Song of the Week: 6/2-6/8/25
Songs: Ohia: "Didn't It Rain"
No matter how dark the storm gets overhead
They say someone's watching from the calm at the edge
The thing about summer storms is the way they come up suddenly upon us. One minute you can be in grass as green as a Lorca poem with a sky so bright it hurts your eyes to look into it, and the next you can be mired in dark skies and rain so heavy that it feels that it will never end. You know better, though.
The thing about enduring is that you come to understand the ebb and flow of weather. You learn to weather the storms. The thing about weathering the storm is to have faith that the storm is going to end. The storm always ends.
Childe Roland to the dark tower came.
. . .
What, in ill thoughts again? Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither:
Ripeness is all: come on.
When you are in the storm you must remember, with faith, what it is like to stand at the calm on the edge. And when you stand at the calm on the edge, you must remember, with faith, what it was like to be in the storm.
And holding fast to both you might be fortified to endure.
There is no magic elixir to help us through the world. The world will break you, but if you are able to endure, to pick up the pieces, you will come to see that what was broken in you was a blessing. That is the mystery that no one can understand or explain. Lord knows we do not want the pain—even if we know it by heart.
Have you ever loved the world so much it hurts?
Listen to Molina here:
but if you do see that golden light
that it shines in its fiery eye
go on and catch it while you can
go on and catch it if you can
let it course through you
and let it burn through you
if it's the light of truth
He knows the way out of the storm. Listen.
Didn’t it rain.
Amen.
“Didn’t it Rain”
no matter how dark the storm gets overhead
they say someone's watching from the calm at the edge
what about us when we're down here in it
we gotta watch our own backs
but if you do see that golden light
that it shines in its fiery eye
go on and catch it while you can
go on and catch it if you can
let it course through you
and let it burn through you
if it's the light of truth
if they think you got it they're going to beat it out of you
with work and debt whatever all else there is
you got to watch your own back
try to see the light of goodness burning down the track
through the blinding rain through the swaying wires
if i see you struggle i will not turn my back
i've seen a good man and a bad man down the same path
i've seen the light of truth keeping out of it and told them to watch their own backs
if i see you struggle and givin all that you got
i see you work all night burning your light to the last of its dim watts
i'm gonna help you how i can, if you see me struggle all night
and give me a hand cause i'm in need i'll call you friend indeed
but i'm going to watch my own back
didn't it rain