Introduction

This is my music diary. A continuation of a blogging effort that began in 2001 and has taken on many forms. The title of this journal was inspired by the unreleased song of the same name by Patty Griffin:

Under These Clouds

She says I deserve much better than this
It's getting pretty plain to see
She tells her boss, "here's my butt,
Why don't you give it a kiss-
You got all you're going to get out of me"
Twenty years ago with time in a glass
Graduation day to pave the way
Nothing to show but a life moving too fast
And a fear of almost everything
And a fear of almost everything

But they say get down under these clouds
I was born down under these clouds
So I stand up and say it out loud
Someone's still alive under their shroud
And I don't want to die
Under these clouds

Her Momma tried real hard not to pass it along
And so her Momma did before that
Somewhere, some day,
Someone's singing that song
How everything good goes bad
And it really was a gradual thing
Passes easy as a cigarette
You wake up one day wrapped up in a ball of string
Feeling nothing good's happened to you yet
Feel like nothing good's happened to you yet

But they say get down under these clouds
I was born down under these clouds
So I stand up and say it out loud
Someone's still alive under their shroud
And I don't want to die
Under these clouds
Under these clouds

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