Sum of the Parts

There are times when your shuffle seems to reflect the day perfectly. Individual parts may be exciting but the sum of those parts? Bleh. John Hiatt followed by Placido Domingo followed by Aerosmith. In solo awesome, together... bleh.

Then along comes Solsbury Hill.

Just like that I was 19 again and riding in the back of our friend's car on a warm Italian night, windows open for the breeze, looking behind us at the lights of Rome, a Peter Gabriel tape serenading our drive as we headed up a hill above the Colosseum, all brightly lit stones and shadowed archways.