Music
“Meet Me in Montana” came on the radio the other day. It was one of those God smiling at me moments.
See, I’ve liked Dan Seals ever since I first heard “Addicted” in high school. The lyrics are tricky and hard to spit out but the emotion is heartfelt. Once “Everything that Glitters Is Not Gold” came into my life, I was hooked.
Sometimes I like songs like those. Quiet. Simple. Not flashy. They wear their heartbreak openly, but not loudly. Country music is full of ongs like those, where the boy doesn’t always get the girl and, while life may go on, it doesn’t always end happily ever after.
Melancholy thoughts for the end of the year, I guess, but hopeful as well. We all need someone to believe in us. We all need someone to come home to. I hope that you have that kind of love this year and, if you don’t, that you are able to find it.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, direct from the recesses of Stephanie’s mind, we give you “Meet Me in Montana” by Dan Seals (with a little help from Marie Osmond):
Wrote my whole life down in a notebook
Songs about you and me
I've been singing to every soul in Tennessee
Nobody seems to listen
No one ever smiles the way that you do
So I guess you'll never hear me on the radio
I'd give up this crazy dream of mine
To hold you once more
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Chorus
Won't you meet me in Montana
I want to see the mountains
In your eyes
Oh! Oh! I've had all of this life I can handle
Meet me underneath that big Montana sky
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I left home for Hollywood
Looking for a part to play
You always said I had such a pretty face
But I guess I'm not that pretty
'Cause no one looks at me
The way that you do
Well, you'll always be a movie star to me
Darling now I guess it's time that I let go of that dream
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Chorus
Won't you meet me in Montana
I want to see the mountains
In your eyes
Oh! Oh! I've had all of this life I can handle
Meet me underneath that big Montana sky
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Well, we're stuck here in these hills
That they call mountains
But Darling back home in your arms
Is right where I wanna be
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Chorus
Won't you meet me in Montana
I want to see the mountains
In your eyes
Oh! Oh! I've had all of this life I can handle
Meet me underneath that big Montana sky