James Taylor was institutionalized; he would look out his window and see a country road. This became the inspiration for "Country Road," which is a portrait of the artist as a young man. Take to the highway; won't you lend me your name. Your way and my way seem to be one and the same. I think of Taylor attempting to reach out to a poetic idol--like Walt Whitman. Following Whitman would be like following the highway, the "high" way, an elevated way of life. Mama don't understand it. She wants to know where I've been. I'd have to be some kind of natural born fool to want to pass that way again.... Taylor feels some pressure to choose a "conventional" life; rejecting security would be like choosing to wear a dunce cap. But Taylor really would like to be a "fool"; he would like to exist on the edge of society. He is guilty as charged. I can hear a heavenly band full of angels, And they're coming to set me free. I don't know n...