NPM Spring Cleaning Day 17, Floodplain

 

Recently I was feeling mournful, and berating myself inwardly for feeling mournful, and then this song came on. I was comforted. Some people just feel things a lot, I reminded myself, and you, self, are one of those people. I looked up the lyrics and kept them open on my desktop so I wouldn't forget, and now that I'm posting the song, I can close those tabs: the lyrics, the video, and Sara's words about the whole thing.

 

 

Here's something Sara Groves wrote about the inspiration for this song. 

Floodplain

by Sara Groves

Some hearts are built on a floodplain
Keeping one eye on the sky for rain
You work for the ground that gets washed away
When you live closer

 

Closer to the life and the ebb and flow
Closer to the edge of I don't know
Closer to that's the way it goes
Some hearts are built on a floodplain

 

And it's easy to sigh on a high bluff
Look down and ask when you've had enough
Will you have the sense to come on up
Or will you stay closer

 

Closer to the danger and the rolling deep 

Closer to the run and the losing streak
And what brings us to our knees
Some hearts live here

 

Oh the river it rushes to madness
And the water it spreads like sadness
And there's no high ground
And there's no high ground

 
Closer to the danger and the rolling deep
Closer to the run and the losing streak
And what brings us to our knees

 

Closer to the life and the ebb and flow
Closer to the edge of I don't know
Closer to Lord please send a boat
Some hearts are built here

 

  

 

For some reason, when I try to post the information about the Progressive Poem on today's post, the formatting gets weird. But you can find that on any of my other posts so far for National Poetry Month.