{"id":759,"date":"2006-11-29T13:47:45","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T18:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=759"},"modified":"2020-01-03T14:41:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T19:41:41","slug":"were-all-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/were-all-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re all the same . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

some will a strut and some will fret
\nsee this an hour on this stage
\nothers will not but they’ll sweat
\nin their hopelessness in their rage
\nwe’re all the same
\nthe men of anger
\nand the women of the page<\/p>\n

they published your diary
\nand that’s how i got to know you
\nkey to the room of your own and a mind without end
\nand here’s a young girl
\non a kind of a telephone line through time
\nthe voice at the other end comes like a long lost friend<\/p>\n

so i know i’m alright
\nmy life will come my life will go
\nstill i feel it’s alright
\ni just got a letter to my soul
\nwhen my whole life is on the tip of my tongue
\nempty pages for the no longer young
\nthe apathy of time laughs in my face
\nyou say
\neach life has its place<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From Virginia Woolf<\/em>, by the Indigo Girls (Rites of Passage album<\/a>).<\/p>\n

This version of the lyrics is from the rites of passage<\/em> CD liner notes, only with line breaks.<\/p>\n

the place where you hold me
\nis dark in a pocket of truth
\nthe moon has swallowed the sun and the light of the earth
\nand so it was for you
\nwhen the river eclipsed your life
\nbut sent your soul like a message in a bottle to me
\nand it was my rebirth<\/p>\n

so we know we’re alright
\nlife will come and life will go
\nstill we know it’s alright
\nsomeone’ll get a message to your soul<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The song stunned me when I first heard it because it so perfectly captured how I felt when I discovered Woolf’s diaries<\/a>. (Her novels otoh — I should probably reread them now. I read them in college because one was supposed to, and didn’t really warm to them. Perhaps I was too young.)<\/p>\n

I wonder if she came to realize, at the end, that her gifts could not substitute for a belief in deservedness . . . nor earn it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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