This girl who...

and i know, yes i know that it's plain to see

why we just can't hold on

somebody came and took your bed

there's a lot of men dead

we're gonna put you in a trance with a funky song

people then say i come from Jamaica

you marry him, your father will condone you

once, there was this girl who...

rewinding time

 

side by side,

perched up high

in the branches of an old oak tree

do you remember what you said to me?

wise beyond our years,

we spoke of money

making money

taking, faking, breaking money

how the world is made,

of money

why can't the world be made instead,

of something much less dead?

something for which less tears are shed

they say money can't buy happiness

this is true, i know

but what about all those out there,

who struggle so to make ends meet

who worry day to day

about ending up on the streets

can you still be happy,

living with these worries?

rewind

have you ever been asked "if you could go back and change anything, what would it be?"

i have. at first, i would always think of something that had happened earlier. some mistake i could fix. but as i've gotten older (not that much, i guess but still...)

i've come to realize that if i really could go back and change something, i would choose not to. i feel like everything that has happened in my life up to this point, even if it hurt me, in the long run has ended up helping me.

one of the things i always try to remember when something shitty is going on, is that everything happens for a reason. because if you think about it, it really does. even if we don't understand why, or we don't find out that reason till years later.

"which is worse, saying something and wishing you hadn't, or saying nothing and wishing you had?"
i honestly don't know the answer to this question. i think it really depends on you. for the longest time, my problem was always saying nothing. both suck though.

"it's not who you think you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not." there's so much truth to this, it's not even funny. for so many of us, maybe even most of us, this is what stops us from trying, from striving for whatever it may be that we want most.

YOU'VE BEEN GIVEN A DIRECT ORDER...

"Rock out like you are enslaved in the south, and dancing is all that you have to know who you are."

ROCK OUT,

Like you found out about the concert you've always been wanting to go, but it's sold out... and you got in FREE.

Like the world is asleep, and it's your job to wake them up.

Like you found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Rock out like it's the last night of summer.

Rock out like you just found out about the most amazing thing ever, and have to share it with the world.

Or like you just won $3 million.

Rock out like you tested negative, and are going to live.

Or like you're getting 5 hours of sleep a night.

Rock out like you're pinnochio, and you just turned into a real boy. (or girl..)

Like you can see the waiter coming with your food.

If you've seen limitless, rock out like you just found out NZT does exist.

Rock out like an ADHD little kid on a sugar rush.

Rock out like you just proved the world wrong.

And like it's the last song, but the rave's still going strong.

Rock out like you just found out you have a superpower.

Rock out like it's new years of 1999, and the time is 11:59.

Rock out like you can do anything, because guess what?! YOU CAN!