Another Pretty Song

I woke up at 4:30 am and couldn't really get back to sleep, so I got up at 5:15 and went over to the new house to weed and clean up the boulvard in front of the house. I listened to a mix tape on which I heard the song "Coming Up Close" by Til Tuesday. I suppose there is an undercurrent of missing my family of origin or just memories in my mood today, because this song really got to me. It can tug at the heartstrings anytime, really.

One night in Iowa, he and I in a borrowed car

went driving in the summer, promises in every star

Out in the distance I could hear some people laughing

I felt my heart beat back a weekend's worth of sadness

There was a farmhouse that had long since been deserted

we stopped and carved our hearts into the wooden surface

we thought just for an instant we could see the future

we thought for once we knew what really was important

Coming up close

everything sounds like welcome home

Come home

and oh, by the way

don't you know that I could make

a dream that's barely half-awake come true?

I wanted to say -but anything I could have said

I felt somehow that you already knew

We got back in the car and listened to a Dylan tape

we drove around the fields until it started getting late

and I went back to my hotel room on the highway

and he just got back in his car and drove away

Coming up close

everything sounds like welcome home

Come home

and oh, by the way

don't you know that I could make

a dream that's barely half-awake come true?

I wanted to say -but anything I could have said

I felt somehow that you already knew

Coming up close

everything sounds like welcome home

Come on home

I also went and worked out at Curves from about 6:20-6:45 am--just once around and stretching because those weeds were a work out in themselves. It was a good start to a busy day. A day that includes a play group date and lunch at our friends' house in Springdale and HOPEFULLY will involve countertops and concrete, too [no, the countertops did NOT come in yesterday, so you can bet CMC is getting a fat Better Business Bureau report, even if he grovels--it has taken almost TEN WEEKS, dude!]. So I am outta here. Leave me a comment cuz I been so missing yall!