www.chrisdarbro.com – Chris Darbro

Ever since I was about 12 or 13, back in the days that would become
the roots of the hopeless romantic I’ve turned into today,
I’ve always loved this song and all of it’s lyrics:

Semisonic: Singing In My Sleep

Got your tape and it changed my mind
Heard your voice in between the lines
Come around from another time
Where nobody ever goes

All alone on the overpass
Wired and phoned to a heart of glass
Now I’m falling in love too fast
With you or the songs you chose

And all the stars
Play for me
Say the promise you long to keep

I can hear you sing it to me in my sleep
I can hear you sing it to me in my sleep

I’ve been living in your cassette
It’s the modern equivalent
Singing up to a capulet
On a balcony in your mind

In the city the lion sleeps
Pray to sony my soul to keep
Were you ever so bright and sweet
Did you ever look so nice

And all the sounds
Dream for me
Dive me down in a soul so deep

I can hear you sing it to me in my sleep
I can hear you sing it to me in my sleep
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It’s great song about a young in love couple,
and the mix tape she makes for him. So cool. such
an awesome song. Everytime I hear it it’s one of the few songs
that takes me back to my childhood, when I dreamed of days when
I was older and was the knight in shining armor, who’d rescue the
fair maiden and sweep her off her feet, and carry her into the
sunset. I only write any of this because I was sitting here in
bed with a lot on my mind, and I noticed that though I hadnt heard
this song in a long time, it was playing in my head oddly enough.
Something’s been really bothering me, and I’d like to say it’s only
been bothering me the past little while, but in reality, in some form
or another, it’s been bothering me for about a year and a half or so,
or in some cases you could probably even say it’s been bugging me for
about 3 years. Time keeps ticking closer and closer to this time I’ve
had in my mind, and Im in a weird situation. And worse, I dont know
what to do. I feel like MacGyver in a tough situation, and without a
paperclip, rubber band, and a piece of wire to save the day and get
me out of it. Or even the professor from gilligans island in a rough
predicament, and there’s not a coconut in sight to magically make
something cool out of to save the day. you get the idea. and when it
comes to my life, I usually take things head on and roll with the
punches, but now im in this situation where I can even say I feel
partly afraid. I dont like where it’s going, and I usually live my life
without regrets. But I fear if something’s not figured out, there could
be some big possible regret in the future that is irreversible, and not
just for me. I hate being stuck in this well, searching for an answer
on how to get out when it seems like one doesnt exist. And this is a
situation where it almost seems pointless to do any hoping that someone
will provide an answer, though I wish I would be proved wrong. *sigh*

And yet at the same time, it’s also like im stuck in the well with
someone else, and I know the secret passage or answer to get both
me and the other person out, and yet im deaf,blind, and mute, with
my hands and legs tied, with no way to communicate the answer to the
other person, as I sit and feel the time pass, till the doom that
awaits.

*sigh* Grr. I hate when I can see things that people cant see or
realize.
*sigh*

So I sit here, waiting 2 more days for something, which good or bad
I’ll likely have to deal with in some way when I get back from vegas,
hopefully vegas clears my head a little and eases things, I guess
I’ll have to wait and see what happens. Anyway, I probably have
provided nothing interesting for any of you to read in this post, it
was just another one of those ones to clear my head a little, so I’d
recommend everyone download and listen that song I was talking about
at the beginning of this post, it’s a great one, and I’ll feel I at
least provided something good out of this post. hehe.