Honestly I do not have an obssesive personality about most things in life. With me, it's pretty much "easy come, easy go." One exception would be music. I love music, listen to it all the time, could not possibly imagine a world without music, desperatley want to take lessions in banjo, fiddle and guitar, and spend a good chunk of change on music and going to shows.
And when I discover a new artist or group, I always seem to find that one song on the cd that speaks to me the most and listen to it about twenty times a day. This week the goodness comes in the form of the song "Ship Out on the Sea" by The Be Good Tanyas, a folksy-wonderful group that is frankly, right up my alley. Besides being laden with banjo, mandolin, guitar and beautiful vocals it contains some lyrics that make me so happy and I find myself singing all day long:
"I'm in love with the garden
That is down the street
And the earth is a warm thing under my feet"
and
"Plant me in the garden
Don't you let me roam
Cuz love is a feeling like a warm dark stone"
Some songs just find you when you need them the most and leave a print in your brain. A sound print that it isn't easy to forget about it and this song has done it to me, for sure.
Posted by Suzanne at August 4, 2004 07:23 AM
I'd love to hear the rest of that song...it makes me feel the power stirring in the earth. It's warming, and solid, and subtle.
Thanks for the tip...I might have to go buy the Be Good Tanyas.
You write well...I enjoyed you post.
derek
Posted by: derek at August 6, 2004 01:27 PM