Tuesday, September 28, 2010

The Scientist

Coldplay

Come up to meet you,
Tell you I'm sorry,
You don't know how lovely you are,
I had to find you,
Tell you I need you,
Tell you I set you apart,
Tell me your secrets,
And ask me your questions,
I know let's go back to the start,
Running in circles,
Chasing our tails, heads on a silence apart.

Nobody said it was easy,
It's such a shame for us to part,
Nobody said it was easy,
No one ever said it would be so hard,
I'm going back to the start.

I was just guessing,
At numbers and figures,
Pulling the puzzles apart,
Questions of science,
Science and progress,
Did not speak as loud as my heart,
Tell me you love me,
Come back and haunt me,
Oh when I rush to the start,
Running in circles,
Chasing tails,
Coming back as we are.

Nobody said it was easy,
Oh it's such a shame for us to part,
Nobody said it was easy,
No one ever said it would be so hard,
Oh take me back to the start.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

In My Place

Coldplay

In my place, in my place
Were lines that I couldn't change
I was lost, oh yeah

I was lost, I was lost
Crossed lines I shouldn't have crossed
I was lost, oh yeah

Yeah, how long must you wait for him?
Yeah, how long must you pay for him?
Yeah, how long must you wait for him?

I was scared, I was scared
Tired and underprepared
But I wait for you

If you go, if you go
Leaving me here on my own
Well I wait for you

Yeah, how long must you wait for him?
Yeah, how long must you pay for him?
Yeah, how long must you wait for him?

Please, please, please
Come on and sing to me
To me, me

Come on and sing it out, out, out
Come on and sing it now, now, now
Come on and sing it

In my place, in my place
Were lines that I couldn't change
I was lost, oh yeah
Oh yeah

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Re-instated, Rejuvinated, Re-ignited, Revamped, Recycled, Reanimated, Rebranded and Repackaged... The Remix Edition of Life as We Know It

BOOM!
And all the world comes crashing down. The wall that was meticulously built, with every brick fashioned and secured, was brought down by a single gaze and the softest lips. The walls of Jericho were no match for the Covenant. The world became smaller yet vastly encompassing all known directions. Planes shifted. Multiverses are born and dead. Reality collapsed. Life has sprung. I have drank my cup and it is empty but the well goes deeper. Wonder is alive. Hello. There you are, wonder.
The tornado in the ivory tower has seized. The second circle of hell has passed. I am alive. I am free. Free to see. I see you. In full color. In 3D. 4D. 11D in terrabyte speed! There you are. Standing in the light. I'll race to you then race with you. Hand in hand, never letting go. Let all hell break loose with the demons of our past gnarling. I dare them to come forward. For no darkness can sway a ray of light.
There you are. I see you. In the light. I love you.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Speed of Sound

Coldplay

How long before I get in?
Before it starts, before I begin?
How long before you decide?
Before I know what it feels like?
Where To, where do I go?
If you never try, then you'll never know.
How long do I have to climb,
Up on the side of this mountain of mine?

Look up, I look up at night,
Planets are moving at the speed of light.
Climb up, up in the trees,
every chance that you get,
is a chance you seize.
How long am I gonna stand,
with my head stuck under the sand?
I'll start before I can stop,
before I see things the right way up.

All that noise, and all that sound,
All those places I got found.
And birds go flying at the speed of sound,
to show you how it all began.
Birds came flying from the underground,
if you could see it then you'd understand?

Ideas that you'll never find,
All the inventors could never design.
The buildings that you put up,
Japan and China all lit up.
The sign that I couldn't read,
or a light that I couldn't see,
some things you have to believe,
but others are puzzles, puzzling me.

All that noise, and all that sound,
All those places I got found.
And birds go flying at the speed of sound,
to show you how it all began.
Birds came flying from the underground,
if you could see it then you'd understand,
ah when you see it then you'll understand?

All those signs, I knew what they meant.
Some things you can invent.
Some get made, and some get sent,
Ooh?
Birds go flying at the speed of sound,
to show you how it all began.
Birds came flying from the underground,
if you could see it then you'd understand,
ah, when you see it then you'll understand?

Monday, September 13, 2010

13th of September, Let Me Remember...

One more hour to go and this eventful day is about to end its metaphysical state and charter to the land of memories forever encapsuled in a frozen state, unreal, illusion, yet will breathe more life than the actual living world. Reality, but a segway that crosses between the now and the known, and carries with it encapsuled memories to serve as both vice and vicar as we become the saint and the sinner. Forever locked in a deathdefying tango. Forever locked in a passionate embrace in a small room of coldplay's choice. Forever, in passion lain, soft kisses are the language of the free soul and the bleeding heart. Unending. Splashes of white and red. Drops of beer and ashes on the street floor. Burn the morning sky with its blazing, golden banner. It is ours, my friend. The day is ours. As real and surreal as a fragile belief. Let it echo on to the halls of our eternity. A memory.