The forecast calls for a mixed-bag of weekend weather – rain has a decent chance of falling – and a summer weekend of rain makes for a very sad weekend indeed. Another coquette summer song then – ‘The Conflict of the Mind’ – to give atmosphere to this conflicted moment. It’s part of an upcoming Coquette Summer Playlist – the second installment, on the way in a little over a week.
It’s a complicated storyThat we never talk aboutBut I see it in the mirrorsIn the curtains of our houseI don’t want you to be worriedThat we’re running out of timeIt doesn’t matter where we’re goingWe can leave it all behind
Only when I see you cryI feel conflicted in my mindIt fills my heart up and it breaks me at the very same timeWhen you open up the gates for meAnd leave the world behindWe find proof of love is hiddenIn the conflict of the mind
I remember how I’d find youFingers tearing through the groundWere you digging something upOr did you bury something down?In your soul, I found a thirstWith only salt inside your cupIn your eyes, I saw a longingWhile I longed to lift you up
Whoa – the lyrics went a little deeper than I realized when I first put this song on the playlist. At first it was all about the gentle mood of the music, the atmosphere it conjured – but reading through these words make it all cut a little deeper. I suppose that’s the real province of summer: crux and conflict – the crossed and the conflicted. The search for summer solace.
Only when I see you cryI feel conflicted in my mindIt fills my heart up and it breaks me at the very same timeWhen you open up the gates for meAnd leave the world behindWe find proof of love is hiddenIn the conflict of the mind
Let us seek out that solace in beauty and grace, in mindfulness and meditation. Let us find it in the garden, in a book, in a lazy day by the pool – all simple pleasures, all at hand sooner or later in the season of summer. Even in the rain there is joy to be found – maybe it’s in the break and pause the rainfall provides, when it’s impossible to work outside or go for a swim. Little joys. Little bits of balm. Little pieces of solace.
Don’t let your spirit dieThis is just a conflict of the mind (conflict of the mind)Is your heart alive? (Is your heart alive?)You’ll overcome a conflict of the mind (conflict of the mind)Don’t let your spirit die (love is, let your spirit die)This is just a conflict of the mind (love is, conflict of the mind)Is your heart alive? (Love, is your heart alive?)You’ll overcome a conflict of the mind (conflict of the mind)Don’t let your spirit die (love is, let your spirit die)This is just a conflict of the mind (love is you, conflict of the mind)Is your heart alive? (Love, is your heart alive?)You’ll overcome a conflict of the mind (love is you)
Love is youLove is youLove is, love, loveLove is youLove
