well THAT is odd as a sod. my laptop randomly started playing the monkees, i’m a believer!
how very rummy.
I thought love was only true in fairy tales
Meant for someone else but not for me.
Love was out to get me
Thats the way it seemed.
Disappointment haunted all my dreams.
Then I saw her face, now Im a believer
Not a trace of doubt in my mind.
Im in love, Im a believer!
I couldnt leave her if I tried.
I thought love was more or less a given thing,
Seems the more I gave the less I got.
Whats the use in tryin?
All you get is pain.
When I needed sunshine I got rain.
Then I saw her face, now Im a believer
Not a trace of doubt in my mind.
Im in love, Im a believer!
I couldnt leave her if I tried.
well, yeah. i mean on first glances it is a love song of sorts, but because of the particular mood i was in at the time, the bit i HEARD was “Whats the use in tryin? All you get is pain. When I needed sunshine I got rain.” but then i thought hang on a minute, i have never listened to that line before! i didn’t even know it was there! so i lyric searched it, and READ “Then I saw her face, now Im a believer, Not a trace of doubt in my mind. Im in love, Im a believer! I couldnt leave her if I tried.”
well that put the boot on the other foot, did it not? in a non-gender specific type of way…but yeah that is what i got that time, and it just got the old grey matter thinking about positive thinking and the like, and another song popped in to my head…
(imagine this being sung by hugh laurie, pre-House in his bertie wooster mode…)
A sunny disposish will always see you through
When up above the skies are black instead of being blue
Mr. trouble makes our faces roll on not a smile
Without his saying ’so long’ (I’m on my way!)
It really doesn’t pay to be a gloomy pill
It’s absolutely most ridic, positively sil,
The rain may pitter patter
It really doesn’t matter
For life can be delish
With a sunny disposish!
It really doesn’t pay to be a gloomy pill
It’s absolutely most ridic, positively sil,
The rain may pitter patter
It really doesn’t matter
For life can be delish
With a sunny disposish!
ahh, now that was nice, wasn’t it, children?
got me thinking about the whole glass half empty/half full business, and i think it is rather scary how easily you can think one thing that leads you in to a glass half empty day/week/life and vice versa…
optimista…or pessimista? hmm? i’m asking you!!
but then i think it is necessary to have a bit of pessimista from time to time, as otherwise how would you appreciate the optimista? i would prefer to be an optimist ALL the time, but i’m not julie andrews, really. and ALSO…
WHAT IS IN THIS GLASS?
personally, i would prefer the particular glass above to be half empty, as i do with most alcoholic beverages, as it looks rather unsavoury. but what if your glass is full of…say…MUD?
YUUUUUERRRRGGGHHHH!
once again, the boot is most definitely on the other bloody shoe now!
you would be like get this bloody mud out of my glass, i am not trying to grow beans, i am attempting to evaluate my psychological state, fanks muchly!
but then…what if your glass was full of…KITTENS?
HA HA! that would indeed be a happy circumstance.
so there you have it, whether you are an optimist or a pessimist, you are still trapped in a big old glass bastard.
may your glass over floweth with kittens,
emilymews
xx
