Upward Over The Mountian

Because I have been on an absolute emotional rollercoaster lately I have been listening to some kind of depressing music ha, but with that in mind, I came across a song I used to listen to all the time called “upwards over the mountain,” by Iron and Wine. In keeping with the motif of beautiful language in this blog, the lyrics come to mind from the song, “ So may the sunrise bring hope where it once was forgotten Sons are like birds, flying upward over the mountain,” “Mother don't worry, I killed the last snake that lived in the creek bed Mother don't worry, I've got some money I saved for the weekend Mother remember being so stern with that girl who was with me? Mother remember the blink of an eye when I breathed through your body? The imagery in these lyrics is just beautiful, but then I think about what they really mean to me. As I dig through my bank of memories all I can think about is this song playing in the car as my mother drove me to college for the first time. I can see her now, crying listening to this song in the car. We were leaving Buffalo and it was a perfect sunset and I was leaving home to a place I’d never been starting basically a new life. The lyrics hit me. They are all about a boy trying to prove that he’ll be ok to his mom. Words and beautiful language speaks to us. We store sentences in our internal dictionaries and are reminded of the phrases, or lyrics in this case, as a sentiment of the moment. Forever I’ll be connected to this song and see my moms face each time I hear the song and remember the words.