24 - I'm a Rattlesnake, Babe

In honor of the New Moon tonight, and I mean the actual New Moon, not that kool-aid dipping book.  This song is another one of the many I gleaned from Chuck.  Once again, after listening to the song, and seeing the scene/character they are attaching it too...it fits brilliantly.

It was used in Season 2's episode: Chuck vs. the DeLorean.  Yes, it's what you think it is.  At first listen I was confused by the lyrics.  Then I really paid attention and found them to be quite good and, maybe not profound, but not superficial.  I haven't given the rest of the album a listen, yet.  I'm sure there are at least a few more good track if not all of them.

Song 24/Day 24
        "Furr" from the album Furr by Blitzen Trapper.

The song tells a tale, in first person, of a young man who becomes a werewolf (now you get the moon reference?) until he meets a girl.  At least that's what it appears to be about.  There is a deeper meaning here.  He sings about running off with the pack and howling at the dawn.  Then he sings:

And I lost the taste for judging right from wrong
For my flesh had turned to fur
Yeah, and my thoughts they surely were
Turned to instinct and obedience to God

He's not really singing about becoming a werewolf.  He's talking about giving into a reckless life style.  Living wild, "as God intended."  He didn't have to judge what was right or wrong, because if he felt like doing it, it was right, and if he didn't it was wrong.  The instinct and obedience to God is an attempt to justify a "made this way," mentality.

But he clearly knows he is different from what he was.  If he is comparing this lifestyle to that of being a werewolf.  Not something most people would find to be a good transition.

But then he sees a girl wandering into the pack's territory, just like he had been years before.  He then leaves the pack to be with her:

So I took her by the arm
We settled down upon a farm
And raised our children up as gently as you please

He's growing up.  He says he enters a world he doesn't know.  Because he's dealing with not just fending for himself, between being a parent and husband.  It's a song about growing up and leaving the wild childish ways behind.

That makes me think of Autumn because of all the changes going on in nature, and what we do as a society.  The Summer is over and we start slowing down as we prepare for Winter.  Transition.  Change.  Time to move from carefree fun to harvest, and survival.  Well...in the olden days.

I feel like I'm at a stage in life like this.  Preparing for what is to come next, I need to start letting go of old ways and get ready.  To grow up a little bit (but I'm never going to get old!)

That's where this song takes me.  So enjoy it, and the New Moon-no moon night!  Try to see as many stars as you can!

  "Furr" from the album Furr by Blitzen Trapper.

-Jesse

When the Stars Fell Like Rain (a poem)

Just an old poem of mine today.  Enjoy!

When the Stars Fell Like Rain

 

I heard the Night sky to me

As a sailor hears the sea

A piercing cry in the stillness of the dark

I stretched out below her

Gazing up at her brilliant form

Her children, the stars, sang out with her

Echoing her song

I let my mind carry me past the homes around me

Past the street lights trying to wash out her glory

In their song I hear the melody of God’s design

As chorus and verse waxed and waned

Harmony and rhyme washed over me

Like waves upon the shore

The song softened

My soul stirred as I’ve not felt before

A ghost of a whisper

The voices continued

Steady and precise

The beat pressed on

Subtly the volume increases

The crescendo bursts forth

A waterfall of joy

Drowned me in its deluge

To the East

Three stars flare and fall

Their voices lifted in praise

To the South

Two stars flung themselves across the horizon

Their song a song of triumph

The Earth joined in the song

The stars fell like rain

A sound the world has never known was heard

God sang to us that night

His love for us in every thing

And the stars fell like rain

Washing over me, cleansing my soul

I cried out in worship to my King

Bowing before His awesome wonders

His love enveloped me

And the stars fell like rain


grace, peace + hope

-Bear