I'm listening to Don McLean's "Babylon."
By the waters
The waters
Of Babylon.
We lay down and wept
And wept
For thee Zion.
We remember thee
Remember thee
Remember thee, Zion.
I remember the first time I heard this song. I was probably 12 or 13 and I bought the Don McLean cd for the title track "American Pie." I listened to that track and that track alone for about a week. Later, I put the cd into my stereo as I was going to bed and I let it run through the rest of the tracks. As I was drifting off to sleep this track started...and it broke my heart. It was so hauntingly beautiful. It makes me ache as if I lost something I never had. Like remembering a grief that was never yours. May we all find the courage to lay down and weep.
