here's a song lyric for today. it is by the Indigo Girls, and for some reason it is in my mind for the nonce...

"everybody loves you, and they want to know your story
you go riding out a mystery
concealed in all your glory
but when it comes to flesh and bone
you remind me of shallot
only made of shadow
even though you're not...

i remember how i spent all my energy and time
with affected conversation
trying to pry inside your mind
you are as beautiful as truth
and as empty as a shell
and i came to you one night
and it made me feel like hell

oh, to reach through all your surface
just to find an empty pool
and to swallow all my pride
as i lay down by your side
and you swallow up my heart
and left me a fool...

everybody loves a hero
an image to create
the antithesis of everything
inside ourselves we hate
but you better close your eyes
when it's time for them to die
because you hate to think the life
you built upon them was a lie

i resign myself to silence
i will never blow your cover
no one ever has to know
who the hero took for lover
but it comes to mind as you blaze on
as brilliant as a star
how many you've left behind?
how many casualties there are?"