Ahh The Innocence

Do you ever have it when a band becomes the soundtrack for your life for awhile? Where the mood and the lyrics all culminate to make the perfect life accompaniment. My Ipod currently finds me stuck on The Innocence Mission- before these last weeks I found her voice a little hard to get into- but now, I'm in love.

The coming of fall has been more of a metaphor than I was expecting this year. I find myself and those around me in many different stages of letting go- and much of the letting go feels like an active and painful choice. I can't help but think of another great band, Over the Rhine, she sings:

"'l awake to find your love
falling like leaves to the ground
I'll awake to find your love
falling like leaves
you will look to find me down
upon my knees without a sound
you will look to find me down
upon my knees".

So somehow this falling is also loving?
Who signs up for this?!

And now The Innocence Mission:

This barren July
We both wake up so dry
That no more tears can leave us.
And all we've found
Are roads we can't go down,
Eyes on a day we can't see.
I hope it comes.
I hope that water comes
And drenches us in our clothes.
The world at night
Has seen the greatest light.
Too much light to deny.

You never know,
You never really know.
And you can't have people figured out.
One friend came in
Out of nowhere, with lit
Sparklers in both her hands for me,
And saved the day
When I had run away
To envy and black feelings.
And the world at night
Could see the greatest light.
Too much light to deny.

And the image, Rembrandt.