The road that could be seen from Paul McCartney’s window was a very real pathway that inspired the Beatles’ last No.1 hit, “The Long And Winding Road.”
It is a road, wrote McCartney, “associated with terrific sadness and also a sense of hope. It is a road that leads to somewhere you never expected.”
When asked the inspiration for “Bless the Broken Road,” a song written by Bobby Boyd with Jeff Hanna and Marcus Hummon, Boyd responded, “Well, a lot of broken roads, I guess, in my life. I had the storyline in my spirit and I was trying to figure it out … and then God uses that to take you where you are supposed to go.”
The long and winding road, the broken road, is a road that twists and turns through terrific sadness and climbs precipitously at times to vistas of hope.
Onward, increasingly upward, the road leads to a place hoped for, never expected, but purposed after all.
With all its travails, it is a road to keep traveling.
It is everyone’s road.
It is our road.
She is lovely, David!
Lovely sentiment.
We can’t get anywhere without roads… and they definitely turn and twist and intertwine with our lives.
Some are happy , some are scenic, some are sad, but all road lead to some destination… and eventually home.
Thank you and happy new year😊
Lovely story and picture. I miss traveling roads like that. Thanks for the story and the memories it brought me.