Counting Blue Cars (20th Anniversary Edition)

This mysterious song finds the singer in a conversation with a young boy who has some very deep questions. "Tell me all your thoughts on God," he asks. "And tell me, am I very far?" In a Songfacts interview with Dishwalla frontman JR Richards, he explained: "It was a conversation between myself and the child within myself, but it was sparked by having a conversation with someone who was really young and around that time thought about God and those kinds of things, and just being really curious about it but hadn't been taught to think a specific way. I just loved the innocence and honesty of having that conversation with someone who didn't care either way how you would describe this or that - they were just curious."

"I'd really like to meet her," the child in this song asks, referring to God. "From that younger perspective, I think we take things in a much more honest way because we are not being biased by how we're supposed to all think the same," JR Richards told Songfacts. "So this idea of God, being an omnipotent being, could be a male or female. We always refer to God as a male, so why not make it a female?"

Children are curious and random, so counting only blue cars is not out of character. Songwriters are more deliberate, making sure words sounds just right within the lyric. That's why he's counting blue cars and not red or green ones: it sings best in this context.