A Song Before Bed

I'm busy these days transferring all of my music onto my IPod (yes I have succumbed to the almighty POD - I AM A POD PERSON NOW!) - including my huge collection of CD's, massive stacks of old obscure records (ok... yea I got some awful shit in my record collection I admit it) along with the record collection my mother left behind when she passed as well as all of my downloaded live music from trader friendly bands. A huge job to be sure and while I hate converting to the IPod format from the purer WAV files I can't argue with the ability to carry my entire library of music with me. Anyway tonight I burned a show by a band I like called Donna The Buffalo and the opening song to that night's show had kind of stuck in my head - a song called "Seems To Want To Hurt This Time"... Kind of sums up how I feel about life these days...

Seems To Want To Hurt This Time
Jeb Puryear

Life, love, potential love
Causes so much joy
Has the adverse power
To hurt you that much more
It's the same dark that falls
On the light that shines
Everything seems to want to hurt this time

I take a look inside
Nowhere to turn or go
No clear distinction
Above or below
Surreal existence
Casts its shadows to the blind
Everything seems to want to hurt this time

Aw, the party's crashin'
Fade into a distant drone
It only takes just one of us to be alone
Nobody's going but I still feel left behind
Everything seems to want to hurt this time

Red lights serenade me as I try to go
Outside the wind crashes with the smell of blowing snow
Three in the morning, cradled by a mental bind
Everything seems to want to hurt this time

Someday I will return
It will be none too soon
Jump off the front porch
Land on the crescent moon
Until then these fancy dreams
Are for another mind
Everything seems to want to hurt this time

All I want to do is wake up
Return to the loving kind
But everything seems to want to hurt this time

All I want to do is wake up
Return to the living kind
But everything seems to want to hurt this time