Been practicing
‘Something That was Nothing’
Been practicing
Tag: endings
Been practicing
Behind the Song: Bottle of the Blues
I wrote this song thinking of the line from Gotye’s Somebody That I Used to Know that goes “You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness,” and how even so, we seek out love and connection with others.
“Like resignation to the end, always the end”
Gotye’s song is, of course, beautiful and sad, and poignant, about endings and final words to lovers beyond our reach.
As Rosalie once said of Bottle of the Blues, “This is a kind of mood.”
Perhaps the addiction is to a darker shade of sadness, one with brittle cracks, and jagged edges.
It’s about beginnings, and connection even in the midst of pain and suffering.
This is a kind of mood, and not everyone will understand.
For those who do, I’m sorry.
Lyrics here
You’ve Left Me an Opening
The walls were taken down so long ago
Stones and rubble piled to the side
Determined saplings reaching skyward
Roots snaking through the cracks in search of nourishment
The path is narrow and
Little used
Who passed this way last
Matters not
My feet are bare against the dewy grasses
The earth is guiding me home
There is a perimeter
Where I await
At the opening
For the invitation to
Approach
Deep in the wilderness
Untamed and free
The breeze catches on my dress
Birds singing lovely in the trees
A breath catching moment
Life itself beckons from the ruins
“Dance and sing”
Sun setting gently
Moon rising
Stars will twinkle a melody
Divine
I dance beneath
A shimmering sky
Through the opening
You left for me
