Dear Jacksonville

from Everything Is Working Out Fine In Some Town by Parachute Musical

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Jacksonville is a song about not knowing where you belong anymore. Not many people get that from this track, probably because of it's sing-along chorus. Basically, after the collapse of my family and going through the failed relationship with my fiance, I moved and traveled all over the place. To some, that sounds like a good idea, but I know that all I was doing was running away from life as I knew it. I justified doing this because I thought dealing with it would be too hard and embracing it near impossible. I went everywhere after things went bad... Trips to Utah, Costa Rica, New York, South Carolina. I even thought seriously for a time that I would take what money I had left, pack up as much as I could, and move to Costa Rica. Starting a new life was really appealing to me at the time for obvious reasons. Of all the places I traveled and considered moving to, none were more visited then Jacksonville, Florida. The night my fiance and I called it quits, I went home, packed a bag and drove through the night to Jacksonville in my Honda with $50 in my pocket. I got all the way to the Jacksonville welcome station, about a half hour from my destination, and was about to run out of gas with no money left. I got out my guitar and started playing for tips and some nice old folks gave me $10. I got gas, went to my Aunt and Uncles near the beach and stayed for about a month. After a late night phone conversation spewed words like, "I miss you" and "when are you coming back", I decided it was time to go home... which I did that night, only to return weeks later. I made that drive more times than I can remember. All wanted was to escape things for awhile, but that only worked for a short time. All my personal shit just kept following me. It made no difference where I went, everything made it's way to me eventually. My last trip to and from Jacksonville was the turning point. I had no where else to go and didn't see an end to the pain I so feverishly ran from. Defeated, I started writing again and Dear Jacksonville is what came out. It was a devastating for me to realize I couldn't live there and be happy and that I was just as miserable as I was at home. I could say that about anywhere I tried to run. It wasn't until I started accepting the things that would "never" change that life got better. I moved to Nashville, but this time I knew I had purpose instead of an escape route. - Josh

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there's something in the way that I feel today somethings changed so i'll take a little trip on through the southern states to a familiar place to arrange my thoughts on love and life I've taken that trip many-a-time down to jacksonville but I never got my fill of it all and i returned to my home town without a care in the world and way less cash then i started with We're all just runnin' from the same girl she took captive out hearts but in the end she rocked our world And when all is said and done you'll pack it up and head for home cause runnin's become old and dull and change ain't working out dear jacksonville

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from Everything Is Working Out Fine In Some Town, track released June 19, 2008
gang vocals - Bryan Carter, Jeremy Bullock, Andrew "Ronnie" Johnson

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