Thursday, July 22, 2004
musical interlude...
Red lights are flashing on the highwayWhen It Don't Come Easy by Patty Griffin (from Impossible Dream)
I wonder if we're gonna ever get home
I wonder if we're gonna ever get home tonight
Everywhere the waters getting rough
Your best intentions may not be enough
I wonder if we're gonna ever get home tonight
But if you break down
I'll drive out and find you
If you forget my love
I'll try to remind you
And stay by you when it don't come easy
I don't know nothing except change will come
Year after year what we do is undone
Time keeps moving from a crawl to a run
I wonder if we're gonna ever get home
You're out there walking down a highway
And all of the signs got blown away
Sometimes you wonder if you're walking in the wrong direction
But if you break down
I'll drive out and find you
If you forget my love
I'll try to remind you
And stay by you when it don't come easy
So many things that I had before
That don't matter to me now
Tonight I cry for the love that I've lost
And the love I've never found
When the last bird falls
And the last siren sounds
Someone will say what's been said before
Some love we were looking for
But if you break down
I'll drive out and find you
If you forget my love
I'll try to remind you
And stay by you when it don't come easy
One hell of an artist is Patty Griffin. I'd heard about her for quite awhile, but it wasn't until I was given a mix CD by CuteNerdBoy that I'd heard her music. I loved that song, but it was the the next one (on another disc) that grabbed me and refused to let go. Still I hadn't gotten around to getting one of her CDs.
Until I received Impossible Dream for my birthday. From CuteNerdBoy.
As I listened to it I swore one of those songs would show up on Mix CD #7, but it was hard to narrow it down. Finally it was between two: When It Don't Come Easy and Useless Desires. For reasons that are now rather obvious, I chose the latter.
Just as well. Because CuteNerdBoy had chosen the former.
There are times I wish I had gone with When It Don't Come Easy, because the sentiment is one I often feel, but Traversing in Cobalt (while pretentiously named) is perfect the way it is. And lord knows I've often cursed my own useless desires more than once.
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