I’m in mute phase right now, so all I will say is that it is so easy to learn things others have already learned & so hard to learn things that no one has learned yet.
Oh & regarding this song, I will say one thing too. It is more or less about whether or not doing something stupid is a good idea. What do you think? Act now, think later has mostly been my approach to life. The only thing that has saved me is being so fearful, since usually my body will be too afraid (or grossed out) to do the dumb things I try to get it to do. But I’ve still managed to be dumb enough to learn that if you constantly act on impulse you are likely to one day find yourself in a crevice it will be hard to climb out of. Still, the actual moment of doing something dumb feels amazing, like a quick flash of enlightenment followed by 20 years in a Saudi prison.
If you are super tough though it may be that you can get away with doing dumb things more easily. You have to be grounded & practical if you want to be adventurous, otherwise you are doomed.
Take my hand but take it slowly
Let it grow just like a lowly
Bean towards a grain of light
Let it be so small and hidden
Mixed into the air, forbidden
With my mind alone I might
Fallen in the green where you wait around for me
Fallen in between with your hand upon my knee
Kidneys shrink inside the darkness
I know I must stay regardless
Gonna do the best I can
Lay my hand down when he makes me
I alone must save or break me
This I swear I understand
Still I feel a cold like a shadow in my ear
It’s that sound again and I wonder if you’re near
No nothing’s wrong- I told myself
I would be strong but I let it slip away.
Hey would you say the only way to get there is to fall
Tumble to the day?
Hands go limp just like a baby
Sun breaks through the glass and maybe
You alone could make me smile
Life moves on then like a train
To crash and clatter in my brain, but please
Could you stay with me awhile?
Its that gold again, something warm against my ear
Sun is pouring in and it feels as though you’re near
No nothing’s wrong- I told myself
I would be strong but I let it slip away.
Hey would you say the only way to get there is to fall
Tumble to the day?
Feel you breathing, how could I?
There’s no one here but I
Feel your hands upon my face
Feel you standing square and solid
Heavy arms upon me I…
Now I feel a sense of place
If you found me there, if there was a way to meet me
Could I follow you? No, I could never take your hand completely.
No nothing’s wrong- I told myself
I would be strong but I let it slip away.
Hey would you say the only way to get there is to fall
Tumble to the day?
