observation 309.24.04

Usually I don't like reading lyrics, but some songs never leave me alone. Ever. I assume everyone is like that but maybe not, you tell me. But even if I haven't heard one of them in years, these songs begin to play in my mind automatically with a misfiring spark of inspiration, or maybe the other way around, I don't know. So I've started looking them up for research. Maybe it's reference. But I need to know why. This is one of those songs that always went straight through me and now, reading back through it, I know what it means now. It looks like fresh writing on the wall eight years ago.


"Blue Orpheus"

If you want to cry
You can always find something to cry about
It’s so easy to be wise
Over someone else’s tears
But you have a gift
That the rest of us just can’t live without
And it’s something in your voice
When you tell us how you feel

Because we’ve all loved something and lost it
And it’s burning my heart
I can’t open my mouth and just let it out

But when I hear my blue orpheus sing
I know that life is a wonderful thing (Sometimes life is a wonderful thing)
Somewhere there’s love and perpetual spring
I know life is a wonderful thing (Sometimes life is a wonderful thing)

Seems so long ago
The sound of your joy filled the atmosphere
We can make it on our own
But the road is so rocky and steep
And when you feel lost
No one tells you what you need to hear
And the only dream you have
Is the one that’s in your sleep

Because we soon forget what we’re here for
I need someone to say he’s got dreams of his own
I’ll know I’m not alone

I want to hear my blue orpheus sing
I’ll know that life is a wonderful thing (Sometimes life is a wonderful thing)
Somewhere there’s love and perpetual spring
I’ll know life is a wonderful thing (Sometime life is a wonderful thing)

Sing
You will one day be together again
Though you cannot see her
Sing
She is somewhere in the world

- Todd Rundgren