This Is Your Life

"And you open the door and you step inside
We're inside our hearts
Now imagine your pain as a white ball of healing light
Thats right
Your pain, the pain itself is a white ball of healing light"

I don't think so

This is your life
Good to the last drop
It doesn't get any better than this
This is your life and its ending one minute at a time

This isn't a seminar
This isn't a weekend retreat
Where you are now you can't even imagine what the bottom will be like
Only after disaster can we be resurrected
It's only after you've lost everything you are free to do anything

Nothing is static
Everything is evolving
Everything is falling apart

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake
You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else
We are all part of the same compost heap
We are the all singing all dancing crap of the world

You are not your bank account
You are not the clothes you wear
You are not the contents of your wallet
You are not your bowel cancer
You are not your grande latte
You are not the car you drive
You are not your fucking khakis

You have to give up
You have to realise that someday you will die
Until you know that
You are useless

I say, let me never be complete
I say, may I never be content
I say, deliver me from swedish furniture
I say, deliver me from clever art
I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth
I say you have to give up
I say evolve, and let the chips fall as they may

I want you to hit me as hard as you can (x2)
Welcome to fight club
If this is your first night - You have to fight
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CD: Fight Club OST. The Dust Brothes, 1999.

Blame It On My Youth

If I expected love when first we kissed,
blame it on my youth
If only just for you I did exist,
blame it on my youth
I believed in everything
Like a child of three
You meant more than anything
You meant all the world to me

If, you were on my mind all night and day,
blame it on my youth
If I forgot to eat and sleep and pray,
blame it on my youth
If I cried a little bit,
when first I learned the truth
Don't blame it on my heart,
blame it on my youth
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CD: Twentysomething; Jamie Cullum, 2004.

1/4

Não esperava ser o único a romper a barreira do som
Superei o medo da distorção das palavras
Fui sincero, muito cedo ...

Tem horas em que lembro com saudade
todo o tempo de minha vida
E perplexo vejo que já um quarto dela
Se passou em felicidade desapercebida

Se o tempo hoje parasse
Ou então não mais vivesse
Estaria me traindo
Ao pensar que o tempo pararia
Se meu coração não mais batesse

Anotei inutilmente experiências num caderno
Por temer tornar a repeti-las
E descobri que o amor precisava de estratégia
E eu não sabia como se perdia

Tem horas em que lembro com saudade
todo o tempo de minha vida
E perplexo vejo que já um quarto dela
Se passou em felicidade desapercebida

Agora basta de besteira
Cansado de me procurar, achei que devia me perder
E não notei que fiz de todo o tempo uma tragédia
A minha vida, eu não conhecia

E se pensava que o jovem não tem medo da morte
Eu noto só agora que a sorte se inverte,
Ou então estou mais velho...
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CD: A Era da Incerteza. Biquíni Cavadão, 1987.

Viagem

não me arrependo

de ter guardado mágoas

jamais pensei

que fosse bom pra mim

mas a razão

não é soberana

e agora é agústia

sem fim

alguém cai de joelhos

sobre meu peito

uma dor que esmaga

meu coração

o rancor, a dúvida

a melancolia

escorrendo como areia

fria entre os dedos

nenhum ser humano

deveria sofrer

para provar virtudes

se eu soubesse

dominar

meus mais baixos

impulsos

saberia talvez contornar

minha raiva inútil

mas isso não passa

de reflexão

pensamentos

de passagem

e outros passos

da viagem

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CORRÊA, Thedy. Viagem. In:______. Bruto. Porto Alegre: L&PM, 2006. p. 22.

Several Ways To Die Trying

Pacific sun,
You should have warned us it gets so cold here
And the night can freeze before you set a fire
And our flames go unnoticed, diminished
Faded just as soon as they are fired

We are, we are, intrigued
We are, we are invisible

Oh how we shouted, how we screamed
Take notice, take interest, take me with you
When all our fears fall on the deaf ears tonight
They're burning the roads they built to lead us to the light
And blinding our hearts with their shining lies

We're closing our caskets, cold and tight
But im dying to live...

Pacific sun,
You should have warned us these heights are dizzying
And the climb can kill you long before the fall
And our trails go unmarked and unmapped and...
Covered just as soon as they are crossed

We are, we are, intriguing
We are, we are, desirable

Oh how we shouted, how we screamed
Take notice, take interest, take me with you
When all our fears fall on the deaf ears tonight
They're burning the roads they built to lead us to the light
And blinding our hearts with their shining lies

We're closing our caskets, cold and tight
But I'm dying to live...
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CD: A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar; Dashboard Confessional, 2005.

Sweetbum Zack

He told me on the radio everynight
Spoke much of love to me
And for everyone

Sweetbum zack
Calls for her
And still talking for lovers
Sweetbum zack
Call for her
And still talking for lovers

This is the sound of the night
Hurting your soul, increasing your heartbeat
This is the sound of night
Making in your face a mask of tears

When the morning has broken
The sweet taste of the night
Tihs was the end of a joke
This was the end of the bright

Sweetbum zack
Return to his life
So serious so sad
And so lonely life
Sweetbum zack
Return to his life
So serious so sad
And so lonely life
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CD: Cardume; Nenhum de Nós, 1989.