Sunday, December 12, 2010

Gonna Smack You

"If you swear you're giving up on love, that's when it hits you the hardest. I guess resistance creates intensity. I think love's gonna smack you over the head- or whevever it smacks you- no matter what you do."

- Jake Gyllenhaal, in Parade

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Taken Me In

"Running has taken me in, and continues to comfort, heal and challenge me in all kinds of magical ways. I am not a 'good runner' because I am me. I am a good 'me' because I am a runner."

-Kristin Armstrong

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Dog Days

"Happiness hit her like a bullet in the back
Struck from a great height
By someone who should have known better than that

The dog days are over
The dog days are done
Can you hear the horses
'Cos here they come."

Florence and the Machine, "Dog Days are Over"

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Courage

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

Muhammad Ali

Sunday, November 14, 2010

First Step

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Friday, November 12, 2010

Judging

"I asked my heart if it could please infuse my soul with a more generous perspective on my mind's workings. Instead of thinking that I was a failure, could I perhaps accept that I am only a human being- and a normal one, at that? The thoughts cam up as usual- OK, so it will be- and then the attendant emotions rose, too. I began feeling frustrated and judgmental about myself, lonely and angry. But then a fierce response boiled up from somewhere in the deepest caverns of my heart, and I told myself, "I will not judge you for these thoughts."

From Eat, Pray, Love

Expectations

"Other people may not have high expectations of me, but I have high expectations for myself."

-Shannon Miller

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Firework

You don't have to feel like a waste of space
You're original, cannot be replaced
If you only knew what the future holds
After a hurricane comes a rainbow

Maybe you're reason why all the doors are closed
So you could open one that leads you to the perfect road
Like a lightning bolt, your heart will blow
And when it's time, you'll know

You just gotta ignite the light and let it shine
Just own the night like the 4th of July

'Cause baby you're a firework
Come on, show 'em what you're worth
Make 'em go, oh
As you shoot across the sky

"Firework", by Katy Perry

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Soul Mates

"Your problem is you don't understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave."

From Eat, Pray, Love

Beating Your Dreams

"Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission."

Neil Kendall

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Investment

"When I think about running, it feels like the best 45-minute investment I make in a day. It's enjoyable, it makes me feel better, and it's probably paying dividends way into the future. Running is a really easy choice."

John Fixx, son of running legend Jim Fixx

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Sixty Seconds

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love

Booth: Here we are. All of us, basically alone, separate creatures just circling each other. All searching for that slightest hint of a real connection. Some look in the wrong places, some, they just give up hope because in their mind they're thinking, “Oh, there’s nobody out there for me.” But all of us, we keep trying over and over again. Why? Because every once in a while, every once in a while two people meet and there’s that spark. And yes Bones, he’s handsome and she’s beautiful and maybe that’s all they see at first, but making love? Making love, that’s when two people become one.

Brennan: (awestruck) It is scientifically impossible for two objects to occupy the same space.

Booth: Yeah, but what’s important is we try. And when we do it right, we get close.

Brennan: To what? Breaking the laws of physics?

Booth: Yeah, Bones, a miracle. Those people, role playing and their fetishes and their little sex games, it’s crappy sex. You know, at least compared to the real thing.

Brennan: (after looking at Booth thoughtfully for a while) You’re right.

Booth: Yeah, but - Wait a second, I just won that argument?

Brennan: Yup. (They both smile)

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Famous

Popular
Everybody wanna be popular
Little kids just be watching us
Through binoculars and then they go to school and copy us
But hey I'm not knockin' y'all
But how can y'all not see it's obvious
Cause cops just be bloodin' on us
When the paparazzi be spottin' us
Cause everybody just wanna be on Mtv or BET yo
Maybe season MVP or maybe even just prom King or Queen
But everybody can't be a G
O to the D and everybody can't be O to the B
But I don't know maybe this is just how it's supposed to be
But this is what'll happen to y'all
You can go crazy and beat up drunks
The tabloids sayin' that you're hooked on drugs
You cutting up your face then you saw it back up
Look, there's plenty to see
And none of these games will be change me
Imma always be O to the B, me me
I'm famous

- B.o.B. "Fame"

Friday, October 15, 2010

Please Don't Go

Just run away
From these lies
Back to yesterday
Safe tonight
I feel the sun creeping up like tick tock
I'm trying to keep you in my head but if not
We'll just keep running from tomorrow with our lips locked
Yeah you got me begging begging baby please don't go
If I wake up tomorrow will you still be here
I don't know
If you feel the way I do
If you leave I'm gonna find you
Baby please don't go go go go

- Mike Posner, "Please Don't Go"

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Tighten Up

Living just to keep going
Going just to keep sane.
All the while I know
It's such a shame.

I don't need to get steady
I know just how I feel
Telling you to be ready
My dear.


Black Keys, "Tighten Up"

Monday, September 20, 2010

Closer

"Remember me, she said smiling
Write my name somewhere safe
Touch and taste
Fades with space
I'll never be who you'll dream

Everyday I try a little harder, dear
But those things you do, I don't wanna hear
You'll have yours, I'll have mine
No one guilty, no one right"

- Jimmy Eat World, "Closer"

Which are you?

"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."

- Robert Anthony

Thursday, September 16, 2010

A Friend

"I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."

– Plutarch

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

All At Once

There's a world we've never seen
There's still hope between the dreams
The weight of it all
Could blow away with a breeze
If you're waiting on the wind
Don't forget to breathe
Cause as the darkness gets deeper
We'll be sinkin' as we reach for love
At least somethin' we could hold
But I'll reach to you from where time just can't go

What about is gone
And it really wont be so long
Sometimes it feels like a heart is no place to be singin' from at all

- Jack Johnson, "All at Once"

Friday, September 10, 2010

Choices

"It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

- J. K. Rowling

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

New Page

"Turn a new page, tear the old one out."

- Gomez, "How We Operate"

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

The World

“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Learn to Live

"You gotta live to learn.
You gotta crash and burn.
You gotta make some stances,
and take some chances.
You gotta live and love
and take all life has to give.
You gotta live and learn
so you can learn to live."

- Darius Rucker, "Learn to Live"

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Constellations

"It was just another night
With the sun set
And the moon rise not so far behind
To give us just enough light
To lay down underneath the stars
Listen to all the translations
Of the stories across the sky,
We drew our own constellations..."

- Jack Johnson, "Constellations"

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Experiment

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Move Forward

"Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Ignorance

“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”

- Dalai Lama

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Looking

"Sometimes the one thing you are looking for is the one thing you can't see."

- Anonymous

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Your Corner

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”

- Winnie the Pooh

Friday, July 23, 2010

Choice

"You have a choice. You can throw in the towel or you can use it wipe the sweat off your face."

- Gatorade Ad

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Gravity

Set me free, leave me be
I don't wanna fall another moment into your gravity.
Here I am and I stand so tall
I'm just the way I'm supposed to be
But you're on to me and all over me.

- Sara Bareilles, "Gravity"

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Ready to Love Again

Seems like I was walking in the wrong direction
I barely recognize my own reflection, no
Scared of love but scared of life alone

Seems I've been playing on the safe side baby
Building walls around my heart to save me, oh
But it's time for me to let it go

Yeah, I'm ready to feel now
No longer am I afraid of the fall down
It must be time to move on now
Without the fear of how it might end
I guess I'm ready to love again

Just when we think that love will never find you
You runaway but still it's right behind you, oh
It's just something that you can't control

Yeah, I'm ready to feel now
No longer am I afraid of the fall down
It must be time to move on now
Without the fear of how it might end
I guess I'm ready to love again

So come and find me
I'll be waiting up for you
I'll be holding out for you tonight

Yeah, I'm ready to feel now
No longer am I afraid of the fall down

It must be time to move on now
Without the fear of how it might end
I guess I'm ready, I'm ready to love again

- Lady Antebellum, "Ready to Love Again"

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Never Be Ready

We've got our feet on the wire, talking 'bout flying
Maybe we're diving in over our heads
Scared of what I'm feeling
Staring at the ceiling here tonight

Come on lay down these arms, all our best defenses
We're taking our chances here on the run
The fear is an anchor, time is a stranger
Love isn't borrowed, we aren't promised tomorrow

We'll never be ready if we keep waiting
For the perfect time to come
Won't be steady, we'll never be ready

Where we don't know, though we can't see
Just walk on down this road with me
Won't be steady, never be ready

You're okay, you're with me here in the silence
With all of the violence crashing around
Saying we can't go, saying we don't know
This road that is narrow is the one we should follow

We'll never be ready if we keep waiting
For the perfect time to come
Won't be steady, we'll never be ready

Where we don't know, though we can't see
Just walk on down this road with me
Won't be steady, we'll never be ready

- Mat Kearney, "Never Be Ready"

Friday, May 28, 2010

Yesterday

"Oh, yesterday's over my shoulder
So I can't look back for too long
There's just too much to see waiting in front of me
And I know that I just can't go wrong."

- Jimmy Buffett, "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes"

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Bieber Fever

"Jbiebs is god to those kids. Let's be honest. I even got bieber fever. Hahaha. I'm thinking of going to the doctor to get it checked out. I keep whipping my bangs to the side and pulling up my pants and saying "dawg" and telling all the shawtys to 'holla atchya boiii.'"

- My Sister, in reference to Justin Bieber

People in Our Lives

"We all have people in our lives. Some of them are good. Some are bad. But they shape us."

- Derrick Morgan, Criminal Minds

Monday, May 17, 2010

Nothing to It

"If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you want to, do it. Wanna change the world? There's nothing to it..."

- Willy Wonka

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Take a Risk

"If you take a risk, two things will happen. People will laugh at you. Or you’ll be way ahead of everybody else."

- Steven Tyler

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Three Day Rule

"Jesus waited THREE days to come back to life. It was perfect! If he had only waited ONE day, a lot of people wouldn't have even heard he died. They'd be all, "Hey Jesus, what up?" and Jesus would probably be like, "What up? I DIED yesterday!" and they'd be all, "Uhh, you look pretty alive to me, dude..." and then Jesus would have to explain how he was resurrected, and how it was a miracle, and the dude'd be like "Uhh okay, whatever you say, bro..."

And he's not gonna come back on a SATURDAY. Everybody's busy, doing chores, workin' the loom, trimmin' the beard, NO. He waited the perfect number of days, THREE. Plus it's SUNDAY, so everyone's in church already, and they're all in there like "Oh no, Jesus is DEAD", and then BAM! He bursts in the back door, runnin' up the aisle, everyone's totally psyched, and FYI, that's when he invented the high five. That's why we wait three days to call a woman, because that's how long Jesus wants us to wait.... True story."

- Barney Stinson, How I Met Your Mother

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

You Deserve the Best

"You deserve the best in life
So if the time isn't right then move on
Second best is never enough
You'll do much better baby on your own."

- Madonna, "Express Yourself"

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Invincible

Follow through
Make your dreams come true
Don't give up the fight
You will be alright
'Cause there's no one like you in the universe

Don't be afraid
What your mind conceives
You should make a stand
Stand up for what you believe
And tonight
We can truly say
Together we're invincible

During the struggle
They will pull us down
But please, please
Let's use this chance
To turn things around
And tonight
We can truly say
Together we're invincible

Do it on your own
It makes no difference to me
What you leave behind
What you choose to be
And whatever they say
Your souls unbreakable

During the struggle
They will pull us down
But please, please
Let's use this chance
To turn things around
And tonight
We can truly say
Together we're invincible
Together we're invincible

During the struggle
They will pull us down
Please, please
Let's use this chance
To turn things around
And tonight
We can truly say
Together we're invincible
Together we're invincible

- Muse, "Invincible"

Monday, April 19, 2010

Bulletproof

Been there, done that, messed around
I'm having fun don't put me down,
I'll never let you sweep me off my feet,
I won't let you in again, the messages I've tried to send,
My informations just not going in,
Burnin' bridges shore to shore, I'll break away from something more,
I'm not turned off to love until it's cheap,
Been there, done that, messed around,
I'm having fun don't put me down,
I'll never let you sweep me off my feet,

This time baby I'll be bulletproof...

La Roux, "Bulletproof"

Friday, April 16, 2010

Wish Right Now

Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky
Are like shooting stars?
I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky
Are like shooting stars?
I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)


Yeah
I could use a dream or a genie or a wish
To go back to a place much simpler than this
Cause after all the partyin' and smashin' and crashin'
And all the glitz and the glam and the fashion
And all the pandemonium and all the madness
There comes a time where you fade to the blackness
And when you're staring at that phone in your lap
And you hoping but them people never call you back
But that's just how the story unfolds
You get another hand soon after you fold
And when your plans unravel
And they sayin' what would you wish for
If you had one chance
So airplane airplane sorry I'm late
I'm on my way so don't close that gate
If I don't make that then I'll switch my flight
And I'll be right back at it by the end of the night

Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky
Are like shooting stars?
I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky
Are like shooting stars?
I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)

Somebody take me back to the days
Before this was a job, before I got paid
Before it ever mattered what I had in my bank
Yeah back when I was tryin' to get into the subway
And back when I was rappin' for the hell of it
But now a days we rappin' to stay relevant
I'm guessin that if we can make some wishes outta airplanes
Then maybe yo maybe I'll go back to the days
Before the politics that we call the rap game
And back when ain't nobody listened to my mix tape
And back before I tried to cover up my slang
But this is for the Cada, what's up Bobby Ray
So can I get a wish to end the politics
And get back to the music that started this sh-t
So here I stand and then again I say
I'm hopin' we can make some wishes outta airplanes

Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky
Are like shooting stars?
I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky
Are like shooting stars?
I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)

-B.O.B. featuring Haley Williams, "Airplanes"

Monday, April 12, 2010

Direction

"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."

- Yogi Berra

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Talk You Down

Just a cigarette gone
No you couldn't' be that far
So I'm driving in my car
Where I hope you are
Maybe I can talk you down

We're standing on a tiny ledge
Before this goes over the edge
Gonna use my heart and not my head
And try to open up your eyes
This is relationship suicide

- The Script, "Talk You Down"

Monday, April 5, 2010

Black and White

You see the world in black and white
No color or light
You think you'll never get it right
But you're wrong, you might

The sky could fall, could fall on me
The parting of the sea
But you mean more, mean more to me
Than any color I can see

All you ever wanted was love
But you never looked hard enough
It's never gonna give itself up

All you ever wanted to be
Living in perfect symmetry
Nothing is as down or as up as us

- Coldplay, "Low"

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Dare to Fail

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert Francis Kennedy

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Life Long Love

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."

- Oscar Wilde

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Vanity and Pride

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."

- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Monday, March 8, 2010

Handsome Men's Club




From Jimmy Kimmel Live after the Oscars. Definitely one of the funniest skits I've seen.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Hope is Evil

"Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Friday, March 5, 2010

Hope

"Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all."

- Emily Dickinson

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Man Who Can't Be Moved

Going back to the corner where I first saw you,
Gonna camp in my sleeping bag. I’m not gonna move,
Got some words on cardboard got your picture in my hand,
Saying if you see this girl can you tell her where I am.

Some try to hand me money they don’t understand,
I’m not broke I’m just a broken hearted man,
I know it makes no sense, but what else can I do,
How can I move on when I’ve been in love with you…

Cause if one day you wake up and find that you’re missing me,
And your heart starts to wonder where on this earth I can be,
Thinking maybe you’d come back here to the place that we’d meet,
And you’d see me waiting for you on the corner of the street.

So I’m not moving…
I’m not moving.

Policeman says son you can’t stay here,
I said there’s someone I’m waiting for if it’s a day, a month, a year,
Gotta stand my ground even if it rains or snows,
If she changes her mind this is the first place she will go.

Cause if one day you wake up and find that you’re missing me,
And your heart starts to wonder where on this earth I can be,
Thinking maybe you’d come back here to the place that we’d meet,
And you’d see me waiting for you on the corner of the street.

So I’m not moving…
I’m not moving.

I’m not moving…
I’m not moving.

People talk about the guy
Who's waiting on a girl

There are no holes in his shoes
But a big hole in his world…

Maybe I’ll get famous as man who can’t be moved,
And maybe you won’t mean to but you’ll see me on the news,
And you’ll come running to the corner…
Cause you’ll know it’s just for you

I’m the man who can’t be moved
I’m the man who can’t be moved.

Cause if one day you wake up and find that you’re missing me,
And your heart starts to wonder where on this earth I can be,
Thinking maybe you’d come back here to the place that we’d meet,
And you’d see me waiting for you on the corner of the street.

So I’m not moving…
I’m not moving.

Going back to the corner where I first saw you,
Gonna camp in my sleeping bag not I’m not gonna move.

- The Script, Man Who Can't Be Moved

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Bothered



- The real Robert Pattinson is bothered by the fake Robert Pattinson

For more "I'm Bothered With Robert Pattinson" visit Robertisbothered.com

Monday, March 1, 2010

Revenge

“I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee a the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me.’”

- Lady GaGa

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Work So Hard

"Everybody looking at you strange, saying: 'you changed',
Like you work that hard so you could stay the same."

Jay-Z

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Free

So we live out in our old van
Travel all across this land
Me and you

We'll end up hand in hand
Somewhere down on the sand
Just me and you

Just as free
Free as we'll ever be
Just as free
Free as we'll ever be

Drive until the city lights
Dissolve into a country sky
Just me and you

Lay underneath the harvest moon
Do all the things that lovers do
Just me and you

Just as free
Free as we'll ever be
Just as free
Free as we'll ever be
and ever be

No we don't have a lot of money
No we don't have a lot of money
No we don't have a lot of money
All we need is love

We're free as we'll ever be
Just as free
Free as we'll ever be

So we live in our old van
Travel all across this land
Me and you

- Zac Brown Band, "Free"

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Break Even

I'm still alive but I'm barely breathing
Just prayin' to a god that I don't believe in
Cause I got time while she got freedom
Cause when a heart breaks no it don't break even

Her best days will be some of my worst
She finally met a man that's gonna put her first
While I'm wide awake she's no trouble sleeping
Cause when a heart breaks no it don't breakeven... even... no

What am I supposed to do when the best part of me was always you,
And what am I supposed to say when I'm all choked up that you're ok
I'm falling to pieces, yeah,
I'm falling to pieces

They say bad things happen for a reason
But no wise words gonna stop the bleeding
Cause she's moved on while I'm still grieving
And when a heart breaks no it don't breakeven even... no

What am I gonna to do when the best part of me was always you,
And what am I supposed to say when I'm all choked up that you're ok
I'm falling to pieces, yeah,
I'm falling to pieces, yeah,
I'm falling to pieces
(One still in love while the other ones leaving)
I'm falling to pieces
(Cause when a heart breaks no it don't breakeven)

Oh you got his heart and my heart and none of the pain
You took your suitcase, I took the blame.
Now I'm try'na make sense of what little remains ooh
Cause you left me with no love and no love to my name.

I'm still alive but I'm barely breathing
Just prayin' to a god that I don't believe in
Cause I got time while she got freedom
Cause when a heart breaks no it don't break
No it don't break
No it don't break even no

What am I gonna do when the best part of me was always you and
What am I suppose to say when I'm all choked up that you're ok
(Oh glad your okay now)
I'm falling to pieces yeah
(Oh I'm glad your okay)
I'm falling to pieces yeah
(One still in love while the other ones leaving)
I'm falling to pieces
(Cause when a heart breaks no it don't breakeven)

Oh it don't break even no
Oh it don't break even no
Oh it don't break even no

- The Script, "Break Even"

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Closer to Love

Oh, it's your light
Oh, it's your way
Pull me out of the dark
Just to show me the way

Crying out now
From so far away
You pull me closer to love
Closer to love

'Cause you are all that I've waited for
All of my life
We're gonna get there
You are all that I've waited for
All of my life

You pull me closer to love
Closer to love
Pull me closer to love.

- Mat Kearney, "Closer to Love"

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Crazy Life

Get caught in the race
Of this crazy life
Trying to be everything can make you lose your mind
I just wanna go back in time...

- "American Honey" by Lady Antebellum

Sunday, February 7, 2010

I Belong to You

When these pillars get pulled down,
It will be you who wears the crown,
And I'll owe everything to you

How much pain has cracked your soul?
How much love would make you whole?
You're my guiding lightning strike

I can't find the words to say,
But they're overdue,
I've traveled half the world to say,
I belong to you.

- "I Belong to You", Muse

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Love and Luck

Better days are in the cards I feel
Feel it in the changin' wind
I feel it when I glide
So talk to me I'll listen to your story
I've been around enough to know
That there's more than meets the eye

Everybody needs a little good luck charm
A little gris gris keeps you safe from harm
Rub yours on me, and I'll rub mine on you
Luckiest couple on the avenue

With a little love and luck
You will get by
With a little love and luck
We'll take the sky
In this mangled modern world
You've got to try
Try a little love and lcuk
And you'll get by

- Jimmy Buffett, "Love and Luck"

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

No Envy, No Fear

Some are reaching, few are there,
Wandering from a hero's chair.
Some are scared to fly so high,
Well this is how we have to try.
Have no envy and no fear.

- Joshua Radin, "No Envy, No Fear"

Monday, February 1, 2010

How Far Do You Wanna Go?

There's an open sky staring back at us
And it's daring us to tear it up
Bury that town in a cloud of dust
How far do you wanna go?

- Gloriana, "How Far Do You Wanna Go?"

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Run to You

I run from hate
I run from prejudice
I run from pessimists
But I run too late
I run my life
Or is it running me
Run from my past
I run too fast
Or too slow it seems
When lies become the truth
That’s when I run to you

This world keeps spinning faster
Into a new disaster so I run to you
I run to you baby
And when it all starts coming undone
Baby you’re the only one I run to
I run to you

We run on fumes
Your life and mine
Like the sands of time
Slippin’ right on through
And our love’s the only truth
That’s why I run to you

- "I Run to You", Lady Antebellum

Distinction

"We are distinct from each other and often strive to distinguish ourselves further. Yet each dimension of distinction is apt at least to establish commonality with a set of others similarly distinguished. There is no simple sameness unmarked by difference, but likewise no distinction not dependent on some background of common recognition."

- Hannah Arendt, found in the book "Viral Loop" by Adam Penenberg

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Shattered

How many times can I break till I shatter?
Over the line can't define what I'm after
I always turn the car around
Give me a break let me make my own pattern
All that it takes is some time but I'm shattered
I always turn the car around.

-O.A.R. "Shattered"

Free as a Bird

If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?
For I must be traveling on now
There's too many places I've gotta see
If I stay here with you girl
Things just couldn't be the same

Cause I'm as free as a bird now
And this bird you cannot change
Oooh ooh ooh
And the bird you cannot change
And this bird you cannot change
Lord knows I cannot change

Bye bye its been sweet love
Though this feeling I cannot change
Please don't take this so badly
Cause lord knows i'm to blame
If I stay here with you girl
Things just couldn't be the same

- "Freebird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd

Monday, January 25, 2010

Undisclosed Desires

I know you've suffered
But I don't want you to hide
It's cold and loveless
I won't let you be denied

Soothing, I'll make you feel pure
Trust me, you can be sure

I want to reconcile the violence in your heart
I want to recognize your beauty's not just a mask
I want to exorcise the demons from your past
I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart.

- "Undisclosed Desires" by Muse

Monday, January 4, 2010

Wild at Heart

I ain't here to do anything half-way
Don't give a damn what anyone might say
I just wanna free fall for a while

That rebel moon is shinin'
Those stars burn like diamonds
Hell bent on chasin' down that crazy side
I'll follow you where you're leading
To the first sweet taste of freedom
You got me runnin' baby,
Wild at heart

- Gloriana, Wild at Heart