Mark KennedyEvery time my family piles into the Toyota, my wife thumbs around on her iPhone and cues up the song “Automatic” by country music star Miranda Lambert.
She plays it so often I have begun to memorize the lyrics, which are dripping with nostalgia for simpler — presumably happier — times.
If you don’t know the song, the hook is:
“It all just seemed so good the way we had it,
Back before everything became … automatic.”