Always been a big Crimson fan and Lark’s tongues (other than the title track from their first album) was my real introduction. I “got" these lyrics from the very beginning and they have always been an inspiration to me in so many circumstances.
For me it was an encouragement about having the courage to step out of the safety of one’s comfort zone. Whether it was leaving your hometown, quitting a job if you will, or starting out on any new quest. And finding myself in this new place there is a kind of nervousness, an ”expectancy” for what is to come. It is being and feeling alive.
"But lord I had to go” my trail was laid out so slow behind me” knowing that I would never accomplish anything at the present rate. Coming to understand that the only way, for me, was to exile myself, to put myself in an unfamiliar place.
My decision to go live in a mountain cabin or move to New York or Go to Peru or move to Santa Fe. In each case, I put myself in an unknown situation, in some cases risking life and limb. And I came to know and to see and to finally trust that each time I did that, I gained new understandings, “ and in time over the many years "a broader sympathy” has made me a better person, an empathetic person, a person who feels things deeply.
And now that though I sit here alone, I reflect back and see the course that I have taken and the course that could have been had I simply stayed in that place that "blew an air of normality”.
Always been a big Crimson fan and Lark’s tongues (other than the title track from their first album) was my real introduction. I “got" these lyrics from the very beginning and they have always been an inspiration to me in so many circumstances.
For me it was an encouragement about having the courage to step out of the safety of one’s comfort zone. Whether it was leaving your hometown, quitting a job if you will, or starting out on any new quest. And finding myself in this new place there is a kind of nervousness, an ”expectancy” for what is to come. It is being and feeling alive.
"But lord I had to go” my trail was laid out so slow behind me” knowing that I would never accomplish anything at the present rate. Coming to understand that the only way, for me, was to exile myself, to put myself in an unfamiliar place.
My decision to go live in a mountain cabin or move to New York or Go to Peru or move to Santa Fe. In each case, I put myself in an unknown situation, in some cases risking life and limb. And I came to know and to see and to finally trust that each time I did that, I gained new understandings, “ and in time over the many years "a broader sympathy” has made me a better person, an empathetic person, a person who feels things deeply.
And now that though I sit here alone, I reflect back and see the course that I have taken and the course that could have been had I simply stayed in that place that "blew an air of normality”.