A Great Lyric

Good songwriters amaze me. I don't know how hard or easy it is for them. I suppose the muse may arrive and sweep them through the writing of great songs. My suspicions (as a writer of sermons) is that they labor over it.


I'm not a huge fan of Counting Crows, though I like them. I've only recently come across their song "Hard Candy." The song is good. It's a typical boy-angst-girl song and mostly it doesn't connect with me. However, there is a small chorus in this song that is so beautifully written that I wanted to blog it.

When you sleep
You find your mother in the night
But she stays just out of sight
So there isn't any sweetness in the dreaming
And when you wake the morning covers you with light And it makes you feel alright

Wonderfully done, Adam Duritz. In the space of a few lines you captured the experience.