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This was the song played in the final scenes of the final episode of “Friday Night Lights” (and also a free download). It is, in my humble but totally right opinion, beautiful.
Listen to it and try not to cry. Go ahead. Try. I double dog dare you.
Don’t worry. You can always just say, “Dare down dare.” That’s how I dealt with these things in grade school. It always went over really well with my classmates, too.
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I watch a lot of television (in case it wasn’t clear from the numerous open letters to True Blood), but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single episode of any show that rivals the series finale of “Friday Night Lights.” I cried, like, five times.
I’ll miss their “Texas forever” forever.*
*That’s hyperbolic. But that was a really good show. Even if all of the actors were about fifteen years too old to play their parts, and if the mother gets a job as Dean of Admissions after being a high school guidance counselor. The one thing I’ve learned as a student staffer in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions is that that could not and would not happen.**
**This is far outweighed by the heart that the players (a word here used to mean “actors”) left out on the metaphorical field, always.
When this song was originally posted a few months ago, I listened to it constantly. I just clicked “play” again and again whenever I was holed up in my room in my host-family’s apartment.
Last night, this was on the second to last ever episode of the modestly great show that is “Friday Night Lights.” (I guess it was originally posted when the last season ran on the network that is not NBC, where it is now airing (I don’t understand television production.).) It played in the background as the school board president (who apparently has his own desk, which, as the daughter of our district’s former school board president, I can say is ridiculous) announced that the East Dillon Lions would be the football team to be cut (even though they, and not the West Dillon Panthers, are going to States), and as underdog turned superstar Vince hugged his Coach. And as I, inexplicably and irrationally, bawled.
I have a lot of emotions, is (evidently) what I’m saying. And also that I really like this song.
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