Sara Evans has real got you
hooked bigtime, - to her voice, her words and her music, - when she soulfully
brings out the truths eternal within
her pretty, powerful and profound album, ‘Born to Fly’, [which incidentally
happens to be her best-selling album too!]
This amazing country
music singer is such energy and such joy to listen to!
Do watch the song on
YouTube here! And please don’t forget to focus huge on the last three lines of
this lovely number, while you do!
And well, er… um… as is
usual, please make yourself a cuppa coffee, – double strong – and get yourself
reclined regally on your most comfortable sette! And now… you may press the
play button rightaway on Sara Evans’s Born to Fly!
Giving y’all the
lyrics of this pretty inspirational number – [chances are, you might get some
Pink Martini connect at places, but shoo it away, quite gently at that, folks!
This one’s much more impactful I say! ;-)
Sara Evans for y’all -
I've been tellin' my
dreams to the scarecrow
About the places that
I'd like to see
I say 'friend, do you
think I'll ever get there?'
Aww, but he just
stands there smilin' back at me
So I confess my sins
to the preacher
About the love I'd
been prayin' to find
Is there a brown-eyed
boy in my future, yeah
He says 'girl, you got
nothin' but time.'
how do you wait for heaven
And who has that much time
And how do you keep your feet on the ground
When you know
That you were born, (you were born, yeah), you were born to
fly
My daddy he is
grounded like the oak tree
My momma she is as
steady as the sun
Oh, you know I love my
folks, but I keep starin' down the road,
Just lookin' for my
one chance to run
Hey, 'cause I will
soar away like the blackbird
I will blow in the
wind like a seed
I will plant my heart
in the garden of my dreams
And I will grow up
where I want, wild and free
how do you wait for heaven
And who has that much time
And how do you keep your feet on the ground
When you know
That you were born, (you were born, yeah), you were born to
fly!
‘The refrain to this
song,
And how do you keep your feet on the ground / When you know
/ That you were born, (you were born, yeah), you were born to fly’
Well, that's something that I
found so lovelyyy!
‘How do you keep your
feet on the ground’ – is highly suggestive of the pulls, the pleasures and the
pressures, mostly of our own entanglement, that we voluntarily and willingly
yield ourselves to, that make us keep our feet on the ground, which then, scuttles
bigtime our chances of flying! Leave alone flying high and lofty!
These burdens wind
themselves around us, sturdy and strong, with such a thickety train, in such a complicated weave
and in such a confused knot, that it’s hard, quite hard to come out of
its snares and traps that easily!
And these wary traps
act a great burden on our sweet little wings, she says!
My all-time favourite
poem from Ezekiel, Nissim Ezekiel titled, ‘Enterprise’, deserves citation here!
It started as a pilgrimage,
Exalting minds and making all
The burdens light.
It’s a beautifully
innate human response to a voyage or a journey, ain’t it!?
When the very thought
of a journey or an excursion or a pilgrimage is announced, how excited we
become! The kid in us comes alive, dances full throttle, and paints the whole
little town red! ;-)
That’s one reason why Ezekiel says that, even the very thought of the journey was able to make their
burdens light! Indeed, for a journey to be highly successful, the burdens
should be light-o-light, ain’t it?
And well, metaphorically
too, the poem has implications galore for us all!
It makes a lot of
sense if we could introspect a bit, take a minute off, to look upon ourselves
as travellers!
Travellers of the
types that Atwood or Patrick White would suggest, travellers who are so mindful
of what’s ahead of them, that they risk their everything to somehow make it
successful on their journey!
Hamlet’s soliloquy
comes to mind, where he compares humans to travellers, and death to an
‘undiscovered country’ from which the traveler can never return!
‘The undiscover’d
country from
whose bourn / No
traveller returns’
[Act III, Scene I]
Well, this scene also
has one of the most immortal quotes of Shakespeare too!
‘To be, or not to be:
that is the question’.
Coming back, Sara
Evans has got an amazing thought for us all, when she says,
how do you keep your
feet on the ground / When you know / That you were born, (you were born, yeah),
you were born to fly!’
Sara Evans means to suggest, that, as a traveller, we've got two options before us! Either to travel light, so that we can fly, or be
burdened tight, only to look grudgingly, longingly, and enviously at the free birds
who fly! ;-)
To be continued…
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