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I’ve been listening to Queen’s “Somebody to Love” for awhile now. I first came across the song about two years ago but it wasn’t until about a few weeks ago that I sat down and actually listened to what the lyrics truly said. I loved the song before but after reading through the lyrics several times, I finally discovered how deep this song really is. Freddy Mercury sings about, hope, hopelessness, and the nature of love itself. It’s a song that touches on the human experience and the feelings that everyone has at one time or another. Some people feel the same way he does for a short time. For others, it’s years. The song harbors a lot of different emotions and I’ve felt most of them myself. Because I can strongly empathize with the themes of this song, I wanted to do an in-depth review of it of sorts. In this essay, I’m going to go lyric by lyric and not only talk about how they make me feel and my opinions on the themes but also about my experiences in life.
“Can anybody find me somebody to love?”
This sets the stage for the whole song. Right the off the bat, you’re told that he doesn’t have someone to love, obviously in a romantic manner. The thing that catches my attention the most about this lyric is that he’s not asking for somebody to love him, he’s asking for someone he can love. When I hear this I have to ask myself what’s holding him back? Does he have really high standards? Is no one around him his type? Does he really just want to be alone but cries out about his loneliness anyways? I did that for a good three years. I thought my presence tainted people but I was miserable with loneliness. I didn’t bother calling my old friends but I belly ached about how they abandoned me. I didn’t have a girlfriend but then again I never went out and chickened out of a good 3-4 potential relationships from 2006-2009. I had several girls who made it really obvious that they liked me but I acted apathetic except on the days where I really felt like I “needed someone.” Is he really alone or is he making himself a loner?
“Each morning I get up I die a little, can barely stand on my feet.”
This is depression in a nutshell. You wake up and you hurt. Not only does your body hurt but your mind does too. This feeling lasts all day but when you wake up in the morning, you have this small sliver of hope that you won’t. The feeling remains and that makes you feel even worse. You feel drained. It’s like the way you feel after a long run but without the run and it doesn’t really go away. When he says that he can barely stand on his feet, it isn’t that much of an exaggeration. You feel weighed down and sometimes the only time you feel fine is when you’re asleep. Obviously, the only way you can stay asleep is to either go into a coma or die so this leads to continuous feelings of hopelessness.
“Take a look in the mirror and cry Lord what you’re doing to me. I have spent all my years believing you, but I just can’t get no relief, Lord! Somebody… somebody… can anybody find me somebody to love?”
When I was a Christian, I blamed God for things such as the existence of evil in the world and not stopping some of the bigger atrocities despite having all the power in the universe to do so. Despite this, I never blamed the Christian God for my own problems. Despite what my teachers, peers, and parents said, I believed in a God more like the one seen in Judaism. He was kind of like the dad who was always too busy to really spend time with you but you understood that he had things more important than you to focus on. Even during the years when I was the most dedicated to Christianity, I felt this way. I felt nothing. I remember one incident where I was in Panama City Beach at a Church camp being held at a hotel and I was praying outside under an umbrella during a heavy rainstorm. I felt the power of the wind and rain and watched as the waves crashed into in the beach and lightening flashed across the sky. I looked up and then I began praying out loud to the God I couldn’t see. Inside, I could hear thousands of people my age singing praises to the God they couldn’t see either. I wanted a sign, a feeling, and got nothing. I then stood there in silence for a good ten minutes just watching the storm around me and then I thanked God out loud and walked back inside. That was a day when a lot of my hope in the existence in the Christian God died.
When I was depressed, I didn’t cry very often but I felt like I wanted to a lot. In a weird way, I didn’t feel like I deserved any relief. It was a miserable way to live and hope eluded me or, rather, I eluded hope. I eluded love too. Both were big mistakes.
“I work hard every day of my life; I work till I ache my bones.”
Life can be hard at times, that’s a given. There are days where you don’t even want to get out of bed but you do it anyways because, after all, you’ve got stuff to get done, appointments to make, and people to please. Even when you’re a kid, you are forced to do these things. There’s always someone who wants a piece of you from the day you start preschool to the day you retire. You sometimes have to ask yourself what’s the point of it all? You work to get paid, to maintain your self-esteem, and to gain approval, prestige, and appreciation. Sometimes you get them. Sometimes you don’t. Sometimes you’re just used and are just a cog in the machine. Sometimes all you want is for someone to say thanks and all you get back is silence or the command to work harder and do better even when you’re weary and exhausted. What is it all for?
“At the end of the day I take home my hard earned pay all on my own.”
Sometimes one of the big things that keeps us going is our sense of pride. I earned my paycheck. I earned my grades. I earned all the stuff I own. Sometimes you take it a step further. I DESERVE all of it, right? I deserve to my job. I deserve respect. I deserve love. It’s my God given right to have all of these! What if you don’t have these though? Have you been denied them by a higher power? What could you have possibly done that was so atrocious that the universe denies you a God given right? Things become even worse when you starting asking why for all these things and aren’t able to come up with answers. Why have I earned these things? Why do I deserve these things? Why can’t I have these things? It’s dangerous thinking and can create a sense of hopelessness that some people know all-too well.
“I get down on my knees, and I start to pray, till the tears run down from my eyes, Lord! Somebody… somebody… anybody find me somebody to love.”
I find this line particularly powerful. What we have here is a man who feels so hurt that he cries out to God and asks him why there is nobody for him to love. Like I asked earlier on, doesn’t everyone deserve love? If the creator of the universe can’t provide him somebody to love, who can? The line “till the tears run down my eyes” hits me because it suggests that he prays on a regular basis and yet his prayer isn’t answered. He pretty much knows the end result every single time but he still continues to do it until he’s an emotional wreck. He keeps hope alive even in the presence of daunting evidence that there isn’t any. He’s given no evidence that his God exists or any reason to remain faithful but he still continues to believe. He keeps the faith despite the fact that he’s miserable which is generally the opposite of what most people do. In a way, he’s like the biblical figure Job which is a powerful story about faith even in the toughest of times.
“He works hard… everyday… and I try and I try and I try.”
Again, this lyric brings up how for all his work and toil, he believes he deserves love. He gets knocked down by life over and over again and continues to get up despite being battered and bruised. Why? Because he’s wholly convinced that through hard work and dedication that he’ll eventually earn the love that he’s seeking. Fullmetal Alchemist, an anime series, calls this equivalent exchange. In an ideal world, equivalent exchange would actually work. You work hard, do good, and keep a stiff upper lip, you can get anything you want and accomplish whatever you want. The sky is the limit and the only thing that determines our own potential is ourselves. This isn’t how the real world works. The lazy can make it big while the hard working can barely hold on. The morally bankrupt can live happily while the truly pious can know nothing but misery. The good can die young while the evil can live to ripe old ages. Where’s the justice in the world?
What most people don’t realize is that the world doesn’t play sides and that justice is a human concept, not a natural law. As the saying goes, life isn’t fair. Why complain about it then? Because you can and there’s nothing stopping you from bemoaning how things don’t always work out in your favor or preference. It’s the equivalent of shouting to try to stop the rain but people do it anyways. Depending on your views, knowing this about reality can create either a sense of hope or hopelessness.
“But everyone wants to put me down… they say I’m going crazy. They say I’ve got a lot of water in my brain… got no common sense… I got nobody left to believe.”
Sometimes it feels like the world wants us to fail. Why would the world be so concerned with our matters? It isn’t but SOMETHING has to explain why your job sucks, why you don’t have a girlfriend/boyfriend, and why bad things seem to only happen to you and only you. He says “everyone wants to put me down.” Who’s everyone? “THEY say I’m going crazy.” Who are they? The bigger question is why they would want to put him down? Of course, there are sometimes individuals who would love nothing better than to see you fail but expanding this to the majority is delusional at best. In a sense, you’re creating obstacles that aren’t even there or you’re making your struggle appear much, much harder than it really is.
The way he sings these lyrics makes him sound defiant rather than defeated. He’s alone (or rather he thinks he is) but he’s not going to let the majority extinguish his hope. The insults have sunken in but they haven’t made him change his mind. He’s definitely courageous for being like this. Even though a lot of his own misery is inside his own head he refuses to let it completely consume him. Once again, hope, even in spite of himself, shines through.
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.”
A series of exclamations. I could probably dig a long, complicated explanation out of it if I wanted to but most people find this more annoying than funny so I’ll digress.
“Oh Lord! Somebody…somebody… can anybody find me, somebody to love?”
Again, just the refrain that surmises how he feels that I’ve already looked into several times before.
“Got no feel, I got no rhythm… I just keep losing my beat.”
I find this lyric ironic if only because he does keep the rhythm and beat while he sings it but that’s beside the point. He says “got no feel” which I interpret as “I don’t feel anything anymore.” He’s so lonely that he’s numb. Obviously, he’s not to the point of complete and total apathy but he is to the point where life just seems dull and lifeless. I personally believe that’s the main point of the song: living without love really isn’t living. You can have wealth, fame, and power but in comparison to love, none of it really cares any true weight. While you’re reading this, put your hand to the side of your face. You can feel your hand up against your skin but what if you couldn’t? What if your entire body was like this? I believe that a life without love is like that. It’s hollow, meaningless. Your life is the equivalent of watching a movie rather than actually experiencing anything. You can think about the events that occurred but you can’t feel them. Numb.
He goes on to explain that he has no rhythm and that he keeps losing the beat as if in the absence of love, his entire body is thrown out of whack. Again, I believe life without love is like this too and is essentially the music of life. Have you ever just randomly danced in silence? To save you the trouble, it is very awkward to try to do for very long. You try to create a beat in your head but it usually doesn’t work out leaving you to pause frequently and think about how to carry on. In other words, you go through the motions but that’s just about it. There’s no true feeling to it even when you try to put some in it. Again, love is the music of life and it gives us rhythm, beat, and purpose that allows life to flow at a comfortable pace.
“I’m ok, I’m alright…ain’t gonna face defeat.”
Despite being alone, numb, and a little cracked mentally, he still says that he’s fine and he refuses to completely collapse. Again, despite being such a mess he still has hope and remains resilient. The question I ask myself is whether or not he really is alright and is just putting on a tough face? I have plenty of experience with feeling dead on the inside and yet reassuring the people that were closest to me that I was perfectly fine. Maybe he’s the same way and just wants to hold onto something that he cherishes almost as much as love, his pride. Even when our sense of self worth is almost completely gone, there are times when we can’t let this completely go even if it ends up with things becoming worse. Bottling up your emotions and holding onto your pride is definitely a deadly combination. If you truly hurt, you should open up to someone and if things are not okay, somebody should know.
“I just gotta get out of this prison cell. Someday I’m gonna be free, Lord! Find me somebody to love… can anybody find me somebody to love?!”
Even though the song carries on for about another minute and half after the word “Lord”, this is how the song ultimately wraps up. Again, he still believes in himself even though he ultimately feels “imprisoned” in his own life. Feeling trapped in your own life is one of the worst feelings. For starters, you feel stupid because you look back at all the major choices you’ve made in the past year/couple of years and usually conclude that “if only I had done this instead of this, I wouldn’t be in this situation.” How could I have not known things would turn out like this? You ask this as if everything bad in your life was completely avoidable. Obviously, they’re not but that doesn’t stop you from feeling like they were. Second, you usually feel like you can’t get out of the routine that you’re in. If you’re failing a class, for example, nothing you do will change that. You could study more but you’ll probably forget to or forget your notes on the day of the test. You could pass the remaining tests but something tells you that you’ll probably bomb the final. Any way your life could become better is quickly squash leaving you feeling helpless and trapped. Even if you feel helpless and hopeless, you still feel the need to get out of your own life. This can lead to withdrawal from people or even suicide if this feeling becomes strong enough.
Like in a prison cell, he doesn’t see a way out of his own life but he believes that “someday I’m gonna break free.” Will he succeed? Even if he doesn’t, he still has hope that he’ll eventually find love again. Simply the drive to find love inspires him to go on. If anything I believe this shows just how important love really is. Even when you don’t have it yourself, the promise of something so wonderful can keep you going even in the darkest of days.
In the end, what does this song teach us? It teaches us that hope is always possible and that love is always out there. It teaches us that even when we’re feeling a lot of pain that we think no one else understands, there is still a reason to keep on living. Keep hope alive. What this song doesn’t teach though is another equally important lesson. Even when you do not have love, never stop loving. Continue to love others and the world around you. Love attracts love so if you love, you’ll surely find it. Never forget this and you’ll find somebody to love.
Fatmanonice, May 15th 2010
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”- Theodore Geisel (AKA Dr. Seuss)
“Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth.” –Percy Bysshe Shelley
“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.” –the Dalai Lama
I’ve been listening to Queen’s “Somebody to Love” for awhile now. I first came across the song about two years ago but it wasn’t until about a few weeks ago that I sat down and actually listened to what the lyrics truly said. I loved the song before but after reading through the lyrics several times, I finally discovered how deep this song really is. Freddy Mercury sings about, hope, hopelessness, and the nature of love itself. It’s a song that touches on the human experience and the feelings that everyone has at one time or another. Some people feel the same way he does for a short time. For others, it’s years. The song harbors a lot of different emotions and I’ve felt most of them myself. Because I can strongly empathize with the themes of this song, I wanted to do an in-depth review of it of sorts. In this essay, I’m going to go lyric by lyric and not only talk about how they make me feel and my opinions on the themes but also about my experiences in life.
“Can anybody find me somebody to love?”
This sets the stage for the whole song. Right the off the bat, you’re told that he doesn’t have someone to love, obviously in a romantic manner. The thing that catches my attention the most about this lyric is that he’s not asking for somebody to love him, he’s asking for someone he can love. When I hear this I have to ask myself what’s holding him back? Does he have really high standards? Is no one around him his type? Does he really just want to be alone but cries out about his loneliness anyways? I did that for a good three years. I thought my presence tainted people but I was miserable with loneliness. I didn’t bother calling my old friends but I belly ached about how they abandoned me. I didn’t have a girlfriend but then again I never went out and chickened out of a good 3-4 potential relationships from 2006-2009. I had several girls who made it really obvious that they liked me but I acted apathetic except on the days where I really felt like I “needed someone.” Is he really alone or is he making himself a loner?
“Each morning I get up I die a little, can barely stand on my feet.”
This is depression in a nutshell. You wake up and you hurt. Not only does your body hurt but your mind does too. This feeling lasts all day but when you wake up in the morning, you have this small sliver of hope that you won’t. The feeling remains and that makes you feel even worse. You feel drained. It’s like the way you feel after a long run but without the run and it doesn’t really go away. When he says that he can barely stand on his feet, it isn’t that much of an exaggeration. You feel weighed down and sometimes the only time you feel fine is when you’re asleep. Obviously, the only way you can stay asleep is to either go into a coma or die so this leads to continuous feelings of hopelessness.
“Take a look in the mirror and cry Lord what you’re doing to me. I have spent all my years believing you, but I just can’t get no relief, Lord! Somebody… somebody… can anybody find me somebody to love?”
When I was a Christian, I blamed God for things such as the existence of evil in the world and not stopping some of the bigger atrocities despite having all the power in the universe to do so. Despite this, I never blamed the Christian God for my own problems. Despite what my teachers, peers, and parents said, I believed in a God more like the one seen in Judaism. He was kind of like the dad who was always too busy to really spend time with you but you understood that he had things more important than you to focus on. Even during the years when I was the most dedicated to Christianity, I felt this way. I felt nothing. I remember one incident where I was in Panama City Beach at a Church camp being held at a hotel and I was praying outside under an umbrella during a heavy rainstorm. I felt the power of the wind and rain and watched as the waves crashed into in the beach and lightening flashed across the sky. I looked up and then I began praying out loud to the God I couldn’t see. Inside, I could hear thousands of people my age singing praises to the God they couldn’t see either. I wanted a sign, a feeling, and got nothing. I then stood there in silence for a good ten minutes just watching the storm around me and then I thanked God out loud and walked back inside. That was a day when a lot of my hope in the existence in the Christian God died.
When I was depressed, I didn’t cry very often but I felt like I wanted to a lot. In a weird way, I didn’t feel like I deserved any relief. It was a miserable way to live and hope eluded me or, rather, I eluded hope. I eluded love too. Both were big mistakes.
“I work hard every day of my life; I work till I ache my bones.”
Life can be hard at times, that’s a given. There are days where you don’t even want to get out of bed but you do it anyways because, after all, you’ve got stuff to get done, appointments to make, and people to please. Even when you’re a kid, you are forced to do these things. There’s always someone who wants a piece of you from the day you start preschool to the day you retire. You sometimes have to ask yourself what’s the point of it all? You work to get paid, to maintain your self-esteem, and to gain approval, prestige, and appreciation. Sometimes you get them. Sometimes you don’t. Sometimes you’re just used and are just a cog in the machine. Sometimes all you want is for someone to say thanks and all you get back is silence or the command to work harder and do better even when you’re weary and exhausted. What is it all for?
“At the end of the day I take home my hard earned pay all on my own.”
Sometimes one of the big things that keeps us going is our sense of pride. I earned my paycheck. I earned my grades. I earned all the stuff I own. Sometimes you take it a step further. I DESERVE all of it, right? I deserve to my job. I deserve respect. I deserve love. It’s my God given right to have all of these! What if you don’t have these though? Have you been denied them by a higher power? What could you have possibly done that was so atrocious that the universe denies you a God given right? Things become even worse when you starting asking why for all these things and aren’t able to come up with answers. Why have I earned these things? Why do I deserve these things? Why can’t I have these things? It’s dangerous thinking and can create a sense of hopelessness that some people know all-too well.
“I get down on my knees, and I start to pray, till the tears run down from my eyes, Lord! Somebody… somebody… anybody find me somebody to love.”
I find this line particularly powerful. What we have here is a man who feels so hurt that he cries out to God and asks him why there is nobody for him to love. Like I asked earlier on, doesn’t everyone deserve love? If the creator of the universe can’t provide him somebody to love, who can? The line “till the tears run down my eyes” hits me because it suggests that he prays on a regular basis and yet his prayer isn’t answered. He pretty much knows the end result every single time but he still continues to do it until he’s an emotional wreck. He keeps hope alive even in the presence of daunting evidence that there isn’t any. He’s given no evidence that his God exists or any reason to remain faithful but he still continues to believe. He keeps the faith despite the fact that he’s miserable which is generally the opposite of what most people do. In a way, he’s like the biblical figure Job which is a powerful story about faith even in the toughest of times.
“He works hard… everyday… and I try and I try and I try.”
Again, this lyric brings up how for all his work and toil, he believes he deserves love. He gets knocked down by life over and over again and continues to get up despite being battered and bruised. Why? Because he’s wholly convinced that through hard work and dedication that he’ll eventually earn the love that he’s seeking. Fullmetal Alchemist, an anime series, calls this equivalent exchange. In an ideal world, equivalent exchange would actually work. You work hard, do good, and keep a stiff upper lip, you can get anything you want and accomplish whatever you want. The sky is the limit and the only thing that determines our own potential is ourselves. This isn’t how the real world works. The lazy can make it big while the hard working can barely hold on. The morally bankrupt can live happily while the truly pious can know nothing but misery. The good can die young while the evil can live to ripe old ages. Where’s the justice in the world?
What most people don’t realize is that the world doesn’t play sides and that justice is a human concept, not a natural law. As the saying goes, life isn’t fair. Why complain about it then? Because you can and there’s nothing stopping you from bemoaning how things don’t always work out in your favor or preference. It’s the equivalent of shouting to try to stop the rain but people do it anyways. Depending on your views, knowing this about reality can create either a sense of hope or hopelessness.
“But everyone wants to put me down… they say I’m going crazy. They say I’ve got a lot of water in my brain… got no common sense… I got nobody left to believe.”
Sometimes it feels like the world wants us to fail. Why would the world be so concerned with our matters? It isn’t but SOMETHING has to explain why your job sucks, why you don’t have a girlfriend/boyfriend, and why bad things seem to only happen to you and only you. He says “everyone wants to put me down.” Who’s everyone? “THEY say I’m going crazy.” Who are they? The bigger question is why they would want to put him down? Of course, there are sometimes individuals who would love nothing better than to see you fail but expanding this to the majority is delusional at best. In a sense, you’re creating obstacles that aren’t even there or you’re making your struggle appear much, much harder than it really is.
The way he sings these lyrics makes him sound defiant rather than defeated. He’s alone (or rather he thinks he is) but he’s not going to let the majority extinguish his hope. The insults have sunken in but they haven’t made him change his mind. He’s definitely courageous for being like this. Even though a lot of his own misery is inside his own head he refuses to let it completely consume him. Once again, hope, even in spite of himself, shines through.
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.”
A series of exclamations. I could probably dig a long, complicated explanation out of it if I wanted to but most people find this more annoying than funny so I’ll digress.
“Oh Lord! Somebody…somebody… can anybody find me, somebody to love?”
Again, just the refrain that surmises how he feels that I’ve already looked into several times before.
“Got no feel, I got no rhythm… I just keep losing my beat.”
I find this lyric ironic if only because he does keep the rhythm and beat while he sings it but that’s beside the point. He says “got no feel” which I interpret as “I don’t feel anything anymore.” He’s so lonely that he’s numb. Obviously, he’s not to the point of complete and total apathy but he is to the point where life just seems dull and lifeless. I personally believe that’s the main point of the song: living without love really isn’t living. You can have wealth, fame, and power but in comparison to love, none of it really cares any true weight. While you’re reading this, put your hand to the side of your face. You can feel your hand up against your skin but what if you couldn’t? What if your entire body was like this? I believe that a life without love is like that. It’s hollow, meaningless. Your life is the equivalent of watching a movie rather than actually experiencing anything. You can think about the events that occurred but you can’t feel them. Numb.
He goes on to explain that he has no rhythm and that he keeps losing the beat as if in the absence of love, his entire body is thrown out of whack. Again, I believe life without love is like this too and is essentially the music of life. Have you ever just randomly danced in silence? To save you the trouble, it is very awkward to try to do for very long. You try to create a beat in your head but it usually doesn’t work out leaving you to pause frequently and think about how to carry on. In other words, you go through the motions but that’s just about it. There’s no true feeling to it even when you try to put some in it. Again, love is the music of life and it gives us rhythm, beat, and purpose that allows life to flow at a comfortable pace.
“I’m ok, I’m alright…ain’t gonna face defeat.”
Despite being alone, numb, and a little cracked mentally, he still says that he’s fine and he refuses to completely collapse. Again, despite being such a mess he still has hope and remains resilient. The question I ask myself is whether or not he really is alright and is just putting on a tough face? I have plenty of experience with feeling dead on the inside and yet reassuring the people that were closest to me that I was perfectly fine. Maybe he’s the same way and just wants to hold onto something that he cherishes almost as much as love, his pride. Even when our sense of self worth is almost completely gone, there are times when we can’t let this completely go even if it ends up with things becoming worse. Bottling up your emotions and holding onto your pride is definitely a deadly combination. If you truly hurt, you should open up to someone and if things are not okay, somebody should know.
“I just gotta get out of this prison cell. Someday I’m gonna be free, Lord! Find me somebody to love… can anybody find me somebody to love?!”
Even though the song carries on for about another minute and half after the word “Lord”, this is how the song ultimately wraps up. Again, he still believes in himself even though he ultimately feels “imprisoned” in his own life. Feeling trapped in your own life is one of the worst feelings. For starters, you feel stupid because you look back at all the major choices you’ve made in the past year/couple of years and usually conclude that “if only I had done this instead of this, I wouldn’t be in this situation.” How could I have not known things would turn out like this? You ask this as if everything bad in your life was completely avoidable. Obviously, they’re not but that doesn’t stop you from feeling like they were. Second, you usually feel like you can’t get out of the routine that you’re in. If you’re failing a class, for example, nothing you do will change that. You could study more but you’ll probably forget to or forget your notes on the day of the test. You could pass the remaining tests but something tells you that you’ll probably bomb the final. Any way your life could become better is quickly squash leaving you feeling helpless and trapped. Even if you feel helpless and hopeless, you still feel the need to get out of your own life. This can lead to withdrawal from people or even suicide if this feeling becomes strong enough.
Like in a prison cell, he doesn’t see a way out of his own life but he believes that “someday I’m gonna break free.” Will he succeed? Even if he doesn’t, he still has hope that he’ll eventually find love again. Simply the drive to find love inspires him to go on. If anything I believe this shows just how important love really is. Even when you don’t have it yourself, the promise of something so wonderful can keep you going even in the darkest of days.
In the end, what does this song teach us? It teaches us that hope is always possible and that love is always out there. It teaches us that even when we’re feeling a lot of pain that we think no one else understands, there is still a reason to keep on living. Keep hope alive. What this song doesn’t teach though is another equally important lesson. Even when you do not have love, never stop loving. Continue to love others and the world around you. Love attracts love so if you love, you’ll surely find it. Never forget this and you’ll find somebody to love.
Fatmanonice, May 15th 2010
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”- Theodore Geisel (AKA Dr. Seuss)
“Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth.” –Percy Bysshe Shelley
“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.” –the Dalai Lama
