Friday, December 17, 2004

Over Our Heads - Jon Brion

Anti-thesis

"Nothing ever lasts
It all gets torn to shreds
If something's everlasting
It's over our heads."

A necessary reminder to not take myself so seriously. This song is like an antacid at the end of a long, somewhat jumbled meal. Some of the songs may not digest well together, or some of them alone might not agree with me. But Jon Brion provides the relief needed at the end of all of it. Yes, it's confusing, and convoluted and contradictory at times, but all that meaning fades away with time. There is no understanding the everlasting, as this mix attempts to do. I must accept, by the end of the mix, that all the confusion and noise just means its over my head. Over our heads, actually. She doesn't hear the noise, or feel the confusion as much as I do (or if she does, she never talks about it), but she still doesn't understand the future, and what it holds. Neither of us can understand the future, and any attempts by us to do so will break logic.
Will we make it?

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