Love These Lyrics

I thought you would be interested in the lyrics to "How To Save A Life" by "The Fray". It has been around for years but I just love when some days a song hits your sentiment spot on...

hear the song over on Pandora

Enjoy!

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All credit for these lyrics belong to "The Fray"

Step one you say we need to talk
He walks you say sit down it's just a talk
He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on through
Some sort of window to your right
As he goes left and you stay right
Between the lines of fear and blame
And you begin to wonder why you came

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

Let him know that you know best
Cause after all you do know best
Try to slip past his defense
Without granting innocence
Lay down a list of what is wrong
The things you've told him all along
And pray to God, he hears you
And pray to God, he hears you

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

As he begins to raise his voice
You lower yours and grant him one last choice
Drive until you lose the road
Or break with the ones you've followed
He will do one of two things
He will admit to everything
Or he'll say he's just not the same
And you begin to wonder why you came

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

How to save a life

How to save a life

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
How to save a life

How to save a life

Candles and Scandals

Ha ha okay the "scandals" portion of the title was for rhyming and also MAYBE hooked your attention.

Blogging to you fresh off my 1 day engagement as the Birthday Boy - it was a fun day yesterday - especially connecting with so many via phone and social media. My super awesome family blew up my phone early in the day and I heard from 4 parents, 1 brother, my sole living grandparent (that's 1 Nana), and a great aunt and uncle (2 octogenarians.) All were doing well and that is what you pray for... and we had some nice chuckles in yesterday or today's chats as I dutifully bring the generational caboose (in my nuclear fam) across the 40 year yard line. These tracks are clear until the nieces get here and our next generation enters the fray!

Spirits were high yesterday - dinner with friends and cocktails with co-workers... but today was sort of a settling into the new decade kind of mind set. Gotta say it feels like I'd been spying a comfy pair of jeans in the window for the past few years... and turning forty was analogous to walking in - slapping down the karmic credit card and buying the damn things at last! And they fit!

So thanks to all who shouted out on Facebook, Twitter, text, phone, those who provided the tasty dinner at Basset's, the cold beers at Cugini's and the mini cakes (and spared me the blowing out of the candles.) All are so appreciated as we set sale in this land of opportunity called... today!

Love life, live love. Peace ya'll.

Surviving the "Tipping Point"

It is sometimes when you take a moment to wallow in a silly self indulgent complaint... that a big reality shoe comes out of the sky and kicks you in the digestive or reproductive parts. And you smile through a stream of near tears and say "Thank You!"

I was pretty glum this morning. And not for any reason other than I wanted a big spectacular "pull out all the stops" 40th birthday event tomorrow... and instead it is likely to be a fairly similar day to most. For whatever reason that we culturally uphold the birthday blowout and that the element of having an especially big deal around those landmark decades has come into being... I was thinking YEAH... it should be a "lordy lordy someone's forty" kind of year.

I know that the people I now associate with are the kindest and hardest working peeps on the planet. Not towards material rewards... but towards Bodhisattva capabilities. And that proved itself in that divine quiet sublime way again today. There may not be fanfare and hoopla around the gifts... but these are sublime treasures indeed.

Laying in an unmotivated heap avoiding the approach of my work day - I scrolled through Facebook for my every-other-day download of friendly banter and voyeuristic catching up. A few early birthday greetings chippered me up and I also decided to go around and post on all my friends who had bdays listed today. See... already my spirits are lfted.

Shortly into my reading... I found Atira had posted this:



So I watched this man... choking back tears of the stinging truth in his words... and I thought "How lucky am I that I am celebrating a 40th year tomorrow?" Because this reminds us that some people give up too soon. This reminds me of the bottle of pills that we take for the worng reasons... and the guns we point at our low self esteem. Those who he shows in this tribute... they don't survive the haunting teasing dread that nobody will love them for WHO they are, exactly AS they are when there is an argument going on in the world that is so loud and yet far far too late.

Equality is never the default. Women had to fight for it (and still must in places in this culture and on this planet) Minority races had to fight for it (and that battle wages on) and in the face of oppressively stupid and ignorant people making claims in the name of gods who would smite them if that were how things went... now those of gay, lesbian, bi or trans gendered orientation are climbing for the tipping point of acceptance.

But it will come. As this video reminds us - we are everywhere and doing everything and it is just that the loudest and stupidest voices are always the last hold out to overcome.

But you shall overcome. And you will forget you ever felt unworthy. And you will sit on the eve of some totally silly event in your life and be reminded that you are surrounded by love... not because of your differences... but because of your similarities. Busy lives, busy paths, ordinary wonders... and a chance to wake up tomorrow again, and again, and again.

Keep the faith ya'll... it is totally worth the ride!

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