Since I’m doing a series on Resolutions (which is basically a series on using personal power aligned with Universal tradition for your own benefit), I thought the perfect song to share with you would be about hard work, effort, and not sitting around waiting for life to change for you.

So, I give you Indigo Girls, Hammer And A Nail.  I cannot express how magickal this song is for me.  This is my crow-bar song… perfect for getting you unstuck and moving.  Remember, you gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.

LYRICS:

Clearing webs from the hovel
a blistered hand on the handle of a shovel
I’ve been digging too deep, I always do.

I see my face on the surface
I look a lot like narcissus
A dark abyss of an emptiness
Standing on the edge of a drowning blue.

I look behind my ears for the green
Even my sweat smells clean
Glare off the white hurts my eyes…

Chorus: 

Gotta get out of bed get a hammer and a nail
Learn how to use my hands, not just my head
I think myself into jail
Now I know a refuge never grows
From a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose.
Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.

I had a lot of good intentions
Sit around for fifty years and then collect a pension,
Started seeing the road to hell and just where it starts.

But my life is more than a vision
The sweetest part is acting after making a decision
I started seeing the whole as a sum of its parts.

I look behind my ears for the green
Even my sweat smells clean
Glare off the white hurts my eyes…  (Repeat Chorus)

My life is part of the global life
I’d found myself becoming more immobile
When I’d think a little girl in the world can’t do anything.  

A distant nation my community
A street person my responsibility
If I have a care in the world I have a gift to bring.  

I look behind my ears for the green
Even my sweat smells clean
Glare off the white hurts my eyes…  (Repeat Chorus)