Posted in songs on 12/16/2009 02:45 pm by verbal
Round a Pole – Ani Di Franco (Red Letter Year)
(Click the link to listen to the whole album – this is song #9)
i could sing you ’round a pole
i could talk you up a tree
but when it comes to what really matters
you are way more clever than me
i knew i wanted to be challenged
but i was unclear about how
so i’ll be the guy with the toolbox
and you be the fun lovin’ gal
and i’ll learn to fix stuff
if you will teach me love
and god will radiate out from within us
instead of this bullshit from above
and we can dance round like monkeys
after the paparazzi have gone home
and i will let go forever
the fallacy of ever being alone
i could sing you around a pole
like a ball at the end of a rope
have you duckin’ and sluggin’
protecting your head
but i decided just to love you back instead
’cause i have studied my own pain
like an ambitious scientist
and i’ve discovered it’s all the same
and it has nothing to do with this
so i’ll learn to fix stuff
if you will teach me love
and god will radiate out from within us
instead of this bullshit from above
and we can dance around like monkeys
after the paparazzi have gone home
having let go forever
the fallacy of ever being alone.
Posted in poetry, quotes on 08/19/2009 09:37 pm by verbal
Even after all this time
The Sun never says to the Earth
‘You owe me’
Look what happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky
- Hafiz
Posted in essays on 08/10/2009 05:36 pm by verbal
Love is not like air. You can breathe without even thinking about it – and yes, you can love this way, as well. But you know that air exists because, at the end of this moment, you are still alive. Love has no physical proof – it needs to be perceived, and to be perceived it needs to be experienced. Love does not soak into our pores via osmosis – it must be inhaled, and exhaled. It must be expressed – and there is no time like the present.
So, you love someone? Act like it. Put that love into your actions and your words. LIVE IT. Love actively, not passively. LOVE LIKE YOU MEAN IT.
She’ll never how how much she means to you, unless you tell her. He’ll never see how you feel, unless you show him. Own your love, by expressing it fully. And, if your relationship fails, or your love is unrequited – at least you can take solace in knowing that you loved your best and most beautiful at every opportunity.
Love makes no mistakes. And, if you live your love in every moment, eventually that shining beacon of good vibe you send out into the world will attract the kind of person who is ready to love back, full blast.
