Enough to Go By

Song on my mind... "Enough to Go By" by Vienna Teng

I've built a lot of castles
built a lot of blazing speed-of-light machines
but it doesn't matter, you know
they all crumble in the winds of change
so I turned back to breathing
I learned a few good reasons to cry
and I finally called home
praying you weren't out of range

carry the weight
I'll carry the weight of you, I swear
carry the weight
I'll carry the weight of you

Every now and then, I find myself returning to a certain album and playing my favorite tracks repeatedly. When I came back to Waking Hour, which I took out of circulation to prevent it from being completely worn out, I programmed the player to run through eight of the thirteen tracks. After a few cycles, I found myself repeating and listening to "Enough to Go By" more often than the others.

I don't know what it is about the song that had me gravitating towards it. Perhaps there was something in the words or melody that I needed to hear. Maybe it said something that I've been trying to express lately. I can't really say. All I know is that I was drawn to it.

I sometimes believe that we crave certain songs for the same reasons we crave certain foods. Our bodies know what they need and while they don’t always know the most efficient way to get it, they usually point us in the right direction. And if they can't do that, they at least point us to the nearest gallon of ice cream.

Sometimes we come back to the same song and we hear it differently. If we're lucky, we may even come to understand it more deeply. It's as Vienna said in another song...

this is the same place, love
no not the same place we've been before