Tuesday, June 21, 2011

We're too young to know better

I want to court love again,
Make a mix tape, hold on to a hand,
Travel together across the land
In a cooped up little car,
Like we think we’re going someplace far.

And we’re too young to know better.
Fall in love with no reservation.
Live life in perpetual youth and sun.
Try and try again with utmost compassion.

Oh, oh, this is my love song to you,
My dear, while we’re driving away,
Never fear, let me sing you this tune,
Run through this field to the moon.

Maybe this is the beginning,
This is the year I fall in love,
This is the day I see a smile like light
In the shadows scattered above.

reading alice.

Live life through a screen,
In between four rooms, boxes, places.
Touch the world softly, twenty paces.
Back and forth, and dream of and
learn about life through dappled drunk days:
reading about alice in wonderland,
wondering why the world won’t fade away,
into this bright, merry band
of misfits and introverts and mad hatters.
dream of days where I finally matter.
Live without feeling quite so alone,
(i hold a hand, but turns out it’s my own).

But, I’m scared, I’m scared
(oh mama, I’m so scared)
Hold me now, closer, tighter, stronger
Hold on longer and longer
So that I don’t fall apart like rain
Shatter from the dancing clouds,
Won’t wash down the drain
Yelling (“please don’t let go!”) loud.

So, Alice, Alice, will you take my hand?
Say you will live this life with me if you can,
the roses and violets and posies all understand,
Things are always better in wonderland. 

Where the red queen says, "run in one place!
Faster, faster now, to get away!"
Things don’t always have to stay the same
We can thunder in a different way.