| Coldplay – Death and All His Friends Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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dj whut ivc, my heart goes out to you. having been in my 20's once (i'm 54) i had my own (sometimes suicidal) share of pain and heartache. got married at age 32, we've been hanging in there for 22 years, but it wasn't always easy. there were many, many moments when we could have split for good. i started meditating a couple years ago. the peace that floods me now almost overwhelms me. because i am more at peace, our marriage is more at peace (i was always the more unhappy one; my husband, i think, was very perplexed at times over me) i have found that true living means accepting what is. so my husband is quiet and doesn't like to talk; that can be a real deal breaker, but i have come to the place where i love him and accept him fully; his silence notwithstanding. i am more at peace. and so is he. conflict in relationships stems, i believe, from different expectations. no two people can ever have exactly the same expectations thus producing a perfect relationship which does not exist. i have found that over time you get used to each other, you come to accept each other as you are and a deep and peaceful love emerges...as long as you are willing to accept the other person with all their flaws and not try to change them, or get heart broken over how they don't meet your needs. even the important ones. i have found that peace and happiness come only from within. no one can make you happy. no one can make you unhappy. only you can make yourself happy. only you can make yourself miserable. it is your thoughts that make you happy, and your thoughts that make you miserable. the most helpful books i have found are by eckhardt tolle (A New Earth, the Power of Now), dr. wayne dyer (Change your thoughts, change your life), and many others, including Autobiography of a Yogi (paramahansa yogananda), Remembering Wholeness (carol tuttle). i wish you love, peace, joy and happiness. it is possible with or without your true love; i think if you both started meditating and found peace within yourselves, you could make it work. truly. i wish you both many, many blessings in life :-) |
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| Coldplay – Death and All His Friends Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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well, i certainly have enjoyed reading all your comments; i couldn't agree more with just about every one of them. this is an amazingly wonderful song. for me, what hit me about the lyrics was the part, i don't want a cycle of recycled revenge... i'm sure you are all correct about it refer to the relationship at hand. but these were the first lyrics of the song that i actually heard (the rest, i wasn't listening to, song was background music, but the lyrics about 'revenge' etc. hit me like a ton of bricks.) because i hadn't yet really heard the preceding lyrics, what hit me was the middle east. without really listening, i assumed he was talking about the mid east and how sick he was of all the 'recycled revenge'. well, we are all sick of it. it's heartbreaking. hey, i'm not intending to do political commentary, but i think no one wants war, especially in their own country. anywhere. and so while i believe all your interpretations are more correct than mine, i like to think of the song as a commentary on the weariness of continued war. yes, it's about the relationship between two people but the song reflects, in those lyrics, my weariness of wars around the world and how i long to see peace; first in people's hearts, and then manifested in the physical world around us. peace. peace. peace. how many of us long for it, everywhere? and i supported Bush going into both afghanistan and iraq. but i don't want to see people getting killed and maimed anymore. (not that i ever did, of course...) thought they would be 'cleaner' wars, getting the job done. hey, sorry to bring up politics. music is where we can escape 'reality' and be in, perhaps, a dreamlike state. but this is just how the song hit me. |
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