Songs

I had this rather long post planned, with funny quotes from my history readings, and funny stories from my art history class, and some other random funny stories. But then I just didn't have the energy to tell funny stories. Instead, you'll have to settle for this, and let the music play in your head....

Clarity

I worry
I weigh three times my body
I worry
I throw my fear around
But this morning
There's a calm I can't explain
Rock candy's melted
Only diamonds now remain

Ooooh, Oooh, Oooh, Oooh
By this time I recognize this moment
This moment will be gone
But I will bend the light pretending
That it somehow lingered on
When all I got's
Ooooh, Oooh, Oooh, Oooh

And I will wait to find
If this will last forever
And I will wait to find
If this will last forever
And I will pay no mind
That it won't and it wont
Because it can't
It just can't
(It's not supposed to)

Was there a second in time I looked around?
Did I sail through or drop my anchor down?
Was anything enough to kiss the ground
And say I am here now?
And she is here now

Ooooh, Oooh, Oooh, Oooh,
Ooooh, Oooh, Oooh, Oooh

So much wasted in the afternoon
So much sacred in the month of June
How about you, ohh

And I will wait to find
If this will last forever, yeah
And I will pay no mind
When it won't and it won't
Because it won't
And I will waste no time
Worried 'bout no rainy weather
And I will waste no time
Remaining in our lives together
Ooooh, Oooh, Oooh, Oooh

I'll be surprised if anyone can point out my favorite line in that song. You also get:

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as thought they're here to stay
Oh I believe in yesterday

Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be
There's a shadow hanging over me
Oh yesterday, came suddenly

Why she, had to go
I don't know she wouldn't say
I said, something wrong
Now I long for yesterday

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh I believe in yesterday.

Why she, had to go I don't know
She wouldn't say
I said, something wrong
Now I long for yesterday

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh I believe in yesterday.

(Don't make me tell you who sings that. Or this next one.)

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free.

Blackbird fly blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night.

Blackbird fly blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
You were only waiting for this moment to arise.

Ooh, ooh, and a friend was recently listening to this one (so guess what? you get it too!):

Well I heard there was a secret chord
that David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
Well it goes like this :
The fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah...

Well your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
And she tied you to her kitchen chair
She broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah...

(Yeah but) Baby I've been here before
I've seen this room and I've walked this floor, (You know)
I used to live alone before I knew you
And I've seen your flag on the marble arch
and love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah...

Well there was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show that to me do you
But remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah

Hallelujah...

[Instrumental]

Maybe there's a God above
But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you
It's not a cry that you hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelu...
Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelu...
Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah

Hallellllluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuujjjaahhhh...Hallelllluuuuuujjaaaaaaaaaahhh

I know that no one actually reads posts where people post lyrics, but I just couldn't help it.... I just felt like music rather than writing, and this seems to be the only way to communicate that. If you know the songs you can hear them in your head and it's all good. If not, I'm sorry. You'll just have to wait until the next intelligible post. (Wait, what? I post intelligibly?) I also don't claim to agree theologically with each and every one of these lyrics. I also make absolutely no claims to like them because of their intended meaning (I tend to be rather postmodern - sometimes - that way and take things out of context). I just felt like posting them. A continuation of the past week's stupidity/distraction I suppose.

Sincerely yours,
Z