Music Monday

I think this song is going to be very appropriate for the phase of life I find myself in these next 3 months. There’ll be a lot of goodbyes to be said, a good number of “see you soon”s. It’s going to a be a bittersweet time when I leave home in August, and thus I am trying to make use of all the time we have together: to embrace the grace that Christ has given us, the friendship we have built, the joys and tears we have shared, the time we have spent together.

Today’s song is an oldie, but a goodie: Goodbye To You (Acoustic) by Michelle Branch. This one is probably meant for somebody specific, but it’s hard to remember (yet impossible to forget). Regardless, here’s a few words in remembrance of the life I’ve lived in Toronto for the past 20years…

Lyrics here:

Of all the things I believe in
I just want to get it over with
tears from behind my eyes
but I do not cry
Counting the days that past me by

I’ve been searching deep down in my soul
Words that I’m hearing are starting to get old
Looks like I’m starting all over again
The last three years were just pretend and I say

**
Goodbye to you
Goodbye to everything I thought I knew
You were the one I love
The one thing that I tried to hold on to

I still get lost in your eyes
And it seems like I can’t live a day without you
Closing my eyes till you chase my thoughts away
To a place where I am blinded by the light but it’s not right**

Ohhh yeah
It hurts to want everything & nothing at the same time
I want whats yours and I want whats mine
I want you but I’m not giving in this time

We the stars fall and I lie awake
Your my shooting star