One of Indigo Girls best songs I think. One thing these girls have a great sense of is that meaningful relationships necessarily have down times as well as the obvious exciting wonderful moments.
This is not just an observation song about watching relationships struggling around them, they also capture beautifully that it is the struggles that ultimately leads to the greatest discovering of what love actually is. So we make the best plans and have hopes when we venture out in the big wide world of love and friendship, but we soon discover that the 'fair weather' and plans based on 'picture perfect maps' just don't work out that way - that's not the reality of this thing we call life, we get blind-sided by all sorts of things. On top of that, the culture we live in doesn't always help:
To the whims of culture that swoop like vultures
Eating us away, eating us away
Eating us away to our extinction
Our culture presents this false image of 'perfection' in an individual and relational sense, expectations that can't possibly be met which pressures our sense of how things should be in our lives, ultimately eating at the very things that matter to us the most.
The closing lines are just great:
That these are ghosts and mirages, these thoughts of fairer weather
Though it's storming out I feel safe within the arms of love's discovery
The notion of forever 'fairer weather' is illusion, propped up by popular culture, and ultimately will lead us away from the very thing we seek. Rather, Love's discovering is found in riding the storms of life and relationship. It is this which ultimately gives our relationships and lives in general depth and significance.
One of Indigo Girls best songs I think. One thing these girls have a great sense of is that meaningful relationships necessarily have down times as well as the obvious exciting wonderful moments.
This is not just an observation song about watching relationships struggling around them, they also capture beautifully that it is the struggles that ultimately leads to the greatest discovering of what love actually is. So we make the best plans and have hopes when we venture out in the big wide world of love and friendship, but we soon discover that the 'fair weather' and plans based on 'picture perfect maps' just don't work out that way - that's not the reality of this thing we call life, we get blind-sided by all sorts of things. On top of that, the culture we live in doesn't always help:
To the whims of culture that swoop like vultures Eating us away, eating us away Eating us away to our extinction
Our culture presents this false image of 'perfection' in an individual and relational sense, expectations that can't possibly be met which pressures our sense of how things should be in our lives, ultimately eating at the very things that matter to us the most.
The closing lines are just great:
That these are ghosts and mirages, these thoughts of fairer weather Though it's storming out I feel safe within the arms of love's discovery
The notion of forever 'fairer weather' is illusion, propped up by popular culture, and ultimately will lead us away from the very thing we seek. Rather, Love's discovering is found in riding the storms of life and relationship. It is this which ultimately gives our relationships and lives in general depth and significance.
That's my take anyway.