Tuesday, September 20, 2011

A Playlist for Change (Summer 2011)

Just because everything's changing
Doesn't mean it's never been this way before
All you can do is try to know who your friends are as you head off to the war
Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light
You'll come back when it's over
No need to say goodbye


             The people were overjoyed, they took to their boats
             I thought it less like a lake, and more like a moat
             The rhythm of my footsteps crossing flood-lands to your door
             Has been silenced forevermore
             The distance is quite simply much too far for me to row
             It seems farther than ever before
             Oh no—
             I need you so much closer


I woke up and wished that I was dead, with an aching in my head
I lay motionless in bed
I thought of you and where you'd gone
And let the world spin madly on


     "Allow me to introduce myself.  My name is Tumnus."
     "I am very pleased to meet you, Mr. Tumnus," said Lucy.
      "And may I ask, O Lucy Daughter of Eve," said the Faun, "how you have come into Narnia?"
      "Narnia? What's that?" said Lucy.
     "This is Narnia," said the Faun, "where we are now:  all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle Cair Paravel on the eastern sea.  And you – you have come from the wild woods of the west?"
      "I – I got in through the wardrobe in the spare room," said Lucy.
      "Ah!" said the Faun in a rather melancholy voice.  "If only I had worked harder at geography when I was a little Faun, I would no doubt know all about those strange countries.  It is too late now."
      "But they're not countries at all," said Lucy, almost laughing.  "It's only just back there – at least – I'm not sure.  It is summer there."
      "Meanwhile," said Mr. Tumnus, "it is winter in Narnia, and has been for ever so long, and we shall both catch cold if we stand here talking in the snow.  Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?"


Welcome to the fallout
Welcome to existence
The tension is here, the tension is here
Between who you are and who you could be
Between how it is and how it should be


Am I losing my mind?
Vacuumed every room for the second time today
You can't go through your life without killing something or someone at one time
Losing touch with everything that I like, keeping busy day and night
Am I farsighted or just blind
It was right there in front of me, but the whole time
I swear I saw nothing wrong; I swear I saw nothing wrong at all



       With the mention of Derbyshire, there were many ideas connected.  It was impossible for her to see the word without thinking of Pemberley and its owner.  "But surely," said she, "I may enter his country with impunity, and rob it of a few petrified spars without his perceiving me."
       The period of expectation was now doubled.  Four weeks were to pass away before her uncle and aunt's arrival.  But they did pass away, and Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, with their four children, did at length appear at Longbourn.
       …The Gardiners staid only one night at Longbourn, and set off the next morning with Elizabeth.


                                   Dreams come clever, hearts now severed
                                   Difference of forever
                                   And I'm lost there
                                   I finally found that life goes on without you
                                   And the world still turns when you're not around
              

I would find a different way to go
There's no signs in life to guide you on that road
And if it's the most important thing you say, make sure they understand
Every way you wonder if you're wrong…
Inaccurate and imprecise, there is no gift without a price


 It's lonely out in space on such a timeless flight
 And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
 'Til touchdown brings me round again to find
 I'm not the man they think i am at home, oh no no no
 I'm a rocket man
 Rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone


Yo, el otona
Yo,  el vespero
He sido un eco.
Sere ina ola
Sere la luna
He sido todo, soy yo.
Yo, el verano
Yo, al ebano
Soy la sonadora.


Past is past, you never really gave it a shot
To survive with your one last shot in the dark
And if your conscience weighs a little heavy tonight
Maybe you'll find that
Empty boxes on the stairs remind you that there's no one there
Is it everything you thought it would be?


Can you tell I'm not myself
I'm a slow-motion accident
Lost in coffee rings and fingerprints
I don't want to feel anything, but I do

                                                                                                      I want to change the world 
                                                                                                      Instead I sleep 
                                                                                                      I want to believe in more than you and me
                                                                                                      All that I know is I'm breathing
                                                                                                      All I can do is keep breathing
                                                                                                      All we can do is keep breathing—now
             

              And so it is, just like you said it would be
              Life goes easy on me
              Most of the time
              And so it is: the shorter story
              No love, no glory
              No hero in her skies


I said, "My pretty Creole girl, me money here's no good.
If it weren't for alligators, I sleep out in the wood."
"You're welcome here kind stranger;
our house, it's very plain.
But we never turn a stranger out from the lakes of Ponchartrain."


I need a heart that carries on through the pain
When the walls start collapsing again
Give a soul that never ceases to follow
Despite the infection within

I'm waking up now in this empty house 
Doing my best to keep my comments down to a minimum
But it's just so hard to bite my tongue
I'm waking up now and its just so loud
'Cause everyone here loves somebody else
And somehow I always seem to get left out


                                                                                                           Trees fall, and so do men
                                                                                                           Even the walls start caving in
                                                                                                           And you feel like there's no pretend for you

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