Here, There And Everywhere

To lead a better life I need my home to be here...
Here, making each day of the year
Changing my life with the wave of her hand
Nobody can deny that there's something there

There, running my hands through her hair
Both of us thinking how good it can be
Someone is speking but she doesn't know he's there

I want her everywhere and if she's beside me I know I need never care
But to love her is to need her everywhere
Knowing that love is to share

Each one believing that love never dies
Watching her eyes and hoping
I'm always there

I want her everywhere and if she's beside me I know I need never care
But to love her is to need her everywhere
Knowing that love is to share
Each one believing that love never dies
Watching her eyes and hoping
I'm always there

To be there and everywhere
Here, there and everywhere

THE PERSON NEXT TO YOU

Look around you. WHO IS THE PERSON sitting next to you?
The PERSON next to you is the greatest miracle and the greatest mystery
you will ever meet at this moment,
A testament of the Word made flesh
of God's continuing Advent into the world, into our midst.

The PERSON next to you
is a unique universe of experience, seething with necessity and possibility
dread and desire, smiles and frowns
laughter and tears, fears and hopes
all struggling to find experience.

The PERSON next to you is surging to
BECOME something, in particular, to arrive at some destination,
to have a story, and a song,
to be known and to know...

The PERSON next to you--IS MYSTERY
And the WORD MADE FLESH IS MYSTERY.
And the word made Flesh
and dwelt among us.

decode

How can I decide what's right
When you're clouding up my mind?
I can't win your losing fight
All the time.
Not gonna ever own whats mine
When you're always taking sides?
But you won't take away my pride.
No, not this time.
Not this time.

How did we get here?
When I used to know you so well.
But how did we get here?
Well, I think I know.

The truth is hiding in your eyes
And it's hanging on your tongue.
Just boiling in my blood.
But you think that I can't see
What kind of man that you are,
If you're a man at all.Well,
I will figure this one out
On my own.
(I'm screaming, "I love you so.")
On my own.
(My thoughts you can't decode.)

How did we get here?
When I used to know you so well, yeah.
But how did we get here?
Well, I think I know.

Do you see what we've done?
We've gone and made such fools
Of ourselves.
Do you see what we've done?
We've gone and made such fools
Of ourselves.

How did we get here?
When I used to know you so well, yeah, yeah.
How did we get here?
Well, I used to know you so well.
I think I know.
I think I know.

There is something I see in you.
It might kill me.
I want it to be true.

How to...

Someday, everything will change.
Like the trees will stop growing.
Or the flowers will stop blooming.
Or the night sky will not show its stars.
Or the sea will not give us its peace.
Or the horizon will be gone.
Or the rainbow will not show.
Or the music that we truly love will disappear.
Or the rain will not bring its coldness.
Or the sun will not be rising.
Or the person next to you will be just a stranger.
Or worst, the one that we truly and mostly love will not be there,
or maybe, someone will stop believing His existence.

Their shadows left unrecognized.
This is reality.
It hurts so much that you will choose to die.
It hurts so much that you will choose not to see it.
When will we ever learn to appreciate?
Maybe when everything we see in the world will be gone.
Maybe, just maybe, tomorrow will be a lot different from today.

labs na labs ang The Zahir part II

if a man we don't know phones us up today and talks a little, makes no suggestions,
says nothing special, but nevertheless gives us the kind of attention we rarely receive,
we are quite capable of going to bed with him that same night, feeling relatively in love.
that is what we women are like, and there is nothing wrong with that-it is the nature of the female to open herself to love easily.

tama? tama? tama?

labs na labs ang The Zahir

that is why it is so important to let certain things go. to release them. to cut loose. people need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. complete the circle. not out of pride, inability, or arrogance, but simply because it no longer fits in your life. close the door, change the record, clean he house, get rid of the dust. stop being who you were and become who you are.


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