"sew your fortunes on a string and hold them up to light"

[ "Metal Heart" - Cat Power ]
(if you click on the title, you'll be able to hear it on a youtube collage of Cat Power images. the Moon Pix version is far superior to the Jukebox version)

every once in a while (or perhaps more often, i suppose it depends on how much music you listen to) you find a piece that really speaks volumes as to how you're feeling.

i normally hate trying to substitute actual content with content other people have written simply for the sake of pumping another entry out there, but this takes special mention. it speaks to the feeling of confusion, of doubt and uncertainty, of frustration, and how sometimes the struggles of someone- be it fear, trust, anything- can carry over into the life of another and cause strange idiosyncracies in that person's life, and of my desire to seek out the change that G-d wants. chan marshall is, to my utmost knowledge, not a believer but i still can identify with the desire to seek after and move towards changes that G-d wants.

plus it's just plain darn catchy.



"Metal Heart"
Cat Power

losing the star without a sky,
losing the reasons why.
you're losing the calling that you've been faking
and i'm not kidding.

it's damned if you don't and it's damned if you do;
be true 'cause they'll lock you up in a sad, sad zoo.
oh, hidey hidey hidey,
whatcha tryin' to prove?
by hidey, hidy, hiding
you're not worth a thing.

sew your fortunes on a string
and hold them up to light.
blue smoke will take
a very violent flight
and you will be changed
and everything,
and you will be in a very sad, sad zoo.

i once was lost but now i'm found;
was blind but now i see you.
how selfish of you to believe
in the meaning of all the bad dreaming.

metal heart, you're not hiding;
metal heart, you're not worth a thing.
metal heart, you're not hiding;
metal heart, you're not worth a thing.



in other news, my insomnia's back with a vengeance (obviously, since i'm writing this pretty darn early in the morning). my car's been giving me issues- i think i have a burst pipe somewhere in the cooling line. lots of other little stuff that's bugging me.

but G-d is so good.
SO
GOOD.



will you be my friend?