I thought a lot today about how/when/and why I felt so sad. I know specifically what small things in life hurt, I know larger things that are an open wound, and ultimately I realized that sometimes the weight of sin can just come crashing down at once. It is a giant weight, a weight that I absolutely cannot lift alone. I am grateful for a savior who not only comforts me with time but also through friends who show a deep care for me. I hink Ray LaMontagne gives a very interesting and poetic face to the sorrow I felt and that humans feel when the weight of sin is on our shoulders. These lyrics are found at http://artists.letssingit.com/ray-lamontagne-lyrics-empty-sh7vr88 and are the lyrics to his song "Empty".
"she lifts her skirt up to her knees,walks through the garden rows with her bare feet, laughing.
i never learned to count my blessings, i choose instead to dwell in my disasters.
i walk on down a hill, through grass, grown tall and brown and still its hard somehow to let go of my pain.
on past the busted back of that old and rusted cadillac that sinks into this field, collecting rain.
will i always feel this way? so empty, so estranged......
well i looked my demons in the eyes, laid bare my chest, said do your best, destroy me.
you see, i've been to hell and back so many times, i must admit you kind of bore me.
there's a lot of things that can kill a man, there's a lot of ways to die, listen, some already did that walked beside me.
there's alot of things i don't understand,why so many people lie.
its the hurt i hide inside that fuels the fire inside me.
will i always feel this way? so empty, so estranged"
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