Such Great Heights

THE POSTAL SERVICE LYRICS
"Such Great Heights"

I am thinking it's a sign that the freckles
In our eyes are mirror images and when
We kiss they're perfectly aligned
And I have to speculate that God himself
Did make us into corresponding shapes like
Puzzle pieces from the clay
And true, it may seem like a stretch, butIts thoughts like this that catch my troubled
Head when you're away when I am missing you to death
When you are out there on the road for
Several weeks of shows and when you scan
The radio, I hope this song will guide you home

They will see us waving from such great
Heights, 'come down now,' they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away,
'come down now,' but we'll stay...

I tried my best to leave this all on your
Machine but the persistent beat it sounded
Thin upon listening
And that frankly will not fly.
You will hear
The shrillest highs and lowest lows with
The windows down when this is guiding you home

They will see us waving from such great
Heights, 'come down now,' they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away,
'come down now,' but we'll stay...

So, UPS has been running these commercials lately with the song above. Whenever I hear this song, it reminds me of my freshmen year in college.

I received a cd with this song on it about October. I listened to it a few times through and this song became my instant favorite. I am not quite sure why or just how it hit me, but it did. This song just seemed to speak to me. It just seemed to calm me down and help me to relax. I never really listened to the lyrics, I just got the understanding that the song was about a couple that is separated.

Every time I hear this song I go back to walking out of my room, R Hall 412, turning my cd player on, placing my head phones on over my head, taking the elevator down to the first floor, taking an immediate left to go to the doors, then another left to walk through the Morris Center. Then, out the Morris Center, down three steps, across the street, through Heritage Halls, pass the stream and Bell Tower, and then to the stop light.

Every time I walked through the Morris Center, something always seemed to be happening, early morning they were still cleaning and would be finishing vacuuming, and then there would be kids going for breakfast, or it would be late at night and people would be watching tv, usually basketball, or going into the Cougar Cove to buy something, or people would be playing games for family home evening or just playing to play. It always smelled so good, I don’t know what it was, but it always felt right when I walked in the Morris Center. It had truly became my home away from home. I know a lot of people would call me crazy but I loved Desert Towers, I loved living there, and I loved the people I meet and the things I did.

I really liked my job, as I would tell people, I cleaned peoples crap for a living. I was a janitor/custodian/facility services in the Wilkinson Student Center. I worked in the afternoons with some of the greatest and funniest people. Tamsen, Jim, Nate, Misty, Clayton, Amber, I could go on and on but I will start there. We cleaned offices and bathrooms, as well as set up rooms for events, like dinners and what not. It was great, just a lot of fun.

I know people would tell you that the Morris Center Cafeteria food was disgusting, but it wasn’t. It was good food. It is nothing like what I had at home, but it was food and I liked it. Breakfast was the best. I would always try to make breakfast because I could have eggs, bacon, sausage, fruit, cereal, biscuits and gravy, milk and juice. I loved getting my grapefruit with cantaloupe or oranges. It was in about March when I finally taught myself how to use the waffle maker, whish isn’t hard, but then I would always have a waffle every time I went to eat something.

I don’t know, I could go on and on about it, but man I loved my freshmen year and I wouldn’t change it for the world, except a relationship that I had that I wish I would have ended. But man did I love college. Being home I miss it so much and I wish I could go back.

God speed.