I am still the Highway
My previous entry needs clarification. Upon further contemplating the lyrics, I think this is more of a song about breaking up than staying together, but it still doesn't quite resonate like that in my head. You know the scene in almost every love movie where the two people we all know are supposed to be together are apart? They fought or someone else comes into the picture, and a slow melodic song cues up. They show each of them moving around their Manhatten apartment- both totally alone in the city that never sleeps. One doing dishes, the other cleaning the bookcase. One sits down and looks lonesomely out the window, the other collapses into bed and stares at the ceiling. They, and we, know who they're supposed to be with, but they're not- as a result, nothing at all feels quite right- food doesn't taste the same, funny things don't make them laugh, and everything feels sort of numbed. The song that fits this picture more than any other I've ever is "I am the Highway" by Audioslave. The music and vocals are incredible. Audioslave does emotional songs like I've never heard. No band can manipulate my feelings like this one. I listen to this song and I want to just collapse and cry- yet I can't stop looping it. The sense of loss is near unbearable. I will control my life- I will force my will upon Fate. Watch who you try to hold back.