It's Sam Cooke, for God's sake!

Hey! Drop whatever you're doing, man. I'm got something to say and it's important!

farmboy! Are you okay? What is it? Can I help?

I, uh…I just sang and played "You Send Me" by Sam Cooke and it was the best I've ever done!

All songs, or just the Sam Cooke one?

Just the Sam Cooke one, but…

I was a little bit busy, farmboy. You scared me. You mean a great deal to me, farmboy, but next time try not to be so dramatic. Please.

(grumbles to himself)  Man, what a fuckin' grump. I mean, it's Sam Cooke, for God's sake! Sam Cooke!

I go outside!

Who was playing guitar out there earlier today? A friend of yours? It sounded very good.

That was me, you fuckin' numskull.

Couldn't have been you, farmboy. You never go outside.

Fuck off, asshole. I go outside!

When?

I was just outside playing guitar, man. That's who you fuckin' heard.

See, it's a beautiful warm and sunny day and I'm taking tomorrow off and I just smoked some weed and I thought I'd go outside and play guitar.

And how was it?

You heard it.

I don't mean performance, farmboy. I'm talking about your emotions. How did it feel to go outside and play guitar.

Fine, I guess.

You guess?

Of course it felt good. I mean, the sun is warm but not that warm, and you're barefoot and you doing something that you love. What's not to fuckin' like?

So you admit it: it felt good.

Yes, it felt good. It was fuckin' orgasmic, motherfucker. I was having revelations. It was like being on acid, man! It was like I was one of the motherfuckin' Beatles. It was like being Dylan, you know, or Sam Cooke. Let me shout it to the Heavens! I can testify! Playing guitar on a warm and sunny day outside is fuckin' amazing!

There. Are you satisfied?

Yes.

Good.

A change is gonna come

So here I am, it's Monday night, the night when everything seems hopeless because there four more days of my stupid job to get through. But enough of that.

I was at the NPR website today and heard a story about the great, great Sam Cooke song "A Change is Gonna Come."

I heard that! That's quite a song. How was the news report, farmboy?

It was great. That song is so fuckin' amazing, man. It got me thinking that if a song like that came out of me I'd be scared shitless. Listen to the melody of that first line.

(farmboy sings)

           I was born by the river
           in a little tent

I'm astounded by that. There is so much strength in his singing, so much emotion, you think it's going to overtake everything. 

He's a brilliant singer, that's for sure.

Just the fuckin' best, man. And his singing on this song! It makes you think we really will overcome.

And we will.

It's good, it's necessary to remember that, you know?