The Stairs
© Christy Hydeck - Historic Oak View County Park in Raleigh, NC
I interrupt my move to share with you a favorite song from my youth that I recently rediscovered. It has always moved me and I suspect that it will move some of you as well. There is great joy amidst the chaos of moving when one finds things that were once of importance to them. Books, memories, photos, music... and so on. Discovery rocks.
For that matter, so does this tune:
{Lyrics} The Stairs/INXS
In a room above a busy street
The echoes of a life
the fragments and the accidents
Separated by incidents
Listened to by the walls
We share the same spaces
Repeated in the corridors
Performing the same movements
Storey to storey
Building to building
Street to street
We pass each other on the stairs
Storey to storey
Building to building
Street to street
We pass each other on the stairs
Listened to by the walls
We share the same spaces
Repeated in the corridors
Performing the same movements
The nature of your tragedy
Is chained around your neck
Do you lead or are you led
Are U sure that you don't care
There are reasons here to give your life
And follow in your way
The passion lives to keep your faith
Though all are different all are great
Climbing as we fall
We dare to hold on to our fate
And steal away our destiny
To catch ourselves with quiet grace
Listened to by the walls
We share the same spaces
Repeated in the corridors
Performing the same movements
- Download The Stairs [Live] here.
- Or the The Stairs (LP Version) there.
- Always, Chrysti
