Thursday, August 19, 2010

Find a spot for us to spark.



Ahhh the sweet summers of being eighteen to twenty one years old on Block Island, Rhode Island. 


 I was fortunate to spend three months each year (for four consecutive years) working on a seven mile long island resembling an absolute New England dream; green coastline, lighthouses, white colonial buildings, saltwater ponds, hiking trails that stretched to cliffs and breathtaking beaches so clean it's as though they were never touched by the hundreds of daytime tourists or nightly parties with bonfires that raged 'til sunrise.  May through September were magic.  And you all know by now that I heart magic. :)


One of my closest friends Tracy introduced me to this song one evening as we were sitting around our room, small and cozy underneath the local island pharmacy; burning incense and filling our heads with the day's latest island stories- stories that I now know will live on forever.  This song "A long walk" is sultry, stimulating, and poetic. ME like poetic?  Nooooooo.  Not Victoria. ;p  Do yourself a favor- turn this one up and read the lyrics.  Yes.  Become a lyric, poetic person. Why?  Because words are life and the images that come through this particular song are bliss.  Put yourself in it, love it, and live it. ;) There's nothing like amazing conversation and verbal elation.  The mind is powerful and the meeting of two minds that connect is basically an explosion of space and time.... at least for me.



"You're here, I'm pleased
I really dig your company
Your style, your smile, your peace mentality
Lord, have mercy on me
I was blind, now I can see
What a king's supposed to be
Baby I feel free, come on and go with me

Let's take a long walk around the park after dark
Find a spot for us to spark
Conversation, verbal elation, stimulation
Share our situations, temptations, education, relaxations
Elevations, maybe we can talk about Surah 31:18

Your background it ain't squeaky clean shit
Sometimes we all got to swim upstream
You ain't no saint, we all are sinners
But you put your good foot down and make your soul a winner
I respect that, man you're so phat
And you're all that, plus supreme
Then you're humble man I'm numb
Yo with feeling, I can feel everything that you bring

Let's take a long walk around the park after dark
Find a spot for us to spark
Conversation, verbal elation, stimulation
Share our situations, temptations, education, relaxations
Elevations, maybe we can talk about Revelation 3:17

Or maybe we can see a movie
Or maybe we can see a play on Saturday (Saturday)
Or maybe we can roll a tree and feel the breeze and listen to a symphony
Or maybe chill and just be, or maybe
Maybe we can take a cruise and listen to the Roots or maybe eat some passion fruit
Or maybe cry to the blues
Or maybe we could just be silent
Come on, Come on

Let's take a long walk around the park after dark
Find a spot for us to spark
Conversation, verbal elation, stimulation
Share our situations, temptations, education, relaxations
Elevations, maybe we can talk about Psalms in entirety

Or maybe we can see a movie
Or maybe we can see a play on Saturday (Saturday)
Or maybe we can roll a tree and feel the breeze and listen to a symphony
Or maybe chill and just be, or maybe
Maybe we can take a cruise and listen to the Roots or maybe eat some passion fruit
Or maybe cry to the blues
Or maybe we could just be silent
Come on, Come on

Let's take a long walk around the park after dark
Find a spot for us to spark
Conversation, verbal elation, stimulation
Share our situations, temptations, education, relaxations
Elevations, maybe baby, maybe we can save the nation
Come on, Come on"

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