Stars: Don't Be Afraid to Sing
your quiet eyes
your mouth that never tells lies
you've got one hour
it's time you told your story
eighteen, alone, in love with the answer phone
and too afraid, much too afraid to fall for anything
and too afraid, much too afraid to sing
i won't pretend
that i can't see the end
but it's far away;
it's in the distance
we'll find a place;
there is a room for two of us
the minutes drag,
then there's a world between us and
i'm too afraid, much too afraid to fall for anything.
and i'm too afraid, much too afraid to sing.
WE ALL COME TO AN END, AND WE ALL END TOGETHER. WE ALL END TOGETHER.
1 comment:
IS that last line also from the song? Or is it something you made up? Or something from another source?
Any of those ways:
I'm not sure I agree. I feel we end apart and alone, generally. People don't die TOGETHER. They just spend the time up to that point together. I generally think that we are brought into this world together (one with another being), but generally we end it alone.
I might agree with you if you are including the afterlife, but I'm not sure you are.
Anyway, I prefer it like Hachimaki says in the Anime/Manga Planetes, something along the lines of:
We are all like the stars. We look so close together, but in the end, we are so far apart, and we keep it that way. Tremendous emptiness between us all. Empty space.
But that's the emo-tastic side of me.
The Romantic (capital R, not the lower-case r) side disagrees, and agrees with what you're saying. As does the romantic side of me (yes, that's confusing, but you, of ALL people, should know what I'm saying here)
I mean, yeah, we work through our lives getting close to those around us, and if you find people you can really care about, you never TRULY die ALONE. And it feels good to remember that.
But at the same time, isn't that all just an effort to fill all that empty void.
There is no such thing as Charisma, only your gravitational pull on other stars.
But at the same time...
See what I have to deal with? I'm such a conflicted individual. Understand why I'm so nuts now? :-p
I honestly don't know which I feel is more true. It's like a teeter-totter barely maintaining a perfect balance, Every so often slipping just a little bit to one side and throwing the whole thing off.
It's crazy, but I highly doubt I'm alone in this feeling. I think it's something a lot of people have to deal with.
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