Her face is a map of the world
Is a map of the world
You can see she's a beautiful girl
She's a beautiful girl
And everything around her is a silver pool of light
The people who surround her feel the benefit of it
It makes you calm
She holds you captivated in her palm
Suddenly I see
This is what I wanna be
Suddenly I see
Why the hell it means so much to me
I feel like walking the world
Like walking the world
You can hear she's a beautiful girl
She's a beautiful girl
She fills up every corner like she's born in black and white
Makes you feel warmer when you're trying to remember
What you heard
She likes to leave you hanging on a word
Suddenly I see
This is what I wanna be
Suddenly I see
Why the hell it means so much to me
And she's taller than most
And she's looking at me
I can see her eyes looking from a page in a magazine
Oh she makes me feel like I could be a tower
A big strong tower
She got the power to be
The power to give
The power to see
Yea yea
Suddenly I see
Suddenly I see
This is what I wanna be
Suddenly I see
Why the hell it means so much to me
-Suddenly I See by KT Tunstall-
(Thanks Sarah for sharing this song with me and make me look again and again at the lyrics!)
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
I Hope You Dance
I hope you never lose your sense of wonder
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger
May you never take one single breath for granted
God forbid love ever leave you empty-handed
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance...I hope you dance
I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Livin' might mean takin' chances but they're worth takin'
Lovin' might be a mistake but it's worth makin'
Don't let some hell-bent heart leave you bitter
When you come close to sellin' out reconsider
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger
May you never take one single breath for granted
God forbid love ever leave you empty-handed
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance...I hope you dance
I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Livin' might mean takin' chances but they're worth takin'
Lovin' might be a mistake but it's worth makin'
Don't let some hell-bent heart leave you bitter
When you come close to sellin' out reconsider
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance
Mountains
Let's talk about mountains. You start
climbing one, you toil, you sweat, you finally
reach the top, and what do you get? Well,
along with a sense of accomplishment, of
peace, of a job well done, along with the
satisfaction of doing what you set out to do.
...you get a great view of the next mountain.
Looming. Challenging. Calling your name.
But wait! Don't feel like you have to take on that next
mountain yet. Let's dwell on this one for a while. Lay
there with your hands stretched out behind your head.
Watch the clouds running across the sky and tell yourself
you're on top of the world because in a sense you are. Just
be for now, for you. Then, when you're ready...pick
yourself up, dust yourself off, put that pack on your back,
and start climbing down. One foot in front of the other,
that's all you can do. This walk never ends, you know.
There's always another mountain. That's what makes life
thrilling and you breathless.
There are days, there are times, when you feel like you've
walked so far, when the voice inside you is complaining that
it's all uphill, that it always will be. And then, after all
that, way beyond your blue horizon, you see the biggest
mountains you've ever seen, and you think, "I can't do that."
Well, I hope you always have somebody who tells you
that you can. Like I'm telling you now.
You know, I don't have any more answers that you have.
I waited until the end to tell you that. I'm as scared
as you are of just going through the motions in Life, of
not getting anywhere. All I know is that time really is a
wheel in constant motion, always rolling us along. Raise
your hand if you want to look back on your years and
wonder where those years have gone. You have to carpe
the diem. You have to seize the day. That is what I
hope for you, as you live ad as you love and as you
fill up your life's pages with your story. And it doesn't
matter if it's good enough for anyone else to read.
That's why it's called YOUR story.
climbing one, you toil, you sweat, you finally
reach the top, and what do you get? Well,
along with a sense of accomplishment, of
peace, of a job well done, along with the
satisfaction of doing what you set out to do.
...you get a great view of the next mountain.
Looming. Challenging. Calling your name.
But wait! Don't feel like you have to take on that next
mountain yet. Let's dwell on this one for a while. Lay
there with your hands stretched out behind your head.
Watch the clouds running across the sky and tell yourself
you're on top of the world because in a sense you are. Just
be for now, for you. Then, when you're ready...pick
yourself up, dust yourself off, put that pack on your back,
and start climbing down. One foot in front of the other,
that's all you can do. This walk never ends, you know.
There's always another mountain. That's what makes life
thrilling and you breathless.
There are days, there are times, when you feel like you've
walked so far, when the voice inside you is complaining that
it's all uphill, that it always will be. And then, after all
that, way beyond your blue horizon, you see the biggest
mountains you've ever seen, and you think, "I can't do that."
Well, I hope you always have somebody who tells you
that you can. Like I'm telling you now.
You know, I don't have any more answers that you have.
I waited until the end to tell you that. I'm as scared
as you are of just going through the motions in Life, of
not getting anywhere. All I know is that time really is a
wheel in constant motion, always rolling us along. Raise
your hand if you want to look back on your years and
wonder where those years have gone. You have to carpe
the diem. You have to seize the day. That is what I
hope for you, as you live ad as you love and as you
fill up your life's pages with your story. And it doesn't
matter if it's good enough for anyone else to read.
That's why it's called YOUR story.
And I Hope...
And I hope life's been treating you fair,
although it surely doesn't have to. And if it
hasn't, I hope you've been writing down those
troubles and travails. Because if you deny or
hide or stuff all those sharp edges down
inside, they're just going to keep cutting.
But if you deal (some might say duel)
with them, and put them in their place,
and tell them,
"You are not going to haunt me,"
they'll give up. Troubles are stubborn,
but you must be a little stubborn too or else
you wouldn't still be here.
That is why I like you.
although it surely doesn't have to. And if it
hasn't, I hope you've been writing down those
troubles and travails. Because if you deny or
hide or stuff all those sharp edges down
inside, they're just going to keep cutting.
But if you deal (some might say duel)
with them, and put them in their place,
and tell them,
"You are not going to haunt me,"
they'll give up. Troubles are stubborn,
but you must be a little stubborn too or else
you wouldn't still be here.
That is why I like you.
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