Monday, January 10, 2005

What an excellent sister you are!

Don't feel like you have to apologize. I know it just came out. So did mine, but I meant it too. And honestly, it felt like saying it to family more than anything. Let it be, sister, let it be. I dedicate this song, written by more perceptive people than me, to you in gratitude.

Images on the sidewalk speak of dream's descent
Washed away by storms to graves of cynical lament
Dirty canvases to call my own
Protest limericks carved by the old pay phone

In your picture book I'm trying hard to see
Turning endless pages of this tragedy
Sculpting every move you compose a symphony
You plead to everyone, "see the art in me"

Broken stained-glass windows, the fragments ramble on
Tales of broken souls, an eternity's been won
As critics scorn the thoughts and works of mortal man
My eyes are drawn to you in awe once again

In your picture book I'm trying hard to see
Turning endless pages of this tragedy
Sculpting every move you compose a symphony
You plead to everyone, "see the art in me"


-Jars of Clay, "Art in Me"

2 Comments:

Blogger Tia said...

Lovins for you ^.^

6:14 AM  
Blogger Telephone the Foot said...

Wow, I musta done something special. Those are rare these days. :-)

11:34 PM  

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