Make a Wish on a Satellite

"Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness."

--Old saying

"Listen to your heart

And it'll lead you through the dark 

'Cause somewhere in you 

Burns a light lit by some eternal spark."

--New saying

Joey and Kelly Kneiser (Glossary)

Neutral Skate Supply, Murfreesboro, TN

October 4, 2011

I'd like to send this one out to a dear friend on her coughcoughieth birthday. Shot just a few weeks ago at a hometown in-store, it's Joey and Kelly Kneiser of Glossary performing an acoustic duet on "Some Eternal Spark." You can hear this tune in slightly gussied up form on the band's new album, Long Live All Of Us (see below). At heart, though, this is a stripped-down country song with just a few moving parts: 3-4 chords, a simple melody, beautiful harmonies, nothing to hide behind. That piercing, stark beauty is one of the main reasons I love this band.

Like so many great country songs (several of which are already Joey's), it's about loss and hope and the distance in-between. It's about pain and the possibility of redemption. In other words, it's a love song. "The only thing I truly own, I can never touch or hold/No, it's buried in this body waiting for its day to go on home." That's as succinct a description of love as you're gonna find and I guarantee you, a thousand shitty songwriters would gladly stab a drifter in the neck to come up with that line. And it doesn't matter if the love is for your mama, your daughter, or maybe the first person you ever loved and never stopped loving ("a straight line will take you right back to where it all began"). In the end, your life comes down to a choice. Do you curse the darkness and wallow in your misery or do you light a candle with some eternal spark?

Listen to your heart

Lead you through the dark

Somewhere the moon

Burns like a candle lit by some eternal spark

Ain't nowhere to run or to go

The Earth's a giant sphere I know

And a straight line will take you right back to where it all began

So make a wish on a satellite and hold it close

‘Cause you know the stars all died a long time ago

And I've seen the Northern lights

But you make the South seem bright

So come on let me get you alone

We all got a hole to fill

Some try and try and it's empty still

I guess the blues, baby, the blues

Are just you crying somewhere down inside

If this is all we ever get

I'll learn to live with it without regret

Make the sweet a little sweeter

The pain a little easier to bear

And make a wish on a satellite and hold it close

‘Cause you know the stars all died a long time ago

I've seen the Northern lights

But you make the South seem bright

So come on let me get you alone

The only thing I truly own I can never touch or hold

No, it's buried in this body waiting for its day to go on home

But, listen to your heart

And it'll lead you through the dark

‘Cause somewhere in you

Burns a light lit by some eternal spark

So make a wish on a satellite and hold it close

‘Cause you know the stars all died a long time ago

I've told a thousand lies

Been lied to a thousand times

Looked up at a starry sky

And felt lucky to be alive

And I've seen the Northern lights

But you make the South seem bright

So come on let me get you alone

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