Again, my inarticulate inner turmoil. I love this song, today it rings in the hollow spaces as a plea and a response. Me and You, God.
Red Lights Are Flashing On The Highway
I Wonder If We're Gonna Ever Get Home
I Wonder If We're Gonna Ever Get Home Tonight
Everywhere The Waters Getting Rough
Your Best Intentions May Not Be Enough
I Wonder If We're Gonna Ever Get Home TonightBut If You Break Down
I'll Drive Out And Find You
If You Forget My Love
I'll Try To Remind You
And Stay By You
When It Don't Come EasyI Don't Know Nothing Except Change Will Come
Year After Year What We Do Is Undone
Time Keeps Moving From A Crawl To A Run
I Wonder If We're Gonna Ever Get HomeYou're Out There Walking Down A Highway
And All Of The Signs Got Blown Away
Sometimes You Wonder
If You're Walking In The Wrong DirectionBut If You Break Down
I'll Drive Out And Find You
If You Forget My Love
I'll Try To Remind You
And Stay By You
When It Don't Come EasySo Many Things That I Had Before
That Don't Matter To Me Now
Tonight I Cry For The Love That I've Lost
And The Love I've Never Found
When The Last Bird Falls
And The Last Siren Sounds
Someone Will Say What's Been Said Before
Some Love We Were Looking ForBut If You Break Down
I'll Drive Out And Find You
If You Forget My Love
I'll Try To Remind You
And Stay By You
When It Don't Come EasyPatty Griffin
(you can hear the song here, although with Brokeback Mountain clips. Just close your eyes and listen.)
Will You stay by me? Will we ever get home? My best intentions may not be enough. So many layers to this song...so many layers to my broken heart at the end of a quarter of diving into the church's sinful antisemitic depths, with all of its echoes into racism and colonialism...spiritual and bodily violence. I don't know if Patty meant the song this way or not, but it's a prayer, my prayer...it's just love I'm looking for. But sometimes it's so hard to find.
