground tremor as the coal burning train clanged past.  As a kid I knew freight moved along those tracks from the time of my grandparents or even longer, maybe as far back as the Civil War when cotton was shipped from the Fairntosh Plantation in the area.

Long summer nights,  — time enough for adventure, for discovery, for unleashing the imagination.  Is not all of that the essential components of passion, both erotic, as well as the passion of reciprocal engagement with life itself.  Every hour that I spent as a kid walking for miles in the woods close to where I grew up was time well spent forming the adult I was to  become.

Without controversy summer is the season for love, for adventure.  Do we not all exult in the opportunity to visit a nearby town, associate with individuals who, like us, are eager to experience the food and music that a local festival has to offer?  I think so.  Could not this be a tamer, more mature version of a quest for passion, the search for encounter with life, that totally  captivates us and compels our approval?

How about you?  I already have a list of artists in the line up at Summerfest, the great festival by the lake in Milwaukee at the end of June.  Paradise is strolling by lake Michigan, the city of Milwaukee skyline, gleaming in the distance, a cup of Leinenkugel’s Summershady in hand, — surrounded by music.

That is falling in love my friend!

Enjoy this fine tune by Journey!  As always the lyrics are appended after the video.

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Stone In Love 

Those crazy nights, I do remember in my youth
I do recall, those were the best times, most of all
In the heat with a blue jean girl
Burnin’ love comes once in a lifetime
She found me singing by the rail road track
Took me home, we danced by moonlight

[Chorus:]
Those summer nights are callin’,
stone in love
Can’t help myself I’m fallin’
stone in love

Old dusty roads, led to the river
Runnin’ slow
She pulled me down, and in clover
We’d go ’round
In the heat with a blue jean girl
Burnin’ love comes once in a lifetime
Oo the memories never fade away
Golden girl, I’ll keep you forever.
—written by Jonathan Cain, Steve Perry and Neal Schon