Since the Lumberjack my riding has not been the greatest. I took some easy weeks and not enough riding to help get me here. It is yet to be determined if this is a good thing or not, but currently I can't see the good in it. My legs are not very strong at all and my heart rate/lung capacity seems like I have taken half a year off. I am always tired and really struggling to get moving. I have been trying to motivate myself to be more motivated, but that is not very easy.
I have done a little bit of bike work that has been needed, but always have more I could do. I have been watching some of the tour and the Wold Cup MTB races have helped make me want to be motivated, just getting out the door has been the hardest part. Back in the end of 2016 I started using song titles for my rides. I had been trying to use better titles than just "afternoon ride", but when some friends were doing this I figured I might as well follow along. I have a lot of thoughts and songs that go through my head on rides anyway, so it should not be that hard. I was surprised at how many times in a ride I would think I have a good title for the ride and then do something completely different by the time I was done.
I was recently thinking about all of the lyrics I have used and wondered how many times I have duplicated the same one. I found a pretty easy way to export my list and sort them to see. It turns out that I used lyrics for almost 350 rides and only had 7 lyrics that were duplicated and couple of those were not exact copies. I will say that is a lot better than I thought. As I looked through the list, it was nice to actually remember most of the rides and what made me use that lyric for the title. I don't think a title of "afternoon ride" would spark the same memories. So for fun I am listing the lyrics below hoping to keep sparking memories and helping me find motivation to keep moving forward.
$2 When I’m hard up | |||
A bigger better slice is what you like | |||
A couple more shots of whiskey and I’m going down to englewood | |||
a little messed up but we're all alright | |||
Ain’t lookin for nothin but a good time | |||
All I can say is that my life is pretty plain | |||
All I want to do is put a drink in my hand | |||
All I wanted was a Pepsi | |||
All we are is dust in the wind | |||
All who wonder are not lost, but some are | |||
And everybody hurts sometimes | |||
And I have been drunk now for over two weeks | |||
And I just got a message sayin that hell has frozen over | |||
And I just want to be alive while I'm here | |||
And I'm 'a keep my pants saggy | |||
And its gone daddy gone | |||
And now that Saturday’s all gone | |||
And that's the way we get by | |||
And the tiny ship was lost | |||
And there will always be stop and go and fast and slow. | |||
And these ashes are all I got left | |||
And you still don't like to leave before the end of the show | |||
Answers don’t come in any one direction | |||
Are you dead or are you sleeping | |||
As we all do under its gaze, the yellow moon on the rise | |||
As we roll down this unfamiliar road | |||
Bangin ho’s and popin pills | |||
Blame it on that simple twist of fate | |||
Busted down in Baton Rouge | |||
But every junkie is like a setting sun | |||
But maybe just a half a drink more | |||
But the heat came 'round and busted me for smiling on a cloudy day | |||
Call me stupid call me sad | |||
Can't you see that is is just raining? Ain't no need to go outside | |||
Cause a rolling stone gathers no moss | |||
Chasin down a hoodoo there | |||
Circle songs and sands of time | |||
City maps and spinal taps | |||
Climbing up on the mountain, heartbeat pounding, reckless as a cyclone | |||
Crunch like nuts in the mouths of squirrels | |||
Dear Abby, got a problem | |||
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage | |||
Divided sky, the wind blows high | |||
Do you have the time to listen to me whine? | |||
Does this thing still work? | |||
Don’t you know I’m loco | |||
Easy like a Sunday morning | |||
Eight days a week | |||
Even though the moment passed me by, I still can't turn away | |||
Ever wonder if it’s all for you | |||
Every time that wheel goes around your bound to cover just a little more ground | |||
Fairly easy ride my ass | |||
Fighting for a lost cause | |||
First awake will stoke the coast | |||
Flies in the Vaseline we are sometimes it blows my mind | |||
Friend is a four letter word | |||
Full of broken thoughts that I cannot repair | |||
Give me things that don't get lost | |||
Got a little change in my pocket | |||
Got my toes in the water and my ass in the sand | |||
Guess it’s better than nothing | |||
Half my heart is in havanna | |||
He had a black eye he was proud of | |||
He said you'd like to at least make yourself happy though | |||
Hello darkness my old friend | |||
Hello me, it’s me again | |||
Hey wake up, your eyes wern't open wide | |||
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat any meat | |||
How many subplots you got swimming through that mind | |||
How's it go again? | |||
Humidity is rising (uh rising), barometer's getting low (oh low, girl) | |||
Hung over on the dresser with my brain leakin | |||
I ain’t got no body | |||
I am not who I want to be. I probably will not ever be | |||
I am so out of tune with you | |||
I attack with love, pure bug beauty | |||
I can barely see the road from the heat comin' off of it | |||
I can't swim so I dog paddle | |||
I did it all for the biscuit | |||
I didn't know that the words you said to me meant more to me than they ever could you | |||
I don’t mind you coming here and wasting all my time | |||
I don’t remember you looking any better but then again I don’t remember you | |||
I don’t want to live like this, but I don’t want to die | |||
I fake it so real I am beyond fake | |||
I focus on the pain, the only thing that's real | |||
I got a bug in my margarita | |||
I got a pocket full of quarters and I'm heading to the arcade | |||
I got guns in my head and they won't go | |||
I hear that train a comin | |||
I hope I've got a little more time, I hope somebody lends me a dime | |||
I hurt myself today To see if I still feel | |||
I just can't find the time to write my mind the way I want it to read | |||
I just toss that ham in the fryin pan | |||
I keep my eyes wide open all the time | |||
I kind of wanna be more than friends | |||
I like me better when I’m with you | |||
I love the dirty things you do when I have control of you | |||
I love you like a fat kid loves cake | |||
I made the bus in seconds flat | |||
I might be freakin or peakin but I rock well | |||
I must inquire, Wilson. Can you still have fun? | |||
I need the crack of the whip I need some blood in the cut | |||
I smell sex and candy here | |||
I stroked the fattest dimes at least a couple of times | |||
I walk the line | |||
I want to breathe in the open wind | |||
I want to love you madly | |||
I was dreaming when I wrote this so sue me if I go too fast | |||
I was riding down the road one day and someone hit a possum | |||
I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy | |||
I’m going down town in a dead mans clothes | |||
I’m just waiting on a friend | |||
I’m still running against the wind | |||
I’m the ice cream man. Stop me when I’m driving by | |||
If I only had a brain | |||
If the thunder don't get you then the lightning will | |||
If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one your with | |||
If you come on to me, will I come home to you? | |||
If you find yourself standing at the end of your line | |||
If you get lost, you can always be found | |||
If you go straight long enough you will end up where you were | |||
I'll confess this you're my tragedy | |||
I'm an alcoholic, middle fingers in the air | |||
I'm back in the saddle again | |||
I'm down, digging through my old muscles looking for a clue | |||
I'm in deep with this girl but she's out of her mind | |||
I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round | |||
I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings | |||
I'm not an addict (maybe that's a lie) | |||
I'm not sure who I am | |||
I'm out on bail, the checks in the mail | |||
I'm still running against the wind | |||
I'm stuck in Folsom Prison | |||
In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey | |||
Inside my hope is fading | |||
Islands in the stream, that is what we are | |||
Isn’t it ironic | |||
It didn't feel like the wrong time or place | |||
It feels good for the first time in a long time now | |||
It never rains in Southern California | |||
It seems I found the road to nowhere | |||
It took four years, three months, two weeks and a Sunday | |||
It’s tricky | |||
It's another day, another chance to throw it all away | |||
It's as simple as something that nobody knows | |||
It's getting hot in here | |||
It's gonna have you begging pretty please | |||
It's hittin rock bottom smoke 'em if you got 'em | |||
It's nobody's fault but my own | |||
It's not a habit, it's cool, I feel alive | |||
It's so noisy at the fair but all your friends are there | |||
It's the way you cling to the road when the wind tries to shove you | |||
I've changed my mid so much I can't even trust it | |||
I've dreamt about you every night this week | |||
I've said what I'd said and you know what I mean but I still can't focus on anything | |||
Just nod if you can hear me | |||
Just turn around now you are not welcome anymore | |||
Let's ride, ride how we ride | |||
Life handed us a paycheck, we said, "We worked harder than this!" | |||
Life is too short to last long | |||
Long as I remember the rain been comin down | |||
Long distance drunk | |||
Looking for legs in all the wrong places | |||
Loose your face, loose your name then get fitted for a suit of flame | |||
Making the best of the worst day kind of night | |||
May the wind take your troubles away | |||
Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan | |||
My brain's the burger and my heart's the coal | |||
My get up and go must have got up and went | |||
My hell comes from inside, why fight this | |||
My thoughts were so loud, I couldn't hear my mouth | |||
New boot goofin | |||
Night falls on all our decisions. All our plans and all ambitions | |||
No more tears | |||
Nobody's fault but mine | |||
Nothing shakin on shake down street | |||
Nothing to see here but sparklers, fountains and snakes | |||
Now what do we have here an outlaw and his beer | |||
Now you make the scene all day, but tomorrow there'll be hell to pay | |||
Occasionally glancing up through the rain | |||
Oh baby you, you got what I need | |||
On a life boat sailing home with our drunken hearts and our tired bones | |||
On my hands and knees, I will roll, roll, roll | |||
on their knees the war pigs crawling | |||
One eye on the open road | |||
Open up my head and let me out | |||
Out of gas, Out of road, Out of car I don't know how I'm going to go | |||
Paint by numbers morning sky looks so phony | |||
Pirate ride | |||
Please don't make any sudden moves you don't know the half of the abuse | |||
Pretty sure I saw the devil on a porch swing as we rode into hell | |||
Psycle therapy confirms that I am not right | |||
Put me in coach | |||
Radar Lovins | |||
Raindrops keep falling on my head | |||
Rat in a drain ditch, caught on a limb, you know better but I know him | |||
Reluctantly crouched at the starting line | |||
Riding down the road one day someone hit a possum | |||
Ripple in still water | |||
Rocking Robin goes tweet tweet tweet | |||
Run me around and make me hurt again and again | |||
Run me out in the cold rain and snow | |||
Runs like a junkyard dog with a brain of bras | |||
Sad songs and waltzes aren’t selling this year | |||
Same as it ever was | |||
Say hello 2 heaven | |||
Secret Lovers that's what we are, we shouldn't be together | |||
Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul | |||
She ain't no ball and chain | |||
She F-N hates me | |||
She goes in and out and in and out and in and out | |||
She holds a smile like someone would hold a crying child | |||
She is fast and thorough and sharp as a tack | |||
She pulled her dinner from her pocket | |||
She smiles when the pain comes | |||
She takes a swing but she can't hit | |||
She's a butcher with a smile | |||
She's got a whole lot of reasons, she can't think of a single one that justify leaving | |||
Shove me in the shallow water before I get too deep | |||
Singing in the rain | |||
situation number 4, the one who left you wanting more | |||
Slip sliding away | |||
Slow and low, that is the tempo | |||
Slow down everyone your moving too fast | |||
Slowride, easy, slowride, sleazy | |||
Snot rockets in flight, afternoon delight | |||
So many roads to ease my soul | |||
So where are you? It's bee a little while | |||
Some beach | |||
Some day you will ache like I ache | |||
Some of them want to be abused | |||
Someone do me a favor and pour me some Jaeger | |||
Someone else came out to win her, and I came out in second place | |||
Someone told me long ago, there's a calm before the storm | |||
Sometime we will find that these are the best of times | |||
Sometimes I'm angry that I feel so angry | |||
Sometimes you get lost | |||
Stacking up problems that are so unnecessary | |||
Still I burn this earth and fire | |||
Stop, collaborate and listen | |||
suddenly i'm not half the man i used to be | |||
Summer Lovin it happened so fast | |||
Suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle | |||
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy | |||
Take me to the river | |||
Take your economy car and suitcase | |||
Talking shit about a pretty sunset | |||
Tangled up in blue | |||
That is the sound of the men working on the chain gang | |||
That the winds had swept me Wilson's way | |||
That’s all folks | |||
That's why I say hey man nice shot, nice shot man | |||
The chocolate starfish and the hot dog flavored water | |||
The empty bottle was half empty | |||
The future is in the palm of your hand | |||
The good times are killing me | |||
The heart cracked, double down dreamer | |||
The moment ends | |||
The more you chase the cat the more it bites and scratch | |||
The noose is hanging, at least you won't die wondering | |||
The rain is gonna come, oh it surely looks like rain | |||
The senoritas don't care-o when there's no dinero | |||
The sun will come out tomorrow | |||
The tires are the things on your car that makes contact to the road | |||
The truth is I just don't stand a chance | |||
The way you do the things you do | |||
The whole damn situation could have been avoided if I only shut the window | |||
There are times when you can beckon, there are times when you must call | |||
There is an emptiness in side her | |||
There might be a little dust on the bottle | |||
There's some good points, some bad points | |||
There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti | |||
These shorts are made for walking | |||
These walls are paper thin and everyone hears every little sound | |||
They did the mash, it was a graveyard smash | |||
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot | |||
They really want you, they really do | |||
They'll stone you and then they'll say good luck | |||
They're always having a good time down on the bayou | |||
This is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about | |||
This is my message to youhoohoo | |||
Those kicks were fast as lightning | |||
Ticket to ride | |||
Time to take her home her dizzy head is conscious laden | |||
To a little dive bar in Dahlonega | |||
Too much trippin' and my soul's worn thin | |||
Trying to play me like my name is Sega | |||
Two bottles of bud light and a can full of whoop ass | |||
Two hands on the wheel | |||
Two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl | |||
Wash uffitze drive to firenze | |||
We all have some place to go | |||
We are all just prisoners here, of our own device | |||
We have cluster flies alas | |||
We have to keep this traffic flowing and except a little sin | |||
We sit here stranded, though we’re all doin’ our best to deny it | |||
We’re going to party like it’s 1999 | |||
We'll all float on all right | |||
We'll make great pets | |||
Well take what you want from me. You deserve it all. | |||
Well we sat on the edge of the river, the crowd screamed, "sacrifice the liver!" | |||
Well, the lampshade's on fire when the lights go out | |||
Were all stars now in the dope show | |||
We're better when we're together | |||
We're high above but on the floor | |||
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl | |||
We've all seen a man at the liquor store beggin' for your change | |||
What have I become | |||
What part of yourself can you afford to loose | |||
What time is it? | |||
What we have here is a failure to communicate | |||
What's my name again? | |||
Wheels keep on spinning round, spinning round and round | |||
When something's going wrong, you must whip it | |||
When the bottle gets empty, lord it sure ain't worth a damn | |||
When will these ideas really be my own? | |||
When you dig my grave, can you make it shallow so that I can feel the rain | |||
When you only have a hammer everything looks like a nail | |||
When your hot your hot, when your not your not | |||
Where is my head? Where are my bones? | |||
Who cares about the clouds when we’re together | |||
Who stopped the rain | |||
Wish I knew you when I was young | |||
With a horn that's honking like a mariachi band | |||
Woke up, fell out of bed | |||
Won't you come and see me queen Jane? | |||
yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away | |||
Yo so I continued to a1a Beachfront Ave | |||
You cant get the chicken or the stuffing | |||
you gotta have dreams to make it all worthwhile | |||
You have to fight for your right to party | |||
You hurt her but you don't know why | |||
You know we need oxygen to breathe | |||
You only answer perhaps, perhaps, perhaps | |||
You turn the screws | |||
You’re my #1 the reason I'm still up at dawn | |||
You're the reason I've run out, Run out of metaphors | |||
You've lost that lovin feeling | |||
Zipping through the forest with the curdling fleas |