That One Song...

This has happened a few times before, and it happened to me again last night. I was listening to various songs in my music library, and a track came on that I hadn't heard for a little while...and completly managed to sum up the exact way I'm feeling right now. In that four and a half minutes the song in question took on a completly new meaning for me - I'd liked the song anyway, but now it seemed to have a special significence. Like I say, it's happened several times before, sadly I can't think of the exact examples off the top of my head right now, but suffice to say it's a slightly odd moment when it dawns on you that a piece of music has just wrapped up everything you're feeling at a current time, something which would normally be so difficult for even you to describe fully.

The song in question this time is 'Suture Up Your Future' by Queens of the Stone Age, one of my favourite bands. They can rock and roll with the best of them, but they are also masters of the quiet, atmospheric songs, and this is one of the latter - a gorgeous song, and when I realised that the lyrics had taken on a new meaning for me, it just made the song even more special in my eyes. Here they are:

I'm gonna suture up my future,
I ain't jaded, I just hate it.
See, I been down too long,
It's kinda hard to explain.
Done and buried all I carried.

All my evils is through a needle,
As it pull through the eye,
What was and what will are now gone.

Don't sweat it,
Thread it, to forget it.
To feel like you've already gone on,
To the rest of,
The rest of the life that you've got.
Take a picture and bury it all away,
Bury it all,
Away.

Tried to fake it, I just can't take it.
I don't care if it hurts,
Just so long as it's real.
I won't waste it, turned to face it,
I'd sharpened a knife, then used it,
Until bone made it dull.
Tried explaining, done explaining,
I got caught in the plaid,
All of this talking at once.
I've been giving my love away,
To the things that tear it apart,
I'm gonna suture up my future.

Thread it, to forget it,
To feel like you've already gone on,
To the rest of,
The rest of the life that you've got,
Tie the loose ends and bury it all away,
It's like this, just like this