Spontaneous Musings

Sometime in the next week or two I want to start a meme requesting some words or a line from a song that really struck you as particularly memorable, that you recall and perhaps site when you're speaking to someone about, well, whatever.

This song features several memorable lines, but the one that seems to fit me, and most of my life is...

I'm riding shotgun down the avalanche

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlf_F1lVen0

Not so much for the apparent first level of the song, which suggests that Colvin is singing about a romantic relationship/dilemma, but for how that phrase, and another...

Sometimes you make me lose my will to live
And just become a beacon for your soul

... could just as easily relate to one's relationship with either God or in this amazing/beautiful/tragic/painful physical world we inhabit.

Methinks that be me.



I'm riding shotgun down the avalanche, ooh
Tumbling and falling down the avalanche, ooh

So be quiet tonight
The stars shine bright
On this mountain of new fallen snow
But I will raise my voice into the void
You have left me nowhere to go

I love you so much and it's so bizarre
A mystery that goes on and on and on
This is the best thing and the very most hard
And we don't get along
After countless appeals
We keep spinning our wheels
On this mountain of new fallen snow
So I let go the catch and we are over the edge
You have left me nowhere to go

I'm riding shotgun down the avalanche
Sometimes you make me lose my will to live
And just become a beacon for your soul
But the past is stronger than my will to forgive
Forgive you or myself, well I don't know

I'm riding shotgun down the avalanche, ooh
Tumbling and falling down the avalanche, ooh

So be quiet tonight
Be sure to step lightly
On this mountain of new fallen snow
But I will raise up my voice into the void
You have left me nowhere to go

Songwriters: John Leventhal / Shawn Colvin