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Dec 01 If These Walls Could Speak…
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Posted at 2:36 PM by Amy -
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I grew up on old-school Amy Grant music… and If These Walls Could Speak was one of her back-in-the-day hits. Being back in the house where I grew up has this song resurfacing from somewhere in the filing cabinet of my mind. I find myself looking around and being besieged with memories- while watching my children make new ones within these same four walls. It’s bizarre and wonderful.
If these walls could speak- they would tell you my coming of age tale. They remember, like I do, the moments big and small that have made me who I am. They would tell you about my “closet years”… when I literally used to hang out in my closet, tape player head-phones on, rocking-out to the likes of Poison and Skid Row while staring at the band posters pinned to those interior walls (my parents weren’t fans). These walls remember the seemingly insignificant- like the Friday night during my Freshman year of high school that I was getting ready to go to a football game and I found myself sitting on the edge of my bed feeling like I would never move beyond adolescents, which had only just begun. These walls would tell you about the moments I felt like a princess- those pre-formal dance photo-shoots, arms dawning satin gloves and dresses laced with sequence. They would tell you about the times I nearly fell apart and the time I fell in love.
“If these old walls, if these old walls could speak of the things that they remember well, stories and faces dearly held, a couple in love livin’ week to week, rooms full of laughter… If these old halls, if hallowed halls could talk, they would have a tale to tell of sun goin’ down and dinner bell and children playing at hide and seek from floor to rafter, if these walls could speak… they would tell you that I’m sorry, for bein’ cold and blind and weak… they would tell you that I owe you, more than I could ever pay, here’s someone who really loves you, don’t ever go away… that’s what these walls would say” - Amy Grant
7 Comments on “If These Walls Could Speak…”
I kind of like to sit inside closets, too.
Growing up in a military family that I moved about 10 times with, it’s kind of foreign for me to hear about people that have their childhood homes to return to. It must really be something to be back where you grew up, with your own two children now.
This post made me think about what the inside walls of my HEART could say, about all they’ve seen and gone through. And then the inside walls of this body.
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Amy Reply:
December 2nd, 2009 at 2:58 am
Hmmmm, Lisa… you’ve got me thinking about the walls of my heart now too!
Char… my iPod is complete evidence for my eclectic music taste
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hmmm….Amy Grant, Poison, Skid Row….so you have always had eclectic taste in music, eh? I look forward to talking more about the memories and hearing more stories…
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how cool that you get to see your own kids in the same rooms where you grew up!!
and picturing you hiding out in your closet to listen to poison?
priceless.
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Love that you are getting to enjoy some stateside memories from long ago! Wish I was in Ohio this month so we could meet! Love getting your facebook updates and hope your holiday season continues with lots of starbucks!
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I wish that I knew you back then, in the growing up years – but then I am also thankful that I know you now…after some of those hard lessons have been learned and the rights of passage have been walked through.
I am thankful for you!
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love me some old school amy grant.
in my own much-smaller way i’m anticipating some “if these walls could speak” moments when i’m back in w’ville. my months there held a lot of emotions and memories and aches… and the walls will be whispering them to me from the moment i step foot in the door.
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