Celebration of Life
I can’t take my eyes off you
Your life is bigger than mine
When my face is riddled with wrinkles
Beckoning the approach of the end
Your starry eyes and piercing supernova cries
Herald the start of a new age.
Dear me I love you
Even if I will leave you
You are from me
And I will come from you
Hush now and I will abide
An immortal of the tribulations
Your blood will be as red as mine
Rising above expectation
Of just resisting to give up
When everyone thought it is the end.
Don’t you forget about me
I’ll be alone
Dancing you know baby
I’ll put us back together at heart!
I celebrate you
The sun rises with you
Your weakness is my strength
I will watch you grow
To be the best life can be!
Found Poetry: Kiss from a Rose (Seal)
Ba da ba da da da ah ya ya…
There used to be a greying tower alone on the sea.
You became the light on the dark side of me.
Love remained a drug that’s the high and not the pill.
But did you know,
That when it snows,
My eyes become large and,
The light that you shine can be seen.
Baby,
I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey.
Ooh,
The more I get of you
Ooh
Stranger it feels, yeah.
And now that your rose is is in bloom.
A light hits the gloom on the grey.
There is so much a man can tell you,
So much he can say.
there’s so much inside.
You remain,
you…….
My power, my pleasure, my pain, baby
To me you’re like a growing addiction that I can’t deny.. yeah.
Won’t you tell me is that healthy, baby?
But did you know,
That when it snows,
My eyes become large and the light that you shine can be seen.
Baby,
I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey.
Been kissed from a rose on the grey.
Ooh, the more I get of you
Stranger it feels, yeah
stranger it feels, yeah.
Now that your rose is in bloom.
A light hits the gloom on the grey,
I’ve been kissed by a rose on the grey,
I’ve been kissed by a rose
Been kissed by a rose on the grey.
I’ve been kissed by a rose on the grey,
And if I should fall, at all
I’ve been kissed by a rose
Been kissed by a rose on the grey.
There is so much a man can tell you,
So much he can say.
there’s so much inside.
You remain
you…….
My power, my pleasure, my pain.
To me you’re like a growing addiction that I can’t deny, yeah
Won’t you tell me is that healthy, baby.
But did you know,
That when it snows,
My eyes become large and the light that you shine can be seen.
Baby,
I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey.
Ooh, the more I get of you
Stranger it feels, yeah
stranger it feels.
Now that your rose is in bloom,
A light hits the gloom on the grey.
Yes I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey
Ooh, the more I get of you
Stranger it feels, yeah
stranger it feels. yeah.
And now that your rose is in bloom
A light hits the gloom on the grey
Now that your rose is in bloom,
A light hits the gloom on the grey.
Words Eched in Preternatural Stone
I will never leave you
These five words I’ve uttered
Are written in the stars
May they meld our souls
These words I carve in
Metal
Rock
Soul matter
For I am certain of you
This is our certainty
In a universe of flux.
Karen Halls Said:
on April 12, 2008 at 5:32 am
I found your site on google blog search and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. Just added your RSS feed to my feed reader. Look forward to reading more from you.
Karen Halls
You’re welcome, Karen. Take care and have fun.
clare Said:
on April 13, 2008 at 7:54 am
I like your poems. I always liked this song by Seal but I never knew who wrote it. I just used to hear it on the radio. There’s something unusual about the whole song. It’s not really pop or anything normal, is it? Your poems are really romantic.
It has a dark longing in it, like a forbidden love that is bound to wilt like a rose, a temporariness in commitment that we don’t want to acknowledge in the onset of a togetherness, or a knowledge of a love’s ending before it is begun. But the passion and survivalism of love within the song is undeniable. I believe it is a power pop ballad, although I’m not a qualified MTV categorist to tag it as such, just a hunch.
Thanks you for your comments, hope you’re doing fine always.
clare Said:
on April 15, 2008 at 12:18 am
Oh, that’s such a sad interpretation of the Seal song. I sense the longing and beauty in the love, yes, but I don’t see it as temporary. Somewhere I read that it’s a waltz song, when I looked it up on wiki. In the Batman film clip they waltz. But I don’t get the bit in the song where he says “on the grey” what does that mean? A dark mood/ a dark place? That song always reminds me of Joe Jackson’s Steppin Out (and in the clip to that song they waltz too, so maybe they are slow beat/waltz pop songs of longing..). In Steppin Out, the way the chorus and the verses contrast and the high , effeminate (?) voice of the singer, and the contrasting lower voice in other parts of the song, but i don’t know the musical way of saying that. There’s just this contrast in the chorus and lyrics, and perhaps the same theme to the storyline, but I never really knew the words to Steppin Out, it’s just the tune, and perhaps that reflects the feeling more than the words anyway. It’s strange you follow the song with a poem about “I will never leave you”, strange because you say the Seal song is about a temporary love but then you write about love where you will never leave someone, in an absolute way. Maybe i am too much of a romantic going on about love, but perhaps you’d like to comment on that. Thanks.
I can see that you are really a romantic, and that is also a good state of mind in viewing love and relationships. Well, I also accept your interpretation of the song. Honestly I don’t know what he meant by “on the grey” but it sounds good as a lyric.
But we are both romantics, I assure you. It makes loving a noble, knightly, or truly womanly principle and attitude.
The poem after the song, well, does sound incongrous to what I saw in the latter, but the former says more about me than that song by Seal. Maybe my realization that love is always in danger of being gone makes me wish that it would last forever, so that we should strive to make it last with all the good that is in us.
I like Stepping Out too but I am yet to see the video. Joe Jackson’s songs are what I dub “sing-able” without having to be a professional singer. I never thought that both songs are waltzy, but if they are, as you tell me, and I believe you, then they’re the coolest waltz tunes I’ve ever heard.
Pardon me if I don’t log in that much lately because I don’t do so everyday as a rule, can’t let computer life get in the way of social life, some such. I usually open my computer every other day or two days after at the most. But I am happy that you’re talking to me and I love what you’re telling me. Your comments are most welcome here in Philnensia.
krkbaker Said:
on April 16, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Seal is one of my all time favorite artist. I love his music. I wanted to say I liked the word supernova in the first poem. It was pleasant and unexpected. Good job here.
kim
He sings with a melancholy and power that endears. Supernova reminds me of the Oasis song and a scientific fact that I wouldn’t want to be near to be a witness of (wink!). Take care, Kimmie.
clare Said:
on April 16, 2008 at 11:53 pm
My last comment! I think the waltz image to the Joe Jackson song was on youtube as the song came with the film it was in, which I haven’t seen, but they were waltzing. Perhaps you wrote the poem after the Seal song as how you were feeling. Perhaps also someone doesn’t see someone they love for a week or so, and then they feel sad, like the Seal song, as you felt, and then they write that poem, as they feel they can’t be without that person. But perhaps the person they love doesn’t see them for a week, because the relationship is complicated and makes them sad, and they can’t handle the lack of response in the other person, and they try and cut off, but they miss the person, so they see them again, and the other person missed them too. Sometimes when people don’t see people it’s because they want to cut things off because they feel upset and they seem unworkable, despite trying, but they miss them anyway. I’ll stop there. Love is too complicated.
You have a very nice and candid way of expressing your thoughts, and I can’t agree more.
The only way to deal with love is to simplify it, I think.
Take care and God bless. We’ll talk more, alright? I’ll be back.
clare Said:
on April 18, 2008 at 11:42 pm
OK, one last comment. If I knew how to simplify love, I would have done it long ago. If you have the solution, you’ll answer everyone’s issues. Go on, spill the beans!
Loving someone romantically is all about taking risks, risk being hurt, risk being left behind, risk not being loved back. But if it happens otherwise, then it is a blessing. If it turns out that no love is growing because it is only one way or it already detrimental to the objective of the relationship, which is to grow more love, then get the hell out of it as fast as you can!
clare Said:
on April 19, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Romantic relationships are based on the highs and lows of the falling in love process. The body releases all sorts of high and low chemicals, and after a while these numb out. (As the Seal song sings “my power my pleasure my pain”/ and how he’s addicted like a drug). Then you are left with the person and all their reality. Then people often break up as they claim they are no longer in love. The high of the new love has passed, as it does with all loves at first. Then your option is to make the relationship work in a selfless way. If you entered the relationship looking for a friend and companion as well as a loving lover, you will perhaps stay together, as you have the friendship as a solid base of the relationship. I think romantic love is predicted to fail long term, unless you actively choose a partner who you like as a person, a friend, who you can trust, who you love talking to etc. It takes a lot of wisdom and a good judge of character to try and find someone who’d be a friend for life and who’d care for you as deeply as you’d care for them. Because after the initial high of love, it’s really about caring deeply for someone and loving them as a friend, and having things to share which are life longs interests. As well as keeping the physical pleasure going.
You seem to have it all figured out, but of course it takes two to tango. I find your statements very informative, especially concerning the biochemistry of love and attraction. I think nature meant it so that the person “chemically” reacting to him or her will be able to discover the “non-chemical” reasons to commit, and intellectually gloss over any imperfections that would be observed, given the time while the “chemicals” are still in effect. However, if during that period, no bond was developed, no kinship or deeper connection was made, then, one has to face reality and move on, either still wishing to find a life-long companion, or to live spouse-less, but the latter may not be a very bad deal after all when one is gregarious and has an innate love for all humanity.
You are mature in your expositions and I have no doubt that you are at an advantage when it comes to the game of love. Enjoy this Michelle Branch song with me, the Game of Love. Take care!
janetleigh Said:
on May 19, 2008 at 5:17 pm
This is great! Oh, what a find, la la la la! I win the bet, nyah nyah nyahhh! hee hee Okay, I’ll explain, Tom. My hubby-bubba and I sing in the truck while driving long distances. We both love Seal and this song in particular. We were trying to figure out a couple of the words and now I can say the words are indeed “rose on the grey” and “A light hits the gloom on the grey.” We went back and forth on this and now it’s resolved. Thanks, man!
Oh, and it’s my impression that he’s being poetic when he says “rose on the grey” meaning she is the rose and he is the grey. Remember the opening lines where he says “There used to be a greying tower alone on the sea,” well, he is that grey tower and she is the light. Just go back and re-read the song with this in mind and it’ll all make sense to you now. It’s all metaphorical (duh!), right?! You can smack me now! Of course, I can be wrong. Entirely. Totally. But somehow I doubt it. Mwaaaaaahahahahahaha. hee.
*smooch* {{{hugs}}}
Aw, Janet, you’re such a sweet friend o’ mine, and I’m glad to be of help in winning your bet, yeah!
I’m so with you on Seal’s metaphors, and it is a great image for finding someone after a period of solitude. It is full of longing, intimate emotions, so open for us to feel all over again, and recalling the times and their feelings that we had during the song’s heyday. I can really count on you on deciphering meanings. Great!
And it is very romantic of both of you to ride together on long journeys, I’m just so happy for you.
And I missed you Guys. It’s been a long time since I’ve been online. Gonna make-up, chop-chop!
And a hug from me to you!