Love this song!!! I want it played at my funeral.



The following is not written by me but I’m including it because it embraces exactly what the song says to me....


Written by user known as Deadpocket on lyric meanings website

******It’s about that feeling you get that things are only going to get worse. It’s about the eternal separation between the perfect creator and the despairing creation. It’s about your struggle against all the weariness of this life, all the pointlessness you feel when you look at how far you’ve walked. It’s about never being able to find happiness, no matter how much you have. It’s about being neglected and alone, finding that even God has abandoned or forgotten you. It’s about the desperate cry clinging to any last crumb of hope. It’s about the relentlessness of age and time.


Emmylou said this about it: “there has to be a reason for the pain that everyone experiences. And I was so taken with the image of the pain that the oyster must go through with the grain of sand inside that becomes a pearl. That is the metaphor: your pain ultimately becomes something beautiful.”


I've felt all these things in life. I think of my father-in-law and his failed struggle with cancer. I think of my lonely widowed mother-in-law. I think of the friend who's lost in love more times than he can keep track of. I think of the woman I met who watched her parents killed when she was a young girl. I think about the guy begging money for me who used to have a good job selling tires before his nervous breakdown. I think of the kid who killed himself and the girl who ran away.

And I'm not preaching, but I think of something Jesus said: “…the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.” This is the only reason I'm not an alcoholic alone and suicidal. I think I'm the merchant who found the pearl and the pearl itself.*****

deadpocket
on July 09, 2010
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