Favorite Songs #7

this world is not my home
this world is not my home
this world is not my home
i'm just passing through
i can't live at home in this world anymore
i can't live at home in this world anymore
this world where my children
this world where my children
this world where my children
have gone before
i can't live at home in this world anymore
i can't live at home in this world anymore
if i told you now
if i told you now
if i told you now
how i really felt
i leave my behind my children
i'm just passin through

1919 - 2013

Human beings are creatures of emotion, however, and as soon as a word is created through the mouth of the speaker, then that the speaker places himself at the mercy of the other. The speaker becomes immediately vulnerable and so exposes his inner self to the other half of the partnership. Even the simplest of reference questions is an offering, to some degree, of oneself to another. For many that involves a great deal of personal pain and even for the strongest of us, it exposes a degree of weakness which screams out against our need for survival. We never want to display our personal vulnerabilities to others and always have a strong tendency to mask our true selves.

Cohen, The Hermeneutics of the Reference Question