"The Stable Song" by Gregory Alan Isakov

My favorite song. Has been for two years. Thought maybe I'd worn myself out on it for six months or so...but after a little break from it, it sounds fresh and great again.

Kind of sappy to think like this maybe, but I've long thought that I truly want this song to be in my wedding, and in my funeral.

I think Isakov said it was "a little poem about everything" or something like that. A fittingly vague and all-encompassing description...it's a beautiful little piece that does an impressionistic sketch of a prodigal son story to me--a time of innocence, then a time when the innocence is lost, and finally, a time when it's returned in a rebirth.