sarahski

The lights go out all around me
One last candle to keep out the night
And then the darkness surrounds me
I know I’m alive but I feel like I’ve died
And all that’s left is to accept that it’s over
My dreams ran like sand through the fists that I made
I try to keep warm but I just grow colder
I feel like I’m slipping away

After all this has passed, I still will remain
After I’ve cried my last, there’ll be beauty from pain
Though it won’t be today,
Someday I’ll hope again
And there’ll be beauty from pain
You will bring beauty from my pain

My whole world is the pain inside me
The best I can do is just get through the day
When life before is only a memory
I wonder why God lets me walk through this place
And though I can’t understand why this happened
I know that I will when I look back someday
And see how you’ve brought beauty from ashes
And made me as gold purified through these flames

After all this has passed, I still will remain
After I’ve cried my last, there’ll be beauty from pain
Though it won’t be today,
Someday I’ll hope again
And there’ll be beauty from pain
You will bring beauty from my pain

Here I am, at the end of me
Tryin to hold to what I can’t see
I forgot how to hope
This night’s been so long
I cling to Your promise
There will be a dawn

After all this has passed, I still will remain
After I’ve cried my last, there’ll be beauty from pain
Though it won’t be today,
Someday I’ll hope again
And there’ll be beauty from pain
You will bring beauty from my pain

The day I’m writing this post – I’m really sad, for reasons that I don’t consider blog-appropriate. It’s a “quirk” of mine that I like to find songs that match how I’m feeling. I’ve had a really hard time finding one recently, until I ran across this one. When I’m in the middle of writing novels, I do the same thing – I like my music to match whatever the character is thinking or whatever is going on in the scene. I think I end up adopting a song that I feel fits the novel as a whole. I probably shouldn’t tell you what those are, because it’d reveal how shameless my taste in music is. There are some things that I’m really picky on – music isn’t one of them. Suffice to say, Jessica Simpson fit a fan fic from 2004. I’ll stop there.

I love music and books, because of their power to connect with us. Being someone who has an active imagination, I find books and music more satisfying than movies, because there is more freedom to “fill in the blanks”.

What do you connect to? What medium lights your soul and inspires you?

Tags: music

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