walking home in the rain today i started humming a song by a band i loved, but hadn't listened to since i started listening to my little pink ipod...my vast collection of cds has been very ignored. i put on one of the Wyrd Sister's albums Raw Voice and immediately knew what song i was craving.
you know those songs that immediately make you close your eyes, put your hand over your heart and sing? that make everything disappear but the lyrics and the melody.
and you know those songs that you've listened to so many times and have always appreciated the lyrics but all of a sudden they hit you in the heart and you feel like someone just sang the exact words your soul needed to hear?
this is the song.
Night of Her Insistence
By the Wyrd Sisters
she finally understood it
the sadness of her life
the weight of her emotion
the gravity of light
she looked into the back of her mind
to see where she had been
and all she saw was the secret
and she could not look in
all those years of waiting
all those years of trying too hard
all those years of failing
pushed her down too far
she wearies of the geographies
that tell her who she is
she chokes on her philosophies
and all that she has been
when she finally put her foot down
she put her fears down too
she left them by the back door
and through the night she flew
away from her emotions
away from tricks of time
away from cruel devotions
she left them all behind
it was the night of her insistence
it was the day she found her will
it was the dream she'd always harboured
and harboured still
it was the night of her configuration
all the pieces finally there
and in that light of transformation
she....
finally understood it
the sadness of her life
the weight of her emotion
the gravity of light
she looked beyond the back of her mind
to see where she had been
and there she saw the secret
and now she looked in
1 comment:
One of the things I like best about all this blogging, My Space etc. stuff, is getting connected to new music. I have always been a music fanatic and love the instant gratification of an ITunes download!
That said, this entry was like a sucker punch in the gut - so often, music has been able to express for me what I could not or would not put into words. At 41, and after the usual tumult of life, music's role is different now - my secrets are mostly out. But music continues to accentuate and refine the development of my feelings as I age and am affected by circumstance. It is where I turn - where I've always turned, so it's wonderful to keep adding new material.
On a different note, check my blog out for the animated cat cartoon if you are a cat lover. I have probably watched it about 15 or more times, laughing every time!
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