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"This whole life I remember has led back unto itself
and never turned me into someone else."
-- Dar Williams, "The Hudson."
Don't feel like talking about what it means to me, except to say I first heard it when some things were changing in my life and I was terrified by the prospect of both my future and my identity shifting around me. The song is about life and death as a cycle, the change of seasons, New York City (and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
green_maia , if you catch this, it therefore makes me think of you, a bit). The whole song resonates with me, and that line most of all.
If you look it up on a commercial lyrics site, there are some obvious mistakes -- Dar is a first-class lyricist; she writes metaphor, but not nonsense. Therefore, ( full lyrics are under the cut. )
"This whole life I remember has led back unto itself
and never turned me into someone else."
-- Dar Williams, "The Hudson."
Don't feel like talking about what it means to me, except to say I first heard it when some things were changing in my life and I was terrified by the prospect of both my future and my identity shifting around me. The song is about life and death as a cycle, the change of seasons, New York City (and
green_maia , if you catch this, it therefore makes me think of you, a bit). The whole song resonates with me, and that line most of all.If you look it up on a commercial lyrics site, there are some obvious mistakes -- Dar is a first-class lyricist; she writes metaphor, but not nonsense. Therefore, ( full lyrics are under the cut. )
