Shannon’s Perspective:
Under Construction
First - I need to give credit where credit is due. I would not know this song if it wasn't for Shannon. For the longest time, I would honestly have a mental break down every time I listened to it because it was so personal for Shannon, and to some degree, me.
I've spent a lot of time thinking about it and why that was and how life perspective changes things.
In my younger immature days I'm positive my main emotion would have been jealousy. But I didn't know it then - so I'm glad it came into my life when I was a little more mature.
My true emotion is pure sadness.
Sadness for Shannon. I cannot face the fact that someone made her feel that way. That someone could not love Shannon the way I do with her as the love of my life. That's just incomprehensible to me.
The emotion she felt in that moment, that I've felt, that countless others have felt - when you've given yourself to someone and you come to the stark realization (empty surprise) that that emotion is a one way street and it's not reciprocated.
This album was released in 1974 - so 50 years ago. You would not for one second listen to this song and think "god that song's so old".
That, my sons, is what makes a song timeless...and this is one of them...
Late for the Sky
Jackson Browne
All the words had all been spoken
And somehow the feeling still wasn't right
And still we continued on through the night
Tracing our steps from the beginning
Until they vanished into the air
Trying to understand how our lives had led us there
Looking hard into your eyes
There was nobody I'd ever known
Such an empty surprise.....to feel so alone
Now, for me some words come easy
But I know that they don't mean that much
Compared with the things that are said when lovers touch
You never knew what I loved in you
I don't know what you loved in me
Maybe the picture of somebody you were hoping I might be
Awake again, I can't pretend
And I know I'm alone and close to the end
Of the feeling we've known
How long have I been sleeping?
How long have I been drifting alone through the night?
How long have I been dreaming I could make it right?
If I closed my eyes and tried with all my might
To be the the one you need
Awake again, I can't pretend
And I know I'm alone and close to the end
Of the feeling we've known
How long have I been sleeping?
How long have I been drifting alone through the night?
How long have I been running for that morning flight?
Through the whispered promises and the changing light
Of the bed where we both lie
Late for the sky
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