Two blogposts (here and here) sparked off this song that’s playing in my head. Performed by the amazing Julia Fordham, whose silky voice and languid delivery underscores the song's wrenching depiction of quiet heartbreak and poignant bravery.
It’s what I imagine is playing in the part of one’s heart that has been tenderly shielded deep behind that magical façade called "a brave front".
Towerblock
You make me feel vulnerable and totally exposed
You make me feel like a teenager dressed in a woman's clothes
And I ask you, and I ask you, where do we go from here?
All my life, I've been the one who's big and strong for everyone
Then you come along, a towerblock for me to lean on.
And I ask you, where do we go from here?
You've got me so I'm curling like a kitten in your hand
You've got me so I'm clawing like a tiger caged and bound
And I ask you, and I ask you, where do we go from here?
All my life, I've been the one who's big and strong for everyone
And now, and now you've let me down,
will it always be
That I'm the only towerblock for me?
4 comments:
baby, it will always be that "I'm (you're) the only towerblock for me (you)."
anyone/thing else will, at best, be a support beam.
love the lyrics, btw.
snowdrop - for soooo long i was confoosed with what you're trying to say...bling! i get it now. heh.
i think you're right. poor you.
I agree - I am the only towerblock for me, sometimes that's the only way it has to be but other times, I just wish it wasn't so. My shoulders are pretty broad already with having only my own shoulders to lean on ;)
Amelia - that's why your post made me think of this song. :) Towerblock and Angel (by Sarah Mclachlan) are really good songs to play when having a pity party where you're the only guest.
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