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There Will Be a Brighter Day. . .

Erykah Badu- Didn't Cha Know




Ooh hey
I'm trying to decide
Which way to go
I think I made a wrong turn back there somewhere
(x2)

Didn't cha know, didn't cha know
Tried to move but I lost my way
Didn't cha know, didn't cha know
Stopped to watch my emotions sway
Didn't cha know, didn't cha know
Knew the toll but I would not pay
Didn't cha know, didn't cha know
Cos you never know where the cards may lay

Time to save the world
Where in the world is all the time
So many things I still don't know
So many times I've changed my mind
Guess I was born to make mistakes
But I ain't scared to take the weight
So when I stumble off the path
I know my heart will guide me back

Ooh hey
I'm trying to decide
Which way to go
I think I made a wrong turn back there somewhere
(x2)

Didn't cha know, didn't cha know
Tried to run but I lost my way
Didn't cha know, didn't cha know
Stopped to watch my emotions sway
Didn't cha know, didn't cha know
Knew the toll but I would not pay
Didn't cha know, didn't cha know
I said ya never know how the cards may lay

Love is life, and life is free
Take a ride on life with me
Free your mind and find your way
There will be a brighter day

The Stills

Lovely (relatively) new song by The Stills. If you like this song, check out "Retour a Vega," "Still in Love," and "Killer Bees," which are some of their older songs.

Lie to me if you will. . .

♥

The Fact Is (I Need You)

I can pay my own light bill baby
Put my own gas in my own car
I can buy my own shoe collection
I've been blessed thus far

I can kill the spider above my bed
Although it's hard because I'm scared
I can even stain in polyurethane
But some things just don't change

I need you yeah
Sometimes so hard to say uh
I need you
Some things remain

I can buy my own groceries baby
Get my hair tight my nails right
I can floss my own bling bling
Write the words to the songs I sing

I can even raise a child we'll make
Make sure he's loved and knows what God gave uh huh
I can teach him how to walk and stand
But he needs you to help him be a man

Umm..

We need you
So hard to say
We need you
Some things don't change

I can be a Congress woman, or a garbage woman,
A police officer, or a carpenter
I can be doctor and a lawyer and a mother, and a good goddess
woman, what you done to me, good lover I can be
I can be a computer analyst
The queen with the nappy hair raising the fist
Or
I can be much more and a myriad of this
Hot as the summer
Sweet as the first kiss

And even though I can do all these things
I need you
And even though I can all these things
We need you
We need you, we need you
And even though I can do all these things by my damn self
I need you
I do, I do, I do, I do
And though I can do all these here things
I need you, we need you
I do

Let me tell you. . .

. . .how much I dislike stupid ho's who flirt and get all cutesy-wootsy with other girls' guys, when THEY THEMSELVES have a man.

Crap

I just found out that my graduate program requires me to take a test before I can take the required statistics course. Laaaaame. I suck at "entrance" type test/exams, so now I'm freaking out that I'll never be able to take this damn stats course, which I just want to get over with as quickly as possible because I hate math. Straight up.

But Our Hearts are Strong and Our Hearts are Kind

Baby, it's been a long day
Baby, things ain't been going my way
You know I need you here, you clear my mind,
All the time

And Baby, the way you move me it's crazy,
It's like you see right through me, you make it easier,
You please me, you don't even have to try

Because,
You are the best thing
You are the best thing
You are the best thing
That ever happened to me

Baby, we've come a long way
Baby, you know I hope and I pray that you'll believe me,
When I say this love will never fade away

(Chorus)

Now both of us have known love before,
To come on all promising like the spring
Just to walk on out the door
But our hearts are strong and our hearts are kind,
Now let me tell you just exactly what is on my mind,

(Chorus)

Motown Philly

I'm sitting in a coffee shop right on the campus of UPenn. I'm waiting for my friend Melissa, whom I'm visiting, to get out of her lab. Outside, the air is cool and the skies are overcast. I'm not as upbeat and happy as I thought I was going to be, and a large reason for it is that my ex-boyfriends mother passed away on Wednesday. She was a sweet, lovely and strong woman and I'm glad that I was able to spend time with her and get to know her a little. She did not deserve to be in pain and I hope that she passed away peacefully. I will miss her presence on this earth.

Everyone has their own way of grieving over a lost one. But to bring a smile to your face it's important that you celebrate the life that the person lived and to keep pleasant memories close.

We will all meet again

A Moment

They say, "Time heals all wounds."

I think it's weird how at times, certain memories can be so vivid--they feel so real and you feel like you're reliving the moment right then and there as you think about it. But, with the passing of time, those same memories can seem so distant to a point where you try to relive it, but it just doesn't feel the same. No matter how hard you try to hold onto them, you can't, and they just blend in with the rest of your thoughts. It could be that your mind--your body, is trying to bury them for your greater good because it knows that the existence of those memories are too painful, too toxic for your sanity. Regardless of whether those memories are living or not, and whether your wounds have healed, we are still left with the experience. . . and that is something that will stay with you always.

Black River Killer

This is a great song. Enjoy!

Blitzen Trapper- Black River Killer

Grrrrrr

I'm so incredibly annoyed right now. With who or what I won't divulge.

Stupid Facebook

I'm back on facebook. LOL. I realized that's way too long to be off of it, my friend told me that she missed me on there and I missed being on it too. This doesn't mean i'm gonna be on it as much as I used to be, I still have a goal. This is the longest i've made it without it, maybe one day I'll be able to leave it all together. . .maybe. ha.

Reckoner

I never get tired of this song, and the last 45 seconds are amazingly beautiful.

LENT

I know that Ash Wednesday marked the beginning of Lent, so technically I should have given up what I did that day...but yesterday I deactivated my Facebook account for Lent. I unconsciously singed on today (literally I didn't know that I had signed in until I saw the home page and I was like "Dam*it!" and reactivating is so freakin' easy) so I'm starting over today. I really hope I can last until April, it is a big feat for me. I think it will do my heart and mind a world of good though...I have my reasons. I've marked my calendar already, so here we go!

One of my favorite moments from the movie The Holiday :

Iris to Miles: "I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible. And how it can actually ache in places you didn't know you had inside you. And it doesn't matter how many new haircuts you get, or gyms you join, or how many glasses of chardonnay you drink with your girlfriends... you still go to bed every night going over every detail and wonder what you did wrong or how you could have misunderstood. And how in the hell for that brief moment you could think that you were that happy. And sometimes you can even convince yourself that he'll see the light and show up at your door. And after all that, however long all that may be, you'll go somewhere new. And you'll meet people who make you feel worthwhile again. And little pieces of your soul will finally come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you wasted, that will eventually begin to fade."

No More Questions

Love this lol

Kingdom of Hearts

A lovely song by Secede, "Kingdom of Hearts."

Whoooa

I haven't posted on here in a WHIIIIIIILE, but I think I'll start doing it frequently from now on because I was posting a lot on my myspace. I deleted my myspace account because I just didn't think that I really needed it and it was taking up a lot of my time (my own fault). Facebook is enough as it is. So, I'll post something new soon, maybe even tonight.

Peace.