7 posts tagged “indigo girls”

This is the song I have in my head at the moment (for all the correct reasons), but it doesn't fit yesterday. Yesterday was an odd day.  I started out being bitched out at work for something stupid that wasn't my fault, and then told that I could have the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend off (go me - 4 days off this weekend and 5 off next.  Course, I have annoying commitments many of those days, but still, it's not at work.)  I also have made peace with some stuff that came to a head over the weekend.  So while things aren't resolved, I'm in a decent place thanks to my own strength, good friends, and a good therapist.  Not necessarily in that order.

So I've been trying to figure out what song fits yesterday and this is the one that comes to mind first.  And it says a lot that I can recognize those I have let in and, while I'm still farking scared to death, I hope know trust hope that they won't intentionally hurt me. 

We're in an evolution
I have heard it said.
Everyone's so busy now but
Do we move ahead?
The planets hurling and
Atoms splitting
And a sweater for your love you sit there knitting.

I don't know where it all begins.
And I don't know where it all will end.
We're better off for all that we let in.
- Indigo Girls, "All That We Let In"

I love this song.  And the connections we make throughout life, both tangible, virtual and through music, books and poetry are one of the things that define us.

So I know I'm all right. 
Life will come, life will go.
Still I feel it's alright.
I just got a letter to my soul.
When my whole life is on the tip of my tongue,
Empty pages for the no longer young,
The apathy of time laughs in my face
You say, each life has its place.

The hatches were battened.
The thunder clouds rolled and the critics scorned.
The battle surrounded the white flag of your youth.
But if you need to know that you weathered the storm
Of cruel mortality,
A hundred years later I'm sitting here living proof.

So you know you're all right
Life will come and life will go.
Still you feel it's alright-
Some will get a letter to your soul.
When your whole life is on the tip of your tongue
Empty pages for the no longer young.
The apathy of time laughed in your face,
Did you hear me say,
Each life has its place.

- Indigo Girls, "Virginia Woolf"

I swear I posted this last night.  I have no idea why it's not there.  Ah well.  The wonders of the internet...

She was married when we first met
Soon to be divorced.
Helped her out of a jam I guess.
But I used a little too much force.
We drove that car as far as we could
Abandoned it out west.
Split up on a sad dark night
Both agreeing it was best.
She turned around to look at me
As I was walking away,
I heard her say over my shoulder,
"We'll meet again someday
On the avenue."
Tangled up in Blue.

I had a job in the great north woods,
Working as a cook for a spell.
But I never did like it all that much
And one day the ax just fell.
So I drifted down to New Orleans
Where I happened to be employed
Workin' for awhile on a fishin' boat
Right outside of Delacroix.
But all the while I was alone
And the past was close behind,
I'd seen a lot of women,
But she never escaped my mind.
And I just grew
Tangled up in Blue.

She was workin' in a topless place
And I stopped in for a beer,
I just kept lookin' at the side of her face
In the spotlight so clear.
And later on as the crowd thinned out
I was just about to do the same,
She was standing there in back of my chair
She said, "Don't I know your name?"
I muttered somethin' underneath my breath,
She studied the lines on my face.
I must admit I felt a little uneasy
When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe
Tangled up in Blue.

She lit a burner on the stove and offered me a pipe
"I thought you'd never say hello," she said
"You look like the silent type."
Then she opened up a book of poems
And handed it to me.
Written by an Italian poet
From the thirteenth century.
And every one of them words rang true
And glowed like burnin' coal
Pourin' off of every page
Like it was written in my soul from me to you
Tangled up in Blue.
- Bob Dylan (though the one in my head is the Indigo Girls version), "Tangled Up In Blue"

It's been in my head all day. 

You can go to the East
To find your
Your inner hemisphere.
You say we're under the same sky babe,
You're bound to realize,
Honey, it's not that clear.
I'm not your promise land.
I'm not your promise one.
I'm not your Land of Canaan, sweetheart,
Waiting for you under the sun.

I'm lonely tonight,
I'm missing you now.
I'm wanting your love and you're giving it out.
I'm lonely tonight,
I'm lonely tonight,
I'm lonely tonight.

Well the meanings changed
For what it's worth -
It's just a senseless game.
I should think of love,
But it's fear every time I hear
Your heart strain.
It's not the fallen man,
It's not the call of time,
It's just the London skyline
Telling me you're not mine.
- Indigo Girls, "Land of Canaan"

I was undecided as to which IG song to post.  Two have been kicking around in my head for the last couple days, so I decided to post the one lesser known.  Because even non-IG fans know Closer to Fine.

My place is of the sun
And this place is of the dark
I do not feel the romance
I do not catch the spark.

I don't know when I noticed life was life at my expense,
The words of my heart lined up like prisoners on a fence.
The dreams came in like needy children tugging at my sleeve
I said I have no way of feeding you,
So leave.

But there was a time I asked my father for a dollar
And he gave me a ten dollar raise.
And when I needed my mother and I called her
She stayed with me for days.

And now someone's on the telephone,
Desperate in his pain.
Someone's on the bathroom floor,
Doin' her cocaine.
Someone's got his finger on the button in some room
No one can convince me
We aren't gluttons for our doom.

But I've tried to make this place my place,
I've asked for providence to smile upon me
With his sweet face.
- Indigo Girls, "Prince of Darkness"

I'm sorry for what you have learned
When you feel the tables turn.
To run so hard in your race,
Now you found who set the pace

The landed aristocracy
Exploiting all your enmity -
All your daddies fought in vain,
To leave you with the mark of Cain.
- Indigo Girls, "Become You"

What's your musical horoscope?  (Put your player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.)
Inspired by Stephanie.  

You know, this is more a musical tarot than a horoscope.  But kinda fun nonetheless. 

Little computer:
Signal to Noise - Peter Gabriel
Attack - 30 Seconds to Mars
Dirt & Dead Ends - Indigo Girls
It's All Over But the Crying - Garbage (Somehow, this one always comes up.)
Hideaway - The Coors
Fairytale in the Supermarket - The Raincoats
Mr. Farmer - The Seeds
Original Fire - Audioslave
Taper Jean Girl - Kings of Leon
Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go) - Garbage

Big computer:
Blood Sings - Suzanne Vega
The Loving - XTC
Store Bought Bones - The Raconteurs
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp - Led Zeppelin
Like a Stone - Audioslave (Interesting they come up on both computers...I don't really like them and had just burned a copy for a friend)
Me Myself I - Joan Armatrading
Still Got the Blues - Gary Moore (the only Gary Moore song I really like)
Right the Wrong - Prince
Fire - Daniel Lanois
Kick the Stones - Chris Whitley