Sunday's Song #2

Don't Think I Don't Think About It



I left out in a cloud of taillights and dust
Swore I wasn't coming back, said I'd had enough
Saw you in the rear view standing fading from my life
But I wasn't turning around, no not this time but

Chorus:
Don't Think I Don't Think About It
Don't think I don't have regrets
Don't think it don't get to me
Between the work and the hurt and the whiskey
Don't think I don't wonder 'bout
Could've been, should'a been all worked out
I know what I felt and I know what i said but
Don't Think I Don't Think About It

When we make choices we gotta live with them
Heard you found a real good man and you married him
I wonder if sometimes I cross your mind
Where would we be today if I never drove that car away

Don't Think I Don't Think About It
Don't think I don't have regrets
Don't think it don't get to me
Between the work and the hurt and the whiskey
Don't think I don't wonder 'bout
Could've been, should'a been all worked out
I know what I felt and I know what i said but
Don't Think I Don't Think About It


Don't Think I Don't Think about it

Don't Think I Don't Think About It
Don't think I don't have regrets
Don't think it don't get to me
Between the work and the hurt and the whiskey
Don't think I don't wonder 'bout
Could've been, should'a been all worked out
I know what I felt and I know what i said but
Don't Think I Don't Think About It

Don't Think I Don't
Don't Think I Don't



How much time do we spend thinking about and even living in our pasts?

Isn't this a song about doing exactly that?

Why are we mesmerized by our pasts, whether we admit to regrets or not?

Why does anyone who "lives for today" live so much with the past?

Should we rather live than IN the present?

Yeah, yeah, I know we it is through our past that we get to our present and if we actually do forget the lessons of the past we will repeat them. But there is something very tiring about carrying so much baggage because a past is now a burden.

"My sin is ever before me," says David, but he is not carrying it forward with him -- he has learned the lesson, it has become part of him -- part of his present and requires no effort because it has been accepted and integrated into who David is now. He knows himself to be a forgiven sinner who has accepted his sinfulness and forgiven-ness.

Maybe our baggage is really unaccepted regret, guilt from mistakes and sin -- really an unwillingness to admit who we are now because we would rather change the past ...

Don't Think I Don't Think About It