just close your eyes, and hope it's not for nothing at all.

this is a random, non-exhaustive list of places i want to visit in the (near) future. (future husband/soulmate please take note.)

1. ireland
2. barcelona
3. venice
4. copenhagen
5. alaska
6. vatican city!
7. jerusalem
8. the great barrier reef
9. new zealand!
10. tokyo/hokkaido
11. south africa

ooh, this has got to be one of my favourite songs of all time. although i have yet to analyse its contents. it's just the kind of, just-after-it-rains, melancholic vibe which is so infectious. it's about how when you're young, everything is so beautiful and carefree, yet so transient and fleeting. how there is so much to regret yet, so much to cherish. it's about the death of innocence and childhood as you move into the harsh reality of adult life. it's about nostalgia, how life always seemed better in the past.

ONE HEADLIGHT - THE WALLFLOWERS

so long ago, i don't remember when
that's when they say i lost my only friend
well, they said she died easy of a broken heart disease
as i listened through the cemetary trees

i seen the sun coming up at the funeral at dawn
the long broken arm of human law
now it always seemed such a waste
she always had a pretty face
so i wonder how she hung around this place

hey, come on,
try a little
nothing is forever
there's got to be something better than in the middle
but me and cinderella
we put it all together
and we'll drive home,
with one headlight.

she said it's cold
it feels like independence day
and i can't break away from this parade
but there's got to be an opening
somewhere here in front of me
through this maze of ugliness and greed

well this place is old
it feels just like a beat-up truck
i turn the engine but the engine doesn't turn
well, it smells of cheap wine and cigarettes
this place was always such a mess
sometimes i think i'd like to watch it burn
i'm so alone and i feel just like somebody else
man, i ain't changed
but i know i ain't the same
but somewhere here in between the city walls of dying dreams
i think her death it must be killing me.