"A Song For You"


AMY WINEHOUSE

"A Song For You" -2011

I've been so many places in my life and time
I've sung a lot of songs, I've made some bad rhyme
I've acted out my life in stages
With ten thousand people watching
But we're alone now and I'm singing this song for you

I know your image of me is what I hope to be
I've treated you unkindly but can't you see
There's no one more important to me
So darlin', won't you please see through me?
Cause we're alone now and I'm singing this song for you

You taught me precious secrets of the truth withholding nothing
You came out in front, well baby I was hiding
But now I'm so much better with my words coming together
Listen to the melody cause my love is in there hiding

I love you in a place where there's no space or time.
I love you for my life
Cause you the boy next door and a friend of mine
And when my life is over
Remember [x5]
When we were together
And I was singing this song for you

We were alone and
I was singing this song for you

Imagination

Contemplation.
Imagination.
What do I want in life?
The options boundless
NO way around it
Directions have to be made sometimes

I sit and ponder
While looking yonder
At the sunset on top of the bay
In the meantime, I guess
I’ll sit here and wander
In the paradise of this moment
And hope that when it’s all gone
I’ll remember
That I have no regrets

Blue Moon

Bright Moon

The moon is so full
It almost makes me cry.
Like I used to do
When I looked up at its beauty
And surprised.
Always wondering what life could hold
If only every day could be so bright
But part of why the moon shines bright
Is that it is surrounded by the darkness of the night.

The bright sunny days of the bay
Away from me now—yet close in my mind
Make me remember sunshine
But it has always been the Moon
that catches my attention.

No matter where I am in the world
When the moon is full and bright
All I have to do is look up.
I feel like I can do anything
Be anything.
But above all, be bright,
Full of energy,
happiness,
Shining on to others,
Brightening up the darkest moments
Of our lives
The way the Moon does for the dark, dark nights.

Rant on the contradictions of modern culture...in my opinion.

This culture we live in can make me feel scared, weird, bothered, non-existent, pissed off, lifeless, and bitchy all at the exact same time.
We are ALL so self-obsessed. Obsessed with image, obsessed with clothing, obsessed with materials, obsessed with youth, obsessed with coolness…yet at the very same time almost as obsessed with self-presentation.
Despite all of those obsessions we also want to be known for how “real” we are, how down to earth, how hipster, how non-hipster, how nice, how artistic, how fabulous, how Zen, how self-actualized, how intelligent.
This bothers the living (cuss) out of me…at least a few times a year. I guess I find it bothersome mainly because these two different sides of who we are trying to portray contradict each other utterly and constantly.
In fact, no one is authentic anymore it seems. Including me. Our culture is so hyperly sensitive and in your face and constant and technical and fast and intrusive…. that how could we be???????????????????? Facebook that:)

Sylvia Plath. Some of my Fav quotes.

“If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”

― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.”

― Sylvia Plath, Journals of Sylvia Plath

"Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.... ”

― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

"And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness”

― Sylvia Plath

“I thought if only I had a keen, shapely bone structure to my face or could discuss politics shrewdly or was a famous writer Constantin might find me interesting enough to sleep with.
And then I wondered if as soon as he came to like me he would sink into ordinariness, and if as soon as he came to love me I would find fault, the way I did with Buddy Willard and the boys before him.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar


“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everyting. It is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”

― Sylvia Plath



“Kiss me and you will see how important I am”
--Sylvia Plath

Plath Quote

"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at once and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days." Sylvia Plath

Whiskey Vampires

Your mysterious eyes draw me in and glamour me with your vampire tricks.
As soon as our eyes catch it’s over, in an instant.
Then the dark night turns into some kind of dream world.
The whiskey flows and we both transform.
Away from everything reality holds.
The night soars on and our souls sing.
Our eyes can’t stay away from each other.
You infect me with your vampire fangs
and keep passionate power over me.
We are in some kind of whimsical love story, unaware of our poisoned brains.
Until…
daylight comes.
It’s over.
The dream quickly ends and reality returns,
with a hangover from hell that only a vamp could produce.
You go back to your world. I go back to my reality.
But, I still can’t help but wonder…where are you now?
Who are you in the daylight?

--Christiana C.

Today's quotes for thoughts...plus moon

GaGa's insight on Women's Empowerment

"Yes. Yes I am. I am a feminist. I reject wholeheartedly the way we are taught to perceive women. The beauty of women, how a woman should act or behave. Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft spoken and loud, all at once. There is something mind-controlling about the way we're taught to view women. My work, both visually and musically, is a rejection of all those things. And most importantly a quest. It's exciting because all avant-garde clothing and music and lyrics that at one time were considered shocking or unacceptable are now trendy. Perhaps we can make women's rights trendy. Strength, feminism, security, the wisdom of the woman. Let's make that trendy." Lady GaGa

Tampa Love and Words from Tupac..