Dog And Butterfly

This has been one of my favorite songs since it first came out… the melody and mysterious lyrics just send me into a trance, and I wish it would go on forever. At first, I could not put any meaning to it, because the sentences seemed to be just random and made no sense. But after listening hundreds of times to it, gradually there came a message, at least to me. I think the song is about our place in life’s journey. It’s about thinking we have certain needs, and how we chase dreams, only to find out that the world changes around us, we grow older, and the needs we seek to fulfill for ourselves also change. Thus, we never really succeed in getting everything we think we need, yet the desire and attempt to reach total satisfaction with our lives is what keeps us going. We have to try. It says we’re balanced together ocean upon the sky. The world is in equilibrium, and we are riding on the tide, always on a changing path, but a path on which we remain, just so we can see where it goes, or how it ends. And we don’t want to go back in time, only forward… we always want to see what is around the next curve. And even if we never see what’s at the end of this journey, we can find happiness in just taking the ride.