rain and stars and you
15:21 & 14 December 2002

Your soul light
Your song
You saw
I love you...

A titleless track on a titleless album..it makes me smile, it makes me cry, it makes me think of you listening to it in a cold city hours ahead.
The sky is dark now with the promise of rain and in a cold room I listen to this song as you must have so many times. Alone.. but hoping, dreaming it won't always be that way.

Did it ever make you wonder, what others were doing while playing it? Did you ever imagine a girl in Norway, a boy in New York, a girl and boy together in a room lit only by Christmas lights somewhere in London? Someone somewhere you don't even know, with different thoughts and feelings connected by this one plaintive song. Driving, writing, dreaming, laughing, crying, missing someone far, missing someone near but distant?

Years from now, long after we're gone, someone else will stumble upon it and perhaps wonder, "Who were those people? Those long lost ghosts of the past who once loved this song too. What drove them, what inspired them, what made them breathless with hope or despair?"

And the answer will always be the same won't it? No matter how different we all pretend to be, we all want the same things..
To go home, to come out of the rain, to laugh, to love, to walk hand in hand.

You're out there tonight, perhaps gazing out at the lights upon the lake, wondering if you'll ever cease to walk alone.
I'm here, waiting for the rain, wishing I could be the one to guide you home.

Listening: Track One- Sigur Ros ()

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I'm convinced my postman thinks I host a house of freaks..he saw Rymer and I jumping around dancing and singing the Go-Betweens' "Part Company" and basically dropped our mail and ran down the walk muttering and shaking his head.

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