Week Thirty-Nine: Sarah McLachlan - "Vox" - Touch

This song reminds me of my gay best friend from college. He told me that he had his very first kiss with a boy to this song. Then the boy decided that he didn't want to be gay, so he started calling my friend a homo and a f@ggot and making fun of him with the other guys.

Sometimes, when we would go out the The Church at The Lizard Lounge, they would play this song in the wee hours of the morning. It would make my friend so sad, and he would always grab my hand and squeeze it three times and ask me to squeeze his back four times.

I never really understood the significance behind it... so I asked him about it one day. I guess it was a code that he and his first boyfriend had. Instead of saying, "I love you," because it was so awkward for both of them, squeezing three times was symbolic of "I love you". Then squeezing back four times was symbolic of "I love you too..." Apparently, this is a fairly common thing that I somehow managed to miss out on because I have heard about it from others too.

I own the CD single for this song, and it has a really cool extended remix, so I'm including a youtube clip for that below the lyrics...

In the desert of my dreams

I saw you there

And I'm walking towards

the water steaming

body cold and bare

But your words cut loose the fire

and you left my soul to bleed

And the pain

that's in your truths deceiving me

has got me scared

Oh why?

Through your eyes

the strains of battle

like a brooding storm

You're up and down

these pristine velvet walls

like focus never forms

My walls are getting wider

and my eyes are drawn astray

I see you now a vague deception

of a dying day

Oh why?

I fall into the water

and once more I turn to you

and the crowds were standing staring faceless

cutting off my view to you

They start to limply flail their bodies

in a twisted mime

And I'm lost inside this tangled web

in which I'm lain entwined

You're gone and I'm lost inside

this tangled web in which I'm lain entwined

Oh why?