This song reminds me of many people, especially at this time when I've headed off into a great unknown, not knowing anyone but my brother and his little family. Sometimes the song makes me think of one far away person, sometimes another. A family member, a friend. People I miss and I wish could be near. There's something about being physically close to someone that satisfies like nothing else. Sometimes I'd rather be next to someone in silence than apart and talking.
Sometimes the song reminds me of places, especially places where I've learned to be me. It's scary to leave the security of familiar places for a new place, a place where I haven't learned to be me yet. I love to explore new places and meet new people, but it's not as fun to have only new people. I like to have a few old people and places around me, ones who know me already, who I don't have to explain myself to. I find it very restful to be with these things who know my freckles, my laugh, my jokes, my stories.
Don't think I'm lamenting my lot. This is a good place with good people. I'm slowly putting down little roots, meeting people, learning where to go and how to be. I just wish I had a best friend here holding my hand through it.
Listen to the song here. Below are the lyrics. Enjoy, and think of me.
Throw Me a Rope
I want you between me and the feeling I get when I miss you
But everything here is telling me I should be fine
But everything here is telling me I should be fine
So why is it so, above as below,
That I'm missing you every time
I got used to you whispering things to me into the evening
We followed the sun and its colours and left this world
It seems to me that I'm definitely
Hearing the best that I've heard
So throw me a rope to hold me in place
Show me a clock for counting my days down
Cause everything's easier when you're beside me
Come back and find me
Cause I feel alone
And whenever you go it's like holding my breath underwater
I have to admit that I kind of like it when I do
Oh but I've got to be unconditionally
Unafraid of my days without you
So throw me a rope to hold me in place
Show me a clock for counting my days down
Cause everything's easier when you're beside me
Come back and find me
Whenever I'm falling you're always behind me
Come back and find me
Cause everything's easier when you're beside me
Come back and find me
Cause I feel alone
2 comments:
Great song, thanks for sharing. It gets hard sometimes doesn't it? Sometimes you get so lonely that you want to pack up and go home, but at the same time you are afraid that since you left everyone just continued their lives without you. Don't worry Sadie, you are irreplaceable and always will be. Just a little longer until Denver is the place that you can't bear to leave. Keep rockin it.
Thanks, Jared. I feel like I'm still a bit on the fringe of things, but I'm teetering on the edge and should be right in the middle sometime soon. Maybe I should throw a dance party. There's no icebreaker like a good dance party.
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