I hope the year ahead is great for all of you. And for me too.
That it started with the date 1/1/11 seems auspicious, as if we get to start over after a nightmarish decade of strife and stupidity. Here’s hoping.
This week’s song is one of the loveliest takes on this tune I’ve ever heard. Thanks to Betsy Burnam for sharing it.
Song of the Week, 1/3/11
By Malcolm Middleton
Oh will you come home soon
Come home soon and save me
I’m so bored
Life threatening doom
The walls are closing in all around
Oh will you find me now
Find me out and save me
I can’t get up
Life threatening doom
Dragging me darker and down
Take my hand
Dragging me down
Through the ground
Darker and down
Down down down
All the way down
Oh will you come for me
Comfort me in the night
I’m so tired of feeling sick and tired
Dying at life’s door all the time
Oh I’m locked inside
Trapped inside this body
I can’t get out
And there’s not enough room
I’m glued to the back of this bone mask…
Happy Holidays, all.
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(Song of the Week, 12/13/10)
Enough said.
My eternal war with the darkness of depression kicks off a new initiative today. To commemorate, here’s Leslie Feist with her own single-handed festival of lights…
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As a bonus, here’s an awesome acoustic take on the song which Feist performed on The Colbert Report. (Plus you get the surreal pleasure of glimpsing Colbert in the blue shiny outfit Feist wore in the “1-2-3-4” video).
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Pretty much where my head, heart, and soul are today…
I don’t know this band, but really dig their song, and the fact that they’re playing it with various apps on their iPhones rather than actual instruments is tres cool. Not to mention great viral marketing.
Maybe it’s time to head for the MARTA train and read my book out loud from my iPhone…
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I’m starting a new tradition here under the ol’ outlaw moon. Every week, I’m going to share a song with you. And I’m going to begin with one of my favorites, a song by the lovely Julie Miller called “By Way of Sorrow.”
This is a song that I’ve listened to hundreds of times over the years and it has never lost its power to move me. Aside from the elegant softness of the music and the gentle beauty of Miller’s voice, the song is like a shelter from the cold, a loving touch on a lonely night.
I suffer from depression, and just listening to Miller sing this song adds a bit of hope to my time in the abyss. This winter has been a time of crushing solitude and torpor for me (it’s become apparent that my depression is very cyclical, and the colder months damn near crack my bones spiritually), and I’m only just starting not only to see sunlight again, but to care whether I see it or not.
Julie Miller’s song helps me feel like perhaps there’s still someplace I’m headed besides base survival.
Lyrics after the break:
Under An Outlaw Moon 