A song for a dreary Monday
Hammer and Nail - Indigo Girls
( I LOVE these girls, my fav for a long time)
clearing webs from the hovel
a blistered hand on the handle of a shovel
i've been digging too deep
i always do
i see my face on the surface
i look a lot like narcissus
a dark abyss of an emptiness
standing on the edge of a drowning blue
i look behind my ears for the green
and even my sweat smells clean
glare off the white hurts my eyes
i gotta get out of bed
get a hammer and a nail
learn how to use my hands
not just my head
i think myself in a jail
now i know a refuge never grows
from a chin in a hand
and a thoughtful pose
gotta tend the earth
if you want a rose
i had a lot of good intentions
sit around for fifty years
and then collect a pension
started seeing the road to hell
and just where it starts
but my life is more than a vision
the sweetest part is acting
after making a decision
started seeing the whole
as a sum of its parts
and i look behind my ears for the green
and even my sweat smells clean
glare off the white hurts my eyes
gotta get out of bed
get a hammer and a nail
learn how to use my hands
not just my head
i think myself in a jail
now i know a refuge never grows
from a chin in a hand
and a thoughtful pose
gotta tend the earth
if you want a rose
my life is part of the global life
i'd found myself becoming more immobile
when i'd think a little girl in the world
can't do anything
a distant nation my community
and a street person my responsibility
if i have a care in the world
i have a gift to bring
i look behind my ears for the green
even my sweat smells clean
glare off the white hurts my eyes
i gotta get out of bed
get a hammer and a nail
learn how to use my hands
not just my head
i think myself in a jail
now i know a refuge never grows
from a chin in a hand
and a thoughtful pose
gotta tend the earth
if you want a rose
posted by mimlap @ 11/28/2005 10:22:00 a.m.
4 Comments:
I was listening to the Indigo Girls the day I had my car-crash. I don't think I've listened to one of their CDs at all, since then. I went to the Indigo Girls concert that one time, at Ontario Place. I think you were there, and maybe Tim, and maybe Katherine and Kristen? There were a lot of lesbians at that concert, as I remember it, although I was only barely aware of what a lesbian was, at that point, and wasn't aware of anything going by the name of the "gay subculture" at that time.
Warren
Yeah, I remember that concert. I did not know that the girls were lesbians and I remember looking around and saying to Pam wow, there are lots of lesbians here and she said "yeah!!" and then I had the deliema of deciding if their love songs were still moving to me...they were and are some of the most beautiful love songs I know. That was a funny day.
Which car-crash??? he he do you still love me? I just had to get you back for the Johnny Cash comments for which you were looking down your nose.
I am not terribly familiar with Indigo girls, but I suspect I would find them enjoyable... I guess I need to be initiated.
Thanks for sharing with us, Mim, please play something for our next CD listening party.
Yes Erica, your voice and Syl's together would do great justice to many of the Girl's songs, they harmonize so beautifully.
Post a Comment
<< Home