Mary Chapin Carpenter has touched my soul ever since I first heard her songs, and I can't imagine a time when she will not be my favorite artist of all time. Usually, I prefer songs that I can easily pick up the lyrics to and sing along full-throttle. But Mary's songs are different. Most of them are not really the sing-along type. They may be the hum-along type, but the lyrics are long, different and not easily remembered (especially not when your MCC playlist is nearly 200 songs strong). Yet, like a particularly poignant poem, book or movie, her songs strike a chord in my soul no matter how many times I hear them. Sometimes they lift me up, sometimes they make me cry, and more often than not, they leave me in bitter-sweet reminiscence of days gone by and tentative hopes for days to come. Mary may be a year older than my mother, but I know in her heart, she's just a girl like me....
Girls Like Me - M.C.C.
Girls like me aren’t hard to find
We grow like roses on the vine
We wear our hearts on our sleeves
You probably know a girl like me.
We live alone and in our heads
We eat standing up or in our beds
Guilt and fear merge easily
In the quiet souls of girls like me
And loneliness is like a cold,
Common and no cure we’re told
We take to bed per chance to dream
In the blue light of the TV screen.
Girls like me like summer light
And cold beer on a summer night
And boys who aren’t afraid of what they see
Inside the eyes of girls like me
And hopefulness is like a drug
It makes a girl believe in love
And if somehow you love us back
You think there’s something wrong with that
Girls like me aren’t hard to trust
Your deepest secret’s safe with us
And when it’s time to set you free
You can always count on girls like me
It’s good to know a girl like me
You used to love a girl like me
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