In "Long Ride Home" Patty Griffin sings the story of someone's funeral from the perspective of their spouse. She marries mundane, earthy images (describing the clean, quiet limousine she's riding in) to the deepest of human longings ("Forty years go by with someone laying in your bed. Forty years of things you say you wish you'd never said. How hard would it have been to say some kinder words instead?").
Robert Frost does the same thing in "Home Burial" where he wrote a conversation between two parents who have just buried their child. He describes the details of digging and dirt left on boots, now brought inside the house. On any other day digging and dirt wouldn't have significance. But in the context of heartache and longing, our earthiness, our humanity, become sacred, and dirt dragged in from the little grave becomes horrifying.
The songs on our new album, Come Undone, carry some of the literary lessons learned from these heroes of mine. One song is even entitled "Home Burial" after the afore mentioned Frost poem and employs the wedding of sacred to mundane in such lines as "In the morning I've gotta go to work. As we await a different fate I dream another birth...We hang our hopes and our coats on rusted nails that hold our house together." (Well, it flows better in the context of the song, but you get the point.)
Another song, the one that gets asked for during the show, and asked about afterwards, is "Every Single Day." We're posting it today as we look forward to our mid-April CD release. I hope you'll enjoy it, and if so, I hope that you'll tell others about it. In this Indie world of music, you are the ones who bring success to the albums by spreading the word (and we thank you!).
So enjoy "Every Single Day," a song that I wrote one night through tears, and didn't intend to share, partly because it makes me cry on stage and partly because it exposes us even more than usual. But in this case, as I am impacted by our 10 year anniversary, in both music and marriage, and now that we're home enjoying our newborn twins and it's Valentine's week and all, I feel that it's a very appropriate time.
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