I am covered in skin No one gets to come in Pull me out from inside I am folded, and unfolded, and unfolding

Artist- Counting Crows
Song of the day- Colorblind

When I was in undergrad I took a poetry class where our final was to present and deconstruct an author and one of their poems. Though I eventually picked Dorothy Parker and could go in to great detail about how she shaped my writing, I had put together an almost finished presentation on this band but pulled it at the last minute for fear of not being taken seriously. I'm obsessed with the magic behind how words can be put together in such a lyrical way to become a beautiful piece of art, a layered perhaps totally untrue tale that reveals the purest truths we maybe wouldn't see otherwise. And I hated poetry growing up and thought it was difficult with weird wording and unnecessary rhyming on purpose to make me feel stupid. But really I learned an instrument just so I could make all the bad poetry I wrote not sound as stupid when there was a guitar behind it. And most of the time it works. And I think with artists like Counting Crows if you just pulled the instruments away, what's left is some amazing poetry. This song describes such a vulnerable moment in people's lives. How so much of life is spent with these walls we put between us and everyone else. It's walls that grow with age of living in a world where we get hurt by people good and bad, on purpose or by accident and so we build and build cuz we think we're protecting ourselves...but this song is about that beautiful moment when we are ready to break that wall, to let that person inside. Those are the most genuine moments in life and they can happen at the oddest, most unexpected, sometimes scary sometimes filled with laughter but always cherished. I hope you have one of those moments today.



I am color...blind
Coffee black and egg white
Pull me out from inside
I am ready
I am ready
I am ready
I am
taffy stuck, tongue tied
Stuttered shook and uptight
Pull me out from inside
I am ready
I am ready
I am ready
I am...fine
I am covered in skin
No one gets to come in
Pull me out from inside
I am folded, and unfolded, and unfolding
I am
colorblind
Coffee black and egg white
Pull me out from inside
I am ready
I am ready
I am ready
I am...fine
I am.... fine
I am fine