Elaborate Lives
Songs are powerful vehicles of communication. Stories easily carry over to other situations. I was listening to this today and kept nodding my head in agreement. No, I'm not in the middle of an illicit affair. But life is complicated and it's important to find time for the things you truly want to accomplish.
We all lead such elaborate lives
Wild ambitions in our sights
How an affair of the heart survives [not me, but ok]
Days apart and hurried nights
Seems quite unbelievable to me
I don't want to live like that
I just want our my time to be
Slower and gentler, wise, free
We all live in extravagant times
Playing games we can't all win
Unintended emotional crimes
Take some out take others in
I'm so tired of all we're going through
I don't want to live like that
I'm so tired of all we're going through
I don't want to love like that
I just want to be with you [well, anyone but Joe Millionaire]
Now and forever, peaceful, true
The may not be the moment
to tell you face to face
But I could wait forever for
the perfect time and place
We all lead such elaborate lives
We don't know whose words are true
Strangers, lovers, husbands, wives
hard to know who's loving who
Too many choices tear us apart
I don't want to live like that
Too my choices tear us apart
I don't want to love like that
I just want to touch your heart
May this confession
Be the start
sigh.
Aida the musical production will forever be a poignant memory. Owning the CD still brings shivers when Heather Headley sings.
posted by irene @ 1/25/2003 07:49:00 PM
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