wrong can't be undone

dear blog,

as you may or may not know, i listen to the radio a lot. music - not talk shows, weather on the 9s or morning rush programming. i also can't stand rap music and new country crap. i hear a lot of songs, a lot of lyrics, a lot of people's hearts in those lyrics and things will often jump out at me. like...my heart. in those lyrics (how do they do that, by the way?).

some lyrics are really good. you know someone had to have felt like putting a gun to their head when they wrote that. you can't fake that. some lyrics are also quite crappy. we don't listen to crap.

driving home from my oldest daughter's college stuff this morning with my hubby and daughter - kenny wayne sheppard band's blue on back came on the radio and i'm singing along pretending i'm janis joplin meets melissa etheridge and the line "wrong can't be undone" punches me in the face. what the frick? it put a blip in my singing, but i carried on. the song is most likely about KWS losing his woman and how nothing in the world will change it.

but...for me...

wrongs can't be undone. yes, that's right? you can beg for forgiveness... and receive it. if it makes you feel better, makes you sleep at night, pray to your god, light your candles, meditate, cast your spells or have jesus christ himself come down and forgive you for your wrongs but know they can't be undone. period. name the wrong - from lying to stealing to breaking trust to cheating to child abuse and domestic violence to adultery to whatever. once it's done...it's done. it's over johnny! you can't undo it. yeah, i forgive you (but it doesn't change a thing). minds can be made to forget (but something always brings it back) and hearts can be made to heal (but there's always a crack) and bones can be mended (but there's always a scar).

moral of the story: don't do bad stuff. wrongs can't be undone. don't be that person who broke his/her heart, or stole her rent money, or told lies, or broke your kids arm. just don't. the broken heart you save might just be your own.