I Wanna Be The One and the Ghost of Tom Joad

This is a song by an awesome band called Fun. Of all the songs this is my favorite. Why? because to me the song is saying that no matter what happens the person will always be there to make them feel better.

For everything you've lost and all you'll over come

I wanna be the one to put it in a song

take every single tear for all the world to hear

I wanna be the one to put it in a song 

and make it last forever

Clever comes in truth when truth begets the past

It sends its call out to the moon

And the moon can see the beauty that surrounds your heart as it pounds

It starts to beat, inspiring me, until I make a sound.

Now you have a double feature. This is a song that not many people liked when we heard it in Mrs. VanOrdens Class. I thought it was cool because it made so many references to the book "Grapes of Wrath". The last verse is the coolest part.

Now Tom said "Mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy 
Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries 
Where there's a fight 'gainst the blood and hatred in the air 
Look for me Mom I'll be there 
Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand 
Or decent job or a helpin' hand 
Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free 
Look in their eyes Mom you'll see me." 

Well the highway is alive tonight 
But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes 
I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light 
With the ghost of old Tom Joad.