Musical Wisdom: “Time Is Love”

Posted on by Jonathan Janz

Okay. Confession time.

Are you ready for this one?

*takes deep breath…swallows the lump of nerves in his throat…exhales*

Okay. Here it goes.

I like country music.

Okay?! There, I said it!

Now before you all run screaming from the blog, let me clarify that statement. I like certain country singers and certain country songs (George Strait, above all). Honestly, I fell out of touch with all modern music oh, around the mid-nineties. If I hear anything new, it’s by pure happenstance.

Like the other night. I was having a basement dance party with my three little choppers (7, 5, and 2), and to find some music by which to groove we were surfing through the free cable channels on television. A song by Josh Turner called “Time Is Love” came on, and while I liked the tune, I loved the lyrics. My favorite part:

“I only get so many minutes
Don’t wanna spend ’em all on the clock
In the time that we spent talkin’
How many kisses have I lost?”

Josh Turner Practicing What He Preaches (and look at the baby's eyes on the left...I think he just read The Sorrows!)
Josh Turner Practicing What He Preaches (and look at the baby’s eyes on the left…I think he just read The Sorrows!)

And one more great bit:

“Time is love, gotta run
Love to hang out longer but I’ve got someone 
Who waits, waits for me and right now
She’s where I need to be, time is love, gotta run”

So there you have it. Pretty straightforward, but pretty supportive of my theory that we need to love our loved ones every moment that we can. It won’t surprise you that I think not only of my wife (and of course I think of her) when I listen to those lyrics but also of my children. Some say that time is money, and while I like money—too much, I’m sure—I love my family.

Time is indeed love. Here’s a link where you can hear the song…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fefu8tca4EY

Have yerselves a good night, pardners!

2 thoughts on “Musical Wisdom: “Time Is Love””

  1. As a New Yorker, I can admit, with some trepidation that I’ll have to turn in my NY membership card, that I’m a country fan, too. I like the old bastards like Cash and Hank Williams and Merle Haggard. For the modern stuff, I’m a huge Gretchen Wilson fan. Saw her in concert last year. That girl kicks ass.

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    1. I used to get into Hank Jr. (his original greatest hits, mainly), but my tastes tend to run toward the big guns of the late eighties and early nineties: George Strait, Alabama, Brooks & Dunn, Garth Brooks, Sammy Kershaw, Randy Travis, Clint Black, and others of that ilk. But I need to check out Cash and the other godfathers of twang. I’m sure I’d enjoy some of their stuff. As for Wilson? I’m embarrassed to say I’ve never heard of her. It sounds like she’s good, though.

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Jonathan Janz grew up between a dark forest and a graveyard, and in a way, that explains everything. Brian Keene named his debut novel The Sorrows “the best horror novel of 2012”. The Library Journal deemed his follow-up, House of Skin, “reminiscent of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and Peter Straub’s Ghost Story.” Samhain Horror will also publish his third novel, The Darkest Lullaby, in April. Savage Species will be his fourth full-length work. Look for his fifth novel, a vampire western called Dust Devils, in early 2014. He has also written three novellas (The Clearing of Travis Coble, Old Order, and Witching Hour Theatre) and several short stories. His primary interests are his wonderful wife and his three amazing children, and though he realizes that every author’s wife and children are wonderful and amazing, in this case the cliché happens to be true. You can learn more about Jonathan at www.jonathanjanz.com. You can also find him on Facebook, via @jonathanjanz on Twitter, or on his Goodreads and Amazon author pages.