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Stuck In A Moment You Can´t Get Out Of…

This music video is poetic in the way it relates to life.

Life is a lot like that game in a way, like the video… life is defense defense defense so much we forget to enjoy ourselves, we spend all our time defending and surviving that we forget to enjoy the game.

Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose, sometimes we get stuck on one play and forget that there is a whole other bag of tricks available to us.  Sometimes we remember our mistakes and failures, our hurts and our sadness more than our good times, times when we succeed or laughed with abandon.

We get stuck in a moment.

I’m not afraid
Of anything in this world
There’s nothing you can throw at me
That I haven’t already heard
I’m just trying to find
A decent melody
A song that I can sing
In my own company

I never thought you were a fool
But darling look at you
You gotta stand up straight
Carry your own weight
These tears are going nowhere baby

You’ve got to get yourself together
You’ve got stuck in a moment
And now you can’t get out of it

Don’t say that later will be better
Now you’re stuck in a moment
And you can’t get out of it

I will not forsake
The colors that you bring
The nights you filled with fireworks
They left you with nothing

I am still enchanted
By the light you brought to me
I listen through your ears
Through your eyes I can see

And you are such a fool
To worry like you do
I know it’s tough
And you can never get enough
Of what you don’t really need now
My, oh my

You’ve got to get yourself together
You’ve got stuck in a moment
And you can’t get out of it

Oh love, look at you now
You’ve got yourself stuck in a moment
And you can’t get out of it

I was unconscious, half asleep
The water is warm ’til you discover how deep

I wasn’t jumping, for me it was a fall
It’s a long way down to nothing at all

You’ve got to get yourself together
You’ve got stuck in a moment
And you can’t get out of it

Don’t say that later will be better
Now you’re stuck in a moment
And you can’t get out of it

And if the night runs over
And if the day won’t last
And if our way should falter
Along the stony pass

And if the night runs over
And if the day won’t last
And if your way should falter
Along this stony pass

It’s just a moment
This time will pass

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by Sanity on February 3, 2009  •  Permalink
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Posted by Sanity on February 3, 2009

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I’m not afraid to live

This song was once sung to my by one of my closest and oldest friends on the day I left for England last year, it was sung with tears and love.  

I’m not afraid to die 
I’m not afraid to live 

Something is about to give 
I can feel it coming 
I think I know what it is 
I’m not afraid to die 
I’m not afraid to live 
And when I’m flat on my back 
I hope to feel like I did 

And hardness, it sets in 
You need some protection 
The thinner the skin 

I want you to know 
That you don’t need me anymore 
I want you to know 
You don’t need anyone 
Or anything at all 

Who’s to say where the wind will take you? 
Who’s to say what it is will break you? 
I don’t know, which way the wind will blow 

Who’s to know when the time has come around? 
Don’t want to see you cry 
I know that this is not goodbye 

It’s summer, I can taste the salt of the sea 
There’s a kite blowing out of control on the breeze 
I wonder what’s gonna happen to you 
You wonder what has happened to me… 

I’m a man, I’m not a child… 
A man who sees 
The shadow behind your eyes 

Who’s to say where the wind will take you? 
Who’s to say what it is will break you? 
I don’t know, where the wind will blow 

Who’s to know when the time has come around? 
I don’t want to see you cry 
I know that this is not goodbye 

Did I waste it? 
Not so much I couldn’t taste it 
Life should be fragrant 
Rooftop to the basement 

The last of the rock stars 
When hip hop drove the big cars 
In the time when new media 
Was the big idea 

That was the big idea

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by Sanity on November 2, 2008  •  Permalink
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Posted by Sanity on November 2, 2008

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It’s a beautiful day!

This song so close to my heart and soul sings about something I very rarely can translate into the spoken or written word.  It’s felt, courses through my veins, makes me want me to float and then sing at the top of my lungs.  It’s a beautiful day no matter what the weather is, no matter what the season is, It’s a beautiful day!

The heart is a bloom, shoots up through stony ground
But there’s no room, no space to rent in this town
You’re out of luck and the reason that you had to care,
The traffic is stuck and you’re not moving anywhere.
You thought you’d found a friend to take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace

It’s a beautiful day,
the sky falls And you feel like 
it’s a beautiful day,
Don’t let it get away

You’re on the road but you’ve got no destination
You’re in the mud, in the maze of her imagination
You love this town even if that doesn’t ring true
You’ve been all over and it’s been all over you

It’s a beautiful day,
Don’t let it get away
It’s a beautiful day,

Touch me, take me to that other place
Teach me love, I know I’m not a hopeless case

See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
See the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colours came out

It was a beautiful day
Don’t let it get away
A beautiful day

Touch me, take me to that other place
Reach me, I know I’m not a hopeless case

What you don’t have you don’t need it now
What you don’t know you can feel it somehow
What you don’t have you don’t need it now
You don’t need it now

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by Sanity on September 30, 2008  •  Permalink
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Posted by Sanity on September 30, 2008

http://sanityfound.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/its-a-beautiful-day/

Stuck in a moment?

One of my top U2 songs that got me through some dark days, it was like a lecture to my soul and often listened to it back to back.  Eventually the tears dried and I was singing and dancing with my eyes closed, a smile firmly planted on my face.  Was going to post Beautiful Day but a person with amazing musical taste beat me to it so head over there and have a listen as well :D Song of the day – Its a beautiful day – U2 You can’t not love that song!

I’m not afraid
Of anything in this world
There’s nothing you can throw at me
That I haven’t already heard
I’m just trying to find
A decent melody
A song that I can sing
In my own company

I never thought you were a fool
But darling, look at you. Ooh.
You gotta stand up straight, carry your own weight
‘Cause tears are going nowhere baby

You’ve got to get yourself together
You’ve got stuck in a moment
And now you can’t get out of it
Don’t say that later will be better
Now you’re stuck in a moment
And you can’t get out of it

I will not forsake
The colors that you bring
The nights you filled with fireworks
They left you with nothing
I am still enchanted
By the light you brought to me
I listen through your ears
Through your eyes I can see

You are such a fool
To worry like you do.. Oh
I know it’s tough
And you can never get enough
Of what you don’t really need now
My, oh my

You’ve got to get yourself together
You’ve got stuck in a moment
And you can’t get out of it
Oh love, look at you now
You’ve got yourself stuck in a moment
And you can’t get out of it
Oh lord look at you now
You’ve got yourself stuck in a moment
And you cant gt out of it

I was unconscious, half asleep
The water is warm ’til you discover how deep
I wasn’t jumping, for me it was a fall
It’s a long way down to nothing at all

You’ve got to get yourself together
You’ve got stuck in a moment
And you can’t get out of it
Don’t say that later will be better
Now you’re stuck in a moment
And you can’t get out of it

And if the night runs over
And if the day won’t last
And if your way should falter
Along this stony pass

It’s just a moment
This time will pass

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by Sanity on April 30, 2008  •  Permalink
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Posted by Sanity on April 30, 2008

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