I remember my friend talking about a song once and he said, quoting his friend, "This is the kind of song that changes your life." The song happened to be DevotchKa's "How it Ends". It is indeed such a song, and one that has been on my mind lately.
But in order for a song to change you, you have to hear it at just the right time. Timing is, after all, everything.
So.
I left the house this evening thinking about gratitude and thinking about friends and family. I should have seen this coming, really. I mean, you go a couple of days without talking to people and living in a city that's not quite home and it's inevitable, isn't it, to appreciate more than normal the people in your life?
Well this song came on. Moving and Shaking, by Great Lake Swimmers.
And while it played, I was in the middle of trying to figure out how I got so lucky to have people that care about me when I'm so lousy when it comes to reciprocity.
It was a combination of: The right 4 chords. Gratitude. And the gap between the overwhelming need to show it yet finding myself inadequate for the task. You guessed it. Tears.
Let me say that this is far from the first time this has happened to me. But that doesn't change the fact that I sometimes still can't get over the goodness. Looks like today was one of those days. Most of the people who made that possible will never even read this. But I'd like to thank them all the same.
As well as Facebook. Who introduced me to Great Lake Swimmers. Who in turn wrote a song. And for that song, for making me feel.
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