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Ever since I started watching America’s Heartland, the theme song is so familiar every time the new episode starts. The show’s website has a page about the singer Michael Martin Murphey and a clip of the theme song, you can also watch it (different version) on Vimeo.

Watch on Vimeo

The complete song presents a broader perspective than the short and modified version in the opening theme:

You can see it in the eyes of every woman and man

In America’s Heartland living close to the land

There’s a love for the country

And a pride in the brand

In America’s Heartland living close to the land

It’s about the people who are working hard on the land, both men and women. I also like this part:

There’s something that the people know

Who make things live and make things grow

Deeper than the words of any sage

That unless you’ve touched this earth,

Planted seeds, or given birth

The human heart can never come of age.

It’s basically saying about the connection to the land. We all live on a land, one way or another, unless you are a astronauts who station on the ISS. Whoever you are, farmer or the President, you have to live on a land. But there is difference, farmer knows how the earth breathes, they have connection to the land.

These days, we have lost the touch, living on a land we have known nothing about for entire life. You don’t need to be a farmer or someone growing own food, you only need to touch the earth to have the bond.

It’s not about losing in modern life, but the heart.