Brad Paisley, "I'd like to check you for ticks."

I don't listen to much country music, but when I came across this Brad Paisley lyric, I couldn't resist.

'I'd like to see you out in the moonlight/I'd like to kiss you back in the sticks/I'd like to walk you through a field of wildflowers/ and I'd like to check you for ticks."

This series of lines does so much: The fixity of the first three romantic images sets us up for the novelty of the fourth. BUT, though checking for ticks is something we usually do to our dogs or to each other on really bad camping trips, it has a very romantic/sexual meaning here. The minute we get over the shock of the line, we can picture how romantic it might be.

Now that I think about it though, it IS a song I could sing to my dogs.

(Source: AOL this morning.)