song hy
dunno why this is on my mind today. It's not a memory, per se, so i can't put it on my blog, but this song and the feeling it evokes in me is radiating in me today.
yesterday was my birthday. it was very calm and quiet. this morning, I woke up thinking about this song. the majesty of its meaning. even now. Silly, really. It's a bittersweet call to action. If you don't know the full story of Hair, as i understand most people i know aren't musical theater nerds to my level... very briefly: Claude is being sent to vietnam, he comes to NYC to live a little before he is called out. he meets Berger and tries acid and lives for the first time ever. he meets Sheila. they fall in love. berger tells claude he will go "check in" to the army for claude so he can have more day with sheila. berger winds up taking claude's place in vietnam and dies in battle.... for love.
this song is angry and is hopeful. things are FUCKED and it's insane but all movements with love. move forward with love and hope. there has rarely been a time in the past 20 or so years ago when i started to understand why things like this happened, when i didn't get chills and sometimes even cry when i hear this song.
This is going to be the theme song of my 33rd year on this planet.
i will be aware, i will sacrifice for those i love, i will let the sunshine in. i will love. i will control what i can control and let go of what i cannot. i will grant myself the serenity and i will be at peace. i will spread love and tolerance and hope like a virus. this is my year of TRUE, unselfish love.
We starve-look
At one another
Short of breath
Walking proudly in our winter coats
Wearing smells from laboratories
Facing a dying nation
Of moving paper fantasy
Listening for the new told lies
With supreme visions of lonely tunes
Somewhere
Inside something there is a rush of
Greatness
Who knows what stands in front of
Our lives
I fashion my future on films in space
Silence
Tells me secretly
Everything
Everything!
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do you understand this kind of love?
please try.
yesterday was my birthday. it was very calm and quiet. this morning, I woke up thinking about this song. the majesty of its meaning. even now. Silly, really. It's a bittersweet call to action. If you don't know the full story of Hair, as i understand most people i know aren't musical theater nerds to my level... very briefly: Claude is being sent to vietnam, he comes to NYC to live a little before he is called out. he meets Berger and tries acid and lives for the first time ever. he meets Sheila. they fall in love. berger tells claude he will go "check in" to the army for claude so he can have more day with sheila. berger winds up taking claude's place in vietnam and dies in battle.... for love.
this song is angry and is hopeful. things are FUCKED and it's insane but all movements with love. move forward with love and hope. there has rarely been a time in the past 20 or so years ago when i started to understand why things like this happened, when i didn't get chills and sometimes even cry when i hear this song.
This is going to be the theme song of my 33rd year on this planet.
i will be aware, i will sacrifice for those i love, i will let the sunshine in. i will love. i will control what i can control and let go of what i cannot. i will grant myself the serenity and i will be at peace. i will spread love and tolerance and hope like a virus. this is my year of TRUE, unselfish love.
Click to viewWe starve-look
At one another
Short of breath
Walking proudly in our winter coats
Wearing smells from laboratories
Facing a dying nation
Of moving paper fantasy
Listening for the new told lies
With supreme visions of lonely tunes
Somewhere
Inside something there is a rush of
Greatness
Who knows what stands in front of
Our lives
I fashion my future on films in space
Silence
Tells me secretly
Everything
Everything!
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do you understand this kind of love?
please try.