Song Lyrics of the month (August): from Micheal Kiwanuka’s Love and Hate..
Standing now
Calling all the people here to see the show
Calling for my demons now to let me go
I need something, give me something wonderful
Calling all the people here to see the show
Calling for my demons now to let me go
I need something, give me something wonderful
I believe
She won’t take me somewhere I’m not supposed to be
You can’t steal the things that god has given me
No more pain and no more shame and misery
She won’t take me somewhere I’m not supposed to be
You can’t steal the things that god has given me
No more pain and no more shame and misery
I’ll link to the 8 minute monster of a video here. ‘I need something, give me something wonderful’ is a plea I can totally identify with. Life has not been easy emotionally or creatively. I’ve felt extremely dark and useless a lot over the past few months and moreso lately. Still, I rise. As the next three lines show, rise is always possible when you look into yourself and dissect the situation and the desires and the choices people make.
While the song does embark on a certain kind of darkness, it offers that hint of hope that suggests that there is enough of what happened to hold on to in order to trust what is. I find a certain resonance in his lyrics–and not just in this song–that completely reflects my present state of being.
The upside of that in many ways is how I am connecting to something creative and powerful.
Some Thoughts:
- Call, Coffee, Write. I don’t have the life I expected. I don’t have the one I want either, but the people that matter still matter to me.
- Part of finding peace is figuring out what you actually want out of life and then figuring out what, if anything, you have the ability to find within yourself.