toss me a cigarette

"i'm lost, i said, though i knew she was sleeping,
i'm empty and aching,
and i dont know why."

this is one of those songs that i remember vividly from my childhood, and yet, despite that memories it brings up i have carried it with me, and re-defined it over and again. the sign of an amazing song, at least to me, is a song that transcends time and place, or even what the songwriter meant it to be. a song that you can turn on at different points of your life and discover something new in it. today it feels heavy, and sad, and full of a longing i have deep inside. and it calls to an itch to not be inside walls, a call of the road, of the ocean and of movement. today this song is making me cry.

america ~ simon and garfunkel

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