Okay, I realize I am delinquent again in my blogging. Bad, bad Becky... I have no excuse. In fact, I blog for my company every week -- four blogs in fact. I think that's why I get so pooped out by the time I get home. What's funny is that I started that part of my job because of this blog, so... I better get back to this!
Anyway, I have wanted to write about Survivor's "The Search is Over" for quite some time. It is truly a beautiful song, and the more I listen to it, the more I like it. I thought the lead singer had written it, but it turns out that Jim Peterik did. I didn't know much about Jim, so I did a bit of research. Of course, I came across his Facebook page and several photos with Mindi Abair, which made me very jealous. I am a single reed player, too, but I will probably never have the chance to hob-nob with rock royalty like she does now. Alas, I will get over my jealousy. There's still time. Ann Wilson plays flute, and I work for a flute company, so...
Anyway, back to the song. Can you believe that for the longest time, I had the wrong lyrics in my head? Yeah, amazing, I know. Just kidding. I think by now we all know that this often times happens to me. In this tune, I always thought at the chorus Jamison sang, "I was living for Audrey...." I thought, "Well, who's Audrey?" Then, I realized it was, "I was living for a dream..." A ha! The search was over for the lyrics! Now it all made sense. The song is about a man who is searching for love just about all over the place when it really was in front of him the whole time. Yup, he had a very good female friend whose love and devotion he took for granted so to say. He really considered her to be "just a friend" and not a "girlfriend." Finally, he realized she was "the one," and the search was over! Just like that! And, even to this very moment in time, I find myself correcting another lyric. Yup -- "taking on the world...that was just my style." I always thought the lyric was "taking our love away...that was just my style." Wow. Living for Audrey and taking our love away? Sheesh. I'm glad I listened to this a few more bazillion times. I hope, at least, that I have listened to it more times than the man in the song searched for love...
