Closer to Fine

[The Wanderer]

I'm trying to tell you something about my life
Maybe give me insight between black and white
The best thing you've ever done for me
Is to help me take my life less seriously, it's only life after all
Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable
And lightness has a call that's hard to hear
I wrap my fear around me like a blanket
I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it, I'm crawling on your shore.

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me
in crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine.

I went to see the doctor of philosophy
With a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee
He never did marry or see a B-grade movie
He graded my performance, he said he could see through me
I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, got my paper
And I was free.

I stopped by the bar at 3 a.m.
To seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend
I woke up with a headache like my head against a board
Twice as cloudy as I'd been the night before
I went in seeking clarity.

We go to the bible, we go through the workout
We read up on revival and we stand up for the lookout
There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me
in a crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine

~Amy Ray & Emily Saliers

it's only life after all...

 

[Sicy]

Sounds like a good song.. maybe I'll check it out.

 

[Achtung Bubba]

http://www.brunching.com/features/yourroommate.html

 

[Peaseblossom]

That song is really close to my heart right now. Thanks for the post.

 

[zooropamanda]

The Indigo Girls aren't very big here at all. Are they in The States?

 

[bicyclingfish]

The Indigos are HUGE here! Of course, they did write a song about Olympia, so...