Give Me Any Reason To Believe.

The River (1980)

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“Well let there be sunlight, let there be rain

Let the brokenhearted love again

Sherry, we can run with our arms open before the tide.”

- Sherry Darling

“I got a wife and kids in Baltimore, jack

I went out for a ride and I never went back.

Like a river that don’t know where it’s flowing

I took a wrong turn and I just kept going.”

- Hungry Heart

“I met her in a Kingstown bar.

We fell in love, I knew it had to end.

We took what we had and we ripped it apart.

Now here I am down in Kingstown again.”

- Hungry Heart

“Then I got Mary pregnant and man that was all she wrote.

And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat.

We went down to the courthouse and the judge put it all to rest.

No wedding day smiles, no walk down the aisle,

No flowers, no wedding dress.

That night we went down to the river and into the river we’d dive,

Oh down to the river we did ride.”

- The River

Darkness On The Edge Of Town (1978)

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“Poor man wanna be rich,

Rich man wanna be king.

And a king ain’t satisfied

Until he rules everything.”

- Badlands

“It ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive.”

- Badlands

“Now some guys they just give up living

And start dying little by little piece by piece.

Some guys come home from work and wash up

And go racing in the streets.

Tonight, tonight the strip’s just right,

I wanna blow ‘em all out of their seats.

We’re callin’ out around the world, we’re going racin’ in the street.”

- Racing In The Street

“Gonna be a twister to blow everything down

That ain’t got the faith to stand its ground.

Blow away the dreams that tear you apart,

Blow away the dreams that break your heart,

Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted.”

- The Promised Land

“Well everybody’s got a secret, son, something that they just can’t face.

Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it, they carry it with them every step that they take

Till some day they just cut it loose, cut it loose or let it drag ‘em down

Where no one asks any questions or looks too long in your face

In the darkness on the edge of town.”

- Darkness On The Edge Of Town

Born To Run (1975)

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:31:00 -0400

“Show a little faith, there’s magic in the night.”

- Thunder Road

“Oh, come take my hand

We’re riding out tonight to case the Promised Land.”

- Thunder Road

“You ain’t a beauty but hey, you’re alright.”

- Thunder Road

“Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair.

Well the night’s busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere.

We’ve got one last chance to make it real, to trade in these wings on some wheels.

Climb in back, heaven’s waiting down on the tracks.”

- Thunder Road

“In the lonely cool before dawn, you hear their engines roaring on.

But when you get to the porch they’re gone

On the win, so Mary climb in

It’s a town full of losers and I’m pulling out here to win.”

- Thunder Road

“Remember all the movies, Terry, we’d go see?

Trying to learn how to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be

And after all this time to find we’re just like all the rest

Stranded in the part and forced to confess

To hiding on the Backstreets.”

- Backstreets

“Blame it on the lies that killed us

Blame it on the truth that ran us down

You can blame it all on me, Terry

It don’t matter to me now.”

- Backstreets

“The highway’s jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.

Everybody’s out on the run tonight but there’s no place left to hide.

Together, Wendy, we can live with the sadness.

I’ll love you with all the madness in my soul.

Someday, girl, I don’t know when,

We’re gonna get to that place where we really want to go,

And we’ll walk in the sun,

But till then tramps like us, baby we were born to run.”

- Born To Run

“The street’s alive as secret debts are paid,

Contacts made, they vanished unseen.

Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades

Hustling for the record machine.

The hungry and the hunted explode into rock’n’roll bands

That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.”

- Jungleland

“The street’s on fire in a real death waltz

Between what’s flesh and what’s fantasy

Man, the poets down here don’t write nothin’ at all,

They just stand back and let it all be.”

- Jungleland

Reno

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She took off her stockings, I held them to my face. She had your ankles, I felt filled with grace. “Two hundred dollars straight in, two-fifty up the ass,” she smiled and said. She unbuckled my belt, pulled back her hair, and sat in front of me on the bed. She said, “Honey, how’s that feel? Do you want me to go slow?” My eyes drifted out the window, and down to the road below. I felt my stomach tighten as the sun bloodied the sky and sliced through hotel blinds. I closed my eyes. Sunlight on the Amatitlan, sunlight streaming through your hair in the Valle de dos Rios. The smell of mock orange filled the air. We rode with the vaqueros down into cool rivers of green. I was sure the work, and the smile coming out ‘neath your hat was all I’ll ever need. Somehow all you ever need’s never quite enough you know. You and I, Maria, we learned it, so she slipped me out of her mouth. “You’re ready,” she said. She took off her bra and panties, wet her fingers, slipped it inside her, snd crawled over me on the bed. She brought me another whisky and said, “Here’s to the best you ever had” We laughed and made a toast. It wasn’t the best I ever had, not even close.

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Lost In The Flood

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The ragamuffin gunner is returning home like a hungry runaway, he walks through town all alone. “He must be from the fort,” he hears the high school girls say. His countryside’s burnin’ with wolfman fairies dressed in drag for homicide. The hit and run plead sanctuary, underneath a holy stone they hide. They’re breaking beams and crosses with a spastic’s reeling perfection. Nuns run bald through Vatican halls, pregnant, pleading immaculate conception, and everybody’s wrecked on Main Street from drinking unholy blood. Sticker smiles sweet as Gunner breathes deep, his ankles caked in mud. And I said, “Hey, gunner man, that’s qucksand, that’s quicksand, that ain’t mud. Have you thrown your senses to the war, or did you lose them in the flood?”

That pure American brother, dull eyed and empty-faced races Sundays in Jersey in a Chevy stock super eight. He rides her low on the hip, on the side he’s got “Bound for Glory” in red, white and blue flash paint. He leans on the hood telling racing stories, the kids call him Jimmy the Saint. Well, that blaze and noise boy, he’s gunning that bitch loaded to blasting point. He rides head first into a hurricane and disappears into a point. And there’s nothing left but some blood where the body fell, that is, nothing left that you could sell, just junk all across the horizon, a real highwayman’s farewell. And I said, “Hey kid, you think that’s oil? Man, that ain’t oil, that’s blood” I wonder what he was thinking when he hit that storm, or was he just lost in the flood?

Eighth Avenue sailors in satin shirts whisper in the air. Some storefront incarnation of Maria, she’s putting on me the stare, and Bronx’s best apostle stands with his hand on his own hardware. Everything stops, you hear five quick shots, the cops come up for air, and now the whiz bang gang from uptown, they’re shootin’ up the street, and that cat from the Bronx starts letting loose, but he gets blown right off his feet. And some kid comes blastin’ ‘round the corner, but a cop puts him right away. He lays on the street holding his leg, screaming something in Spanish, still breathing when I walked away. And somebody said, “Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud.” I wonder what the dude was saying, or was he just lost in the flood? Hey man, did you see that, those poor cats are sure messed up. I wonder what they were getting into, or were they just lost in the flood?

Psalm 23

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‘The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.’

How Do You Know Your In Love?

Mon, 28 May 2012 18:34:08 -0400

I don’t know, you just know, you think about them when you wake up, when you’re falling asleep, they’re the first and last thing on your mind, when they talk to you first, your heart melts and you get the biggest smile on your face, talking to them makes your day, seeing them makes it better, especially if you don’t get to see them all the time. The thought of them makes your heart flutter. But when they hurt you, or ignore you, it hurts more than anything in the world, you feel like someone ripped your fucking heart out your chest, and you want to cry non-stop and nothing else matters other than the fact they hurt you, but you’d forgive them in an instant because they’re your world.

There’s nothing quite as obscure as young love, and what is even more obscure is when they...

Wed, 02 May 2012 07:49:27 -0400

There’s nothing quite as obscure as young love, and what is even more obscure is when they love you back.

But he taught me about optimism, and now I can’t have doubts.

We met in the saddest time of my life.

I was scared.

I sought for guidance and found none among the people I knew.

But then, there was him.

I don’t want to sound cliché but there was an instant connection.

It’s easy to say that you can’t have that when you haven’t really experienced much of life as a 16 year old, but as silly as it sounds I knew it was there.

Despite my initial hesitation, I was suddenly all in and completely unaware of the outside world.

I shut out reality - to me, he was reality.

Nothing waited for us outside my little box - it was just the two of us, and I was quite happy with that.

But then, the cracks started to show.

We were only teenagers after all.

We battled through it. The fights and the lies and the doubts and the breakups - we made it through all of it.

You know this person, you’ve shared your whole self with them, so it seems insane to be scared of them.

But you always are.

You’re scared of their reaction to you.

Will they still love you the same?

Is the chemistry still there?

And it was pointless.

Our worries and our fights, they all meant nothing.

It was instant.

It was like we had never been apart.

From then on, everything moved so quickly and yet so slowly.

People judge many teenage relationships, but here’s my exception:

He’s the reason I’ve woken up happy every single day for four months.

He’s the smile on my face and the light in my eyes.

There’s not a single part of me that doesn’t exist for him.

It seems silly to invest your entire self in another person, but I’ve done so without a second thought.

I have faith in him and I have faith in us.

Why does it have to be so hard just to have a little faith?

"I will run until my feet no longer run no more, And I will kiss until my lips no longer feel no..."

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:49:10 -0400

“I will run until my feet no longer run no more,
And I will kiss until my lips no longer feel no more,
And I will love until my heart it aches,
And I will love until my heart it breaks,
And I will love until there’s nothing more to live for.”

Aw, I Laaaaaav Doing These!

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:11:59 -0400

1. Who was the last person you texted?
T’was Connor

2. Where was your profile picture taken?
Hallway in my house :P

3. Have you ever lost a close friend?
Yeah… :c

4. What song did you listen to last?
Let’s Start A Band by Amy MacDonald!

5. What’s your relationship status?
Taken ;D

6. How many siblings do you have?
2.

7. What’s your brother/sister(s) names?
Kenny and Amy :).

8. Where do you wish you were right
now?
Somewhere… With Reece.

9. Ever a near death experience?
Yeah.

10. Something you do a lot?
Complain, bitch, moan…

11. Are you currently angry at anyone?
Yeah >:( A couple of folks!

12. What’s stopping you from going for the person you like?
Nothing :3

13. When was the last time you cried?
This afternoon :(.

14. Is there anyone you would do anything for?
Yeah, he knows who is…

15. What do you think about before you fall asleep?
Reece. Always Reece.

16. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone?
My Dad xD.

17. What is your favourite song?
Jungleland by Bruce Springsteen.

18. What are you doing right now?
Lying in my pit :).

19. Who do you trust with your whole life right now?
Reece, and only Reece :/.

20. Where did you get the shirt your wearing?
Kenny’s cupboard, lol…

21. Have you kissed someone the passed week?
I have, indeed!

22. Who is your friend that lives closest to you?
Marc :P.

23. Describe your life in one word?
Better!

24. Who are you thinking of right now?
Reece, obviously xD.

25. What should you be doing right now?
Hm… Nothing tbh.

26. Who do you listen to the most?
Music wise? Lately It’s been We Are The In Crowd…

27. Who was the last person that gave you a hug?
John, in class today :L.

28. Who was the last person that yelled at you?
My Maw D: Apparently I take to long in the bath… .-.

29. Do you act differently around the person you like?
Nah, not at all :’).

30. What is your natural hair colour?
Brown!

31. Who was the last person to make you laugh?
My Maw xD.

32. Who was the last person to make you sad?
Heather.

33. Have you smoked before?
Aye.

34. Has anyone ever called you, “fit” before?
Unfortunately.

35. Do you have a best friend?
I do!

36. Have you held hands with opposite gender in the past 3 days?
Yeah :3.

37. Have you ever changed clothes in a vehicle?
Don’t think so…

38. Are you happy with life right now?
Yep! I’ve got everything need!

39. Are you currently jealous?
Not currently, but I do get jealous far too easily.

40. What clothes are you currently wearing?
Just a jumper - I’m just out the bath.

41. What were you doing on Friday night?
Fuck knows xD.

42. Have you ever had your heart broke?
Yeah, yeah…

43. Have you ever broken someones heart?
I’d hate to think so :O.

44. Who is your coolest friend?
Hah! Seriously? They’re all freaks.

45. Have you dated someone longer than a year?
I have. It was a waste of a year, but aye.

46.What’s your favourite colour?
Purple :).

47.What colour is your room?
Purple! :L

48.What size shoe do you wear?
7.

49.What colour is your shirt right now?
Gray and black.

50.What do you live in?
A house?

51.What does your last text say?
“Haha x x”

52.What’s your eye colour?
Blueeeeee! c:

53.Who are you talking to right now?
Emma and Reece :D.

54.What colour are your socks?
I’m not wearing any D:

55.Admit a random secret?
Eh…