Circles In My Head

Dream
Langston Hughes

Last night I dreamt
This most strange dream,
And everywhere I saw
What did not seem could ever be:

You were not there with me!

Awake,
I turned
And touched you
Asleep,
Face to the wall.

I said,
How dreams
Can lie!

But you were not there at all!
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Eli, Eli
Miriam Kessler

My God, My God, he cried,
If he is quoted right…
Somehow that moan is comforting
To us, alone at night,
Who tremble, daring dawn,
That He, so wise and strong,
Should weep and ask for aid.
Somehow, my loving, distant God,
It makes me less afraid.
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I Celebrate Myself, And Sing Myself
Walt Whitman

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loaf and invite my soul,
I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, formed from this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the
same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
Creeds and schools in abeyance,
Retiring back awhile sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,
I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy.
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My Eyes So Soft
Hafiz

Don't surrender your loneliness so quickly
Let it cut more deep.
Let it ferment and season you
As few human or even divine ingredients can
Something missing in my heart tonight
Has made my eyes so soft
My voice so tender
My need of god
Absolutely clear.
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Ode to Odhner, Sylvia
Brian Smith

She was young twice.
For Tree it was the same.
When Tree was first born,
He was silly –so few leaves
Winter came with its snows
leaves were torn
But he grew nice.
He wiped his nose, on his sleeves
And wished for spring.
And it came.
And when it was done.
Again he was young.
For Sylvia it was the same.
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from Riding the A
May Swenson

Wheels
and rails
in their prime
collide,
make love in a glide
of slickness
and friction.
It is an elation
I wish to pro-
long.
The station
is reached
too soon.

The purpose of this entry is to include not too random, but unique phrases that if anyone googled them (in quotes), this would be the only result; such as the phrase, "Jason Wade recognized me," "the tesseract has sixteen vertices," or "Bryn Athyn looks." I don't know if anyone would ever search for those phrases, but I have, and they don't exist yet in the land of Google. At least not until this entry is posted. I'm often surprised, when considering the vastness of the internet, at what doesn't seem to be on it. Anyway...

"Superman cooked me dinner."
"I ate chocolate while I was in..."
"The bath was too warm for me."
"My fans always listen..."
"If I were on Lost, I wouldn't..."
"High Away From You lyrics"

By the way, kudos to Maureen for snagging the phrase "I never thought Lifehouse would," in her fan fiction, Special Delivery. "I never thought Lifehouse would be delivering my baby," she wrote. My quotation has now ruined its uniqueness, though.

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First Time
We’re both cooking up something
We’ve been afraid to try.
It’s easier to be choking
On what I can’t identify.

Looking at this, holding my breath
Afraid that I’ll get poisoned to death
I’m taking a chance putting it in my mouth.

Chorus:
We’ll have to start all over again
It’s as bad as the dirt that’s under the sink
We’re trying to cook some food for the first time.
Well maybe it’s bad, I think you’re right.
I think it belongs in the garbage tonight.
We’re trying to cook some food for the first time

The mold that I see inside this
Waiting to come to life
Is stinking up all the kitchen
Attracting all sorts of flies.

Looking at this, holding my breath
Afraid that I’ll get poisoned to death
I’m taking a chance putting it in my mouth.

(Chorus)

We’re trashing
Our dish unknown.
I think we fried
A chicken bone.

(Chorus)

( More parodies! )

This is just a collection of quotes by Jason Wade from interviews and concerts where he's talking about the meanings and inspirations behind his songs. I found quotes for all the songs I could and organized them by song. If you find any quotes from songs that aren't listed, leave a comment so I can add them.


( Click here to see the index. )

Some selected entries from iusedtobelieve.com.

"My brother and I thought that Grandma lived at the airport because that's where we always went to get her. Then when we were tired of her, we took her back." Makes perfect sense.

"At one point growing up, I became convinvced that the world would end on February 29, 1997. I have no idea how I came by this belief, but there it was: it didn't matter what I did, what I achieved, or how I lived my life, because come February 29, 1997, the whole world would blow up and utterly extinguish all life on earth.

I believed this until one day, when I realized that 1997 wasn't going to be a leap year..."

"When I was about 6 years old I went to church for the first time and someone there told me that God was everything. I then pictured God to be a giant pile of household appliances and furniture, mostly consisting of washing machines and couches." I think I would have had a similar image in my head as a child.

"I had a strange fear that if I closed my eyes in the bathtub, William Shakespeare would come up through the drain and kill me. I knew his name, but I had no idea who he was, so I just naturally assumed he was some sort of bathtub vampire."

"It seems I'm not the only person to have assigned genders to the numbers. I took it a step further though, and imagined them as members in a family. For me, 1 is male, 2 is female, but they are also the little brother and sister, and don't get along. 4 is male and the "cool-guy" teenager who doesn't say much. 5 and 6 are husband and wife, with 6 wearing the pants in the family because she is bigger. 8 and 9 are the old aunts who never got married so they live together and have a bunch of cats (Like Patty and Selma from "The Simpsons"). 10 is the grandpa (Six's dad) who tries to keep everyone under control but mostly just shakes is head and mumbles alot. After ten, we get talking about the extended family... Don't get me started." Looks like someone has a case of synesthesia.

"As a four-year-old with a very large vocabulary, I decided the "Civil War" was the one war where everybody pretended they were nice to everyone else. For example, a soldier would offer the enemy a cigarette, shoot him when he least expected it, and then pretend to be sad about it."

numbers = order of preference
red = most important




( yeah )

"You see I never thought enough of myself
To realize
That losing me could mean something
Like the tears in your eyes."

-Eels (I'm Gonna Stop Pretending That I Didn't Break Your Heart)


"I know that you are watching me somewhere
Over the moon
Shouting down that you love me
Wondering why I can't hear you."

-Lifehouse (Midnight In Philadelphia)


"Bird came to my window and said, 'What?
You let me in here once, now what the hell?
What I wouldn't give for arms to hold you.
We are creatures of such like desire.'
I said 'Sorry, but I didn't mean it then.
Now I know that I am sorrier than I have ever been.'"

-Christine Fellows (Bird As Prophet)


"I don't want you to know where I am
'Cause then you'll see my heart in the saddest state it's ever been."

-Relient K (Who I Am Hates Who I've Been)


"I am reaching for you but my arms aren't long enough.
I am running to you, if I could go a little faster.
I am crying to you but I can't hear my own voice.
I am waiting for you
And trying not to fall asleep now."

-Lifehouse (Fool)


"Heaven forbid you end up alone and don't know why.
Hold on tight. Wait for tomorrow, you'll be alright."

-The Fray (Heaven Forbid)


"Take my security from me
And maybe finally
I won't have to know everthing."

-Lifehouse (Unknown)


"I know
That I'll never be alone.
You will never let me go.
You are my anchor.
Hold my hand
While I'm sinking in the sand.
No one else could understand.
You are my anchor."

-Lifehouse (Anchor)