Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:28:18 GMT

the main problem with this site is that i can't post beethoven's symphonies, or stravinsky's firebird suite, or dvorak's american quartet, or glinka's russlan and ludmilla, or (most importantly) brahms's academic festival overture. this is a disturbing realization: by posting only lyrics i am robbing the music of its charm, its soul. as a result i shall have to kill this site after all. it completely doesn't work as i wanted it to...i have it all in my memory anyway, and i have the music and emotions to go with it. i know those of you who read this generally don't have the melodies and intricacies, which is a depressing thought...i'm allowing you to deprive yourselves of the full effect of this art form that consumes me, in actuality defeating the purpose i was originally hoping to achieve. it's like putting love letters in email form...we miss out on the handwriting, smell, etc. when it's all on a screen.

et avec ceci, je vous laisse:

saw my life this mornin'
lyin' at the bottom of a drawer
all this stuff i'm savin'...
god knows what this junk is for
and whatever i believed in
this is all i have to show
what the hell were all the reasons
for holding on for such dear life?
here's where i let go.

-mary chapin carpenter

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