Gravity
This here’s one of my favorite mid-life crisis, holy crap I’m getting old, crying in my beer though I’d prefer a martini (dry and dirty please, with three olives) songs. It’s an older tune by a group called Freakwater. I’m not a big country music fan, but I really do like them.
If any of you womenfolk have been feeling a little blue about middle age creeping up and pulling various body parts down, this may just push you right over the edge, but personally, it just makes me kind of sigh and say to myself, Yep, that’s just how it feels sometimes.
Click here to listen to Freakwater’s Gravity.
I wasn’t drinking to forget, I was drinking to remember,
How I once might have looked through the eyes of a stranger.
When all hope should be gone, still the dream somehow lingers,
Like the ghost of a snowstorm, through frostbitten fingers.
Ten thousand backwards glances, won’t bring second chances,
I never knew I was wasted, I was way too far gone.
The face I think is mine, is not the face that I see,
The worried face in the mirror whose worried eyes are fixed on me.
All your beauty will by stolen by a young girl in the night,
A thief as quiet as a dark cloud that stole away the moonlight.
romi41 said,
June 29, 2008 at 10:27 pm
hmm…I supose this can be viewed as rather depressing, but very well-written and poetic eh????
Any-hoooo, hope things are going well for you, work-wise, life-wise, puppy-wise
I kind of look at it as rootin’ tootin’ twangy angst.
Things are going very well (and I hope they are for you too). One more week of work, then I’m headed over to your blog!
CuriousC said,
June 30, 2008 at 6:59 am
HI Moonbeam! ah Gravity – that crazy Newton fella. Actually, typing that inspired me to google it and I chuckled when I saw someone asked the universe ‘did Newton invent gravity?’ hee hee. I didn’t follow that link but this one is good: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~kallos/gravity.htm
Well, sorry – I’m in some kind of techie science geek mood today. CHEERS!
Brian said,
June 30, 2008 at 7:27 am
You never fail to surprise me! I never took you for the country kind of girl. I like very few country songs – mostly older stuff, but I do like the lyrics for this one.
Have you ever heard “Gravity” by John Mayer? Here are some of the lyrics:
betme said,
June 30, 2008 at 11:23 am
That song reminded me of Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne: http://youtube.com/watch?v=CXgegiFhAEQ
Hugs to ya…
Abbe said,
June 30, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Hey MB:
Here’s my gravity story. I have lots of piercings (ears!), but thought about the nipple piercing. Then I thought about what would happen if one day I wore a slightly clingy shirt to work. My students would likely notice that something was there, but my guess is they’d be asking, “What the hell was that thing half way down her stomach?” Of course that would be the braless version, but still…..
Needless to say, I’m sticking with the ear piercings!
Abbe
kaylee said,
July 1, 2008 at 12:18 pm
HUGS
kaylee said,
July 2, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Hey moonbeam when is the job over? My memory is bad lol!
Botmo said,
July 2, 2008 at 10:27 pm
And old faces: You know how huge they get as you age. WHY???? I never thought it would happen to me. Sigh.
Excellent musical choice to accompany the fall. Where did you find it?
I wish you were here to go have that dirty martini.
Adam said,
July 2, 2008 at 10:53 pm
This kind of old country really hits the spot sometimes. As does the dirty martini! I’ll have one in your honor tonight.
kaylee said,
July 3, 2008 at 4:49 pm
I AM SO EXCITED YOUR WORK IS ALMOST OVER