What I’m Listening To
Nov 19th, 2005 at 12:13 pm by Susie
I even opened for Erin McKeown a few years ago, but I never really listened to her until recently, when someone turned me on to “Grand.” (Now I know what everyone was raving about.) “A Better Wife” is one of my favorites:
I’m just something else he tried
A catalogue of interests
In a catalogue of lives
I hid myself from him
I wouldn’t say it was a lie
But hiding worked its way
Into the way we lived our lives
It was clear that he was troubled
He had trouble with his bride
But I could never tell
The fault was his own mind
So I drew myself away
I wouldn’t say I left behind
The man who would never know
The man he was inside
In a moment, he was gone
I could see that he had died
By the quickening of blood
And the fluttering of eyes
So I held him to my breast
Like all the better wives
Who furnish men with love
And never leave their sides
I’m just something else he tried
The salt that’s left behind
After tears have dried
And I suppose that I’ll go on
After all, it was my life
And all that I supposed I held
has come to be untied.
somebody say amen.