will you hear me and know?

If I could write a song today, this is it what I would want it to say:

Can i get up in the moming

Put the kettle on

Make us some coffee,

say "hey" to the sun...

Is it enough to write a song and sing it to the birds?

They'd hear just the tune

Not understand my love for words

But you would hear me and know

I want only this: I want to live

I want to live a simple life

I dreamed you first

But not so real

And everyday since I've found you

Such moments we steal

Like little thieves, we rub our hands

We hold our hearts between them.

But will you hear me and know?

I want only this: I want to live

I want to live a simple life.

Move on, move on

Time is accelerating

Drive on all night

Traffic lights and one-ways

Move on, move on

Parking violations waiting

Turn off the car, breathe the air

Let's stay here

I'll kiss you awake, and we'll have time

To know our neighbors all by name

And every star at night

We'll weave our days together like waves

And particles of light

I want only this: I want to live

I want to live a simple life.

The Weepies have song lyrics that resonate with me in a way that I'm not sure I have heard throughout an album since probably the Indigo Girls. I am grateful to be brought back to that place. Still to come: some of my thoughts/favorite parts/things I hated about the last real book I've read in six months: Eat, Love, Pray. Also, more pictures from Mexico.

post script: to live a simple life is not really all that i want.