Thursday, February 20, 2014

Favorite from "Nashville"

How You Learn to Live Alone- Nashville

First you fall, then you fly
And you believe that you belong up in the sky
Flap your arms as you run
Every revolution brings you closer to the sun
You fall asleep in motion in uncharted hemispheres
And you wake up with the stars falling down around your ears
And when they hit the ground they're nothing but stone

And that's how you learn to live alone
And that's how you learn to live alone

Bit by bit you slip away
You lose yourself in pieces in the things that you don't say
You're not here but you're still there
The sun goes up, the sun goes down
But you're not sure you care
You live inside the thoughts till you don't recognize the trail
People send you pictures and you can't believe it's you
It's been years since your house has felt like home

It don't feel right but it's not wrong
It's just hard to start again this far along
And brick by brick the letting go as you walk away
From everything you know
You release resistance and you lean into the wind
Till  the roof begins to crumble and the rain comes pouring in
And you sit there in the rubble
Until the rubble feels like home

And that's how you learn to be alone...


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