Just Lyrical

These are some of the lyrics from my all-time favorite band, The Weepies.


Little Bird

Sometimes it's hard to say
Even one thing true
When all eyes have turned aside
They used to talk to you
And people on the streets seem to disapprove
So you keep moving away
And forget what you wanted to say

Little bird
Little bird
Brush your gray wings on my head
Say what you said
Say it again
They tell me I'm crazy
But you told me
I'm golden
Sometimes it's hard to tell the truth from the lies
Nobody knows what's in the hold of your minds
We are all building and people inside
Never know who walks through the door
Is it someone that you've met before

Little bird
Little Bird
Brush your gray wings on my head
Say what you said
Say it again
They tell me I'm crazy
But you told me
I'm golden
Little bird

I know what I know
A wind in the trees and a road
That goes winding 'onder
From hear I see rain I hear thunder
Somewhere there's sun
And you don't need a reason

Sometimes it's hard to find a way to keep on
Quiet weekends, holidays
You come undone
Open your window and look upon
All the kinds of alive you can be
Be still, be light, believe me

Little bird
Little Bird
Brush your gray wings on my head
Say what you said
Say it again
They tell me I'm crazy
But you told me
I'm golden
I'm golden



Can't Go Back Now

Yesterday, when you were young,
Everything you needed done was done for you.
Now you do it on your own
But you find you're all alone,
What can you do?

You and me walk on
Cause you can't go back now.

You know there will be days when you're so tired that you can't take another step,
The night will have no stars and you'll think you've gone as far as you will ever get

But you and me walk on
Cause you can't go back now
And yeah, yeah, go where you want to go
Be what you want to be,
If you ever turn around, you'll see me.

I can't really say why everybody wishes they were somewhere else
But in the end, the only steps that matter are the ones you take all by yourself

And you and me walk on
Yeah you and me walk on
Cause you can't go back now
Walk on, walk on, walk on
You can't go back now

Romance

Have you ever met someone and you just... knew?

They aren't from around here. It's like.... the world--and all of it's worries

Just wash over them. Like somehow what they believe is enough.

I want to be one of them. So badly.

There is romance in this world--I know it! It's hiding in plain site, covered by tacky posters and false promises.

And not just romance...the kind you read in a book, or see in a movie. It's a way of LOOKING at the world

SEEING what everyone else seems to have....missed.

Like indie music. I admit, it's an addiction.

To me there is so much RAW talent packed in, so much heart--a unique heart-- that the world dismisses it as merely "out of touch".

But I have never experienced something so IN TOUCH. So ALIVE.

"Open your window and look upon all the kinds of alive you can be." - the Weepies

How beautiful. Every time I hear that, my heart wants to burst and I understand. I want to be ALIVE.

That's it.

ALIVE.

There is a world out there that is so suffocated inside of their crazy, hectic lives...

They are positive that they know everything that is to be known.

I have never met anyone so ignorant in all my life.

Romance IS....

To take every thing that comes your way--be it life or death, trial or triumph--and turn it into pure joy!

To seize the day-- CARPE DIEM-- (I love that!)

To not allow life to get in your way but rather LIVE it.

To not be brought down. I want that. I want to search out the romance in my life, and to live with JOY.