My list of must-see-countries-before-I-die continues to grow... This time, thanks to Sigur Rós. And to Pill, of course. And this link may explain why.
Nevertheless, Perth has its moments too, I must admit. Especially on crisp, grey mornings, after a night of incessant, torrential rain. And you wake up and watch the world -- washed, washed up, cleansed, fresh, new. Like the spring in your step. And the thought in your head.
... are what my mind is floundering in right now. For so long that I've lost the feeling, the memory of what it felt like before I lost my grip on clarity and coherence of thought.
Someone suggested to me recently that what I'm grappling with is a complete breakdown in my ability to define the "no-named". I'm tempted to agree entirely. If nothing else, being able to define this inability does take some of the weight off at least. What weight? Just... weight. I seem to be incapable of defining that either.
On bended knee is no way to be free Lifting up an empty cup, I ask silently All my destinations will accept the one that's me So I can breathe...
Circles they grow and they swallow people whole Half their lives they say goodnight to wives they'll never know A mind full of questions, and a teacher in my soul And so it goes...
Don't come closer or I'll have to go Holding me like gravity are places that pull If ever there was someone to keep me at home It would be you...
Everyone I come across, in cages they bought They think of me and my wandering, but I'm never what they thought I've got my indignation, but I'm pure in all my thoughts I'm alive...
Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere Underneath my being is a road that disappeared Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead Overhead...
Leave it to me as I find a way to be Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me Guaranteed