For a Dancer
Posted in Country Music, Rock on Feb 26th, 2009 No Comments »
I mentioned Jackson Browne in passing in my previous post on Francis Cabrel. I then realised I hadn’t posted any of his songs here. To rectify this omission here is my favourite Jackson Browne song, from his album ‘Late for the Sky’. It’s a song about the fleeting and the fragile - youth, joy, life - captured as he watches her dance. Here’s the final verse, on all we have left to do before we die.
‘Into a dancer you have grown, from a seed somebody else has thrown. Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own. And somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive. But you’ll never know.’
