moment of sheer excitement

BREAKING NEWS:  this just in.  i just learned that bon iver (in my top three of people whose voices i would marry) did a cover of feist's "the park"--a song that is really important to me...kind of one of those scripts of my life.  plus i've been singing it to myself constantly while walking around london, waiting for the right opportunity to showcase it on the blog.  the joining of bon iver with this song (or really any song) always adds up to right opportunity.  (and yes, there are about seven songs i sing constantly while walking around london.  don't ask the logistics of that.)

here are the lyrics.  because knowing the lyrics makes everything better.  i like them because it's incredibly honest, and incredibly hopeful.  hopeful because it acknowledges through its lack that something better exists.

Why would you come back through the park?

You thought that you saw him but no you did not

It's not him who'd come across

The sea to surprise you

Not him who would know

Where in London to find you

With sadness so real that it populates

The city and leaves you homeless again

Steam from the cup and snow on the path

The seasons have changed from present to past

The past

The past

Turns whole to half

The past

Why would you come back through the park?

You thought that you saw him but no you did not

Who can be sure of anything through

The distance that keeps you

From knowing the truth

Why would you think your boy could become

The man who could make you sure he was the one?

The one

My one

My one

and here is the song.  because bon iver...well, it's bon iver, people.  what more needs to be said.