Sinners Like Me Memoir
Sinners Like Me
“And when the doctor smacked him, you can bet your ass he took a swing, ‘cause he comes from a long line of sinners like me.” That line, that song, it’s all so true. Eric church had hit the nail on the head about me and my family when he wrote “Sinners Like Me.” The whole song, from the guitar to the lyrics, just describes us. The lyrics tell a story about not just Eric, but all the people like him. It talks about getting caught with their first beer, losing a family member that meant everything to you, even starting a family of your own. I remember the first time I heard this song when it was released back in July of 2006. I was sitting in the cab of my dad’s truck on the way back from another of my football games, at the end of that song we both just looked at each other, smiled, then laughed. We both knew. We knew that the song we just heard had described our family so well it almost even scared us. So we put it out of our minds, headed home, and watched that old TV with the glass screen that’s still in our basement to this day. I miss my dad but, whenever I start to miss him to much I just put that song on my iPod and take a drive to remember my roots.
“I said hey man, whatcha doin’ later on? He said, awe man I’m just hanging out later on.” (Luke Bryan, Little Bit Later On). The first time I heard this song I spewed so much Coke out of my nose I couldn’t breathe for a solid thirty seconds. The acidic bubbly liquid was supposed to be going down my throat but my best friend Will had other ideas. That kid could make me laugh harder than most people could, still can. I remember that day very clearly, Will was finally getting a truck. It was his first car so this was obviously a big deal. I was driving his gorilla looking self to Stripland Auto so we could pick up that beautiful silver GMC Sierra. Sure, it had a few dents in the tailgate…sides…well…pretty much everywhere, but it had four tires and four wheel drive. That was all Will needed. The
“And when the doctor smacked him, you can bet your ass he took a swing, ‘cause he comes from a long line of sinners like me.” That line, that song, it’s all so true. Eric church had hit the nail on the head about me and my family when he wrote “Sinners Like Me.” The whole song, from the guitar to the lyrics, just describes us. The lyrics tell a story about not just Eric, but all the people like him. It talks about getting caught with their first beer, losing a family member that meant everything to you, even starting a family of your own. I remember the first time I heard this song when it was released back in July of 2006. I was sitting in the cab of my dad’s truck on the way back from another of my football games, at the end of that song we both just looked at each other, smiled, then laughed. We both knew. We knew that the song we just heard had described our family so well it almost even scared us. So we put it out of our minds, headed home, and watched that old TV with the glass screen that’s still in our basement to this day. I miss my dad but, whenever I start to miss him to much I just put that song on my iPod and take a drive to remember my roots.
“I said hey man, whatcha doin’ later on? He said, awe man I’m just hanging out later on.” (Luke Bryan, Little Bit Later On). The first time I heard this song I spewed so much Coke out of my nose I couldn’t breathe for a solid thirty seconds. The acidic bubbly liquid was supposed to be going down my throat but my best friend Will had other ideas. That kid could make me laugh harder than most people could, still can. I remember that day very clearly, Will was finally getting a truck. It was his first car so this was obviously a big deal. I was driving his gorilla looking self to Stripland Auto so we could pick up that beautiful silver GMC Sierra. Sure, it had a few dents in the tailgate…sides…well…pretty much everywhere, but it had four tires and four wheel drive. That was all Will needed. The