Gloria's Daily HLP #19

Inspired by music...always. My musical partner and I have been performing, on rare occasion, a song by the LA band X entitled, "Come Back to Me." It's a very sad song (see all lyrics at bottom of this post), and the line, "Tears make a river of diamonds in the dark," has always struck me as brilliant.

Sarah Borges, a very overlooked and incredible singer/songwriter, recorded a cover of this song; in fact, she entitled her debut record, "Diamonds in the Dark." It's actually her version of the song that we play. Anyway, we resurrected the song after not having played it for months, and we played it tonight at a show. It inspired me to create my daily phrase:

COME BACK TO ME
by X, also covered by Sarah Borges

Gifts and flowers lay upon the ledge

Of pink silk above your face

Tears make a river of diamonds in the dark

Our daddy breaks down at the funeral home

Flies and relations make annoying sounds

We sit or wander round the room

Ribbons are folded on the rose bouquets

And I hear a voice that sounds so much like yours

Please, please, come back to me

I cry and talk to you through the bathroom wall

Oh, please, come back to me

Playing in Cleveland on a Wednesday night

Recovering from the night before

Well I'm broken, and I'm cryin' in the ladies room

The opening band is banging out their song

Please, please, come back to me

I cry and talk to you through the bathroom wall

Oh, please, come back to me

I made a shrine for you on the kitchen wall

With flowers and Florida souvenirs

You were walking in the house last night

I knew it was you from the space in your steps

Please, please, come back to me

I cry and talk to you through the bathroom wall

Oh, please, come back to me