song of the day. #46 | song lyric sunday. #music

Posted on 22 October 2017 by what sandra thinks

song of the day | what sandra thinks

This week’s theme for ‘Song Lyric Sunday‘ is… peace.

This is not a song about being at peace. It’s a song about craving peace… wanting to go back in time (to The Night We Met…) to undo the past to avoid the pain of the present.

And that’s pretty much my life… wishing I could go back in time and make different choices… better decisions. I just know my present would be better… if only I could go back and change my past.

Of course, I can’t. But there is, and I imagine always will be, a part of me that cannot accept that. Maybe it’s because I always want to fix things. My kids’ things… my things… everything. Of course, I can’t do that either…

[Wow… I just realized that a character I created in a story I wrote (that I’ve never shared) has this same ‘fixer’ mentality. She hates when she can’t fix things… for everyone. I didn’t consciously make her like that because I’m like that… it just happened. I guess that’s not unusual… pieces of me showing up everywhere in my writing whether fact or fiction… whether intended or not…]

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The Night We Met / Lord Huron

I am not the only traveler
Who has not repaid his debt
I’ve been searching for a trail to follow again
Take me back to the night we met

And then I can tell myself
What the hell I’m supposed to do
And then I can tell myself
Not to ride along with you

I had all and then most of you
Some and now none of you
Take me back to the night we met
I don’t know what I’m supposed to do
Haunted by the ghost of you
Take me back to the night we met

When the night was full of terrors
And your eyes were filled with tears
When you had not touched me yet
Oh, take me back to the night we met

I had all and then most of you
Some and now none of you
Take me back to the night we met
I don’t know what I’m supposed to do
Haunted by the ghost of you
Take me back to the night we met

—
Written by Lord Huron

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Sandra is a writer, sometimes blogger, poet, artist, emotional disaster. She thinks far too much and sleeps far too little. Sandra lives in the Northeastern U.S. but dreams of an oceanfront home in Italy, but she would settle for a non-oceanfront home in Italy. She loves books, brutal honesty, coffee, and the color black. She hates insincerity, beer, whipped cream, and facebook. And she is uncomfortable talking about herself in the third person.
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19 Responses to song of the day. #46 | song lyric sunday. #music

  1. Peter's pondering says:
    22 October 2017 at 12:32 pm

    A good interpretation of the theme, and very haunting music that I’ve not heard before!

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  2. nkdwhtguy says:
    22 October 2017 at 12:44 pm

    This is the first time I’ve heard this song. “I don’t know what I’m supposed to do
    Haunted by the ghost of you..” gave me chills.

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  3. sonofabeach96 says:
    22 October 2017 at 5:15 pm

    Another great song pick. I totally get the wanting to be able to fix things…everything. It’s frustrating knowing I can’t. But then again, nobody can. 😊😊

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  4. ghostmmnc says:
    22 October 2017 at 7:14 pm

    Wow, what a beautiful yet sad song. Thanks so much for posting it. I think I love everything about it, too. 🙂

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  5. herheadache says:
    22 October 2017 at 11:51 pm

    Life is full of the effort we put into trying to make peace with our past. It isn’t so easily done. Beautiful song though. I wish you peace.

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  6. herheadache says:
    22 October 2017 at 11:58 pm

    Wishing peace for someone else definitely counts for the prompt. Thank you for introducing me to this song. Lovely.

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  7. Helen Vahdati says:
    29 October 2017 at 11:34 am

    I’m a fixer as well. I hadn’t heard this song before and I loved it. Thanks so much for sharing it!

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  8. sac110368 says:
    5 December 2017 at 9:23 pm

    Hey! A fellow fan of Lord Huron. Nice pick. There 2nd album, Strange Trails was hands-down my favorite 2015 album. Nice blog series.

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