I am going to do Favorite Song Fridays. Old favorites, current favorites, everything. I could listen to this song over and over...and believe me, I do. I don't know why this song triggers such an emotional response in me. I think maybe it's the sense of innocence and purity, and inner peace - despite it being a song about death, somehow it's joyful.
The lyric "I've had, just enough time..." really gets me. I interpret it to mean, "I've done my best here on earth, and it's my time to go. I've done what I was put here to do, and I've done it in the time I was given."
Whenever I hear that lyric, I think "if my time to go was now, would I think that too?" and the answer is always no. I don't feel like my "duty" (whatever that may be) has been fulfilled, and I wouldn't be ready to go, as she is. But when our time is up really isn't up to us, so we better make the most of this life we're given...
Favorite lyrics:
- Lord make me a rainbow, I'll shine down on my mother/ She'll know I'm safe with you when she stands under my colors
- And I’ll be wearing white, when I come into your kingdom/I’m as green as the ring on my little, cold finger, I’ve never known the lovin' of a man/But it sure felt nice when he was holding my hand, There’s a boy here in town says he’ll love me forever/Who would have thought forever could be severed by the sharp knife of a short life, Well I’ve had, just enough time
- Funny when you're dead/how people start listenin'
Enjoy.
(side note - after a night out in Seattle for New Years Eve this year, me 'n the girls spent half the next day in our pjs, nerding out watching Anne of Green Gables - and in one scene, she acts out the very same part of the poem shown in this music video. The Band Perry definitely stole the idea. Fun fact!)
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