Balloon on a Broken String

 

I’m not a boy,
I’m a big, fat balloon
Flapping in the wind
Floating over the treetops
On a broken string
I’ve never been tied down
To anything

***

I drift carelessly
On a summer breeze
I bounce above the trees
I try to be cheerful
But I can feel myself
Deflating all the time
Up in the sky.

***

I”m sad and alone
But you’d never know
It to look at me
I look ever so happy
Up here by myself
But I wish sometimes I looked
The way I felt

***

And I know I look shiny and bouncy
But I’m all empty inside
And I worry that if I was to just burst suddenly
That nobody would even notice me

<3<3<3

Father

Father your failures are so grave,
they have seeped to son.
No amount of wishing,
for grace to be regained or won.
10,000 pounds of hope,
on the shoulders of one.

 

 

I’m alone

On a bicycle

For two.

SCHOOPER TWOOPER

I was sick and tired of everything
When I called you last night from Glasgow
All I do is eat and sleep and sing
Wishing every show was the last show
So imagine I was glad to hear you’re coming
Suddenly I feel all right
And it’s gonna be so different
When I’m on the stage tonight
Super Trouper lights are gonna find me
Shining like the sun
Smiling, having fun
Feeling like a number one
Super Trouper (dreams) beams are gonna blind me
But I won’t feel blue
Like I always do
‘Cause somewhere in the crowd there’s you

Facing twenty thousand of your friends
How can anyone be so lonely
Part of a success that never ends
Still I’m thinking about you only
There are moments when I think I’m going crazy
But it’s gonna be alright
Everything will be so different
When I’m on the stage tonight

GLGB

Song for Strawberry.

No sense, no style
Said I loved you for a little while
When you cried no, high speed became go slow
Come back this time
Wishful thinking is going to make you mine
Push turns to shove
Got no more room for love

I hope you hear me
Can’t stand you next to me
Get lost, goodbye
I’ll smile before you cry

I love you, baby
Oh, please don’t hate me
You’re feeling a little sad tonight
But you’ll be alright
You’re feeling a little sad tonight
But you’ll be alright
You’re feeling a little sad tonight
But you’ll be alright

Camera Obscura’s “Before You Cry.”

From the album Underachievers Please Try Harder. Loved the title.

Much too afraid.

Churning out one of my many favourites from Stars. Don’t be afraid to sing surfaced from the deep recesses of old music collection in my ipod to jolt me awake with what beautiful and pure vulnerability and naivety only Torque Campbell and Amy Millan can do.

DON’T BE AFRAID TO SING

Your quiet eyes, your mouth that never tells lies
You’ve got one hour, its time you told your story
Eighteen alone, in love with the answer phone

And too afraid, you’re too afraid to fall for anything
And too afraid, much too afraid to sing

I won’t pretend, that I can see the end, but
Its far away, its in the distance
We’ll find a place, there isn’t room for two of us
The minutes drag, then there’s a world between us

And I’m too afraid, much too afraid to fall for anything
And I’m too afraid, much too afraid to sing, to sing

We all come to an end
And we all end together
We all end together

We all come to an end
And we all end together
We all end together

We all end together
We all end together
We all end together
We all end together

Star’s lyrics melt my heart, as always.

On another note, me loving their new EP Sad Robot:P:P While In our bedroom after the war’s an attempt of departure in style and somewhat heavily draped in themes and serious issues, i kinda missed the usual heart-wrenching melancholic and eloquent sounds more seen in their previous works. So imagine my delight when I first listened to 14 forever. I sing like a child, to keep me from dying.