I used this line for one of my two HS yearbook quotes, as at the time it evoked the bitter sweetness of graduating from the comfort of HS: "Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup

They slither while they pass they slip away across the universe. Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting through my open mind possessing and caressing me"

28 years later when I wrote my first ever personal essay, which I posted here 7 years after that, https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/self-portrait-in-essay-form-circa-12-2013-7bdac6f1510e, (warning--17 minute read, in which you will see the genesis of much of what you have read in other pieces of mine) I added the line I evoked today to my list of favorite lyrics. I am sure that like many songs and lyrics I have loved over the years, that it resonated with my soul and that my soul knew why long before my conscious brain did because Marcus has eternal memories of Sitara that the song made stir in Greg six years before Greg and Lindsey would meet. https://medium.com/queen-s-children/the-greatest-love-story-the-universe-has-ever-known-d33a9406ef15

the Fiona Apple video was revealed to me by Rama in one of our earlier sessions with Anne in May 2020--I didn't think about the tremendous message of the video and thus a meaning of the song that I had not yet pondered until some time after that