But paradise is locked and bolted
We must make a journey around the world
to see if the back door has purhaps been left open.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Friday, July 6, 2012
That one person...
"Have you ever had a moment when you're with the one person in the world you want to be with, and the wind is blowing through your hair and the song that just describes your entire soul happens to come on. And the person you happen to want to be with happens to love the same song and suddenly you realize your listening to it together? And that no matter how crazy your life has gotten, there's this one moment... this perfect moment where you could just say that no matter what happens, nothing could take this moment away from me... and then something does."
Words I can't say right now
As I said before, certain song, certain lyrics express things that I cant say. They speak the words that I cant speak.
"Young and full of running
Tell me where has that taken me?
Just a great figure eight or a tiny infinity?"
Being young and in Love. Every time I fall in Love I cant help but wonder where it is going, if its going to go anywhere at all. A great figure eight? Will I be circling this same path into something worth while or and I doomed to an infinity of heartbreak?
"Love is really nothing
But a dream that keeps waking me
For all of my trying, we still end up dying
How can it be?"
Is Love something that's real or is it just a dream, a "delusional fantasy"? We walk through life with this goal of finding true Love. Of finding something worth living for. Someone worth living for. We try so hard but in the end was it ever worth it? And if it is worth it and we do end up finding that person, things still don't last, we still die.....
"Don't say a word, just come over and lie here with me
'Cause I'm just about to set fire to everything I see
I want you so bad, I'll go back on the things I believe
There I just said it, I'm scared you'll forget about me"
Finding that one person, and wanting that one person regardless of the situation. Your willing to change and fix yourself to what they want but then afraid that no matter what you do you may never be what they want or need.
"So young and full of running
All the way to the edge of desire
Steady my breathing, silently screaming
I have to have you now"
Need, it all comes down to need.
"Wired and I'm tired
Think I'll sleep in my clothes on the floor
Or maybe this mattress will spin on its axis
And find me on yours"
When they're gone, they are all you can think about and you would do anything to have them with you. Have them with you at that very moment. To have them hold you and comfort you. To feel they're love and to feel that they need you as much as you need them.
So many things I wish I could say. So many things I wish I could talk about and explain. But I cant.... So I sing
"Young and full of running
Tell me where has that taken me?
Just a great figure eight or a tiny infinity?"
Being young and in Love. Every time I fall in Love I cant help but wonder where it is going, if its going to go anywhere at all. A great figure eight? Will I be circling this same path into something worth while or and I doomed to an infinity of heartbreak?
"Love is really nothing
But a dream that keeps waking me
For all of my trying, we still end up dying
How can it be?"
Is Love something that's real or is it just a dream, a "delusional fantasy"? We walk through life with this goal of finding true Love. Of finding something worth living for. Someone worth living for. We try so hard but in the end was it ever worth it? And if it is worth it and we do end up finding that person, things still don't last, we still die.....
"Don't say a word, just come over and lie here with me
'Cause I'm just about to set fire to everything I see
I want you so bad, I'll go back on the things I believe
There I just said it, I'm scared you'll forget about me"
Finding that one person, and wanting that one person regardless of the situation. Your willing to change and fix yourself to what they want but then afraid that no matter what you do you may never be what they want or need.
"So young and full of running
All the way to the edge of desire
Steady my breathing, silently screaming
I have to have you now"
Need, it all comes down to need.
"Wired and I'm tired
Think I'll sleep in my clothes on the floor
Or maybe this mattress will spin on its axis
And find me on yours"
When they're gone, they are all you can think about and you would do anything to have them with you. Have them with you at that very moment. To have them hold you and comfort you. To feel they're love and to feel that they need you as much as you need them.
So many things I wish I could say. So many things I wish I could talk about and explain. But I cant.... So I sing
...but your picture on my wall, it reminds me that its not so bad...
A song, despite why it was written, can have a million different meanings to a million different people. The feelings can be similar and the point the artist was trying to make can be clear but the feelings that you get when a certain song comes on that just happens to describe everything that is going on in your life at that very moment can pretty much take your breath away. I pretty much base all of my music preference on artists that seem to try and reach people on that same level through their lyrics.
A good example is the song "thank you" by dido. She wrote the song originally to say thank you to someone for making even her bad days better just by simply being a part of her life.
Dido: "It was such a brilliant track. It totally twisted my very sweet love song into something very dark. I loved it"
Like she said when Eminem heard it, he thought of something different....
Eminem: "When I heard the words to that song, I was like, "Yo, this is an obsessed fan." Dido's words instantly put me there."
A song can take you to a place in your mind that can be a memory or somewhere that your imagination makes up. Both thank you and Stan where both relatively straight forward songs that clearly illustrated what they were really about but they were able to change them into something completely different.
The same thing happens when you associate a certain song with a certain memory. A song that brings up a beautiful memory for you could bring up a horrible one for someone else. Memories of what you were doing and how you were feeling when you heard that specific song can change the meaning of that song for you or someone else.
Music is extremely powerful and I wonder sometimes what life would be like without it. Singing at the top of my lungs to a song with powerful lyrics is one of the greatest ways to relieve stress. Singing the words is like saying all the things I wish I could say but cant. Singing gives a voice to my feelings.
A good example is the song "thank you" by dido. She wrote the song originally to say thank you to someone for making even her bad days better just by simply being a part of her life.
Dido: "It was such a brilliant track. It totally twisted my very sweet love song into something very dark. I loved it"
Like she said when Eminem heard it, he thought of something different....
Eminem: "When I heard the words to that song, I was like, "Yo, this is an obsessed fan." Dido's words instantly put me there."
A song can take you to a place in your mind that can be a memory or somewhere that your imagination makes up. Both thank you and Stan where both relatively straight forward songs that clearly illustrated what they were really about but they were able to change them into something completely different.
The same thing happens when you associate a certain song with a certain memory. A song that brings up a beautiful memory for you could bring up a horrible one for someone else. Memories of what you were doing and how you were feeling when you heard that specific song can change the meaning of that song for you or someone else.
Music is extremely powerful and I wonder sometimes what life would be like without it. Singing at the top of my lungs to a song with powerful lyrics is one of the greatest ways to relieve stress. Singing the words is like saying all the things I wish I could say but cant. Singing gives a voice to my feelings.
Toaster
Just be yourself
like you know exactly what that is...
Like your a toaster or something...
Like there's only one way to pop you out.
Well maybe being me isnt just one thing?
maybe just searching for me is being me
and not being them, being themselves.... being toasters.
Maybe being me is more like a breakfast variety pack?
Maybe that's what I'll be today
But tomorrow who knows?
Maybe the blue plate special?
like you know exactly what that is...
Like your a toaster or something...
Like there's only one way to pop you out.
Well maybe being me isnt just one thing?
maybe just searching for me is being me
and not being them, being themselves.... being toasters.
Maybe being me is more like a breakfast variety pack?
Maybe that's what I'll be today
But tomorrow who knows?
Maybe the blue plate special?
Thursday, July 5, 2012
"That's where love exists, in delusional fantasies. Real Love isn't like that..."
True Love... what is that? What makes the difference between true and not so true Love? When I was younger and in Love my parents used to tell me "Oh, your young. You don't know what true Love is" However, as I got older the feelings haven't changed much. I've fallen in and out of Love a few times in my life. There are still those that I am no longer with but still could honestly say that I still Love them. The feelings are always there but certain circumstances are the reason we're not together. Loving someone for me was never an issue. The issue stands in being able to find someone who Loves you back in the same way. Someone who can support you like you support them.
I honestly take a look at the world around me and cannot think of one good example of "True Love" Not one example of the fairy tale, story book romance that everyone is inclined to believe exists in this life. Honestly take a look around at the couples around you. Can you name one example of a perfect couple?
What I'm really trying to get at is so many people try to hold relationships up to an impossible standard. Now I'm not saying that anyone should ever accept less than what they deserve. What I'm saying is, so many people try to fit their relationship into a tiny little box of what they think it is supposed to be instead of letting it grow into what it actually is.
No matter how head over heals you are for someone, there are always flaws. There is always something that doesn't fit quite right and you are so busy trying to get what you think you want you ignore the flaw. You tell yourself that the flaw isn't important and that it doesn't bother you because there are so many other great things about that person. But then time goes by, and you realise that slowly over time those flaws that you ignored are slowly chipping away at you. You find that you've been hiding your flaws from them and in turn hiding yourself from them and vis versa. Eventually things come out and you realise that neither of you were ever truly yourselves for that other person. Nothing can be Loved until its known.
Now this happens all the time. Your with someone for a long period of time and you start to realise that your not really in Love with them any more. That they don't really give you the same kind of joy that they once did. This is where your next mistake comes in. You decide to stay with that person. Work things out, and try to regain the happiness that was lost. Unfortunately, it almost NEVER works out and you just waste more time being unhappy and being with someone you hate when you could have been looking for someone to bring back the joy.
Back to the original point though.
I believe that "True Love" is something that has no real definition
I believe that it is possible to fall in and out of Love several time throughout life.
I believe that its ridiculous to believe that there is only one true Love for anyone in the world.
I believe that staying with someone out of convenience instead of Love is most peoples biggest mistake.
I believe that you can't have Love without Hate
I believe that anyone has the ability to fall out of Love, if the circumstances present themselves.
I honestly take a look at the world around me and cannot think of one good example of "True Love" Not one example of the fairy tale, story book romance that everyone is inclined to believe exists in this life. Honestly take a look around at the couples around you. Can you name one example of a perfect couple?
What I'm really trying to get at is so many people try to hold relationships up to an impossible standard. Now I'm not saying that anyone should ever accept less than what they deserve. What I'm saying is, so many people try to fit their relationship into a tiny little box of what they think it is supposed to be instead of letting it grow into what it actually is.
No matter how head over heals you are for someone, there are always flaws. There is always something that doesn't fit quite right and you are so busy trying to get what you think you want you ignore the flaw. You tell yourself that the flaw isn't important and that it doesn't bother you because there are so many other great things about that person. But then time goes by, and you realise that slowly over time those flaws that you ignored are slowly chipping away at you. You find that you've been hiding your flaws from them and in turn hiding yourself from them and vis versa. Eventually things come out and you realise that neither of you were ever truly yourselves for that other person. Nothing can be Loved until its known.
Now this happens all the time. Your with someone for a long period of time and you start to realise that your not really in Love with them any more. That they don't really give you the same kind of joy that they once did. This is where your next mistake comes in. You decide to stay with that person. Work things out, and try to regain the happiness that was lost. Unfortunately, it almost NEVER works out and you just waste more time being unhappy and being with someone you hate when you could have been looking for someone to bring back the joy.
Back to the original point though.
I believe that "True Love" is something that has no real definition
I believe that it is possible to fall in and out of Love several time throughout life.
I believe that its ridiculous to believe that there is only one true Love for anyone in the world.
I believe that staying with someone out of convenience instead of Love is most peoples biggest mistake.
I believe that you can't have Love without Hate
I believe that anyone has the ability to fall out of Love, if the circumstances present themselves.
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