I am off to Seattle this weekend. It should be a nice trip; I haven’t been there in a long time, and never while unfettered. While there I of course want to visit Pike Place Market, and I am determined to find the really interesting outdoor art museum nestled along the Sound that I saw on some random website.

Going to Seattle makes me think of Pearl Jam (who are awesome!). Which makes me think of Eddie Vedder’s version of Hard Sun. It is amazing; probably my favorite song out there right now. I Googled the song and found out that the song was first put out by Indio, on the album Big Harvest in 1989. Who knew? (I must admit, I was slightly disappointed to find out that this was not an Eddie Vedder original; but his version is marvelous!) My grunge-days crush on Eddie Vedder is back again.

Aside from the song’s pedigree, I looked at the lyrics, as Vedder’s voice is a bit hard to understand (beautiful, but still a bit hard to decipher). Here are a few:

when I walk beside her
I am the better man
when I look to leave her
I always stagger back again
once I built an ivory tower
so I could worship from above
and when I climbed down to be set free
she took me in again

Beautiful!

And more:

when she comes to greet me
she is mercy at my feet
when I see her pin her charm
she just throws it back again
once I sought an early grave
to find a better land
she just smiled and laughed at me
and took her blues back again

In the context of a relationship, I strive to be this woman. She is loving, yet strong, she doesn’t waiver in her love, yet she isn’t afraid to stand up to him even when in conflict. And, she is his Sun, so she is obviously her own, shining from within to light her own life.

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