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Saturday, March 05, 2005

drifting along

having to submit or conform to someone or something sucks. i like variety and i hate monotony, which is why i hate having to bend toward the norm in terms of....preference towards certain things? and i have no choice but to be rather driven at my work, especially if i know it's gonna cost me marks if i don't, but at the same time this tends to make me look like the bad guy.

and i hate faking it, so i don't. if i feel a certain way, i won't make an effort to hide it...unless it's absolutely necessary (the exceptions of which are too vague to mention, you just have to feel it). sometimes that makes me come off as somebody i'm not....which, if one comes to think of it, is the same as faking it (because you also come off as somebody you're not too). but the key difference is that at least i'm not lying to myself, to god, to people, the most affected party of which (i feel) is myself (ok lah and god).

sometimes i tire of the noise around me because we're all fallen and my soul subconsciously longs for the perfection that can be found only in heaven. what is stopping me from meeting my Maker? my Maker Himself. for i know His work is not done yet in me and that spurs me on to continue this fragile, sometimes hypocritical life. speaking of which, i found that everyone is a hypocrite at some point or another, whether they're pastors or jesus freaks or whatever, which means there is always a chance to better oneself and learn more from the Maker.

CONCRETE GIRL
by Switchfoot

Bleeding thoughts
Cracking boulder
Don't fall over
Fake your laughter
Burn the tear
Sing it louder,
Twist and shout

Way up here
We stand on shoulders
Growing colder
Laugh or cry
I won't mind
Sing it louder,
Twist and shout

Immovable shadows
Concrete girl
They'll rock your world
To nothing
And they're swimming
Around again, again
And they're swimming
Around the concrete girl

Catch your breath
Like four leaf clover
Hand it over

Scream to no one
Take your time
Sing it louder,
Twist and shout

Nothing to run from
Is worse than something
And all your fears
Of nothing
And they're swimming
Around again, again
And they're swimming
Around the concrete girl

Concrete girl don't
Fall down
In this broken world
Around you

Concrete girl don't
Fall down
Don't fall down
My concrete girl

Don't stop thinking
Don't stop feeling

One step away
From where we were
And one step back
To nothing
And we're standing on top
Of our hopes and fears
And we're fighting
For words
Now concrete girl

And we're swimming
Around again, again
And we're swimming
Around now
Concrete girl

Concrete girl don't
Fall down
In this concrete world
Around you

Concrete girl don't
Fall down
Don't breakdown
My concrete girl