Music & Lyrics --- Hope there's Someone

I was introduced to this song one Halloween eve when my pal Chad Sloan had innocently invited me to go to an insanely big, scary haunted house. I tried to act like I was cool with it but as we got closer and closer I totally began to shut down and eventually almost had a panic attack in the parking lot of the place, so instead we went and got coffee and red velvet cake and then drove around Salt Lake City and listened to interesting music. (long sentence) I remember Chad saying, "What do you think of this?" and at first I was violently repulsed by this man's voice, but almost immediately I was drawn in. The sadness and loneliness in this tune is so palpable I feel like I can taste it. And then there is this freaky ethereal hammering uplifting bit near the end... as if you are being physically pulled into the sky. Amazing.



Artist: Antony and the Johnsons
Disc: I Am A Bird Now
Song: Hope There's Someone

Lyrics:

Hope there's someone
Who'll take care of me
When I die, will I go

Hope there's someone
Who'll set my heart free
Nice to hold when I'm tired

There's a ghost on the horizon
When I go to bed
How can I fall asleep at night
How will I rest my head

Oh I'm scared of the middle place
Between light and nowhere
I don't want to be the one
Left in there, left in there

There's a man on the horizon
Wish that I'd go to bed
If I fall to his feet tonight
Will allow rest my head

So here's hoping I will not drown
Or paralyze in light
And godsend I don't want to go
To the seal's watershed

Hope there's someone
Who'll take care of me
When I die, Will I go

Hope there's someone
Who'll set my heart free
Nice to hold when I'm tired

The line that stays with me... that haunts me, if you will, is "I am scared of the middle place between light and nowhere..." I don't think I could begin to explain what that means to me, really, but it is true for some part of me that is very deep inside.

Anyway, hope you take 4 minutes to listen to this amazing song. There is real healing in beautiful music, I think. And I think hearing this song was way better than any stinkin' haunted house.