Sunday, February 23, 2014

Alive and Kicking

This number has been on repeat on the internal record player all day today. I wasn't sure why until I looked at the lyrics, which do indeed speak to me in this betwixt and between/what's gonna happen phase:

You turn me on, you lift me up
And like the sweetest cup I'd share with you
You lift me up, don't you ever stop, I'm here with you
Now it's all or nothing
'Cause you say you'll follow through
You follow me, and I, I, I follow you

What you gonna do when things go wrong?
What you gonna do when it all cracks up?
What you gonna do when the Love burns down?
What you gonna do when the flames go up?
Who is gonna come and turn the tide?
What's it gonna take to make a dream survive?
Who's got the touch to calm the storm inside?
Who's gonna save you?
Alive and Kicking
Stay until your love is, Alive and Kicking
Stay until your love is, until your love is, Alive

Oh you lift me up to the crucial top, so I can see
Oh you lead me on, till the feelings come
And the lights that shine on
But if that don't mean nothing
Like if someday it should fall through
You'll take me home where the magic's from
And I'll be with you

Maybe my mind's still at the synagogue after yesterday's Bar Mitzvah, but I think one could also read this song as being about God. It reminds me, too, of another prayer I liked that we said during the ceremony, which was about trusting that there is meaning to living our every day life even when the bigger picture is uncertain...

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