53. "We're Ready" by Boston
Third Stage is the album that I associate the most with my engagement with Julie. I think our engagement started about two weeks after I met her, but she's probably got a different opinion about that. I hated having to wait four months to get married. I wanted to get married and get on with our lives! And out of all the Boston songs on Third Stage, this song is the one that sums up the impatience I felt during those long summer months waiting for the wedding day--Why are we waiting so long to get married?! We're ready!
Now it's been thirty years since that album was playing nearly non-stop in my black step-side Chevy pickup. And to mark the occasion, I decided to learn to record myself singing all of the parts while playing both rhythm guitar and lead guitar. (But not the drums.) I know that I'm not as young as I used to be, so my voice isn't as high as I wish it was to hit all those super-high notes. And I know that I'm not as thin as I was before, so I really have to stretch to get my arms around the guitar. But I think my performance still manages to recapture all the inpatient romance of our summer of 1988 engagement.
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