the best song i have found yet this summer was handed to me by my friend ryan. greg laswell is a musician/song writer from san diego; to me he sounds like a not-depressed-but-equally-thoughtful- and-introspective version of damien rice.

the truth is, this song is very tied to the entry i wrote yesterday. maybe an hour or so after i read the newspaper sunday morning, i wandered out to the dock on the lake with my ipod, and just listened to greg’s words as though my life hung on them, as if his voice spoke my last prayer. and what he has to say is quite powerful and humbling. it lifted me out of myself.

embrace me

o wind, won’t you sweep me up into the sky
so i can get a better look
at this life of mine
and pick me up and twist me
around so i can see
everything around me now
o won’t you embrace me

o river won’t you take me
out into the sea
so i can get a good look back
at the land that grounds me
and then a little further out
so i can feel alone
much more than i have these days

o then won’t you embrace me
o won’t you embrace me

i figure later there is time
later on to move along
from this there is time
enough of it for right or wrong
i figure there is time
so go easy on me
and let me stay here awhile
stay here awhile

oh wind, won’t you take me up to the sky
i can get a good look down on this life of mine
river, won’t you take me out and to the sea
i can get a good look back at the land that grounds me

land that grounds me