Where did I get an idea about having a blog about a song and making comments or to tell stories that has something to do with the song. Well today’s song is one of my inspirations for my blog.
A very long time ago, I don’t remember when, I went home after going to church. I turned on the TV and begun to flip through the channels, I don’t remember how many channels we had back then but it was a lot fewer than we have today. I stopped at a channel that was playing this Eagles song with the lyrics.
After the Thrill Is Gone
Same dances in the same old shoes
Some habits that you just can’t lose
There’s no telling what a man might lose
After the thrill is gone
The flame rises but it soon descends
Empty pages and a frozen pen
You’re not quite lovers and you’re not quite friends
After the thrill is gone oh
After the thrill is gone
What can you do when your dreams come true
And it’s not quite like you planned?
What have you done to be losing the one
You held it so tight in your hand well
Time passes and you must move on,
Half the distance takes you twice as long
So you keep on singing for the sake of the song
After the thrill is gone
You’re afraid you might fall out of fashion
And you’re feeling cold and small
Any kind of love without passion
That ain’t no kind of lovin’ at all, well
Same dances in the same old shoes
You get too careful with the steps you choose
You don’t care about winning but you don’t want to lose
After the thrill is gone
After the thrill is gone
After the thrill is gone, oh
After the thrill is goneSongwriters: GLENN FREY,DON HENLEY
After the song was over a man came on and started to preach. That’s right this was a TV preacher and he was preaching on an Eagles song. Well when you look at the words,
Same dances in the same old shoes
Some habits that you just can’t lose
There’s no telling what a man might lose
After the thrill is gone
Ok when you start to think about you could compare to sin, how sin could be very fun at first, but after a while the thrill of that sin would leave and what would you have afterwards. I bet when Glenn and Don were writing this they had no idea of how really the words could be so profound. I now know for sure what the lyrics-
Time passes and you must move on,
Half the distance takes you twice as long
Turns out I could preach a sermon on those lines. I know remember if I watched till the end, but I always remember the preacher who was inspired by a song he heard on the radio and thought to himself that would make a good sermon. It might not be good to use a song for a sermon in church, but on TV I think that was a great idea. I always remembered what that preacher did with a song and as I was looking for a theme for my blog I remember what that now nameless preacher did with a simple song. I try to do as good a job when I attempt to make a sermon out of a simple song.