A Song for You...

This is one of my favorite songs (below) called "Our Deliverance". I've been thinking about certain things lately - things I don't usually blog about. (Well today I'm feeling it, so bear with me. I won't get political on you, I promise.) What, with all the issues with Israel & Palestinian bombings, our troops in Iraq, "Global Warming" and Al Gore's new movie, ice-cap meltings, recycling and whatnot. It can be so overwhelming. And sometimes I feel like losing myself in one of the Indigo Girls finer songs:

Now we can say that nothing's lost and only change brings round the prophecy
Where now it's melting, the solid frost was once a veil on greener landscapes we would see
Beneath my surface the water's heating
And steam comes up and out the tears you see me shine
For every strange and bitter moment there was never a better time
For every pleasure exacts its pain
How you hurt me how you were good to me
Beneath my window a mournful train that makes me smile at my bad poetry
Beneath my surface a song is rising
It may be simple while it hides its true intent
We may be looking for our deliverance but it has already been sent
It's in the night fall when the light falls
And what you've seen isn't there anymore
It's in our blind trust that love will find us
Just like it has before
They're sending soldiers to distant places
X's and O's on someone's drawing board
Like green and plastic but with human faces
And they want to tell you it's a merciful sword
But with all the blood newly dried in the desert
Can we not fertilize the land with something else
There is no nation by god exempted
Lay down your weapons and love your neighbor as yourself
In the night fall when the light falls
And what you've seen isn't there anymore
It's through our blind trust that love will find us
Just like it has before

You go Girls. You go. What an amazing and pertinent song. (Also as a side note, while I'm at it, Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth is very good. Of course it gets a bit showy, but ultimately I agree with his message. It's that environmentalism is a moral choice and it is high time for us to take a stand and be good stewards of what we have.)