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regina spektor's 'Laughing With' made me sit down and try and write similar lyrics yesterday. obviously, i didn't get very far..my pen didn't even reach the page.
but i've never had a song literally make me want to write a song like that before.
i guess that i want to be able to have the talent to order words like regina has in this song, or like John Lennon in Imagine; words that can move people so hugely or open their eyes to massive or even just simple little realisations about our world.
i want to be the one who can make people take a huge step back and look at our society with new eyes.
'Imagine there's no Heaven; no hell below us, above us only sky.
Imagine all the people living for today.
Imagine there's no countries; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too.
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
Imagine no possessions; no need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man.
Imagine all the people sharing all the world.'
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'No-one laughs at God in a hospital, no-one laughs at God in a war.'
^ hospitals are so incredible to me.
i think its due to the fact that theyre simultaneously the most devastating/uplifting places on earth. i guess airports are similar, but on a much smaller scale.
hospitals bring life and take life away every day, every second, in someone's life.
since the first time i heard Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors by Editors, i haven't been able to stop being amazed by its simplicity and shockingness. while it's incredibly complex in its instrumentation and the whole dramatic and percussive make-up of the song (there's so much huge sound that i can't even begin to desribe),
the repeated line,
'The saddest thing that I'd ever seen were smokers outside the hospital doors'
says exactly what needs to be said in the most simple, shocking way.
the best songs, to me, are ones like these..songs that suggest great things, but also open your mind to all these other great thoughts/observations about the world.
sometimes i wonder why i hadn't written certain songs, some have the most simple wording - thoughts on aspects of life that i/everyone have thought about on a thousand occasions subconsciously, but never actually considered until its presented so simply in a song.
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last night i found this great thought in a great book by Billy Connelly..of all people.
i've learnt that he's this really interesting/unbelievable well-travelled/funny/intelligent person. he has a great knack of being able to words things that have been at the tip of my brain forever but i have never really been able to put into words so well/at all.
he said:
'the timing of my journey was perfect, as the Arctic is losing its great silence and isolation..i hate the way humans are give the blame for everything, though.
i can't take another evening of watching programmes or reading articles telling me that if only we would do this or that there would be more spotted bears and it's all our fault. my message to them is simple: Shut Up.
the human race isn't given enough credit. sure we have made some horrible mistakes but we have also done some immmensely big and good things.
those people who cook your meals or deliver things, who cut your hair or chop your logs, who catch your fish or make your shoes, who herd your cattle or push their children on the swings - they don't have a spokesman and i would like to be that guy.
many of the people i would meet had an innate appreciation that things don't need to be extraordinary to be beautiful.
they understand that there is deep beauty within ordinariness and plainness and a lack of desire for richness and sparkliness;
the kind of beauty that can be found in people's eyes and in their hearts and souls. the sort of goodness you can tell by the shake of a hand, especially if it is a big, happy, handsome handshake at the end of a chance encounter.
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oh and, i found this to be a clever/interesting little thought:
'blue lips, blue veins, blue - the color of the planet from far far away.
= blue - the most human colour.'
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regina spektor's 'Laughing With' made me sit down and try and write similar lyrics yesterday. obviously, i didn't get very far..my pen didn't even reach the page.
but i've never had a song literally make me want to write a song like that before.
i guess that i want to be able to have the talent to order words like regina has in this song, or like John Lennon in Imagine; words that can move people so hugely or open their eyes to massive or even just simple little realisations about our world.
i want to be the one who can make people take a huge step back and look at our society with new eyes.
'Imagine there's no Heaven; no hell below us, above us only sky.
Imagine all the people living for today.
Imagine there's no countries; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too.
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
Imagine no possessions; no need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man.
Imagine all the people sharing all the world.'
image via
'No-one laughs at God in a hospital, no-one laughs at God in a war.'
^ hospitals are so incredible to me.
i think its due to the fact that theyre simultaneously the most devastating/uplifting places on earth. i guess airports are similar, but on a much smaller scale.
hospitals bring life and take life away every day, every second, in someone's life.
since the first time i heard Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors by Editors, i haven't been able to stop being amazed by its simplicity and shockingness. while it's incredibly complex in its instrumentation and the whole dramatic and percussive make-up of the song (there's so much huge sound that i can't even begin to desribe),
the repeated line,
'The saddest thing that I'd ever seen were smokers outside the hospital doors'
says exactly what needs to be said in the most simple, shocking way.
the best songs, to me, are ones like these..songs that suggest great things, but also open your mind to all these other great thoughts/observations about the world.
sometimes i wonder why i hadn't written certain songs, some have the most simple wording - thoughts on aspects of life that i/everyone have thought about on a thousand occasions subconsciously, but never actually considered until its presented so simply in a song.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
last night i found this great thought in a great book by Billy Connelly..of all people.
i've learnt that he's this really interesting/unbelievable well-travelled/funny/intelligent person. he has a great knack of being able to words things that have been at the tip of my brain forever but i have never really been able to put into words so well/at all.
he said:
'the timing of my journey was perfect, as the Arctic is losing its great silence and isolation..i hate the way humans are give the blame for everything, though.
i can't take another evening of watching programmes or reading articles telling me that if only we would do this or that there would be more spotted bears and it's all our fault. my message to them is simple: Shut Up.
the human race isn't given enough credit. sure we have made some horrible mistakes but we have also done some immmensely big and good things.
those people who cook your meals or deliver things, who cut your hair or chop your logs, who catch your fish or make your shoes, who herd your cattle or push their children on the swings - they don't have a spokesman and i would like to be that guy.
many of the people i would meet had an innate appreciation that things don't need to be extraordinary to be beautiful.
they understand that there is deep beauty within ordinariness and plainness and a lack of desire for richness and sparkliness;
the kind of beauty that can be found in people's eyes and in their hearts and souls. the sort of goodness you can tell by the shake of a hand, especially if it is a big, happy, handsome handshake at the end of a chance encounter.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
oh and, i found this to be a clever/interesting little thought:
'blue lips, blue veins, blue - the color of the planet from far far away.
= blue - the most human colour.'
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