Trouble...

So if you know me well, you know that I am in love with music.

Seriously, I've fallen for music.

I listen to as much of it as I can as often as I can. I quote lyrics a lot (almost as much as movies), and I find so much wisdom in the way other people arrange Latin letters.

Over the last year, I was exposed to Ray LaMontagne. Do you know him? If not, you should. And I mean know him. Almost in the Biblical sense. Almost.

My RA staff introduced him to me. Our relationship started of rocky. I thought he was just another indie hippie with a gravely voice. Then his new album came out Gospel in the Grain. And I dug it. I realized that he was darn talented, and he has a great wit (Meg White is awesome). But it's taken me most of the summer to realize that he is an excellent lyricist. There are few of them out there, and Ray is definitely one of them.

So please enjoy this piece of powerful prose:

How Come

Ray LaMontagne

off of his Trouble album

People on the street now

Faces long and grim

Souls are feeling heavy

And faith is growing thin

Fears are getting stronger

You can Feel them on the rise

Hopelessness got some by the throat you can see it in their eyes

I said how come

How come

Everybody on a shoestring

Everybody in a hole

Everybody on a big jetplane

crossing their fingers and toes

Government man spin his politics till he got you pinned

Everybody trying to reach out to each other

But they don't know where to begin

I said how come

I can't tell

the free world

from living hell

I said how come

How come

all I see

is a child of god

in misery

I said how come

the pistol now as prophet

The bullet some kind of lord and king

But pain is the only promise that this so called savior is going to bring

Love can be a liar

And justice can be a thief

And freedom can be an empty cup from which everybody want to drink

I said how come

I can't tell

the free world

from living hell

I said how come

How come

all i see

is a child of god

in misery

I said how come

Its just man killing man

Killing man

Killing man

Killing man

Killing man

I don't understand

Its just man killing man