Yet another great Johnny Cash song. I didn't really know about this song until I listened to it on the VH1 Storytellers album with Johnny and Willie.
Johnny said that when he wrote the song, he and June were reading a lot of books about Vietnam. Something he read caught his eye:
"There was a group of guys going along and one of them would fall, and there was no time to stop and grieve because they might get shot, so they would say 'Drive on, it don't mean nothing.' But it meant everything...a guy loses his leg, 'Drive on, it don't mean nothing.'"
To me, Drive On is a way of saying, "Don't let anything slow you down, because it doesn't really matter. Drive on. Keep going and don't stop." There are a lot of questions that are left unanswered. Some things just don't make sense. Who cares? Drive on.
Yet another great Johnny Cash song. I didn't really know about this song until I listened to it on the VH1 Storytellers album with Johnny and Willie.
Johnny said that when he wrote the song, he and June were reading a lot of books about Vietnam. Something he read caught his eye: "There was a group of guys going along and one of them would fall, and there was no time to stop and grieve because they might get shot, so they would say 'Drive on, it don't mean nothing.' But it meant everything...a guy loses his leg, 'Drive on, it don't mean nothing.'"
To me, Drive On is a way of saying, "Don't let anything slow you down, because it doesn't really matter. Drive on. Keep going and don't stop." There are a lot of questions that are left unanswered. Some things just don't make sense. Who cares? Drive on.
Easy to say "who cares," but it really does matter the world. Otherwise, why would they say drive on?
Easy to say "who cares," but it really does matter the world. Otherwise, why would they say drive on?
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