"Do You Realize??"-The Flaming Lips
2003-04-05 @ 5:22 p.m.
I was listening to this cd last weekend, and I thought that these lyrics were really good. I wanted to put this song up, heck, I wanted to put most of the album up, and there is one more song from this cd that I want to put up. Anyway, I don't really have much time left to do anything, I have to leave soon, so I'm only putting this one up for now, and I might put up the other one at school or something.
I really like this song. I don't know if it's just me, but I don't think I've ever realized the fact that the people around me will all die someday. I know that I'll die, and I'm scared of it like everyone else, but I didn't really imagine that those around me would be gone before me. I feel bad that I've never fully realized that and actually dealt with it.
I've kind of wanted to realize it, and sometimes, I want to tell those around me how much they mean to me. I always have this feeling that they'll never fully know, because I never really have a great way of saying it. Everytime I try, it just comes out stupid, but it's always the truth. It makes me scared though, that all those around me will someday be gone, some of them before me. It makes me feel like I will truly be alone someday, and not in this fake loneliness, where anyone is just a call or an IM away.
I don't think anyone really realizes the stuff that's important. I don't think most people realize how beautiful they are/were, which is kind of sad. I've never considered myself very beautiful, but I know many who always talk about how ugly they are, like Hydrogen, when really, they're actually very pretty. I'm not just talking about outer beauty, but inner beauty, too. I think that everyone must have at least some form of inner beauty, and in some people, it radiates outward. I've been told I'm pretty by other people, and I do think I have inner beauty. It would just be nice to live in a society where everyone really was beautiful in some way or another, and we didn't hear about what we should look like or should do all the time.
I think that most people don't live in the moment, or for the moment, and I know I don't. I wish I did, and that's what this song makes me think of. Just trying to live for the day you're in, and trying to realize that what's going on right now in your life, and the people in it, none of it will last. Whether it's good or bad, either way it will end, and it can be something sad, or it can be something happy. I just don't know if I've realized that yet, even though I've heard it so many times before, not just in this song, but in the things people have told me. I think that's going to be one of my goals in my life, to live in the moment and cherish those around me, and to find a way to let them know I do.
"Do You Realize"-The Flaming Lips
Do you realize?
That you have the most beautiful face
Do you realize?
We're floating in space
Do you realize?
That happiness makes you cry
Do you realize?
That everyone you know someday will die
And instead of saying all your goodbyes
Let them know you realize that life goes
Too fast it's hard to make
The good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the
World spinning 'round
Do you realize?
Oh oh oh do you realize?
That everyone you know someday will die
And instead of saying all your goodbyes
Let them know you realize that life goes
Too fast it's hard to make
The good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the
World spinning 'round
Do you realize?
That you have the most beautiful face
Do you realize?
*Racecar*