30-Day Song Challenge, day 15: a song that describes me
I’m afraid to think about this one, honestly. I know for a fact that I’m complex and contradictory as hell, and it would be asking a lot to come up with a thousand songs that manage to describe me. Further, I know from experience that others see me in ways I often can’t begin to recognize, which only adds to the confusion.
So instead, let me offer a song that describes me by speaking to my values, to a dominant component of my self-image and to what I treasure in those around me – which may ultimately be the best way of describing a person, when you think about it.
Here’s Rob Dickinson doing “Intelligent People” live:
And here’s the CD version:
lullaby pit 
“Cat’s in the Cradle,” Harry Chapin. I love the song, but I almost never listen to it because it cuts far, far too close to the bone for me. It just popped up on my Pandora and I hit skip. Add into the mix my grandfathers and it’s just painful.
Wait a minute. Since you picked mine for me (and got it too damn close for comfort), maybe I should pick a couple for you…
No, that doesn’t scare the hell out of me at all.