There is a risk involved in everything
Every time you share a smile
Every time you shed a tear
You are opening yourself up to hurt.

Some people tread slowly through life,
Avoiding the closeness risk brings,
Side-stepping the things they can't understand
Turning away from those who care too much,
Those who care stay too long,
Those who hold too tightly.

There is never an easy way to love
You can not approach it cautiously
It will not wait for you to arm yourself.
It does not care if you turn away
It is everywhere, it is everything.

Love is the greatest of all risks.
It is not reliable, it is not cautious,
It is not sympathetic
It is unprejudiced and unmerciliess.
It strikes the strongest of mind,
And brings them to their knees in one blow.

Even in the best of times, love hurts.
It hurts to need, it hurts to belong,
It hurts to be the other part of someone else,
Without either of your consent.
But, from the moment it overtakes you,
It hurts worse to be all alone.
The risk of love never depletes;
It grows stronger and more dangerous with time.
But, it's in the total surrender of all defense,
That we, no matter weak or strong,
No matter willing or captive,
No matter what, we truly experience love.

Despite the many things love is not,
Outweighing it all are the things that love is.
Love is surrender without a loss.
It is a gift without the cost.
It consumes your every thought & desire,
Every breath you take.
It is the fire that fuels you
To do more than pass through life;
It urges you, instead, to live.

No matter the outcome, having felt love,
You will never be the same.
It may scar your heart & soul
And Leave you only memories of forever.
Or, it may cause every day of your life
To feel like there is no need for tomorrow.
But, love is worth it. It is worth the risk...
For in all of life,
Love is truly the only risk worth taking.

The Air That I Breathe

"When you listen to the song, you'd think this is a show stopper, and lyrically, you'd think I wrote it probably for the most beautiful woman that ever existed in the world. And in fact, The air that I breathe was written for quite an ugly person actually, I mean ugly outside, physically outside. She wasn't a great looking girl, but she was a terrific person inside. She was warm and kind and... This person was the person who gave me shelter in Los Angeles, when I didn't have any place to stay. I had no money, I had no Green Card, I couldn't work, I could have been a homeless. I sat down with Mike Hazlewood, and I said "Mike, this is what's happened to me, and this is the person." And I think Mike came up with [the line] "the air that I breathe." More than my story, it was because we lived in LA, and for the first time in our lives, we were introduced by smog. And every time we woke up, we'd look at the Hollywood Hills, and there was like a yellow monster up there. And I think that was his reason for coming up with [the line] "the air that I breathe". My reason was a love story, his was ecology or whatever you want to call it, you know. But it worked."

Albert Hammond

Titus 3:10

Warn a divisive person once, and then warn him a second time. After that, have nothing to do with him.

Top 50 Faves

Lifehouse- Everything
Elton John- Your Song
Madonna- Crazy For You
David Crowder Band- Obsession
Jars Of Clay- Worlds Apart
The Hollies- The Air That I Breathe
Billy Joel- Vienna
Bonnie Raitt- I Can’t Make You Love Me
Coldplay- Don’t Panic
Dashboard Confessional- So Impossible
Death Cab For Cutie- Soul Meets Body
John Lennon- Watching The Wheels
Fleetwood Mac- Landslide
Rilo Kiley- A Better Son/ Daughter
The Beach Boys- Wouldn’t It Be Nice
The Verve Pipe- Bittersweet Symphony
Tears for Fears- Head Over Heels
Bob Dylan- Times They Are A Changing
Don McLean- American Pie
Richard Marx- Right Here Waiting
Travis- The Weight
Beatles- A Day In Life
Carpenters- Close To You
The Beach Boys- God Only Knows
George Harrison- While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Belle & Sebastian- Lazy Line Painter Jane
Better Than Ezra- Closer
Aimee Mann- Wise Up
Nirvana- Smells Like Teen Spirit
Breathe- Hands To Heaven
Radiohead- Creep
Amel Larrieux- Make Me Whole
Bee Gees- Too Much Heaven
Frank Sinatra- All The Way
Dashboard Confessional- Hands Down
Leslie Cheung- Bygone Love
Bright Eyes- First Day Of My Life
Counting Crows- Accidentally In Love
Beatles- All You Need Is Love
Celine Dion- It's All Coming Back To Me Now
Death Cab For Cutie- Marching Bands Of Manhattan
John Lennon- Beautiful Boy
DC Talk- In The Light
Azure Ray- November
Five For Fighting- Superman
James Ingram- So This Is Love
John Denver- Leaving On A Jetplane
John Mayer- Comfortable
Josh Groban & Charlotte Church- The Prayer
Remy Zero- Fair

Greys Anatomy

Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't feel real. What's that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop.

The World At Large

Ice-age heat wave, can't complain.
If the world's at large, why should I remain?
Walked away to another plan.
Gonna find another place, maybe one I can stand.
I move on to another day, to a whole new town with a whole new way.
Went to the porch to have a thought.
Got to the the door and again, I couldn't stop.
You don't know where and you don't know when.
But you still got your words and you got your friends.
Walk along to another day.
Work a little harder, work another way.

I like songs about drifters - books about the same.
They both seem to make me feel a little less insane.
Walked on off to another spot.
I still haven't got anywhere that I want.
Did I want love? Did I need to know?
Why does it always feel like I'm caught in an undertow?

I know that starting over is not what life's all about.
But my thoughts were so loud, I couldn't hear my mouth.

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