Grounding
” . . .but my Muse, she speaks to me in words so soft that I cannot sleep, and they’re all that I need when she allows me to breathe in life and love before she comes to me over the hills and upon on the mountains: around them she speaks to me and I cannot sleep.”
Antenna
How Do You Feel (excerpt)
And when this world’s too much for me
And the pressure has bent my knees
You remind me to take a ( ) and breathe
So when I find some fleeting beauty
I fold it up like it’s origami
And in my pocket take it with me.
And it’s by Your mercies that I continue to be.
And as Your arms wrap around me, You ask me:
“How do you feel?”
Well there are sometimes I look to the sky
And I wonder if that’s my life slipping by
Or how close You’ll hold me to Your side
And You tell me I’ll be alright.
I’ll be alright.
(Clip of an old song.)
This Is The Thing
I’m currently really really really happy, inexplicably so, as I think about “the past” and my “present future” in a very specific way. Yeah. Comparison might be a bad thing long term, but right now it’s a wonderful thing. And it is the oddest things that remind me.
For example this song which I heard at the end of an episode of The Unit and I had to track down after hearing the line “there are things that keep me alive.” I found the artist Fink and this song.
Hearing all the words brought me to an insane place of happiness with where I am at by comparison. (You can delete the “alone” part, and insert the obvious.
Enjoy
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I don’t know if you notice anything different.
It’s getting dark and it’s getting cold and the nights are getting long.
And I don’t know if you even notice at all that I’m long gone, babe I’m long gone.
And the things that keep us apart keep me alive
There are things that keep me alive: keep me alone.
This is the thing.
I don’t know if you notice anything missing
Like the leaves on the trees or my clothes all over the floor.
And I don’t know if you even notice at all
‘Cause I was real quiet when I closed the door
And the things that keep us apart keep me alive.
There are things that keep me alive: keep me alone.
This is the thing.
And I don’t know if you notice anything different
I don’t know if you even notice at all.
Red Rover
This song’s been on my mind a bit recently. And I just heard it again. Figured I’d post it.Written a few years ago, another I’ve been meaning to come back to in a serious way.Time will tell what will happen with it.
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Red Rover
As my momma says, “It’s a brand new day.” I’ve got a band-aid on my knee,
And all the grass stains are washed away, and those hard falls just a memory.
So put me in, let me try; I promise you, I’ll get it this time.
Red rover, red rover, oh please send me over: I’m ready to play today,
And while my face is the same as yesterday, it’s my heart that has changed.
So what do you say?
So put me in; let me try: You’ll feel my wind, as blow by,
And you’ll realize that you feel pride that I am on your side.
So call on me, cause it’s my turn, you should shield your eyes,
or they may burn,and you will learn what I can do when I break through.
Red rover, red rover, oh please send me over: I’m ready to play today,
And while my face is the same as yesterday, it’s my heart that has changed.
So what do you say?
Red rover, red rover, oh please send me over: I’m ready to play today;
And while my face is the same as yesterday It’s my faith that has change,
So get out of my way
Believe me, I’ve been on my knees and I know nothing ever comes easy
‘Cause yesterday band-aids and blood stains, but I’ve come to play today.
So don’t waste your time on what you can do:I’m sorry dog, I thought that you knew,
that by the time you turn around you’ll have to take two
Cause I’ve just blown through you