I'm posting this because I while going through things today I found some old old diary items and this song was one I hand wrote on the back of a diary entry dated 1989.  I got to thinking....

OK... this song most likely may freak most of you out.  But this is a song I LEARNED to like when I sang in a band.  It was one of the best times in my life. I was dating an Olympic ice-skater, I owned a jeep we used to tear about over the countryside and a whole lot more.  I came about this song by way of exploring who the band the Fixx was mixing company with.  Rupert Hine did their production work and had a hand in their music.  This is from an older album of Rupert Hines. The musician and romantic in me always latches on to great lyrics. And the lyrics to this song really had impact when I read them.  So when I heard this song it really really took some effort to appreciate.   The words drew me in.  It's one of those songs where if you are fresh out of a broken romance you think they wrote the song for you.   Great words, extremely ardent but wasted on a disjointed tune with labored singing.  But once you get over that, the melody does work, just don't play it around your friends.

I want to start with the lyrics, I'd rather you appreciate this song lyrically first.

You noticed that I closed my eyes again
And smiled in all the silence
I have grown in me for you
But then what accident of stars
Brought you so late into my arms
Where even now another sleeps
Here in my heart I know that you and I are one
I wonder if some joker laughs as he ...   more »

I have some advice for people today.  Do not wait for revenge. 

This is a deep thought.  Think hard now.  How do you avoid revenge at its most early point?  Do not put yourself in a position that could lead to your downfall.

It's best I explain by example.  You need to start a business and the nature of it requires a partner.  That partner should be someone you trust.    You need to make a solid decision early on or you could run into trouble.  If you make a bad choice and they have an agenda that hurts you.  You may feel so burned that you want justice.  If you don't get it, you could resort to revenge. 

The essence of what is inside a person in today's world can be impossible to know.  Some people play a part of a caring person while their actions go against everything they say.  You should follow your instincts but many of us do not.  Have you seen the film There Will Be Blood?  The protagonist in this story  Daniel Plainview never stepped out of "character" as the demon inside him never cared for anyone but himself.  He kept his cards of who he really was impossibly close to his chest.   A person like this is one where you must merely follow your instincts.  Despite him never revealing to anyone his weaknesses or what he cared for (actually he let on to the false half-brother) everyone around him should have read his actions and not his words.  

That is my advice to you today.  Do not wait for revenge.  Always be beyond it.

How is this possible? Here is what I know.

What people do is far more important than what they say.  Look at me.   Many days here I say a lot but few if ...   more »