The South. --- For better or for worse, I've lived in this part of the country for the majority of my life. I've never felt a particular connection to its heritage, and yet it seems I've always been here - make of that what you will.
They say things in the South. Things that don't make sense. Things that get into your head because you've heard them all your life and it's not so much what the words mean but this idea that certain phrases have a time and a place, and that if you don't say them when those times come, the moment is somehow incomplete.
Today there was a rainstorm in the midst of a perfect sunny day. Today amidst the warming brightness of the sunlit blue sky and the green reflections of grass and trees all around, it rained. Today, in a moment where the world seemed beautiful and placid, a storm still found a way to rage.
When it rains during the day around here, people always say it.
"The Devil's beating his wife."
I don't know where the saying comes from. I don't really even understand what it means, for that matter. I mean, if the devil is doing something down in the underworld, how is that connected (even figuratively) with the idea of water falling from the sky?
but beyond all that...
Who would ever marry a Devil
if they knew thats what he was?
They say things in the South. Things that don't make sense. Things that get into your head because you've heard them all your life and it's not so much what the words mean but this idea that certain phrases have a time and a place, and that if you don't say them when those times come, the moment is somehow incomplete.
Today there was a rainstorm in the midst of a perfect sunny day. Today amidst the warming brightness of the sunlit blue sky and the green reflections of grass and trees all around, it rained. Today, in a moment where the world seemed beautiful and placid, a storm still found a way to rage.
When it rains during the day around here, people always say it.
"The Devil's beating his wife."
I don't know where the saying comes from. I don't really even understand what it means, for that matter. I mean, if the devil is doing something down in the underworld, how is that connected (even figuratively) with the idea of water falling from the sky?
but beyond all that...
Who would ever marry a Devil
if they knew thats what he was?
[Listening to: Robin Trower, "Bridge of Sighs"]
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