change

March 19, 2008

There are really no songs that stick to you more than those you listen to when you were young.

I’ve recently revisited an album that I bought (out of my own pocket! [in casette of course. hehe.]) just over a decade ago when I was 13 years old. The album is a double-album called "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" by The Smashing Pumpkins.

I was listening to it last night and this song somehow struck a chord. For me, it’s all about people changing… the pain that it consequently brings… and the hope that in spite of the many changes in life, love is one thing that is left constant.

"Galapogos"

ain’t it funny how we pretend we’re still a child
softly stolen under our blanket skies
and rescue me from me, and all that i believe
i won’t deny the pain
i won’t deny the change
and should i fall from grace here with you
will you leave me too?
carve out your heart for keeps in an old oak tree
and hold me for goodbyes-and whispered lullabyes
and tell me i am still
the man i’m supposed to be
i won’t deny the pain
i won’t deny the change
and should i fall from grace here with you
will you leave me too?
too late to turn back now, i’m running out of sound
and i am changing, changing
and if we died right now, this fool you love somehow
is here with you
i won’t deny the pain
i won’t deny the change
and should i fall from grace here with you
would you leave me too?