Imagine me and you, a two
I think about you day and night
It's only right to think about the girl you love, and hold her tight
So happy together
If i should call you up, invest a dime
And you say you belong to me, and ease my mind
Imagine how the world could be so very fine
So happy together
I can see me loving nobody but you
For all my life
When you're with me baby, the skies will be blue
For all my life
Me and you, and you and me
No matter how they toss the dice
It had to be the only one for me is you,and you for me
So happy together
I can see me loving nobody but you
For all my life
When you're with me baby, the skies will be blue
For all my life
~ So Happy Together, The Beatles
it's interesting how simple things were back then....... and how feel-good the old songs are........ when things were direct and less complicated......
don't you just wish things could be simple? that everything could have an answer or explanation or solution........... where u didn't have to be caught in an endless catch22......
and if i fall along the way
would you pick me up and dust me off?
would you sympathise with my needs?
i know you think i need a lot
started out clean but i'm jaded
just phoning it in, just breaking the skin
i need something concrete, something real......... not just empty words and a child's dream...... that isn't enough for sustainance.....
happy yet deluded or disillusioned and idealistic?
i change my mind....... let me be deluded......... i can't handle the truth.......
let me blame it on the world, but not myself........ it's easier to take, where the problem is intangible and out of my reach, rather than within my being........... it's easier to believe u can't change something that's out of your range, rather than to believe u can change something within your reach......... less hassle. less fuss. less politics. less problems. more convenient. less painful.
and when my smile gets old and faded
wait around I'll smile again
shouldn't be so complicated
just hold me and then
just hold me again
can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
get put back together
and all the kings' horses and all the kings' men couldn't put humpty together again
that says a lot.......
if even kids are taught that mindset, why do we grow up hoping? why do we carry greater burdens of hope? of wishing that the improbable will happen when it probably won't? of wishing that we'll have things easy when we won't? of hoping that life'll b a bed of roses when it's a savannah of cactuses? it's really tiring keeping up hope like that... don't we learn?
"No I would not sleep in this bed of lies
So toss me out and turn in
And there'll be no rest for these tired eyes
I'm marking it down to learning
I am
Don't think that I can take another empty moment
Don't think that I can fake another
hollow smile
It's not enough just to be sorry.
Don't think that I could take another talk about it
Just like me you got needs
And they're only a whisper away
And we softly surrender
To these lives that we've tendered away
Tried to be more than me
And I gave 'til it all went away
And we've only surrendered
To the worst part of these winters we've made
I am all that I'll ever be
When you - lay your hands
Over me
but don't go weak on me now
I know that it's weak
But God help me I need this
I will not sleep in this bed of lies"
Monday, January 12, 2004
The Tale of the Sun and the Moon
The sun was in his bathing suit,
the moon in her pajamas.
They played all day
until the two
were called in by their mamas.
The sun went home and climbed in bed,
his mama sang a tune,
and soon the sun
was fast asleep
and dreaming of the moon.
The moon decided not to go;
instead she stayed outside.
She danced and played
and laughed and sang
and stayed awake all night.
When morning came the sun arose
and went outside to play,
but could not find
his friend the moon,
who slept inside all day.
So now these two are best of friends,
disjoined by dark and light.
The sun turns in
at evenfall --
the moon disports at night.
The shining moon sees no sunlight,
the sun sees no moonbeams,
but when they each
are fast asleep
they're in each other's dreams
~ anonymous
isn't that so sweet?? caught amelie of montmartre today....... sigh....... y am i suddenly being infused with all these lovey poignantly hopeful ideas? not good............ better to stay grounded....... stick to dostoyevsky........ better to be disillusioned and troubled with concrete matters than hopeful and all floaty and stand to have your bubbles popped one after the other............
quick short thoughts today.......... i'm a selfish person......... we're all selfish people........ sigh.. let's not go into details shall we? regardless of how we try to redeem ourselves and make ourselves look good and play e part of e good guy, it's all for self-gain...... it just depends on how much we wanna try to be good..... but it gets tiring after sometime and we gotta take a break from it and just be our lone solitary being........ some time off from e others and to set aside some time for ourselves...... indulgence...... cultivation......... isolation......... independence........ self-search..........
Wednesday, January 07, 2004
why is it that people fail to see the infinite amount of beauty that surrounds them and it requires a huge frivolous display of extravagent and redundant waste of resources which serve only to pollute the atmosphere and air around them to feel the passing adrenaline and high of spirit? can that few minutes of bright lights and beautiful display of colours mean more to you than the concrete buildings and what little we have left of nature around us?
what does the government do to attract its people to an outdoor event? implement fireworks.
and every year the budget just gets bigger doesn't it? wouldn't it be a better idea to use that amount of money to fund the starving arts groups? or to donate it to some charity and the mediacorp actors won't have to torment themselves to raise money? or revamp parking signs so the drivers can see the small print and not get fined so often?
seriously, how do fireworks contribute to the economy?
we know singapore is a tropical place, so naturally it's hot as hell...... don't fireworks fog up the atmosphere and contribute to the greenhouse effect? so much for el nino........
why do we need to indulge in extravagences when we can meet other needs which are more economical and practical and logical? do the people really think that the government loves its people cuz they give us pretty exploding gunpowder and sparkles in the sky? how naive is that? to be bought over by some overpriced gunpowder and fancy technology? yes, i do confess that fireworks are a pretty sight.........
but whatever happened to the good old sunrise and sunset? i would rather watch the serene sunset anyday than squeeze with the rest of singapore in merlion park to catch some noisy smelly pollutive burst and cackle of coloured gunpowder.......... listening to the ships' foghorns sound in unison and in reply to one another is a much more delightful and fulfilling experience than hearing the pop and cackle of gunpowder
but that is how things are viewed nowadays isn't it? where the more expensive things are rapidly ousting aside the older, cheaper alternatives......... everything now is about value and granduer.... about price and size......... the bigger, the louder, the more, is better....... no time to be lost on sentimentality and feeling........ the world is moving ahead and so must we....... no time to think, only time to do..........
-Random Thoughts of the Day-
and when you realise that you have stopped and the world has moved on without you, what do you do?
what happens if you move ahead of the world? will you be held to acclaim? or condemned by the masses as 'different'?
