The Music of Pain

Music has a way of reaching inside me and pulling out emotions that I can't express. Heart-tugging chords echo the sounds of my life. Song lyrics express the words that I want to speak or write, but just can't compose. If you love music, if you are in any way moved by it, you may understand. The other night driving to the hospital I was moved to tears by two or three songs that seemed to say what I was feeling inside. When there are no words, for me there is a song. It was a song that inspired the name for this blog and I'll share the full lyrics here, though a small portion of them appear in the sidebar. The song is called "Beauty from Pain," by the Superchicks and has a beautifully haunting melody to deliver the lyrics.

Beauty From Pain- by Superchicks

The lights go out all around me
One last candle to keep out the night
And then the darkness surrounds me
I know I'm alive
But I feel like I died
And all that's left is to accept that it's over
My dreams ran like sand through the fists that I made
I try to keep warm but I just grow colder
I feel like I'm slipping away

After all this has passed
I still will remain
After I've cried my last
There'll be beauty from pain
Though it won't be today
Someday I'll hope again
And there'll be beauty from pain
You will bring beauty from my pain

My whole world is the pain inside me
The best I can do is just get through the day
When life before is only a memory
I wonder why God lets me walk through this place
And though I can't understand why this happened
I know that I will when I look back someday
And see how you've brought beauty from ashes
And made me as gold purified through these flames

After all this has passed
I still will remain
After I've cried my last
There'll be beauty from pain
Though it won't be today
Someday I'll hope again
And there'll be beauty from pain
You will bring beauty from my pain

Here I am at the end of me
Trying to hold to what I can't see
I forgot how to hope
This night's been so long
I cling to your promise
There will be a dawn

After all this has passed
I still will remain
After I've cried my last
There'll be beauty from pain
Though it won't be today
Someday I'll hope again
And there'll be beauty from pain
You will bring beauty from my pain