Music plays an important part of my life. My two favourite artists are Rosanne Cash and Mary Chapin Carpenter. Their music speaks to my heart and soul and often guides me through life.
On my cycle ride yesterday this Mary Chapin Carpenter song played on my ipod. I cried. At this moment in my life I find myself in Elysium. These words rang so true to me.
"I don't really know how I got here this time
I was only just following orders
Listening to the voice in my head
Saying stay clear of margins and borders
So I wasn't thinking of where I would go
On a cold afternoon through the mountains I drove
Up a few hairpin turns and then spread out below
The valley appeared with the sun
Like Elysium
I looked out the windows and stared at the fields
Where the blue sky and green were colliding
I looked back at me and knew I was sealed
By a fate that has ways of providing
Yes sometimes you get there in spite of the route
Losing track of your life and what it's about
The road seems to know when to straighten right out
The closer you come
To Elysium
They say there's a place for those who are good
With its pearly gates swinging wide open
The rest of us here are just knocking on wood
Quietly, piously hoping
I could wonder if all of it lead me to me
I could show you the arrows and circles I drew
I didn't have a map, it's the best I could do
On the fly and on the run
To dreams that were tethered like kites to the ground
To the bridges I burned, to the turning around
It was here in my heart I was finally found
And the last battle won for Elysium"
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