November 2, 2003
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BEN HARPER “Forever”
Not talkin’ ’bout a year
No not three or four
I don’t want that kind of forever
In my life anymore
Forever always seems
to be around when it begins
but forever never seems
to be around when it ends
So give me your forever
Please your forever
Not a day less will do From you
People spend so much time
Every single day
Runnin’ ’round all over town
Givin’ their forever away
But no not me
I won’t let my forever roam
and now I hope I can find
my forever a home
So give me your forever
Please your forever
Not a day less will do
From you
Like a handless clock with numbers
An infinite of time
No not the forever found
Only in the mind
Forever always seems
to be around when things begin
but forever never seems
to be around when things end
So give me your forever
Please your forever
Not a day less will do
From you
salvador dali…lamonde
Comments (20)
Evokes in my mind, of all things (don’t laugh), a Red Hot Chili Peppers line that goes “All I ever wanted was your life.”
now here’s a funky fact that I know is real…the chili peppers have BABY APPEAL!
At 32, I’ll take that as a compliment
ah…lay on, lay on, lay on, lay on.
out on the street I got the tunes in my box
I play the chili peppers so the public can rock
OUTA MY WAY, BOY, I’m afraid not,
I’ve got no time to tick and tock
but his baby rocked out on the spot
she was a kickin’ and a shakin’ that itty bitty tot
her pop said NO but she just couldn’t stop
the girl had a case of toddler rock
now here’s a funky fact that I know is real
the chili peppers have BABY APPEAL!
Aww, see, ya caught me on pre-hype Peppers. Shame on me.
I has seen the sox live, and they is fine.
(I may be a poseur, but I’m a poseur who’s been around a while!)
man, every fucking lyric you’ve ever posted I can sing too.
it’s a good thing no one is around to hear.
who is ben harper?
as i sit here bopping to led zepplin, my elation is fueled further by knowing such an AWESOME BROAD {yes, m’dear, that’s YOU i’m speaking of…!}! i know i’ve been hibernating lately so i’ve taken some time this morning to catch-up on your previous entries. have you noticed ~what am i thinking??? of COURSE you have!~ the threads of these last entries have all been tied to this one’s theme? {“coincidentally,” ~umm, no such thang…!~ the song, “the battle of evermore” just began playing…} y’know, i have SOOOooo much that i could tell you about myself right now relating to what you’ve mentioned in the past few blogs… oohhh, whatthehell, eh?!? i, too, have spent most of my childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood attempting to hide myself ~so fervently that even my fiction became incomprehensively abstract. i had eventually begun having nightmares of “someone” stalking me… in time, i had come to realize that person was me. as fiona apple said on “tidal”, “i’m a stranger to myself…” i WAS able to work through this in my novel, “the rapist.” of course, at the time, i had NO idea “the code” i had written involved that premise.
the concept of ”FOREVER” used to terrify me when i was very young. after all, when we passed on to eternal life, whatthefuck would we DO with all that time??? now i have to chuckle; i can’t imagine ONE lifetime being ENOUGH time to accomplish all the ideas and plans swirling in my head, y’know?
k~ ’nuff about me… just wanted you to know i’m with ya, even if “in spirit…” {just not LITERALLY ”in spirit” YET!}
“p.s.” sorry i consumed sooo much space!!!
GOOD CHRIST!!! WHYTHEFUCK DID I SAY, “when we passED on to eternal life…”???!!??? SHIIIIIT!!!!
You DO look like Queen La, only with twice as much charisma, and you know that’s saying a lot. Last month I found a song I had to put on a mix cd for you, but I have yet to determine what the rest of it should be…it’ll be a nice suprise that you probably won’t discover until like February, and by then you’ll have forgotten I told you in advance.
Imagine a vacation to Salvador’s head for a week? Too long? Yeah, that could be. How ’bout an hour? Knowing you were going to be back in your own head after that hour. That might work.
I like Ben Harper, and I LOVE that Dali pic!
-M
Dali is my favorite painter. He paints what I see whenever I close my eyes.