and i just honestly cannot express how i’m feeling right now. it’s blue, blue, blue. Johnny Cash was a punk rock hero and one of a select several “country & western” musicians i’ve always dearly loved (as opposed to merely appreciated).
there is a black pinprick in the sky forevermore, where his star once shined so brightly, and i feel almost as if no other star or constellation can ever guide me Back Home now. i will miss that great and tender hooligan so sorely. few other songwriters could ever capture such honesty and such emotion and such turmoil. and what about his bravado in the face of turmoil? my god, will we never see such a man as this again?
my chest swells up and my eyes well up and i think of June and Johnny and their burning ring of fire and the only consolation is that perhaps they are together now again, finally.
what a dark sky overhead.
when all of our heroes have fallen, been lost, or have left us, who will replace them? who? it’s now Our Time, kids. like it or not. i know that most of us Generation X slackers just weren’t ready to take up the mantle, but the death of Johnny signals a REAL end of a bygone era. so now we’ve got to start really pulling our own weight, haven’t we? we’ve got to step up now and start making it all on our own. we’ve got to make it up for the ones who can no longer do it for us, and we’ve got to start NOW. a ship without a captain doesn’t stay lost at sea for long. it sinks.
goodbye Johnny. goodbye forever, sweet rebel.
