"What are we born for?"
"For infinite happiness," said the Spirit.
C.S. Lewis
"You are beautiful, but you are empty," he went on. "One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or ever sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.
And he went back to meet the fox.
"Goodbye," he said.
"Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
"What is essential is invisible to the eye," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.
"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."
-The Little Prince
A lovestruck Romeo sings a streetsuss serenade
Juliet says hey it's Romeo you nearly gimme me a heart attack
Juliet the dice were loaded from the start
Come up on different streets they booth were streets of shame
When you can fall for chains of silver you can fall for chains of gold
Juliet when we made love you used to cry
I can't do the talk like they talk on tv
And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be
Laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made
Finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade
Says something like you and me babe how about it?
He's underneath the window she's singing hey la my boyfriend's back
You shouldn't come around here singing up at people like that
Anyway what you gonna do about it?
And I bet and you exploded in my heart
And I forget I forget the movie song
When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong Juliet?
Both dirty both mean yes and the dream was just the same
And I dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real
How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals?
You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold
You promised me everything you promised me thick and thin
Now you just say oh Romeo yeah you know I used to have a scene with him
You said I love you like the stars above I'll love you till I die
There's a place for us you know the movie song
When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong Juliet?
And I can't do a love song like the way it's meant to be
I can't do everything but I'd do anything for you
I can't do anything except be in love with you
All I do is keep the beat and bad company
All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme
Julie I'd do the stars with you any time
-Dire Straits
Funny, 'cause I look around at this world you're so eager to be a part of, and all I see's six billion lunatics looking for the fastest ride out. Who's not crazy? Look around... everyone's drinkin', smokin', shootin' up, shootin' each other or just plain screwing their brains out because they don't want 'em anymore. I'm crazy? Honey, I am the original one-eyed chicklet in the kingdom of the blind 'cause at least I admit the world makes me nuts.
-Glory, BtVS
...I fall down on what to say
So when I see you, you know all the things I've done
Time passes and it tells us what we're left with
I didn't give up on you
There was a child went forth every day,
-Walt Whitman
if you love enough you'll lie a lot
I suggest we
Those left standing will make millions
She woke in the morning.
I crawled out of the world
All I saw from where I stood
And I'm free
"I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration
Goodnight My Angel, time to close your eyes
excerpts from...Just Like Heaven
Background Image courtesy of JRMfansite
Oh something clean let me be clever
Hey oh well whatever
But that's not what I mean
When where we've been has left us burned
Still I won't turn now from a fight you know I'll never win
Well I'm blinded
Like I'm staring down the sun
When I see you
It's like I'm staring down the sun
We become the things we do
Me I'm a fool, spent from defiance, yeah you got me but
-Third Eye Blind
And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became,
And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of
the day,
Or for many years or stretching cycles of years
guess they did in Camelot
- Jackie's Strength Tori Amos
Even a memory is paradise
For all the fools like me
Now remembering is
All that I can do
Because I miss him so
When I look at you
- The Scarlet Pimpernell
Learn to love ourselves,
Before its made illegal
When will we learn, When will we change
Just in time to see it all come down
Writing books on ways it should have been
She knew that her life had passed her by
She called out a warning.
Don't ever let life pass you by.
-Incubus "Warning"
wild eyed, I died
and where were you
when you said I shouldn't start
I crawled out of the world
can I make it right
can I spend the night
alone
-Angie Hart, Blue
Was three long mountains and a wood
Over these things I could not see;
These were the things that bounded me;
And I could touch them with my hand,
Almost, I thought, from where I stand.
And all at once things seemed so small
My breath came short and scarce at all.
But, sure, the sky is big I said;
Miles and Miles above my head;
So here upon my back I'll lie
And look my fill into the sky
And so I looked, and after all,
The sky was not so very tall...
-Edna St. Vincent Millay from Renascence
When I dream
On my own
I'm alone but I ain't lonely
For a dreamer night's the only time of day
When the city's finally sleepin'
All my thoughts begin to stray
And I'm on the train that's bound
For Santa Fe
Like the wind
Like I'm gonna live forever
It's a feeling time can never take away
All I need's a few more dollars
And I'm outta here to stay
Dreams come true
Yes, they do
In Santa Fe
Santa Fe , Newsies
Every night I say a prayer in the hope that there's a heaven
And every day I'm more confused as the saints turn into sinners
All the heroes and legends I knew as a child have fallen to idols of clay
And I feel this empty place inside so afraid that I've lost my faith...
- Styx, "Show Me the Ways"
in this world are the unusual ones."
-the Scarecrow The Land of Oz
and save these questions for another day
I think I know what you've been asking me
I think you know what I've been trying to say
I promised I would never leave you
and you should always know
whereever you may go,
no matter where you are
I never will be far away...
-Billy Joel
"Show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream" she said
"The one that makes me laugh" she said
And threw her arms around my neck
"Show me how you do it and I promise you
I promise that I'll run away with you
I'll run away with you"
