- Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away. Now it looks as though they're here to stay. Oh, I believe in yesterday.
- I, I guess, the only thing cheap to you is your friends. You can always make new friends, but when you sell them out will they be worth as much? And now the bridge is ashes. It might as well have never been built. It might as well have never been built. And the rivers that it crosses, it looks like an ocean now, it looks like an ocean now. Times change, and people change with them. Some people love to play the victim, play the victim. You threw caution to the wind, washed away these few past years for nothing. Was it all for nothing? Keep it on wax.
- I've seen a child is caught in the sad trap of gravity, he falls from the lowest branch of the apple tree. And lands in the grass, and weeps for his dignity. Next time, he will not aim so high. Yeah, next time, neither will I.
- Well I awoke in relief, my sheets and tubes were all tangled, weak from whiskey and pills, in a Chicago hospital. And my father was there, in a chair by the window. Staring so far away. I tried talking, just whispered "so sorry... so selfish" He stopped me and said "child, I love you regardless. And there's nothing you could do that would ever change this. I'm not angry, it happens. But you just can't do it again."
- So, I'm just the medicine you take when you're sick. You get well and that's it. I'm put back, on the shelf in your mirror. And it isn't exceptional, the course of our fate. 'Cause people love and they hate. And I guess... it's just our turn to hate. Yeah, you were just some song I wrote. A poem on a page. A sculpture I made out of clay. Desire was the flame. Now you're more of a basketball, boys just pass you around. They bounce you hard on the ground, and dribble. And we all get highfives. Well you think I'm an asshole now? Well, you're probably right. But at least I'm not blind to the facts I've been wishing were lies. But still, I hope you get everything that you care to posses, and unbelievable sex with him, or any one of my "friends".
- "We used to have this fight each night, she'd never admit I existed."
- "He was the same way, he was always 'run away, hit the road, don't commit' - YOU'RE FULL OF SHIT!"
- "She's in denial."
- "He's in denial."
- "Didn't give an inch when I gave a mile."
- "I gave a mile!"
- "Gave a mile to who?"
- "I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had - someone to live for, unafraid to say I love you!"
- RENT
- "But who, Mark, are you? Mark has got his work. They say Mark lives for his work. And Mark's in love with his work. Mark hides in his work."
- "From what?"
- "From facing your failure, facing your loneliness, facing the fact you live a lie. Yes! You live a lie. Tell you why. You're always preaching not to be numb, when that's how you thrive. You pretend to create and observe when you really detach from feeling alive."
- RENT
- "How could a night so frozen be so scalding hot? How can a morning this mild be so raw? Why are entire years strewn on the cutting room floor of memory, when single frames from one magic night forever flicker in close-up on the 3D imax of my mind? That's poetic. That's pathetic."
- "Why am I the witness? And when I capture it on film, will it mean that it's the end, and I'm alone?"
- "Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way. No day but today. I trust my soul, my only goal is just to be. There's only now, there's only here. Give in to love, or live in fear. No other path, no other way, no day but today."
- And everyone should take the lead: follow your dreams. If you don't try, you fail.
- When the sun came up, we were sleeping in. Sunk inside our blankets, sprawled across the bed. And we, were dreaming. There were moments when, when I know it ends. The world revolves around us. And we're keepin' it, keep it all going. This delicate balance, vulnerable, all knowing. Sing like you think no one's listening. You would kill for this, just a little bit, just a little bit, you would. You would.
- It takes more time than I've ever had, drains the life from me, makes me want to forget. As young as I was, I felt older back then. More disciplined, stronger and certain. But I was scared to death of eternity, I was saved by grace, but destroyed by naivety. And I lied to myself and said it was for the best. And now faith is replaced with a logic so cold. I've disregarded what I was, now that I'm older, and I know much more than I did back then. But the more I learn, the more I can't understand. And I've become content with this life that I lead, where I drink too much and don't believe in much of anything.
- Forget your legs around my hips, forget your hands pressed on my back. Forget the letters that I kept, this is another I won't send. Forget your lips, your eyes, your thighs, forget our one last kiss goodnight. Forget me stakin' out your house, this time I've got you figured out.
- I was at a funeral the day I realized I wanted to spend my life with you. Sitting down on the steps at the old post office, the flag was flying at half mast, and I was thinking 'bout how everyone is dying. But maybe it's time to live.
- The sun came up with no conclusions, flowers sleepin' in their beds. The city cemetary's hummin', I'm wide awake, its mornin'. I have my drugs, I have my woman, they keep away my loneliness. My parents, they have their religion, but sleep in separate houses.
- The sun is up, the sky is blue. It's beautiful, and so are you.
- We're glad for what we've done, done with what we've lost, our whole lives lay out, right in front of us.
jul 20 2010 ∞
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