distracted minds

While browsing through the White House blog (did you know the White House has a blog?) I came across this Distracted Driving issue/problem.
This problem has become so big that last November Webster's New World Dictionary announced  'distracted driving' as their 2009 Word of the Year.

Go over to the government new site - Distraction.gov

• Nearly 6,000 people died in 2008 in crashes involving a distracted or inattentive driver, and more than half a million were injured. (NHTSA)
• The worst offenders are the youngest and least-experienced drivers: men and women under 20 years of age. (NHTSA)
• Drivers who use hand-held devices are four times as likely to get into crashes serious enough to injure themselves. (Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety)

Here's a PSA video they made to alert us of this problem.

So this last Friday was Elvis's birthday. He would have been 75 I heard. This got me thinking of a popular song of his and how it could be used as a PSA.

Here's my version called 'Distracted Minds' (played to his hit 'Suspicious Minds'.

We're caught in a trap
I can't drive back
Because I text you
too much baby

Why can't you see
where you're driving to be
When you reply to every
text I send

We can't go on together
with distracted minds
And we can't drive our cars
on distracted minds

So if car ahead is slow
will you lose control
Would I still see distraction
in your eyes

Here we go again
texting where I've been
You can't see these curves
are real
I'm driving

We can't go on together
with distracted minds
And we can't drive our cars
on distracted minds

oh let our drive survive
or take the texts from your eyes
just don't let a good thing die
and honey you know

I've never lied to you

One more thing recently I heard of the following bumper sticker:

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Honk if you love Jesus text if you want to meet him

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