Sometimes....

[Guest guest]

(Thank you to U2- " Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own)

 

 

Tough, you think you've got the stuff

You're telling me and anyone

You're hard enough.

 

You don't have to put up a fight

You don't have to always be right

Let me take some of the punches

For you tonight

 

Listen to me now

I need to let you know

You don't have to go it alone

 

And it's you when I look in the mirror

And it's you when I don't pick up the phone

Sometimes you can't make it on your own

 

We fight all the time

You and I. that's alright

We're the same soul

I don't need. I don't need to hear you say

That if we weren't so alike

You'd like me a whole lot more

 

Listen to me now

I need to let you know

You don't have to go it alone

 

And it's you when I look in the mirror

And it's you when I don't pick up the phone

Sometimes you can't make it on your own

 

I know that we don't talk

I'm sick of it all

Can - you - hear - me - when - I -

Sing, you're the reason I sing

You're the reason why the opera is in me.

 

Where are we now?

I've got to let you know

A house still doesn't make a home

Don't leave me here alone...

 

And it's you when I look in the mirror

And it's you that makes it hard to let go

Sometimes you can't make it on your own

Sometimes you can't make it

The best you can do is to fake it

Sometimes you can't make it on your own Tough, you think you've got the stuff

You're telling me and anyone

You're hard enough.

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

awesome

sounds like Hafiz

 

(Thank you to U2- " Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own)

 

 

Tough, you think you've got the stuff

You're telling me and anyone

You're hard enough.

 

You don't have to put up a fight

You don't have to always be right

Let me take some of the punches

For you tonight

 

Listen to me now

I need to let you know

You don't have to go it alone

 

And it's you when I look in the mirror

And it's you when I don't pick up the phone

Sometimes you can't make it on your own

 

We fight all the time

You and I. that's alright

We're the same soul

I don't need. I don't need to hear you say

That if we weren't so alike

You'd like me a whole lot more

 

Listen to me now

I need to let you know

You don't have to go it alone

 

And it's you when I look in the mirror

And it's you when I don't pick up the phone

Sometimes you can't make it on your own

 

I know that we don't talk

I'm sick of it all

Can - you - hear - me - when - I -

Sing, you're the reason I sing

You're the reason why the opera is in me.

 

Where are we now?

I've got to let you know

A house still doesn't make a home

Don't leave me here alone...

 

And it's you when I look in the mirror

And it's you that makes it hard to let go

Sometimes you can't make it on your own

Sometimes you can't make it

The best you can do is to fake it

Sometimes you can't make it on your own Tough, you think you've got the

stuff

You're telling me and anyone

You're hard enough.

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

The Man Watching

 

by Rainer Maria Rilke

 

I can tell by the way the trees beat, after

so many dull days, on my worried windowpanes

that a storm is coming,

and I hear the far-off fields say things

I can't bear without a friend,

I can't love without a sister

 

The storm, the shifter of shapes, drives on

across the woods and across time,

and the world looks as if it had no age:

the landscape like a line in the psalm book,

is seriousness and weight and eternity.

 

What we choose to fight is so tiny!

What fights us is so great!

If only we would let ourselves be dominated

as things do by some immense storm,

we would become strong too, and not need names.

 

When we win it's with small things,

and the triumph itself makes us small.

What is extraordinary and eternal

does not want to be bent by us.

I mean the Angel who appeared

to the wrestlers of the Old Testament:

when the wrestler's sinews

grew long like metal strings,

he felt them under his fingers

like chords of deep music.

 

Whoever was beaten by this Angel

(who often simply declined the fight)

went away proud and strengthened

and great from that harsh hand,

that kneaded him as if to change his shape.

Winning does not tempt that man.

This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively,

by constantly greater beings.

 

Love,

 

charlie

www.awakeningtotheeternal.net

 

 

Charlie Hayes [awakenow]

Thursday, April 14, 2005 12:21 PM

Nisargadatta

RE: Sometimes....

 

 

awesome

sounds like Hafiz

 

(Thank you to U2- " Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own)

 

 

Tough, you think you've got the stuff

You're telling me and anyone

You're hard enough.

 

You don't have to put up a fight

You don't have to always be right

Let me take some of the punches

For you tonight

 

Listen to me now

I need to let you know

You don't have to go it alone

 

And it's you when I look in the mirror

And it's you when I don't pick up the phone

Sometimes you can't make it on your own

 

We fight all the time

You and I. that's alright

We're the same soul

I don't need. I don't need to hear you say

That if we weren't so alike

You'd like me a whole lot more

 

Listen to me now

I need to let you know

You don't have to go it alone

 

And it's you when I look in the mirror

And it's you when I don't pick up the phone

Sometimes you can't make it on your own

 

I know that we don't talk

I'm sick of it all

Can - you - hear - me - when - I -

Sing, you're the reason I sing

You're the reason why the opera is in me.

 

Where are we now?

I've got to let you know

A house still doesn't make a home

Don't leave me here alone...

 

And it's you when I look in the mirror

And it's you that makes it hard to let go

Sometimes you can't make it on your own

Sometimes you can't make it

The best you can do is to fake it

Sometimes you can't make it on your own Tough, you think you've got the

stuff

You're telling me and anyone

You're hard enough.