While you were there, and I was here (and we were one, apart), music became the way that we’d speak. Sometimes our words would falter, and it was then that we had to use the words of others, public words made private. Snow Patrol was your favourite, and so it became mine too. A long day would demand Chasing Cars, a reminder of the times we’d spent together (do you remember?), lying on picnic blankets under giant trees, which kindly spread their shade over us like bodyguards watching against the intrusion of time. The times we fought, it was me who’d start quoting Hands Open in sorrow, and you who’d stop me before I was 6 foot under. Afterwards, (after it all, I mean) it was just one song that’d play on loop over and over again on my mp3 player, from my laptop, through my head: You could be happy and I won’t know, but you weren’t happy the day I watched you go.

I’ve stopped searching their songs for a hidden meaning, but there are moments when a lyric will still hit me afresh like a snowball caught by a face, and though I know you’ve long ceased to send me messages through others’ words, I wonder if this one’s meant for me too.

Is it? (Don’t say yes.)

I’m running out of ways to make you see
I want you to stay here beside me
I won’t be ok and I won’t pretend I am
So just tell me today and take my hand
Please take my hand
Please take my hand

Just say yes, just say there’s nothing holding you back
It’s not a test, nor a trick of the mind
Only love

It’s so simple and you know it is
You know it is, yeah
We can’t be to and fro like this
All our lives
You’re the only way to me
The path is clear
What do I have to say to you
For Gods sake, dear

Just say yes, just say there’s nothing holding you back
It’s not a test, nor a trick of the mind
Only love

- Snow Patrol Just Say Yes

extract from Chasing Cars

We’ll do it all, everything, on our own.
We don’t need anything, or anyone.

If I lay here, if I just lay here
Would you lie with me, and just forget the world.

extract from Hands Open

It’s hard to argue when you won’t stop making sense
But my tongue still misbehaves, and keeps digging my own grave.

note: the quote is from You could be happy, and the title of this post is also a title of one of Snow Patrol’s songs.

I mentioned to a kind stranger that I would post my drawings, so here they are! Only a few, though… A lot of my stuff has not been… digitally recorded.  Hahaha.  BTW there are a lot of songs referenced in these drawings… songs which I do not own.  Kthx.

Scribbling away,

Allison

We’ll do it all

Everything

On our own.

If  I lay here,

If I just lay here,

Would you lay with me

And just forget the world?

M-ai chemat aici unde iarba e verde si groasa ca de bumbac si vata. Unde cresc flori mici si albe. Unde soarele straluceste si sporeste pe cer. Ma oboseste si ma usuca, ma revitalizeaza si ma racoreste. Zambesti. Nu mi-ai promis nicio clepsidra sparta sau nisip azvarlit in vant. Am sa astept aici putin cu tine.

Daca te uiti de aproape prin petalele fibroase si violete, o sa vezi lumea intr-o noua culoare. Contururile se estompeaza, formele devin mai rotunde si mai calde. Tot ce vezi este creatia. Tot ce vezi este esenta. As vrea sa impart asta cu tine.

Singuratatea este o obsesie pentru mine. Gradina salbatica e mare si deasa; intunecoasa si racoroasa. Ma bucur ca te-am gasit pe tine aici. Dar pana unde? Si pana cand? Prin vene imi curge mercur albastrui-argintiu si fosforescent. E menit sa se adapteze la orice fel de temperatura. Acum e cald. Dar pana cand? Ma otravesc incetul cu incetul. Ma complac in letargia mea. Mor..mor…

Da-mi voie sa-ti mangai pleoapele si sa iti netezesc fruntea. Esti frumoasa cand esti linistita. E frumos cand te bate soarele. Dar iarba tremura. Aud vantul. Te rog, ramai. E cel mai frumos lucru pe care pot sa ti-l spun. N-as mai spune asta nimanui. Nici macar soarelui, nici macar apei. Esti singura care vreau sa ramana.

Inima nu bate mai tare sau mai incet. Circulatia sangelui e normala, respiratia regulata. Aerul devine mai dens. Gheata se clatina si are sa ne zdrobeasca. Timpul nu a stat niciodata in loc cat timp noi ne-am intalnit. Se aud cornurile in vazduh. E timpul sa plecam. De acum se poate intampla orice, oricum, oricui. Ne regasim tot aici in final. Sper doar sa mai stiu drumul inapoi…

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Nu stiu daca sunt neaparat multumita sau nu. E dedicata unei persoane foarte speciale din viata mea. Cuvintele sunt fortate pentru ca am cautat in nimicul neinteles cele mai alese fraze si tot nu au fost de ajuns sa exprime ce impartim noi doua de fiecare data.

Versurile de la inceput sunt din melodia Chasing Cars-Snow Patrol

Ideea ‘gradinii salbatice’ e din cartile lui Anne Rice in care viata este comparata tot timpul cu o gradina salbatica.

It was announced last night that Snow Patrol are to return to Ward Park next summer for another mini-festival. It will take place on Saturday 5th June 2010, starting at 4pm. Those of us who were there last time all thoroughly enjoyed it, and although it is expensive, it’s worth it. Tickets cost £44 + ticketmaster charges, which will bring the price up to probably around £48. Another King will likely have some representation at the event, see you there!

Hard to believe we’ve been blogging since the last time, in September 2007. Read the report here (the photos don’t work any more)

Tickets go on general sale on Friday at 9am, but if you have a membership on snowpatrol.com, you can access them via mySP from 9am on Thursday. Further details here

Some photos from the day…memories are coming flooding back!

And on 5th June this year, you’ll never guess where we were?

Yes, Bangor!

I don’t know where confused about how as well, just know that these things will never change for us at all.

If I lay here, if I just lay here, would you lie with me and just forget the world.

If only he hears this..if only he knows this…if only he feels this..

Iar “m-a lovit” MP3-ul ….. cu asta:

Since Abigail was born still certain music has had a very special place in my heart.  It was hard to plan a funeral service for a baby that we never got to know, or even meet, but songs helped to express what we were feeling on that special day.  And, in the months that followed I kept coming across new songs which made me think about my beautiful baby daughter and how much I missed her.

More recently, I made a playlist of songs that spoke to me about Abigail as a gift for my lovely wife.  This was a good way to honour both of the special girls in my life.

Around the first anniversary of Abigail’s death I felt so much emotion but not the release of tears.  It was music once again that broke through my emotional reserves as I eventually sobbed my heart out listening to one particular song.

Anyway, I thought I would share here some of the special music that reminds me of Abigail.  Since the web is not as joined up as it should be, you might not be able to play all the music linked here.  If so hopefully a quick internet search will bring you somewhere where you can hear them or failing that, try spotify or youtube.  If I have already posted on this blog about a song I will link to that otherwise I will try and find a version online.

Songs about stillbirth

Some songs that seem to me to be about stillbirth or the loss of a child include:

- Still by Gerrit Hofsink is perhaps the most powerful song about stillbirth specifically – “Lost you before I found you, gone before you came, but I love you just the same.  Missed you before I met you, on earth we never can, but in heaven we’ll meet again.”  You can read the lyrics here along with a youtube video of the song.  Thanks to Sian for first introducing me to this song

- Heaven is the face by Steve Curtis Chapman – I love this song and also With Hope and Beauty will Rise by the same grieving father.  I happily recommend the whole album in fact.

- A little more of you by Ashley Chambliss is a recent discovery for me – thanks to In the land of Broken Hearts

- Daughter of heaven by Kate Rusby

- Gone too soon by Michael Jackson also seems very appropriate for a grieving parent but I am not sure if that is what it was originally about

- I will take you home by the Grateful Dead of all people

- Somewhere over the rainbow always reminds me of heaven

Some love songs (which still do it for me)

Two songs by snow patrol which I only discovered recently include the haunting lyrics of Chasing Cars and the rising anthem of Run.

High by Lighthouse Family was a song we very nearly had at Abigail’s funeral but in the end we went for Friends by Michael W Smith, mainly for the first few lines “packing up the dreams God planted, in the fertile soil of you.  I can’t believe the hopes he’d granted, now a chapter in our lives is through.  But we’ll keep you close as always”.  I can’t bring myself to type the next line because it isn’t even remotely true!

I will always love you by Whitney Houston reduced me to an emotional pulp a few months after Abigail died when it came on the ipod on random shuffle.  I had a similar response to One more day by Diamond Rio – forgive the video! 

Unchained Melody by Righteous Brothers is another love song that is now forever about Abigail.  As is Without you by Dixie Chicks and 20 Good Reasons by Thirsty Merc.

The current ringtone on my mobile is Sweet Child O’Mine by Guns and Roses – just the guitar solo at the start – still no one had picked up on the relevance.

Heaven by Live is another song which has Abigail written all over it for me.

Annie’s song by John Denver is a song that I sometimes listen to when I climb the hill where we scattered Abigail’s ashes.  Another such song is Go rest high on this mountain by Vince Gill or To where you are sung by Josh Groban

A Father’s love song for his daughter which reminded me of all the potential lost when Abigail died and also spoke of our ongoing infertility troubles is Cinderella.

Christian worship songs

The old children’s song Jesus loves me seems very appropriate for Abigail – risk searching youtube at your peril for this one.

As high as the heavens (voice of hope) – a song pointed out to be by Andthroughthestorm who had this song at the thanksgiving service for their daughter Abi.

A song by Matt and Beth Redman (who have had three miscarriages) is Blessed be your name. Also by Matt Redman is You never let go, a song based on Psalm 23.  Also further down in the same link is At the foot of the cross (Beauty for ashes) which helped me to start thinking about looking for beauty and God in our grief.

Two songs which we sang at Abigail’s funeral were How deep the Father’s love for us (which speaks about how God was himself a bereaved parent) and God of Grace (I stand complete in you) which includes the line “strivings and all anguished dreams in rags lie at my feet, but only grace provides the way for me to stand complete.”  A song played at the end of Abigail’s funeral was There is a Day which I absolutely love as it has such hope in it.

More recently I came across Jesus, draw me ever nearer by Keith and Kristyn Getty which spoke to me about letting God into my grief.

So as you can see quite a lot of songs have really touched me over the past 14 months.

What songs have really impacted you during your journey of grief?

(for a similar post on stillbirth poems click here)

Well, after all those goings on this week, haven’t been able to sleep at all lately, for 2 days now.  The no sleep is making me so ill though, actually starting to suffer headaches and feeling constantly sick, eurgh.  But it turns out my big mistake, costed me time but nothing else, which partially I am glad about…and he doesn’t even want to acknowledge what i’ve done.  But that guy, if only he knew how i felt about him.

To be honest, I will be glad to get back to work tomorrow and start a 9 day stretch, will help take my mind off things, hopefully.  I love my job so much, wouldn’t change it for the world.  So what am I doing at the moment, listening to a couple of my all time favourite tracks, from the title you might of guessed its Snow Patrol’s Chasing Cars lyrics.  Tried talking to the guy in question, but am being ignored.

Got plenty of stuff to look forward though during these next couple of weeks, in 9 days time its my birthday, and going with a few mates upto Liverpool, to see the launch of the Go Penguins, which is this years version of Superlambanana’s.  Haven’t seen them since May and then hopefully have a night. While on the 24th, I am going out with the bestest, unfortunately she will say i told you so, but love her all the same.

do i have to scream for you to hear me, do i have to bleed for you to see me, cos i grieve you’re not listening to me, do i need to scream?

(darioVetere)

la fine.

di un weekend strano e la sveglia del lunedi mattina che mi ricorda il fatto che debba lavorare nonostante l’influenza galoppante.

è stato così intenso che domenica la pioggia finalmente ha lavato via i contorni dell’ennesimo venerdi finito il sabato mattina davanti a del pane e salame.

sono tornata in san salvario, e di nuovo ho saggiato la conturbante magia di quel quartiere. mi attrae tra i suoi palazzi e i balli, le urla e la musica caciarona. e i quadri e le fotografie e le scatole.

qualcuno venerdi sera ci ha protetto senza che ce ne accorgessimo quasi.

qualcuno sabato ha suonato un pianoforte, mentre di rivoli di fumo annebbiavano la stanza.

qualcuno  ha detto che se ne andrà, e un pò ho sperato che non parlasse sul serio.

domenica.

un treno perso, una telefonata.

un caffè con la sambuca perchè lo decidiamo sul momento.

e la pioggia smette quasi di cadere.

“sembriamo in Blow Up”

e intanto Jim canta raiders on the storm, gracchiando attraverso una cassa sistemata male.

certo che mi piacerebbe fermare tutto in un istante.

certo che vorrei che non mi salissero certi pensieri e una malinconia improvvisa.

il film scorre sullo schermo e io cerco la concentrazione che s’è persa tra una strana sensazione di nausea e sonno.

la fine.

del film.

e ci troviamo ancora una volta noi tre, con una valigia.

e piazza arbarello a guardarci indifferente.

Pour fêter ses quinze années d’existence, Snow Patrol sort le 09 novembre un double album contenant ses titres préférés et portée par le titre Just Say Yes dont nous présentons ici le clip. Cette compilation du groupe irlandais comprend trente titres dont les singles Take Back the City, Chocolate, Chasing Cars, Run et Crack the Shutters, ainsi que trois morceaux inédits : Just Say Yes, Dark Roman Wine et Give Me Strength.

Le 9 novembre, Snow Patrol sortira « Up To Now », une sélection des titres préférés du groupe, sur le label Fiction.

« Up To Now » sera disponible sous la forme d’un double CD comprenant trente morceaux et sous celle d’un digipack comportant en plus des deux disques un DVD qui contient deux documentaires exclusifs, le film d’animation « The Lightning Strike » et des images du groupe en concert auparavant inédites. Un coffret en édition limitée sera également disponible. Chaque coffret sera numérotée, enveloppé de tissu et les cent premiers seront dédicacés par l’ensemble du groupe. Ce coffret constitue un véritable trésor pour les fans. Il comporte en effet le double disque, trois albums, deux DVD, une lithographie de Bradley Quinn et un livret. Ce coffret pourra être commandé sur le site www.snowpatrol.com à partir du 11 septembre.

Aseara citeam niste blogguri .. Si am dat peste un blog foarte interesant. Si pe langa faptul ca m`a captivat continutul, mi s`a impregnat pe retina o anumita poza. [in caz ca nu se vede calumea : “Circulati numai pe partea carosabila a sufletului meu, barbarilor ! (Marin Sorescu)]

Aici pot sa spun “Amin !”

De cate ori nu am simtit ca ne calca cineva sufletul in picioare, de cate ori nu am simtit ca sufletul nostru devine pres de sters pe jos, de cate ori nu am simtit ca se rupe bucatica cu bucatica si ca doare si cand respiram ? Am simtit asta in foare multe circumstante … Pe plan familial, sentimental, amical … Doare cel mai tare cand persoanele de la care te astepti cel mai putin iti arunca cate o caramida in gura. Unele lucruri care ne dor, nu putem sa le spunem. Nu le spunem pentru simplu fapt sa nu ii “deranjam” pe cei dragi. Si le tinem acolo, in suflet, intr`o cutiuta. Sunt unele lucruri pe care nu vrem sa le auzim si sunt unele lucruri pe care, in final, le spunem pentru ca nu mai putem sa ne abtinem. Si aici intervine COMUNICAREA. E primul lucru pe care il invatam in viata. Dar chestia ciudata e, ca pe masura ce crestem, invatam cuvinte si noi moduri de a ne exprima, cu atat ne e mai greu sa stim ce trebuie sa spunem .. Sau cum sa spunem de ce avem nevoie sau mai ales ce ne face rau.. Unele lucruri sunt mai mult decat ce spunem, sunt de fapt ceea ce facem, altele sunt spuse doar pentru ca nu avem incotro, iar altele trebuiesc tinute doar pentru noi. Nu foarte des, dar din cand in cand … unele lucruri vorbesc pentru ele .. Si da, lucrurile pe care nu le spunem, se pierd.. Si da, unele lucruri spuse provoaca durere. Uneori detaliile cele mai mici provoaca cele mai mari dureri. Neintelegerile sau interpretarile provoaca iar dureri mari. Durerea apare sub toate formele. O mica intepatura, un pic de susceptiblitate, durerea comuna. Durerile normale cu care traim in fiecare zi. Si exista si acea durere pe care nu putem sa o ignoram. Un nivel atat de crescut de durere care blocheaza tot in jur, care face restul lumii sa se opreasca in loc pentru un timp. Pana cand nu putem sa ne mai gandim decat la cat de mult ne doare. Cum luptam cu durerea ? Asta depinde de noi. O anesteziem, o imbratisam, o ignoram. Si pentru unii dintre noi, cea mai buna solutie e sa trecem prin ea, sa o depasim.

Durerea … Speram uneori ca o sa treaca singura. Speram ca rana care a cauzat`o o sa se vindece. Si uneori, trebuie sa putem sa rupem bandajul, fara anestezie .. Nu exista solutii sau raspunsuri usoare .. Tragem aer adanc in piept si asteptam sa se potoleasca. In majoritatea situatiilor, durerea poate fi suportata. Dar sunt anumite cazuri, cand durerea te loveste exact cand nu te astepti. Low blow.

Trebuie sa ne luptam cu ea, pentru ca adevarul este ca nu putem sa o intrecem. Si viata are intotdeauna grija sa ne ofere din ce in ce mai multa. Dar conteaza mult sa stim ca dincolo de durerea aia, o sa vina si vremea cand o sa zambim dulce si cu ochii limpezi. Am invatat ca durerea trebuie pusa in balanta. Daca balanta este inclinata spre bine, atunci se „inchid” ochii la rau. Si totusi, sunt momente cand ne simtim coplesiti de situatie si nu mai suntem in stare sa facem balanta. Daca reusim sa revenim la un echilibru e perfect, doar ca ne trebuie putere de fier sa facem asta. Si trebuie sa simtim ca se merita sa facem acest …. mhm … sa`i zicem sacrificiu. Si pe principiul ca speranta e o curva ca toata lumea traieste cu ea, trebuie sa speram in continuare ca, intr`o buna zi, sa merite balanta. Chiar azi vorbeam cu niste colegi de principiul “ceri maxim ca sa primesti minim”. Dar ce se intampla cand oferi maxim si primesti minim ? Cand nu ceri absolut nimic, doar oferi ? Iar revenim la balanta. Daca se merita, se merita. Poate nu gandesc bine sau sanatos sau ma rog … Dar daca facem asta, macar avem sufletul impacat ca am dat tot ce avem mai bun in noi in toate modurile posibile, cum am stiut si am putut mai bine. Evident, ca poate aparea treaba ca sacrificiile si compromisurile sa nu fie apreciate si sa fie luate ca atare. Doare. Pansam. Si trece. Si cel mai important, mergem mai departe. Iar la sfarsitul zilei, cand tragem o concluzie, tot ce ne dorim cu adevarat, este sa ne fie cineva aproape. Asa ca toti cand incercam sa pastram distanta si pretindem sa nu ne pase de alte personae, de obicei, mintim. Asa ca alegem pe cine vrem sa ne ramana aproape. Si o data ce ne-am ales acei oameni, avem tendinta de a ramane aproape de ei. Indiferent de cat de mult ne-au ranit ei. Sunt langa noi ! Si cand ne e bine si cand ne e rau. Aceia sunt oamenii care trebuie sa`I tinem langa noi. Oamenii care sunt inca cu noi la sfarsitul zilei, acestia sunt care trebuiesc “pastrati” . Si uneori, aproape poate fi prea aproape. Dar, uneori, invazia de spatiu personal…… este exact ceea ce ne trebuie si tot ce avem nevoie. Sa stim ca e cineva acolo care ne aude cum respiram, cum radem, cum plangem … care stie daca ne e bine sau nu. Sau macar ne presupune starea. Cineva caruia sa`i pese. Un EL sau o EA, in momentul in care este langa noi, simtim ca nimic nu se mai poate intampla rau si ca suntem in siguranta. Momente in care uitam de toate.

Pentru ceva timp.

la fille de poche ama le serie. le ama da sempre e fin qui non ci piove. se ne vede 50, quelle che però ama sono 5 o 6. fra queste sei campeggia quella ambientata nell’ospedale universitario di seattle, la cui pioggia è uno dei protagonisti principali della serie, come quella “city” di sex and the city. parlo di grey’s anatomy, che come l’anatomia umana studia la struttura e la forma del corpo umano, questa anatomia disseziona i sentimenti, come i bisturi di questi aspiranti chirurghi. all’inizio odiavo meredith, pensavo fosse una baldracca qualsiasi: la guardi e fai, ma è solo una 38ennechefalapartedella20enne, e poi la riguardi e dici, il chirurgo plastico c’è andato giù duro. ma poi l’incontro con una rossa di deneuviana memoria l’ha allontanata dal suo dottor stranamore trasformandola in una persona qualsiasi, diventa la seconda scelta, come quelle sottomarche al supermercato, quelle carte igieniche con effetto cartavetrata o i fazzoletti diciamo senza effetto peeling. e a tratti nella parte finale della serie quasi si campeggia per la rossa algida perché passa dalla parte degli “umiliati e offesi”. a poco a poco, la serie ti entra dentro…con tutti i suoi personaggi, izzie stephens, l’istintiva tenerona – un po’ io -che rischia tutto per amore di un cardiopatico di javier bardemiana memoria, ma che è l’unica ad aver scoperto il buono che c’è dietro l’odioso stronzo alex karev, modello di ckalviniana memoria poi c’è cristina yang, che ricorda un quadro di picasso, tanto immersa nel lavoro quanto negli occhi di burke, georgino o’malley il coinquilino che tutte sognano di avere. il medico color cioccolato fondente al 65% che sotto la patina di infame nasconde quella di un grissino. per non parlare della nazi, la bailey, adorabile bastarda di quelle che fanno paura, ma sanno anche sorridere. all’appello manca solo webber, il primario che tutti temono, ma tutti adorano. da quasi un anno vedo la serie e devo dire che è andata crescendo diventanto un prodotto fantastico. premiato dalla critica e dal pubblico…e dalle mie lacrime, la fille de poche ha il pianto facile e ha pianto quasi sempre. ha pianto quando al seattle grace è arrivata l’apocalisse, ha pianto quando meredith è stata docciata da cristina e izzie in seguito alla fine del mondo, ha pianto quando cristina ha perso il bambino e burke ha scoperto tutto solo guardando il tabellone, quando la bimba – bimbo ha scelto il suo sesso, quando meredith è stata mollata dal dottor stranamore e quando piangeva mentre stava a letto con george, ho pianto quando il recupero della loro amicizia sembrava compromesso, ho pianto quando rosanna arquette muore, ho pianto col bimbo specialista in spelling, ho pianto quando la madre affetta da cancro lasciava un testamento alla figlia 16enne, ho pianto quando le cinque gemelline non ce l’hanno fatta – solo una se né è salvata -, ho pianto quando meredith viene lavata da izzie e cristina in seguito alla bomba, ho pianto quando due perfetti sconosciuti erano attraversati da un treno o quando mentre la nazi partoriva il marito moriva.ma ho anche riso, con la bailey in primis. ho pianto talmente tanto che le mie ghiandole lacrimali in pieno sciopero non hanno retto e mi hanno lasciata solo con l’amaro in bocca quando il cane di meredith è stato soppresso, quando burke rischiava di morire, o izzie aveva esagerato, ho quasi pianto per la nipote di wallace, o quasi pianto quando addison ha capito e ancora quando alex consola la sua izzie dopo la morte di danny. queste e ancora le lacrime che verranno per tutti noi grey’s addicted…..seriously. vi lascio alla colonna sonora splendida degli ultimi momenti della seconda stagione con i cari snow patrol e la loro chasing cars, pazienza se c’è già in bellainrosa, come simbolo di quelle canzoni che ho amato grazie a questa serie (in testa “fools in love“, “not going anywhere” e “song beneath the song“)…bene è tutto…vi lascio agli snow e a grey’s….

e un doveroso aggiornamento

bisoux,

la fille de poche

(originally posted on: 12/05/07 – modified on: 24/10/09)

i wish i could call and tell you that i’m in irish village, enjoying a glass of cider. and guess what, a guy was playing 2 songs from coldplay, the scientist and fix you. and layla from eric clapton, chasing cars from snow patrol and somewhere only we know by keane. 

i wish you were there, sitting across me, talking randomly with your smiling eyes starring at me.

i wish you were there, taking cigarettes from me and asking me if i’m enjoying the night.

and when i arrived home, you would call me and tell me why i didn’t go straight and spend the night at your place.

it takes a lot of emotions, to just let all these things pass me, like the wind. when it could have happened, just like before.

i don’t know why i have to go thru this. if my love ain’t nothing, why is it hard to let it go? if you were so bad as to put me down below that hole and left me in an instance, why do i hold on and somehow still believe that at the end of the tunnel, there is light. that yes, somehow we survive. and yes, there is hope ‘coz i was right that there is goodness behind that smiling and sometimes deceiving eyes. that even a bad seed can grow and bear a good fruit. why?

 is this faith? is this a test of my patience? the waiting of the right time to and start all over again? are you willing? is God willing?

questions and wishes only God can answer.

“ love, love is a verb, it is a doing word”

- from teardrop by massive attack.

Uscirà il prossimo 9 Novembre (in Italia Venerdì 6) Up To Now, la prima raccolta degli Snow Patrol, band irlandese/scozzese conosciuta ai più per Chasing Cars o Run (di cui recentemente Leona Lewis ha rilasciato una cover). Conterrà ovviamente le maggiori hit del gruppo, più tre inediti: Just Say Yes, Give Me Strength, Dark Roman Wine.

Primo singolo estratto è la ballata rock electro-synth Just Say Yes, brano scritto nel 2007 da Gary Lightbody.

Personalmente mi piace moltissimo, e questo mix di elettronica e sintetizzatori si addice benissimo alla voce di Gary. Che sia un segno della strada che intraprenderanno col prossimo disco? Il gruppo ha già cominciato a registrare il sesto album che, secondo il chitarrista Nathan Connolly, prenderà una nuova direzione dal punto di vista musicale. Ed io non vedo l’ora.

Intanto vi lascio col video diretto da Blue Leach.

Potete pre-ordinare il disco a questo indirizzo.

Uscirà il prossimo 9 Novembre (in Italia Venerdì 6) Up To Now, la prima raccolta degli Snow Patrol, band irlandese/scozzese conosciuta ai più per Chasing Cars o Run (di cui recentemente Leona Lewis ha rilasciato una cover). Conterrà ovviamente le maggiori hit del gruppo, più tre inediti: Just Say Yes, Give Me Strength, Dark Roman Wine.

Primo singolo estratto è la ballata rock electro-synth Just Say Yes, brano scritto nel 2007 da Gary Lightbody.

Personalmente mi piace moltissimo, e questo mix di elettronica e sintetizzatori si addice benissimo alla voce di Gary. Che sia un segno della strada che intraprenderanno col prossimo disco? Il gruppo ha già cominciato a registrare il sesto album che, secondo il chitarrista Nathan Connolly, prenderà una nuova direzione dal punto di vista musicale. Ed io non vedo l’ora.

Intanto vi lascio col video diretto da Blue Leach.

Potete pre-ordinare il disco a questo indirizzo.

Why do Dogs chase cars? It’s really not funny when your drunk and trying to avoid the numerous pot holes, to have a bunch of crazy dogs tailing ya… the next time, I’d stop and let them drive.. I swear.

Oh well.. good night folks. Or is it morning. So long Diga!

We’ll do it all
Everything
On our own

We don’t need
Anything
Or anyone

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
And just forget the world?

I don’t quite know
How to say
How I feel

Those three words
Are said too much
They’re not enough

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
And just forget the world?

Forget what we’re told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden
That’s bursting into life

Let’s waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads

I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
And just forget the world?

Forget what we’re told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden
That’s bursting into life

All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes
They’re all I can see

I don’t know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things
Will never change for us at all

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
And just forget the world?

© BIG LIFE MUSIC LTD.; These lyrics taken from eLyrics.net!

If you want to check out the video to this song, check it out here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajy0w1XPJk8

Chris + Margot’s RD + Snow Patrol = Good times!  hmm I have a piano version of this one… which one…