it's funny how easily people take for-granted little joys. day-to-day details that we undervalue or simply underestimate how special they are. during my tenure as a cubicle worker, i listed to countless hours of music in solitude. designing deep in my inner self with a good sound-track is definitely one of my happy places. i don't get many opportunities for the same level of intimacy with music anymore. i'm very fond of listening to music on repeat, but i either don't have the chance or i can't seem to find music that moves me in the same way anymore.

thankfully, i've been doing some (more) freelance work AND listening to a lot of tom petty. it's actually not anything to do with his recent death. it's actually a combination of things... 1) a conversation with lucia where she told me that her favourite song by him is "yer so bad". 2) tom petty voiced the character of 'lucky' on king of the hill, which i just completed a few days ago (for the second time). and feel bittersweet about it. and, 3) i've been watching 'elizabethtown' (in multiple sittings) and listening to the soundtrack. tom petty is featured heavily on that soundtrack, and i'm very hooked on the song 'it'll all work out'. it's beautiful in medley and in lyrics, which is the 1-2 combination that really sucker-punches me into falling for a song. it's bittersweet too.

it makes me think of my friend.

i hope that someday he'll be able to let go of her, and accept that it'll still all works out...

she wore faded jeans and soft black leather
she had eyes so blue they looked like weather
when she needed me i wasn't around
that's the way it goes, it'll all work out

there were times apart, there were times together
i was pledged to her for worse or better
when it mattered most i let her down
that's the way it goes, it'll all work out

it'll all work out eventually
better off with him than here with me

it'll all work out eventually
maybe better with him than here with me

now the wind is high and the rain is heavy
and the water's rising in the levee
still i think of her when the sun goes down
it never goes away, but it all works out

<3