Possibility

"Even on the worst days, there's a possibility of joy."

- Detective Beckett, "Castle"
October 8, 2012 Episode

Top of the World

I've tried to cut these corners

Try to take the easy way out

I kept on falling short of something

I coulda gave up then but

Then again I couldn't have 'cause

I've traveled all this way for something

Now take it in but don't look down

'Cause I'm on top of the world,

I'm on top of the world

Waiting on this for a while now

Paying my dues to the dirt

I've been waiting to smile

Been holding it in for a while

Take it with me if I can

Been dreaming of this since a child

I'm on top of the world. 

- Imagine Dragons, "On Top of the World" 

One and Only

You've been on my mind
I grow fonder every day,
Lose myself in time
Just thinking of your face
God only knows
Why it's taking me so long
To let my doubts go
You're the only one that I want

I don't know why I'm scared,
I've been here before
Every feeling, every word,
I've imagined it all,
You never know if you never try
To forgive your past and simply be mine

I dare you to let me be your, your one and only
Promise I'm worthy to hold in your arms
So come on and give me the chance
To prove that I'm the one who can
Walk that mile until the end starts

If I've been on your mind
You hang on every word I say, lose yourself in time
At the mention of my name,
Will I ever know how it feels to hold you close?
And have you tell me whichever road I choose you'll go

- Adele, "One and Only"

Good Life

When you're happy like a fool
Let it take you over
When everything is out
You gotta take it in

Oh this has gotta be the good life
This has gotta be the good life
This could really be a good life, good life

Say oh, got this feeling that you can't fight
Like this city is on fire tonight
This could really be a good life
A good, good life

- One Republic, "Good Life"

Today

"Today — do not be angry.
Today — do not worry.
Today — be kind to yourself and others.
Today — be honest to yourself and others.
Today — work diligently."

– Usui Sensei, 1865-1926

Just Say Yes

"I'm running out of ways to make you see
I want you to stay here beside me
I won't be ok and I won't pretend I am
So just tell me today and take my hand
Please take my hand

Just say yes, just say there's nothing holding you back
It's not a test, nor a trick of the mind
Only love.

It's so simple and you know it is
You know it is, yeah
We can't be to and fro like this
All our lives
You're the only way to me
The path is clear
What do I have to say to you
For God's sake, dear."

Jump Rope

There'll be a bump and there will be a bruise
There'll be alarms and there will be a snooze
There'll be a path that you will have to choose
There'll be a win and there will be a lose and

You gotta hold your head up high and
Watch all the negative go by
Don't ever be ashamed to cry
You go ahead
Cause life's like a jump rope

Up down
Up down
Up down
Up down yeah
It will get hard
Remember life's like a jump rope


- Blue October, "Jump Rope"

No More Tears

And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.

- Mumford and Sons, "After the Storm"

Happiness

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."

- Agnes Repplier

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"

Sixty Seconds

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"

Which are you?

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

- Robert Anthony

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"

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"

If You Just Believe

"Believe in what your heart is saying
Hear the melody that's playing
There's no time to waste
There's so much to celebrate
Believe in what you feel inside
And give your dreams the wings to fly
You have everything you need
If you just believe."

- Josh Groban "Believe"

From The Polar Express

Love After Love

The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each other will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

- Derek Walcott
Found in the book The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Black and White

This whole city’s black and white
Tell me what is your color.
Could it be the same as mine?
Faded greens and blue street lights,
There’s a red fire burning
From the sea up to the sky.

I don’t want to wait until tomorrow
To tell you how I’d feel the rest of my life
You don’t want a waste another minute when you realize
Walking on the dark side of the evening
Baby it is you, that opened my eyes
Burning like a fire on the water
The city of black and white.

Won’t you just stay?
Won’t you just stay?

I’m on the top stair looking down
And their coming up to me
It’s where the whole world wants to be found
Golden rings and coffee brown
There’s white flag waving
Where my heart is on the ground.

I don’t want to wait until tomorrow
To tell you how I’d feel the rest of my life
You don’t want a waste another minute when realize
Walking on the dark side of the evening
Baby it was you that opened my eyes
Burning like a fire on the water
The city of black and white.

Won’t you just stay?
Won’t you just stay?

Won’t you just stay now

When the light glows
Over a dark street
No one else knows
So take my hands
I’ll carry you, you can carry me.

‘Cause I don’t want to wait until tomorrow
To tell you how I’d feel the rest of my life

Normal Days

"You never know the biggest day of your life is going to be the biggest. The days you think are going to big ones, they're never as you make them out to be in your head. It's the regular days, the ones that start out normal, those are the days that end up being the biggest."

~ Izzie Stevens, Grey's Anatomy

Wade Through the Night

Shadows, timeless days
Laughing in the sunlight
Losing our ways
Grass underneath us
The sky above
We're in the middle
Surrounded by love

Let's kick off our shoes
And wade through the night
The air's too warm
The Moons just right
We'll sing to the stars
And dance by the light
As we kick off our shoes
And wade through the, night

When I look around
I just can't deny
Everything you, oh
Everything I
Tracing your outline
Against a painted sky
Connecting the dots
Between you and I

So let's kick off our shoes
And wade through the night
The air's too warm
The Moons just right
We'll sing to the stars
And dance by the light
As we kick off our shoes
And wade through the night

We'll hike up our jeans
And get our feet wet
Maybe we will dance until the dawn

So let's kick off our shoes
And wade through the night
The air's too warm
The moons just right
We'll sing to the stars
And dance by the light
Let's kick off our shoes,
Let's kick off our shoes
And wade through the night.

~Matt Wertz, "Wade Through the Night"