personal thoughts on a Ben Folds song

Ben's lyrics in italics

What I've kept with me
And what I've thrown away
And where the hell I've ended up
On this glory random day
Were the things I really cared about
Just left along the way

• Just before night brings sleep, the inventory begins. What am I doing with my life? How did I get here to this place ?
  
•  Sometimes we discard and sometimes we are discarded. 

For being too pent up and proud
Woke up way too late
Feeling hung over and old
And the sun was shining bright
And I walked barefoot down the road
Started thinking about my old man
It seems that all men
Wanna get into a car and go anywhere?

• The heart truly is prone to wander.  A man's heart is doubly prone.
  
• Fear, guilt, anger, disappointment cause me to feel the need to reboot my life.
  
• It's only when I face the music, that I can grow.

Here I stand,
Sad & free
I can't cry and I can't see
What I've done
God...What have I done?
So don't you know I'm numb.

• You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary. Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love. Remember the height from which you have fallen!    Revelation 2:3
• How many numb Christians are out there?  Scary question... 

No I don't feel a thing at all
Cause its all smiles and business these days

• When life and spirituality becomes a business we are dead.

and I am indifferent to the loss
I've faith that there's a soul
whose leading me around
I wonder if he knows
Which way is down...