& Sunday, July 01, 2007

Hello people of the world!

Time to share stuff again, this time a pretty poem, a sweet picture, and a sad song.

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
-- W.B. Yeats

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths,
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread upon my dreams.

How beautiful is that?
I mean, this man wanting to give the one he loves the very cloths of heaven - and then admitting to not being able to do so - yet still so vulnerably exposing himself in the last 3 lines... an admission of love, and a plea for reciprocation - AAH, gets me everytime.

Grandfather and grandson, quiet companionship.

So sweet yah? :)

And lastly, the bittersweet song.

All the Same
-- Sick Puppies

I don't mind where you come from
As long as you come to me
I don't like illusions
I can't see them clearly

I don't care no I wouldn't dare
To fix the twist in you
You've shown me eventually
What you'll do

I don't mind...I don't care...
As long as you're here

Go ahead tell me you'll leave again
You'll just come back running
Holding your scarred heart in hand
It's all the same
And I'll take you for who you are
If you take me for everything
Do it all over again
It's all the same

Hours slide and days go by
Till you decide to come
And in between it always seems too long
All of a sudden

And I have the skill,
yeah I have the will
To breathe you in while I can
However long you stay
Is all that I am

I don't mind...I don't care...
As long as you're here

Go ahead tell me you'll leave again
You'll just come back running
Holding your scarred heart in hand
It's all the same
And I'll take you for who you are
If you take me for everything
Do it all over again
It's always the same

Wrong or right
Black or white
If I close my eyes
It's all the same
In my life
The compromise
I close my eyes
It's all the same

Go ahead say it: you're leaving
You'll just come back running
Holding your scarred heart in hand
It's all the same
And I'll take you for who you are
If you take me for everything
Do it all over again
It's all the same
Go ahead tell me you'll leave again
You'll just come back running
Holding your scarred heart in hand
It's all the same

This song is so sad. "Go ahead, say it. You're leaving!" At one point the angsty singer shouts this out and you just feel all that bitter resignation, that everything is repeating itself again, that the girl will just keep on running back to him after having her heart scarred or broken by another. Ouch. And coz he loves her so much, so painfully, he'll just take whatever he can, he'll take her for who she is, whenever she comes to him, when she does choose to come to him.

I'm not saying that what he's doing is good though. It's so completely destructive.
But it makes for SUCH A SAAAAD, HEARTWRENCHING song.
And you know me and sad, tragic songs. :)

( 11:46 PM )

* welcome aboard

the little ship of hope
taking you wherever you want to go
where the future is bright and full of promise.

* this is me

girl * 26 years of age * working * a bit of a dreamer * foodie

i love * クリス　アレン
food | chocs * shrimp paste chicken * garlic butter prawns
tv | glee * big bang theory * heroes * v mars * gilmore girls
japanese dramas | one litre of tears * ryuusei no kizuna
hot actors | nishikido ryo * ninomiya kazunari * milo
anime | kenshin * furuba * saiyuki * tsubasa * ouran
fictional characters | kenshin * sirius * remus * jasper
travelling | venice * australia * japan * the world
sad songs * the ocean * sunsets * the australian night sky

* playlist

josh groban - si volvieras a mi / february song
jay chou - yi lu xiang bei
james morrisson - you make it real for me
dashboard confessional - stolen
sick puppies - all the same
kris allen - i need to know / red guitar
imogen heap - hide and seek / come here boy
snow patrol - run
casting crowns - who am i
sister garden - xie xie ai
ninomiya kazunari - konseki / niji
glee - keep holding on
chris colfer (kurt on glee) - defying gravity
ben folds - the luckiest