Each Life Has Its Place ...

Listened to "Virginia Woolf" by the Indigo Girls yesterday before our IVF transfer and was amazed, as I am every time, at how this song speaks to me and touches my heart. It's one of those I could listen to all day and not get tired of.

It's long, so I'll condense it a bit.

Lyrics:

some will strut and some will fret
see this an hour on the stage
others will not but they'll sweat
in their hopelessness and their rage
we're all the same the men of anger
and the women of the page

they published your diary
and that's how i got to know you
the key to the room of your own and a mind without end
and here's a young girl
on a kind of a telephone line through time
and the voice at the other end comes like a long lost friend

Chorus:
so i know i'm all right
life will come and life will go
still i feel it's all right
cause i just got a letter to my soul
and when my whole life is on the tip of my tongue
empty pages for the no longer young
the apathy of time laughs in my face
you say "each life has its place"

(another verse here and chorus)

the place where you hold me
dark in a pocket of truth
the moon had swallowed the sun and the light of the earth
and so it was for you
when the river eclipsed your life
and sent your soul like a message in a bottle to me
and it was my rebirth

so we know we're all right
though life will come and life will go
still you'll feel it's all right
someone'll will get a letter to your soul
then you know you're all right

(various beautiful harmonious lines here)

and it's all right...