Nothing Left to Lose

Every now and then, I'll come across a song that I really enjoy. It'll just strike my fancy in a way that many songs can't these days. That's not to say I don't like a lot of music that is out there, but most of it is very surfacey, as I call it. There's no depth to the lyrics. It's like much of the music out there is cookie-cutter songs, just meant to entertain and not make you think...which is all well and good. I'm not knocking it. I'm just appreciating more and more the music that makes me think.

One such song that I've been humming for the past week or so (Roomie is about to strangle me I think), is Nothing Left to Lose by Mat Kearney. He's a new up-and-coming artist, with a song already being used for Grey's Anatomy. I think the lyrics speak to me because of the journey I've taken this past year...some of it by choice, and some of it not so much by choice. I think that there becomes a time in your life where you've done so much, and experienced so much, that there really isn't much left to choose or lose, as the song indicates. I don't feel I've reached that by any means, but I do feel that I've left a certain era and period of my life that I can't ever go back to. So much can change a person in such a short amount of time.

Something's in the air tonight
The sky's alive with a burning light
You can mark my words something's about to break

And I found myself in a bitter fight
While I've held your hand through the darkest night
Don't know where you're coming from but you're coming soon

To a kid from Oregon by way of California
All of this is more than I've ever known or seen

Come on and we'll sing, like we were free
Push the pedal down watch the world around fly by us
Come on and we'll try, one last time
I'm off the floor one more time to find you
And here we go there's nothing left to choose
And here we go there's nothing left to lose

So I packed my car and I headed east
Where I felt your fire and a sweet release
There's a fire in these hills that's coming down
And I don't know much but I found you here
And I can not wait another year
Don't know where you're coming from but you're coming soon

To a kid from Oregon by way of California
All of this is more than I've ever known or seen

Come on and we'll sing, like we were free
Push the pedal down watch the world around fly by us
Come on and we'll try, one last time
I'm off the floor one more time to find you
And here we go there's nothing left to choose
And here we go there's nothing left to lose

I can still hear the trains out my window
From Hobart Street to here in Nashville
I can still smell the pomegranates grow
And I don't know how hard this wind will blow
Or where we'll go

Come on and we'll sing, like we were free
Push the pedal down watch the world around fly by us
Come on and we'll try, one last time
I'm off the floor one more time to find you
And here we go there's nothing left to choose
And here we go there's nothing left to lose