Citizen Wausau

The Good That Won’t Come Out

by Grinning Soul on September 17th, 2008

Artist: Rilo Kiley
Song: The Good That Won’t Come

Let’s get together and talk about the modern age.
All of our friends were gathered there with their pets
just talking shit about how we’re all so upset about the disappearing ground.
As we watch it melt….

It’s all of the good that won’t come out of us
and how eventually our hands will just turn to dust,
if we keep shaking them.
Standing here on this frozen lake.

I do this thing where I think I’m real sick
but I won’t go to the doctor to find out about it
Cause they make you stay real still in a real small space
As they chart up your insides and put them on display.
They’d see all of it, all of me, all of it.

All the good that won’t come out of me
and all the stupid lies I hide behind.
It’s such a big mistake
lying here in your warm embrace.

Oh, you’re almost home.
I’ve been waiting for you to come in.
Dancing around in your old suits going crazy in your room again.
I think I’ll go out an embarrass myself by getting drunk and falling down in
the street.
You say I choose sadness
that it never once has chosen me.
Maybe you’re right…

Let’s talk about all of our friends who lost the war
And all of the novels that had yet to be written about them.

It’s all the good that won’t come out of them
and all the stupid lies they hide behind.
It’s such a big mistake
Standing here on this frozen lake.

It’s all of the good that won’t come out of me
And how eventually my mouth will just turn to dust
If I don’t tell you quick.
Standing here on this frozen lake.

~End~
I didn’t quite know how to begin blogging here at Citizen Wausau. After being pestered by Dino and after meeting Cheryl and Billie (who are, by the way, so fun, interesting and sweet) at the Fillmore, I thought there must be some great people here and maybe I should get involved. I recently realized that I don’t know too many people anymore, or at least people with whom I share some common ground. After about 4 years of unintentional self-isolation, or more appropriately, trying to build a life I always pictured for myself and not being successful, it is time to try again at the life I do know.

I was informed over a year ago by one of my dearest friends David that I would be approaching some major changes in my life. He has been studying astrology for over 10 years, so as any good friend would do, he informed me of my looming “Saturn Return.” This magical time in one’s life around 28-32 where Saturn has arrives in the same sign that it was in when you were born. Apparently Saturn represents monumental change in one’s life and if one is not prepared for their “Saturn Return,” it can be a very tumultuous and confusing time.

I was never prepared.

If I believe in it at all or not makes little difference.

I do, occasionally, have things to say. This forum will certainly be inspiring and will force me to be a more articulate as well as conscientious. This is why I began my first Citizen Wausau blog entry with the wonderful little Rilo Kiley ditty; I will let the lyrics do the talking just a little before “my mouth will just turn to dust.”