What I Am

I'm not aware of too many things,
I know what I know if you know what I mean.
Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box.
Religion is the smile on a dog.

Pulling into the Barnes & Nobles parking lot the Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians song 'What I Am' was playing on the radio. Without knowing it, I was singing along to the music and enjoying the familiarity of the song, though I could not exactly remember a particular time and/or place in which I listened to it.

I'm not aware of too many things,
I know what I know if you know what I mean.
Choke me in the shallow water
Before I get too deep.

As I noticed that I was not singing along with the appropriate lyrics, I began to listen more intently to them and my appreciation for this forgotten song rose. I remembered enjoying the song when I was younger, though in listening to it again, I do not understand how. The song seemed more pertinent to the present and I embraced how relevant the lyrics were to my current life position. However, in retrospect, it was probably the attitude the song projects that I enjoyed at ayounger age and strived to relate with.

What I am is what I am.
Are you what you are - or what?

However, as I listened more closely, the music, behind the words sounded stronger in the song and I realized it was the music I was enjoying more. Like movies and sometimes books, the growth and changes one endures in life are revealed when we revisit things we perceived once before. For we are able to re-perceive them again and see how much we've grown.

I'm not aware of too many things,
I know what I know if you know what I mean.
Philosophy is a walk on the slippery rocks.
Religion is a light in the fog.

I think I am going to have to buy this 1989 album, made when I was a mere ten years of age. An age in which my life my undergoing drastic changes.