All We Are, We Are

Sometimes the strongest message, for me, comes through song. I am so moved by music, lyrics especially. I love the poetry set to music. Very rarely do I listen to a song for its 'beat'--I want the story of the words.

This morning I was pleasantly surprised by the appearance of a new artist on my Pandora, Matt Nathanson. Pandora--she really gets me.

His song was "All We Are" and the lyrics are below:

I tasted, tasted love so sweet
And all of it was lost on me
Buttons sold like property
Sugar on my tongue

I kept falling over
I kept looking backward
I went broke believing
That the simple should be hard

All we are we are
All we are we are
And every day is a start of something beautiful

I wasted, wasted love for you
Traded out for something new
Well, it's hard to change the way you lose
If you think you never won

'Couse all we are we are
All we are we are
And every day is a start of something beautiful

And in the end the words won't matter
'Couse in the end nothing stays the same
And in the end dreams just scatter and fall like rain

'Couse all we are we are
All we are we are
And every day is a start of something beautiful, something real

All we are we are
All we are we are
And every day is a start of something beautiful, beautiful

The crux of the song is losing love and living right on through but what really resonated with me was:

All we are we are
And every day is a start of something beautiful, something real

Sometimes, you just need to hear certain things, to be reminded of what you already know.