Ain't No Reason Things Are This Way

Great song by Brett Dennen...


there ain't no reasons things are this way its how they've always been and they intend to stay
i can't explain why we live this way we do it everyday
preachers on the podiums speaking to saints prophets on the sidewalks begging for change old ladies laughing from the fire escape, cursing my name
i got a basket full of lemons and they all taste the same a window and a pigeon with a broken wing you can spend your whole life working for something just to have it taken away
people walk around pushing back their desks wearing pay checks like necklaces and bracelets talking 'bout nothing, not thinking about their every little heart beat, every little breath
people walk a tight rope on a razor's edge carrying their hurt and hatred and weapons it could be a bomb or a bullet or a pin or a thought or a word or a sentence...
love will come set me free i do believe love will come set me free i know it will
prison walls still standing tall some things never change at all keep on building prisons, gonna fill them all. keep on building bombs gonna drop them all
working your fingers bare to the bone breaking your back, make you sell your soul like a lung is filled with coal, suffocating slow
the wind blows wild and i may move but politicians lie and i'm not fooled you don't need no reason or a 3 piece suit to argue the truth
the air on my skin and the world under my toes slavery stitched into the fabric of my clothes chaos and commotion wherever i go
there ain't no reason things are this way its how they've always been and they intend to stay i can't explain why we live this way; we do it everyday.

I love that song it really hits home to me. The thought of we can't make something that is bad better with more bad. Love finding a way through.

Movie:
I just saw Wall-e. Man, this movie destroyed me. All of the trash and broken crap that we didn't even need in the first place filling our surface and our skies. I don't want the world to come to this, but I fear that we are not all on the same boat and that will be what hurts us. I also can't help seeing a reflection in what the movie is saying look at all of the stuff they bought and eventually they had to be dug out of their crap. Why do we fill our lives with crap what are we trying to fill? Because the earth does not have limitless landfills to hold our junk.

Book:
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates. This book is probably written about people like me, but that people like me should never read. You can see yourself too much in the book. See your own desire to be important. To do something great. Feel that you have all of these wonderful ideas, but no way to impart them. The book really points to that flaw. I am only a little over 1/4 the way through so probably more on it when I am done if I can stomach the rest.

Yarn:
I am going strong on this and have used up so far this month...
~three odd leftover balls
~three full balls of bamboo
~seven full balls of cashmere
I am ready to be done with baby shower knitting and then take a break for a bit. I have made some incredibly cute stuff which I am really proud of!