Apr 01, 2009 08:21
24 hours from now I will be on my way to Ireland. It's been a long wait, I've been wanting to go for quite some time now. A lot of people doubted that I would actually follow through. I even doubted it myself, but it's happening now. Sure it's going to be hard on me financially, and sure it's going to be hard to understand people there. It's also going to be hard to get around and then there's always the possibility of plane delays, not to mention that I'm claustrophobic and hate being on planes in the first place.
But, Belle and Sebastian put it best:
Get me away from here I'm dying
Play me a song to set me free
Nobody writes them like they used to
So it may as well be me
Here on my own now after hours
Here on my own now on a bus
Think of it this way
You could either be successful or be us
With our winning smiles, and us
With our catchy tunes, and us
Now we're photogenic
You know, we don't stand a chance
Oh, I'll settle down with some old story
About a boy who's just like me
Thought there was love in everything and everyone
You're so naive!
After a while they always get it
They always reach a sorry end
Still it was worth it as I turned the pages solemnly, and then
With a winning smile, the boy
With naivety succeeds
At the final moment, I cried
I always cry at endings
Oh, that wasn't what I meant to say at all
From where I'm sitting, rain
Washing against the lonely tenement
Has set my mind to wander
Into the windows of my lovers
They never know unless I write
"This is no declaration, I just thought I'd let you know goodbye"
Said the hero in the story
"It is mightier than swords
I could kill you sure
But I could only make you cry with these words"