"Everybody Knows"---the song

Ed.note: Click on the post for the web site for the Dixie Chicks.)


One of my favorite songs to warm up with on the Nordic Track is the Dixie Chicks song, "Everybody Knows." It is one those intermediate beat songs that lets me warm up in the early stages of a work out-----I never have concentrated on the lyrics before....just the beat...and... I really like the beat.

Recently, at the Public Works hearing when Joe DeYoung rose to speak about the engineering study MSA did on the West side, he said that "there was no surprises." "It was what we expected." Search on the blog for the video.

All during his speech, up next to the easel, with the black suit, I started hearing the Dixie Chicks-----singing "Everybody Knows." ------that love song classic about stepping out and knowin that everybody knows about the cheatin... about...feeling terrible because "Everybody Knows," despite all the way "this game of life" is played.

I thought it was kinda unusual. A one of a kind experience. Hearing the Dixie Chicks and all. I usually only hear them when I have my IPOD turned up REAL loud in the middle of intense..... or kinda intense..... excercise, such as it is.

Last week.... right in the middle of a video spot with the Seniors..... right in the middle of the ultimate test of a reporter, namely could I still eat some chicken legs while doing audio and video simultaneously...right after someone behind me asked whether the site for the new senior center was in the flood plain.....I started hearing the Dixie Chicks again....and they were singing real loud......"Everybody Knows."

All of a sudden---I started really hearing the lyrics.

And it got pretty loud..I mean the Dixie Chicks were singing very loud indeed. In fact I got to thinking. I wonder if the Dixie Chicks knew that "Everybody Knew" and could care less. Yes.

"Everybody Knows" plus building on a flood plain with donor dollars, and with the donor representative present, and with all the consultants present and praising all who paid them profusely.......and with all the board present and many of the seniors present, and after only one or maybe two cocktails.......

"Everybody Knows."

Still I had to wonder.

How does someone from TEXAS know anything about a flood plain?