And she thinks we’re just fishin’

I remember when I was little my family would go out to Tablerock Lake and I remember one specific day with my Barbie fishing pool, in my dad's boat fishing.  It's one of the few memories I have of my parents being together.  But there we were fishing on the lake and I remember catching 5 blue gill that day, and was I the proudest 4 year old you've ever seen.  Over the past few years I have come to see how finite time is, and how the people you love can be gone in a blink of an eye.

Today I met my dad and Julie and the Lake of the Ozarks, and I was not expecting a whole lot past just hanging out for the evening.  My dad and I spent like 3 hours in the pool hitting a beach ball back and forth just having fun.  We got done, and I helped Julie make dinner and then cleaned up, and then my dad and I did something that we haven't done in a very long time.  We sat on the side of the lake and we fished.  We didn't talk a whole lot, just a lot of casting the line, reeling it back in, and not catching any fish.  Regardless it will probably be one of my favorite memories with my dad.  I am so incredibly blessed to be able to just fish with him, not say a word, and know it will always be a memory for both of us.  Anyhow the entire time I had this song stuck in my head, because it's just the relationship my dad and I have always had...

"Just Fishin" by Trace Adkins...

I’m lost in her there holdin’ that pink rod and reel
She’s doin’ almost everything but sittin’ still
Talkin’ ‘bout her ballet shoes and training wheels
And her kittens
And she thinks we’re just fishin’

I say, “Daddy loves you, baby” one more time
She says, “I know. I think I got a bite.” 
And all this laughin’, cryin, smilin’ dyin’ here inside’s
What I call, livin’

And she thinks we’re just fishin’ on the riverside
Throwin’ back what we could fry
Drownin’ worms and killin’ time
Nothin’ too ambitious
She ain’t even thinkin’ ‘bout
What’s really goin’ on right now
But I guarantee this memory’s a big’in
And she thinks we’re just fishin’

She’s already pretty, like her mama is
Gonna drive the boys all crazy
Give her daddy fits
And I better do this every chance I get
‘Cause time is tickin’
(Yeah it is)

And she thinks we’re just fishin’ on the riverside
Throwin’ back what we could fry
Drownin’ worms and killin’ time
Nothin’ too ambitious
She ain’t even thinkin’ ‘bout
What’s really goin’ on right now
But I guarantee this memory’s a big’in
And she thinks we’re just fishin’

She ain’t even thinkin’ ‘bout
What’s really goin’ on right now
But I guarantee this memory’s a big’in
And she thinks we’re just fishin’
Yeah, aww, she thinks we’re just fishin’
We ain’t only fishin’
(This ain’t about fishin’)