say yes

this is super powerful...
"this is for the ones who know we can sound the music of others
simply by playing our own strings"

falling is like this.

you give me that look
like you're choosing between choking
and spitting it all out
like you're trying fight gravity
on a planet that insists

feels like reckless driving when we're talking
it's fun while it lasts
and it's faster than walking
but no one's going to sympathize when we crash
they'll say you hit what you head for, you get what you ask
and we'll say we didn't know
we didn't even try

one minute there was road beneath us
the next just sky

i won't beg you for something maybe you could never give

"and all you see
is where else you could be
when you're at home"
- death cab

these sidewalks between us
hold the footsteps of tomorrow

if the sky falls, hold up your hands

i watched my shadow grow and fade
grow and fade
and at that moment
i wanted to melt into the earth
and live among cool damp soil
and breathe into trees
into roots into trunks into branches into limbs into leaves

i wanted to rid myself of concrete and of traps
and of paralyzing fear
i wanted to close my eyes and let the notes take me far away from reality
soothe soothe soothe my lost soul

"but you should never be embarrassed by your trouble living. because it is the ones with the sores throats, who have done the most singing"
- bright eyes

my newest obsession

CocoRosie - By Your Side

From 'The Color Purple':

Anyhow, he say, you know how it is. You ask yourself one question, it lead to fifteen. I start to wonder why us need love. Why us suffer. Why us black. Why men and women. Where do children really come from. It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period.

So what you think? I ast.

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, he say, the more I love.

And people start to love you back, I bet, I say.

They do, he say, surprise.