Mood Music

I don't feel like writing a novel, just having a little light conversation. Therefore, it's music time.

I love this song because I love the idea of being able to wander the universe, unhindered and guided only by imagination. I love that even if we wander far away and see great things, the most lucky people will have something to come back to. We go far out into the universe, searching for things we can't even define very well. We find ourselves hiding in landscapes and tough challenges and other people. I think the best way to find your whole self is to be able to see as much as possible, so that you have so many things that can piece you together. It's like a digital image - the more pixels you have, the more clearly you can see the image. In people, the more tiny parts we have to make us up, the more defined we can be. Some people will never walk out of their comfort zone - they'll stay with what they know, and always be stuck in 2-D. Don't they want to find out what happens if they wind up in a different country, or fighting a losing battle, or learning how to do something they never did before? Those are life's real tests, the journeys that have no foreseeable ending. The only way to find the ending is to experience it, to live it, and to see where you end up.

Drops of Jupiter
Train

Now that she’s back in the atmosphere
With drops of Jupiter in her hair, hey hey
She acts like summer and walks like rain
Reminds me that there’s time to change, hey, hey
Since the return from her stay on the moon
She listens like spring and she talks like June, hey, hey

Tell me, did you sail across the sun
Did you make it to the Milky Way to see the lights all faded
And that heaven is overrated

Tell me, did you fall from a shooting star
One without a permanent scar
And did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there?

Now that she’s back from that soul vacation
Tracing her way through the constellation, hey, hey
She checks out Mozart while she does Tae-Bo
Reminds me that there’s time to grow, hey, hey

Now that she’s back in the atmosphere
I’m afraid that she might think of me as plain ol’ Jane
Told a story about a man who was too afraid to fly
So he never did land

Tell me, did the wind sweep you off your feet
Did you finally get the chance to dance along the light of day
And head back toward the Milky Way?
And tell me, did Venus blow your mind
Was it everything you wanted to find
And did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there?

Can you imagine no love, pride, deep-fried chicken
Your best friend always sticking up for you
Even when I know you’re wrong
Can you imagine no first dance, freeze dried romance
Five-hour phone conversation
The best soy latte that you ever had . . . and me

But tell me, did the wind sweep you off your feet
Did you finally get the chance to dance along the light of day
And head back toward the Milky Way?
Tell me, did you sail across the sun
Did you make it to the Milky Way to see the lights all faded
And that heaven is overrated

Tell me, did you fall from a shooting star
One without a permanent scar
And did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there?