Mark Westin: See Hear!

• MP3 short clip, hi-fi play (broadband)

Listen to this only at 3am when you're alone and pondering the meaning of life. Seriously.

Hey hey stranger come on in
You look kinda familiar, I think I mighta known you when
You’ve been out there in the wild looking hard and looking long
Trying to see your life within the confines of a song
And it’s taken you to places that you didn’t want to be
And it’s sometimes left you stranded for the price of being free

Just a prodigal son coming out of his hole
Searching for something that approximates a soul

Sit down stranger you don’t have to say no more
Everybody that you’re looking at we’ve all been there before
There’s been many different mountains there’s been many different ways
But somehow we all end up here at the end of all our days
And we know you must feel broken and we know you must feel beat
But you’ve seen it through the scars and bars and haven’t met defeat

(You just keep) riding the highway and paying the toll
Searching for something that approximates a soul

They say it’s already here and that may be so
But till you’ve been over there, there’s no way to know

So long stranger I know you have to go
The life beyond the edges is the only life you want to know
We’re always moving onwards though we don’t know what we’ll find
And sending back dispatches for the ones who come behind
From a gutter filled with all the pretty dreams that didn’t sell
And the visions still unrealized decomposing where they fell

We’re all mining out the diamonds from our own lumps of coal
Searching for something that approximates a soul

From the fragments of existence well it just might make us whole
Searching for something that approximates a soul