Today I am discussing one of my favorite songs. I find that everytime I hear it, I find something new in it. When I hear it, I usually find something new in me. It is kind of a theme song to me, and has played at important times in my life. This song played as I raced home from downtown Chicago on 9/11, as I was driving to my college graduation ceremony, as I dressed for my grad school ceremony, as drove to the store to buy myself lunch after my daughter was born. The sweeping song and music sounds so epic that I can almost hear it in stereo in my mind's eye.
True Faith
by New Order
I feel so extraordinary
Something's got a hold on me
I get this feeling I'm in motion
A sudden sense of liberty
I don't care 'cause I'm not there
And I don't care if I'm here tomorrow
Again and again I've taken too much
Of the things that cost you too much
I used to think that the day would never come
I'd see the light in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
That my life would depend on the morning sun.
When I was a very small boy
Very small boys talked to me
Now that we've grown up together
They're afraid of what they see
That's the price that we all pay
Our valued destiny comes to nothing
I can't tell you where we're going
I guess there was just no way of knowing
I used to think that the day would never come
I'd see the light in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
That my life would depend on the morning sun.
I feel so extraordinary
Something's got a hold on me
I get this feeling I'm in motion
A sudden sense of liberty
The chances are we've gone too far
You took my time and you took my money
Now I fear you've left me standing
In a world that's so demanding
I used to think that the day would never come
I'd see the light in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
That my life would depend on the morning sun.
I can relate to the sudden sense of liberty. Sometimes its freedom I feel , other times its a sensation of flying without a safety net. Today, the song represents the time in our lives when we ralize that we are past the poinbt of childish mistakes, and that feelings and emotions are easily hurt. I think about all the wonderful ways my life has changed and grown, and can't help but feel a little sad about friends that have fallen by the wayside. Actually, i do not feel so bad about those that have fallen by the wayside, but those that ARE FALLING as we speak that get to me the most.
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