Further the Sky - Gabe Dixon Band

Listen to the song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHZtbBawQSE

I wish I could give you the answers and paper and ink
I wish I could stop all the tears before they start falling
But we're feeling our way and we're always beginners
We're all cuts and no scars

The higher you reach -The further the sky
The more miles you walk -The longer the road
The steeper you climb -The harder you stand to fall
The stronger you get -The heavier the load
The bigger the dream -The rougher the ride
The truer the love -The deeper the ache
The blinder the faith -The tougher the go

Please, bear with me as I work through my Gabe Dixon Band obsession. This is another song of his. It, like And the World Turned, has a great melody but the lyrics really made me think. It's almost like God is trying to hit me upside the head because I was watching South Park the other night and Butters gives this soliloquy about how he likes loving life and that you can't appreciate life without experiencing the bad. And then there is this song...

I'm not sure it's exactly the same concept but correlated at least. I think the line I relate best to is the truer the love -the deeper the ache. I so often give my heart away too easily. In the words of Jane Austen, "Oh, you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general." It's always been like this too. For as long as I can remember, I've been the one loving and being left. It is a nasty position to be in, and one I haven't been in for a long time but the familar feelings are all too present these days.

But a great friend told me recently that I should be greatful for my ability to love so freely because for some, love and loving someone is something they can only dream about. So I suppose the loss of love puts the value of loving into perspective. Another friend told me that being the lover isn't necessarily a bad thing, even when the feelings are not reciprocated. That it's ok to love someone despite them not loving you back. Because love in any form is still the greatest of all emotions.

Moral of the story? Love on!