Lyrics for the Soul

I love Tracy Chapman's lyrics to The Promise. I always google it once in a while and reread the words. I hope one day I meet the person that makes me feel this way.

Some of the lines that I like more than others are:

Although I’ve traveled far
I always hold a place for you in my heart

and

It would feel so good to be
In your arms
Where all my journeys end

I don't know why...but I love the imagery of traveling solo, falling in love, traveling together.

Everytime I think of this song, Joni Mitchell's All I Want also fades in and out of my head. Kind of like I'm doing my own remix of the two songs. I feel like I have my own podcast in my head sometimes.

I like how Joni's song begins...

I am on a lonely road and I am traveling
Traveling, traveling, traveling
Looking for something, what can it be

Which brings me to my new love song of the season...Tori Amos' You Belong To Me.

I like how this song begins...

See the pyramids along the nile
Watch the sunrise on a tropic isle
Just remember, darling, all the while
You belong to me

For some reason this song feels like its set in Shanghai in the 1930's. Vintage Shanghai. I love that era. A Chinese woman...standing at the train station, her hair is short and wavy...like those women in Charlie Chaplin films...and her lover is going on a trip around the world. He has one of those old, but classic, suitcases. He's in a brown wool suit...westernized...and she's not crying that he's going to be gone...because she's a modern woman...and she has a lot going on with high society. She waves...and she has a tight, conservative but sweet smile. He waves, turns around, puts his hat back on and gets on the train.

Anyways...the lyrics...I also like this part:

Fly the ocean in a silver plane
See the jungle when it's wet with rain
Just remember 'til you're home again
You belong to me

I can almost smell and feel the jungle.

Ahh...that should be my next adventure...an African safari.

I want to go running with the zebras.