Post by polarbear on Feb 13, 2005 8:31:12 GMT -5
I watched the Amazon clip, when she explains Ribbons Undone, it's so beautiful. I had to write it down and share it.
Ribbons undone, is a song that really I guess explains a mother’s love and a father’s love for their daughter. They see their little girl running in the fields with her ribbons flying. As they are little flashes of lightning that goes by. Especially when you are in the backfield here and you can run and run and run and run and catch butterflies thinking you fly like one. I was watching Tash run, and I started to remember something my mother said to me. She told me years ago, we were looking into a mirror and she said. This woman that I see, that you see, this old wrinkled woman, is a stranger to me. I said, you are the most beautiful woman I know. And she said; don’t get distracted of what I'm telling you. She said, that is a stranger to me. Inside I’m running, inside my legs can carry me, I don’t have a heart condition, I'm not some one who is in a wheelchair. I'm some one who catches the butterflies in my minds zine (not sure about the last word). And when I watch my daughter running, I saw my mother. And I began go understand that this case ( points at herself ) is a distraction sometimes, and it tricks us. Because it can start making us believe, that we are old in spirit, not just that the violin case is beat up, but you can begin to believe that the violin has no music to play anymore, and that is when you have to go to the tree of knowledge. And I tasted my mother’s wisdom, looking into that mirror and I see her running now, and my mother will always be running, next to Tash together hand in hand. And ribbons undone is something that I hope one day I can see myself running along side them.
Ribbons undone, is a song that really I guess explains a mother’s love and a father’s love for their daughter. They see their little girl running in the fields with her ribbons flying. As they are little flashes of lightning that goes by. Especially when you are in the backfield here and you can run and run and run and run and catch butterflies thinking you fly like one. I was watching Tash run, and I started to remember something my mother said to me. She told me years ago, we were looking into a mirror and she said. This woman that I see, that you see, this old wrinkled woman, is a stranger to me. I said, you are the most beautiful woman I know. And she said; don’t get distracted of what I'm telling you. She said, that is a stranger to me. Inside I’m running, inside my legs can carry me, I don’t have a heart condition, I'm not some one who is in a wheelchair. I'm some one who catches the butterflies in my minds zine (not sure about the last word). And when I watch my daughter running, I saw my mother. And I began go understand that this case ( points at herself ) is a distraction sometimes, and it tricks us. Because it can start making us believe, that we are old in spirit, not just that the violin case is beat up, but you can begin to believe that the violin has no music to play anymore, and that is when you have to go to the tree of knowledge. And I tasted my mother’s wisdom, looking into that mirror and I see her running now, and my mother will always be running, next to Tash together hand in hand. And ribbons undone is something that I hope one day I can see myself running along side them.
the song..it is so tender and loving but strong in the same time. Love Tori's explanation and thank you very much you shared. 
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