Tuesday, June 28, 2005

I was reading my quote book. and came across this. Sorry for the bouts of melancholy. Blame the weather, and the utter lack of sun.

You are doomed, all of you. What is the point of life, of so much suffering, for brief, butterfly moments of sweet intensity that are as fragile as their powdery wings? -- Khaster, Crown of Silence, Storm Constantine

Such an utterly pessimistic, negative thought. There are times when you do hover dangerously close to this point where everything has lost its meaning. But it is the brief moments of joy, peppered in your life, that serve to pull you back from the brink. And yet, when joy eludes you, life becomes a cup of bitter tea - torturous to drink, and made even more torturous by the fact that you have to finish it anyway. It's like sitting a swing. You go up, and then you come down. Once you've tasted that wonderful feeling of weightlessness, it is almost cruel to reach the ground. And yet, everything is so necessary. The pain, paired with the joy. They say pain makes the joy sweeter. But the joy also makes the pain harder to bear. Such a conundrum.

And finally, good lyrics from The Tears. Love this song. Nice to know that Brett Anderson hasn't lost his touch.

Beautiful Pain

I'm shaking and aching and talking to the sky,
I shiver in the night but I can't sleep,
You're as dark as the mascara that drips down from your eyes,
Look what you've done to me.

You're as dark as the ocean, as cold as the rain,
You've got me weak with emotion, you're such a beautiful pain.

So I shelter in the wardrobe and shiver on the stairs,
And I slide down in the gutter with the leaves,
And I tried to talk to God as if he is really there,
Look what you've done to me.

You're as dark as the ocean, as cold as the rain,
You've got me weak with emotion, you're such a beautiful pain.
And I cling to my pillow and scratch out my veins, you kiss like a killer
You're such a beautiful pain.

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