Dreams and Songs
For a few weeks I have been working on a list of songs I want to sing. I am saving lyrics to my phone so I can access them when I am offline and I have been keeping a list of Youtube videos with lyrics which I can use to learn songs and sing along to. I am struck by how many songs have a negative reference to dreams, or the importance of giving up or abandoning dreams, which I just can't wrap my head around yet.
"Until the chains of your dreams are broken, no place in this world you can be." ~Lost Sailor, Grateful Dead
"So I'm sailing for tomorrow, my dreams are a-dying." ~Southern Cross, Crosby Stills and Nash
"And we'll never go to town until we bury every dream in the cold, cold ground." ~Cold Cold Ground, Tom Waits
There at least one or two more examples just from the songs I have already selected for my repertoire and surely a great many more outside of that group. Dreams keep us disconnected from reality and living in an unsatisfying fantasy world? Hard to say.
I am looking deeply into the source of motivation, looking for something more spontaneous. I am capable of acting from the heart, but I have a larger, systematic mind which dominates that impulse and prevents it from informing my life on a larger scale. I can take small actions from the heart (which may also be seen as will in a loftier sense of the word) but I cannot seem to truly live that way.
Dream, plan, act, then everything falls out eventually, as all the best laid plans of mice and men.
In other news, I had just enough money to get a beer after I did my recycling run so I bought a beer, even though I hadn't been sweating it all morning. So I'm going to go drink my beer and sing. I should be able to get in one more update before the library closes in a bit more than 1.5 hours.
"Until the chains of your dreams are broken, no place in this world you can be." ~Lost Sailor, Grateful Dead
"So I'm sailing for tomorrow, my dreams are a-dying." ~Southern Cross, Crosby Stills and Nash
"And we'll never go to town until we bury every dream in the cold, cold ground." ~Cold Cold Ground, Tom Waits
There at least one or two more examples just from the songs I have already selected for my repertoire and surely a great many more outside of that group. Dreams keep us disconnected from reality and living in an unsatisfying fantasy world? Hard to say.
I am looking deeply into the source of motivation, looking for something more spontaneous. I am capable of acting from the heart, but I have a larger, systematic mind which dominates that impulse and prevents it from informing my life on a larger scale. I can take small actions from the heart (which may also be seen as will in a loftier sense of the word) but I cannot seem to truly live that way.
Dream, plan, act, then everything falls out eventually, as all the best laid plans of mice and men.
In other news, I had just enough money to get a beer after I did my recycling run so I bought a beer, even though I hadn't been sweating it all morning. So I'm going to go drink my beer and sing. I should be able to get in one more update before the library closes in a bit more than 1.5 hours.