Songs For Your Day

I’m going to write about Cloud Cult again, and you’re just going to have to deal. The truth is, I haven’t been able to stop listening to The Meaning of 8 for the past few weeks.

I go through fits. I go through fits where I need to be reminded that there is good in the world–not beauty–just good. Beauty is easy for me to see, it always has been, but beauty is not always good. What I mean is good, with a capital G, thus, Good. And, I don’t even mean the kind of good like a guy running into a burning house to save a child, though that is good–I don’t mean heroism. I mean the simple kind of good, the everyday kind of good.

I mean the kind of good that is a father’s heart breaking for his lost son, I mean the kind of good that is a husband and wife separating from the grief of that loss and coming back together because they need each other in grief more than they need themselves, I mean the kind of good that Cloud Cult displays not only in their songs, but in their lives as artists and as a band, that inspires others to be good and simple.

Just listen to The Meaning of 8–it might take you more than once, it might take looking up some of the lyrics–but you will see good there.

-christopher earl.