So, I had to go and make a graphic explicitly for those moments when I encounter, see, hear, or watch something that I want to share solely because it speaks to me on some level, but not necessarily in a way that… lifts me up (i.e., something I would save for Friyay posts).  This is the first post of its kind, but I don’t foresee it being anywhere close to it’s last.

I first encountered this song through Welcome to Night Vale, but I return to it with fair frequency, and on more reflective/melancholy days, I relate to it more closely than I would necessarily like to.  I’m in a pretty good mood at the moment, but I listened to it on a whim this morning and thought now was as good a time as any to share it.

There once was a time that we knew damn well we’d be wise beyond our years
Now we’re old and it just seems we’re getting dumber
There once was a rhyme that would bring peacefulness to both of our ears
But this music lets us know that we’re not getting any younger

My mother would not be proud of my mouth
But I can’t get a sentence out without some sacrilege or sounding like a sailor
Every time I go home for the holidays and tell her how it’s been, the look on her face says it’s obvious I have failed her

But you don’t know
No, you can’t go where I’ve been
And I don’t know
No, I’ll never get where I’m going

And every day I hear somebody say something like
“Yeah, I just got back from China backpacking and giving food to children”
I have never strayed too far away from this east coast where I remain
In my heart I am so envious I could kill them

And I am running out of time to do the things I used to say that I
Was put on this earth to do by God in His heaven
Seems that I believed in something then
Dear lord, what happened to my head?
Now the days go by so fast I have no time to let ’em sink in

But you don’t know
No, you can’t go where I’ve been
And I don’t know
No, I’ll never get where I’m going
And you don’t know
No, you can’t go where I’ve been
And I don’t know
No, I’ll never get where I’m going