Different skins

I spent yesterday listening to a single cd over and over and over again.

On Saturday I bought Bernard Fanning's Tea & Sympathy. He is the lead singer of a high profile Australian band, Powderfinger, but for some reason I've never really become immersed in their music. This CD, however, is a different matter. Something about it reminds me a lot of another CD I loved as a young person, Richard Pleasance's Galleon. I think it's the intimacy, something pared back and raw about it.

I don't know the story behind this CD, but if I was to have a guess, the story the lyrics tell me, is that he was in a relationship and he fell in love with someone else. Of course, I might be very wrong, but the words remind me so much of the conversations I had with the husband that was when we were trying to figure out what we were to do with our futures, after he had fallen in love with another.

Oh god, you all groan, not that again.

Don't panic. I'm just saying that I've developed a more... I suppose I'm just more empathetic to the pain of the person caught in that position, knowing someone with be hurt regardless of the outcome and they have to live with knowing it was at their hands. Of course, not everyone would feel that responsibility, but for those that do, I've seen a little of the conflict and pain. I wouldn't wish it on anyone. And I'm lucky that I know that I've gained more than I've lost. I am so much stronger and happier having lived through it.

Of course, if husband that was had made a bestseller CD out of our situation, you can bet your arse I'd be hitting him for half the royalties. *hehe*

And for another CD recommendation, Wolfmother. It ROCKS!