Such great heights

Day 27

--STATS--

Artist: Iron & wine

Genre: Folk rock

Album: Can be found on the Garden State soundtrack

Released: 2002 (as a cover of The Postal Services unreleased version) & 2004

I'm thinking it's a sign,

that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images,

& when we kiss their perfectly aligned.

& I have to speculate,

that God himself did make us into corresponding shapes

like puzzle pieces from the clay.

& true, it may seem like a stretch,

but it's thoughts like this that cross my troubled head

when your away when I am missing you to death.

When your out there on the road,

for several weeks of shows & when you scan the radio,

I hope this song will guide you home.

They will see us waving from such great heights,

come down now, they'll say.

But everything looks perfect from far away,

come down now, but we'll stay.

I tried my best to leave,

this song on your machine but that persist beeping

sounded thin upon listening.

& that frankly will not fly,

you will hear the shrillest highs & lowest lows with the wind,

doze down when this is guiding your mind.

They will see us waving from such great heights,

come down now, they'll say.

But everything looks perfect from far away,

come down now, but we'll stay.

Oh there you are, melancholy. I knew you'd make your appearance at some point. This song really does it for me. Summer of 2005 rocked my socks. Actually, all of 2005 was pretty great. ( It may seem like I'm pretty liberal when it comes for my love of years or summers, but really, it comes down to this. Top three best years yet of my 25 years of life are 1997, 2005 & 2006. Top three summers are 2005, 2007 & 2008. I'm glad we clarified that, now I don't have to keep repeating it.) In the year 2005, I was living with my best friend in a dinky little apartment in Salem, Oregon. I worked two jobs; Abby's Pizza & ABC Daycare. If I wasn't working, I spent my days hanging out with my roomy at her boyfriends house where we all seemed to congregate, or spending what little money I had on groceries at Winco or clothes at the local mall. My nights were well spent socializing with friends at either Shari's, Muchos Gracious, or some one elses apartment. Some nights we'd stay in gorging on ice cream & watching movies or even worse-- One tree hill.

My husband earlier in the year, had just opened a pizza store in Oregon City with his father. During some days off, I would make the 45 minute drive to go see him while he logged long hours. There really wasn't much to do in the pizza store if you weren't an employer. Read magazines, eat pizza, check out the Plaid Pantry & the Deli next door, use the computer, listen to music, stare at the wall...He didn't really have a large selection available for my enjoyment. He did seem to have a few soundtracks, one of them being the Garden State soundtrack. I hadn't seen the movie, but I did take quite a liking to the music. I played it at least a couple times every day I visited that year. It seemed to become the soundtrack for my year. I don't think their is a single song I do not like on that soundtrack.

Such Great Heights was a favorite. It seemed to represent my year perfectly. Absolutely chill. Fact: This version by Iron & Wine is actually a cover that came out before the original by Postal Service (another great band) in 2002. Postal Service's version is wonderful as well, in a different way. It's tempo is upbeat & more techno. Iron & Wine took the umpth out of the tune & slowed it down...way down. Acoustic ecstasy. Very dreamy. During the year, this song accompanied me not only while with my future husband, but at parties, camping trips & commutes from Portland to Dallas on visits back home after my fall move to the bridge city. This song can make me smile & cry all at the same time. Great music will do that to you. It was also used in a M&Ms commercial in 2005 as well. Do you remember? Youtube it.

Does this song make you smile? Cry? Feel all melancholy & reminiscent?