January 17, 2007

I was listening to some Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds again tonight - Seek Up to be specific. The lyrics ring of the irony society has in material wealth, selfishness, and complacency in general. We recognize the plights of others, and realize it takes action to result in action. Yet, for the most part, we do nothing. Truly, we do nothing. Where’s our moral conscience?

Talk is cheap, and good intentions are meaningless. It’s time to step up, and pay it forward. Make a difference. For as it’s said below, when we’re gone, we’re all swept away. Find a worthwhile cause, and follow through - you can make a difference. For me, it’s St. Jude’s. What will it be for you?

Seek Up (Dave Matthews Band, performed by Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds 3-20-03, Univ. of Rhode Island)

Sometimes I feel like I’m falling –
Fall back again. fall back again.
Fall back again. fall back again.

Life it seems - the struggle between what we see and what we do
Well I’m not going to change my ways just to please you or appease you
Look at this crowd - six billion proud willing to punch it out
Right, wrong, weak, strong — ashes to ashes, all fall down.
Look around about this round about this merry-go-round and around
Well If at all God’s gaze upon us falls –
It’s with a mischievous grin, look at him.

Forget about the reasons and the treasons we are seeking;
Forget about the notion that our emotions can be kept at bay;
Forget about being guilty, we are innocent instead –
For soon we will all find our lives swept away.

Look at me in my fancy car and my bank account –
How I wish I could take it all down into my grave,
God knows I’d save and save.
Man, take a look again, take a look again,
All the things I have collected –
Well in the end it all will pile up so tall to one big nothing - only nothing at all.

Forget about the reasons and the treasons we are seeking;
Forget about the notion that our emotions can be kept at bay;
Forget about being guilty, we are innocent instead –
Soon we will all find our lives swept away.

You seek up an emotion and your cup is overflowing.
You seek up an emotion, sometimes your well is dry.
You seek up a big monster for him to fight your wars for you.
But when he finds his way to you,
the devil’s not going–ha ha, ha ha.

Say, say –

Late at night with tv’s hungry child –
His belly swells;
For the price of a coke or a smoke I could keep alive those hungry eyes.
Man take a look again, take a look again, take a look again –
Everyday things change - but basically you and me stay the same.

Forget about the reasons and the treasons we are seeking;
Forget about the notion that our emotion can be kept at bay;
Forget about being guilty, we are innocent instead –
Soon we will all find our lives swept away.

You seek up an emotion and your cup is overflowing.
You seek up an emotion, sometimes your well is dry.
You seek up a big monster for him to fight your wars for you.
But when he finds his way to you,
The devil’s not going - ha ha, ha ha.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust — we crumble and fade away.
Fall back again.

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