Keane - Somewhere Only We Know

I walked across an empty land
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth beneath my feet
Sat by the river and it made me complete

Oh simple thing where have you gone
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

I came across a fallen tree
I felt the branches of it looking at me
Is this the place we used to love?
Is this the place that I've been dreaming of?

Oh simple thing where have you gone
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

And if you have a minute why don't we go
Talk about it somewhere only we know?
This could be the end of everything
So why don't we go
Somewhere only we know?

Oh simple thing where have you gone
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

So if you have a minute why don't we go
Talk about it somewhere only we know?
This could be the end of everything
So why don't we go
So why don't we go

This could be the end of everything
So why don't we go
Somewhere only we know?

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This weekend was undoubtly remarkable on the history of Earth. The Live 8 was a complete success. Such a beautiful event. I wish I could be there.

Instead, I was working (drinking, basically) along with some guests. Not really nice ones. Hooligans, actually. It was fun, in the end, but that's just not my atmosphere. Very straight... too many beers, cocaine and sex...

But yeah, in the end it was fun. Watching people like Keane, Travis, Madonna, U2, Robbie Williams and many many others, live and for such a nice cause is awesome. I am so happy that in this world we still have people worried and willing to help. I know there are a lot of contradictions behind this, but I have been following the ONE campaign and the Live 8 preparations and I know that a LOT of effort was put into this, especially by Bob Geldof. Thank YOU, Geldof.

Now leaving the Live 8 subject, I am feeling like a preteen boy, mentally. I am SO confused about everything and all of my weaknesses are getting stronger and stronger, and sometimes I just cannot believe how WEAK I am. I do not stick too ANYTHING. Not even my ideologies. I am negligent with everything. School, work, people, sports, activities. It goes completely against my phylosophy of giving the best of me everywhere.I'm getting old and I need something to rely on.

I believe that, in order to live a good life, one must be succesful in three areas of the being: Body, Mind and Soul. If you are succesful having the appearance you want, the material things you want, the financial situation you need, but you are unable to be cultured, have an advanced line of thinking and lacks on faith (on whatever), hopes (of anything) and everything else related to your soul (or heart), you cannot have a good life. If you are succesful being intelligent, having a lot of culture and wisdom, you're able to sustain a good and long conversation but you often feel bad for the way you look, the things you don't have but want to, and you constantly feel sad and hopeless and you don't have anything greater than the material world to hold on to, you cannot be happy. And if you are happy, big hearted, not stuck to material things, good to other people, righteous, fair, dedicate every second of your life to what(or who)ever you believe, then maybe you can have a good life, but that's something really really hard to do when you live in such a capitalist world - but you will lack of BODY and MIND (some part of the MIND section can be included in the SOUL section, but I'm not going to get into details because I'm not writting a bible or creating a religion).

Balance is the most important thing to make your time worth in the earth. Balance, of everything. Between Body, Mind and Soul, between good and evil, between reckless and responsible... Balance. Equilibrium.

And, the feeling to go on with you in this long road is called Strength. You have to be strong and suffer if necessary, but it will be for a good cause. You have to live the present, have your own balance that was brought to you by your strength and make good memories that will last eternally inside of you. Everything comes and goes. In a minute you can be the richest person on earth, but in the next minute you can lose it all. The only thing that will remain inside you is the memory. Building good moments that will become memories is what makes life worth living.

And caring for people. Make people unforgettable to you, and make yourself unforgettable to people. Cultivate old and new friends. Soon, the new friends will become old, and the old ones will become brothers. Have important contacts. Be nice, gentle, smile. People need random politeness. Cultivating people in your life will bring important contacts.

I do believe in all of that. I really do. But look at life right now:

- I have failed most subjects at school. I have to make a final test on the 21st of July if I want to pass. The problem is: I have skipped so many classes, many exams, and I have no clue about most of the subjects.

- I work 8 hours a day for a very low salary. I drink all the time, and if my boss finds out something bad could happen.

- I smoke a pack of cigarettes a day and I don't have time for my friends. Wait... friends?

- I am unable to keep in touch with the people I meet.

- I do not feel attracted to ANYONE, and for that reason my sex life is zero.

- I haven't been reading a lot recently, nor watching movies, nor playing games, nor getting more cultured.

- I don't have time to think.

- I do not work out anymore, I do not take good care of myself, and I don't like my appearance the way it is now, nor the clothes I wear. I want new ones, but I don't have the resources.

This is not a memorable life, is it? This isn't special. This is just being at the bottom. That's not what I want... not what I need. If only I could, for a moment, walk across an empty land,feel the earth beneath my feet and sit by the river and be complete with all that.... only for a moment.... to sit and to JUST BE...