"Love Remains the Same" by Gavin Rossdale
A thousand times I've seen you standing
Gravity like lunar landing
You make me wanna run till I find you
I shut the world away from here
Drift to you, you're all I hear
As everything we know fades to black
Half the time the world is ending
Truth is I am done pretending
I, never thought that I
Had anymore to give
You're pushing me so far
Here I am without you
Drink, to all that we have lost
Mistakes we have made
Everything will change
But,love remains the same
Find a place where we escape
Take you with me for a space
The city bus sounds just like a fridge
I walk the streets through seven bars
I have to find just where you are
The faces seem to blurr
They're all the same
Half the time the world is ending
Truth is I am done pretending
I, never thought that I
Had anymore to give
You're pushing me so far
Here I am without you
Drink, to all that we have lost
Mistakes we have made
Everything will change
But, love remains the same
So much more to say
So much to be done
Don't you trick me now
We shall overcome
So all that's left is praying
But we, should have had the sun
We could have been inside
Instead we're over here
Half the time the world is ending
Truth is I am done pretending
Too much time too long defending
You and I are done pretending
I, never thought that I
Had anymore to give
You're pushing me so far
Here I am without you
Drink, to all that we have lost
Mistakes we have made
Everything will change
Everything will change
I, oh I,
I wish this could last forever
I, oh I,
as if we could last forever
Love remains the same
Love remains the same
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Monday, June 16, 2008
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Going Through the Motions
Going through the motions
Day after day
Feeling so lost
I can't find my way
The initial shock is gone
It no longer hurts
Now I'm just numb
I wonder which is worse
I've forgotten how to smile
I can barely breathe
This pressure in my chest
Will it ever leave
I feel so alone
So empty inside
Talking about it is useless
My feelings I have to hide
The jumbled thoughts
The sleepless nights
My heavy heart
When will I feel alright
Who am I now
What do I do
I try to figure it out
But I haven't got a clue
The tears won't come
I have no peace
I scream silently and I write
Trying to find a release
Going through the motions
For yet another day
Maybe tomorrow
I'll start to find my way
Day after day
Feeling so lost
I can't find my way
The initial shock is gone
It no longer hurts
Now I'm just numb
I wonder which is worse
I've forgotten how to smile
I can barely breathe
This pressure in my chest
Will it ever leave
I feel so alone
So empty inside
Talking about it is useless
My feelings I have to hide
The jumbled thoughts
The sleepless nights
My heavy heart
When will I feel alright
Who am I now
What do I do
I try to figure it out
But I haven't got a clue
The tears won't come
I have no peace
I scream silently and I write
Trying to find a release
Going through the motions
For yet another day
Maybe tomorrow
I'll start to find my way
Monday, June 9, 2008
10 Stupid Things Couples do to Mess up Their Relationship
I found this list here.
1. Stupid Secrets: Withholding important information for fear of rejection. It’s the struggle against selfishness. Privacy is something you 'give' out of respect. Secrecy is when you feel guilty about something you can't tell you partner or spouce.
2. Stupid Egotism: My freedom/ rights to do what I want are more important than you feeling/ needs –and ask not what you can do for this relationship ask only what this relationship can do for you!
3. Stupid Pettiness: Make a big deal of the small stuff.
4. Stupid Power: Never lose an argument, or sacrifice anything; always be in control, never let the other forget he or she messed up.
5. Stupid Priorities: consuming all your time and energies with work, hobbies, errands, chores, missions and an unkept bed has a higher priority than the relationship.
6. Stupid Happiness: seeking stimulation and assurance from all the wrong places to satisfy the immature need to feel good vs.. to be good.
7. Stupid Excuses: instead of acknowledging misdeeds and being accountable, you fight back with excuses, which just cause more damage –learn to apologize.
8. Stupid Liaisons: staying attached to relatives and friends who are outright bad influence and destructive to your relationship –allowing these folks to hurt your partner.
9. Stupid Mismatch: Seeing red flags clearly and yet you stay around trying to put a square peg in a round hole –not knowing when to leave and cut your losses. Bad boys and jerks fall into this catagory.
10.Stupid Breakups: Disconnecting for all the wrong reasons. We live in a divorce culture.
How guilty are all of us of doing these things.
1. Stupid Secrets: Withholding important information for fear of rejection. It’s the struggle against selfishness. Privacy is something you 'give' out of respect. Secrecy is when you feel guilty about something you can't tell you partner or spouce.
2. Stupid Egotism: My freedom/ rights to do what I want are more important than you feeling/ needs –and ask not what you can do for this relationship ask only what this relationship can do for you!
3. Stupid Pettiness: Make a big deal of the small stuff.
4. Stupid Power: Never lose an argument, or sacrifice anything; always be in control, never let the other forget he or she messed up.
5. Stupid Priorities: consuming all your time and energies with work, hobbies, errands, chores, missions and an unkept bed has a higher priority than the relationship.
6. Stupid Happiness: seeking stimulation and assurance from all the wrong places to satisfy the immature need to feel good vs.. to be good.
7. Stupid Excuses: instead of acknowledging misdeeds and being accountable, you fight back with excuses, which just cause more damage –learn to apologize.
8. Stupid Liaisons: staying attached to relatives and friends who are outright bad influence and destructive to your relationship –allowing these folks to hurt your partner.
9. Stupid Mismatch: Seeing red flags clearly and yet you stay around trying to put a square peg in a round hole –not knowing when to leave and cut your losses. Bad boys and jerks fall into this catagory.
10.Stupid Breakups: Disconnecting for all the wrong reasons. We live in a divorce culture.
How guilty are all of us of doing these things.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
the best advice I've ever heard
You can never meet the right person if you never let go of the wrong person, but at the same time the moment you feel like letting go you remember why you held on for so long... sometimes you have to forget what you want and remember what you deserve.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
A different kind of love
I spent a lot of time this weekend, thinking about things, putting things into perspective and re-evaluating the relationships that I have with the people in my life.
They rushed my grandmother to the hospital this weekend. When I got the phone call, I asked if I should be there. When I was told yes, and to get there as soon as possible, I knew it was bad. As I was sitting in the hospital room with her, seeing my grandma cry for the first time in my life, I looked over at my grandfather. I could see the emotions all over her face…fear, love, concern. My grandma looked at my grandpa and told him she was sorry for everything she put him through and how much she loves him.
It hit me right then and there. I want to love and be loved like that. That’s the relationship that I want. This bullshit of breaking up every other week, fighting every other day, jealousy, inconsiderateness, ignoring each other, refusing to say I love you, hanging up on each other, lack of respect, games, etc….THIS IS NOT WHAT I WANT.
When I got divorced 3 ½ years ago, I swore I would never get serious again. I would never fall in love again. I would never get married again. Then I met someone, a man who I fell in love with like I have never loved another. The first time I looked in his eyes I knew, right then and there, that we were made for each other. I had found my soul mate, my other half. No, no, this wasn’t one-sided. This man, who was just as cynical and commitmentaphobic as I was, fell as hard for me as I had for him. Oh my gosh what a beautiful love we had.
And then it began to change. Yes, we still loved each other. But we forgot. We forgot to be kind and considerate to each other. We let other people come between us. We stopped listening to each other. We stopped doing things together. We began to fight constantly. We would break up, swear we would never see each other again, and then we would be right back together. See, in our hearts we knew that this was the love of our lives, which is why we always found our way back to each other.
The fighting and the stupid petty shit and the selfishness finally became so great that I spent the weekend thinking that I couldn’t go on the way things were anymore. He must have been doing the same thing, although his response to his thoughts was FAR DIFFERENT THAN MINE WAS.
I want a love like my grandparents have. They have been together through thick and thin. When hard times fell upon them, they leaned on each other. When people tried to come between them, family members started acting stupid, it was the two of them standing strong….together. There’s going to come a day when one of my grandparents passes and the other one is left with memories. But what amazing memories they’ll have.
I’m not so unrealistic that I don’t know that relationships take work. We fall into the pattern of day to day life and forget to let the one we love know how much we love them. We stop doing the little things. We take them for granted. We take our bad days out on them. When big traumas happen, we lash out at them instead of lean on them.
This man…the one I’ve loved for so long....thanks for the memories. I’m ready to make more…a lifetime of beautiful memories.
They rushed my grandmother to the hospital this weekend. When I got the phone call, I asked if I should be there. When I was told yes, and to get there as soon as possible, I knew it was bad. As I was sitting in the hospital room with her, seeing my grandma cry for the first time in my life, I looked over at my grandfather. I could see the emotions all over her face…fear, love, concern. My grandma looked at my grandpa and told him she was sorry for everything she put him through and how much she loves him.
It hit me right then and there. I want to love and be loved like that. That’s the relationship that I want. This bullshit of breaking up every other week, fighting every other day, jealousy, inconsiderateness, ignoring each other, refusing to say I love you, hanging up on each other, lack of respect, games, etc….THIS IS NOT WHAT I WANT.
When I got divorced 3 ½ years ago, I swore I would never get serious again. I would never fall in love again. I would never get married again. Then I met someone, a man who I fell in love with like I have never loved another. The first time I looked in his eyes I knew, right then and there, that we were made for each other. I had found my soul mate, my other half. No, no, this wasn’t one-sided. This man, who was just as cynical and commitmentaphobic as I was, fell as hard for me as I had for him. Oh my gosh what a beautiful love we had.
And then it began to change. Yes, we still loved each other. But we forgot. We forgot to be kind and considerate to each other. We let other people come between us. We stopped listening to each other. We stopped doing things together. We began to fight constantly. We would break up, swear we would never see each other again, and then we would be right back together. See, in our hearts we knew that this was the love of our lives, which is why we always found our way back to each other.
The fighting and the stupid petty shit and the selfishness finally became so great that I spent the weekend thinking that I couldn’t go on the way things were anymore. He must have been doing the same thing, although his response to his thoughts was FAR DIFFERENT THAN MINE WAS.
I want a love like my grandparents have. They have been together through thick and thin. When hard times fell upon them, they leaned on each other. When people tried to come between them, family members started acting stupid, it was the two of them standing strong….together. There’s going to come a day when one of my grandparents passes and the other one is left with memories. But what amazing memories they’ll have.
I’m not so unrealistic that I don’t know that relationships take work. We fall into the pattern of day to day life and forget to let the one we love know how much we love them. We stop doing the little things. We take them for granted. We take our bad days out on them. When big traumas happen, we lash out at them instead of lean on them.
This man…the one I’ve loved for so long....thanks for the memories. I’m ready to make more…a lifetime of beautiful memories.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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