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When Happiness hits You like a Train…

by Deborah Cruz

This song is the beat that my soul is dancing to in the rain these days. It is ferocious and pulchritudinous. All encompassing agony and panoptic ecstasy all in one moment. It IS the moment that you truly love someone, it is sweet repose and cacophonous awakening.

It is your heart exploding to make room for all the love that it is about to give and receive. It is adrenaline, breath seizing fear, all embracing passion; it is everything. It is nothing.It is genteel and savage.

It postulates that you obstreperously shout and church whisper simultaneously.It is a sublimely religious experience.It is the air that you breathe in to sustain you, the water that quenches your exsiccating thirst, the nourishment that feeds the vast gaping hole in your heart. It is excruciatingly beautiful and awe-inspiringly ugly, a choir of halcyon angels and the torturous scream of the banshee concurrently.

It sets your soul on fire and compels you to wrap yourself in its engulfing flames. It makes you audacious and at the same time paralyzingly terrifies you.

It is death and birth.

It is life, it is here… all we need do is open our hearts and our minds to it.

It is too beautiful for words.

Dog Days Are Over

Happiness hit her like a train on a track
Coming towards her stuck still no turning back
She hid around corners and she hid under beds
She killed it with kisses and from it she fled
With every bubble she sank with her drink
And washed it away down the kitchen sink

The dog days are over
The dog days are done
The horses are coming
So you better run

Run fast for your mother, run fast for your father
Run for your children, for your sisters and brothers
Leave all your loving, your loving behind
You cant carry it with you if you want to survive

The dog days are over
The dog days are done
Can you hear the horses?
‘Cause here they come

And I never wanted anything from youExcept everything you had and what was left after that too, oh
Happiness hit her like a bullet in the back
Struck from a great height by someone who should know better than
that

The dog days are over
The dog days are done
Can you hear the horses?
‘Cause here they come

Run fast for your mother, run fast for your father
Run for your children, for your sisters and brothers
Leave all your loving, your loving behind
You cant carry it with you if you want to survive

The dog days are over
The dog days are done
Can you hear the horses?
‘Cause here they come

The dog days are over
The dog days are done
The horses are coming
So you better run

Florence & the Machine

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9 comments

Mommy NaniBooboo 2010/12/07 - 2:36 pm

Pulchritudinous indeed.
Thank you for that seriously needed dance break. That song rocks my insides.

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parenting ad absurdum 2010/12/07 - 3:57 pm

I adore this song too – inspiring and awesome!!

Hope you're doing well.

xop

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The mad woman behind the blog 2010/12/07 - 5:38 pm

Step away from the thesaurus and keep your typing fingers where I can see them!

BTW, LOVED this song on Glee recently!

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Bruna 2010/12/07 - 10:23 pm

Haven't heard this before! Got the tune in my head now girl! Guess I missed that episdoe of Glee.

Wow, this post was different from your others. Let us see another side of you. Woohoo!

You surprised me. You know I'll be back!

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Marjana 2010/12/08 - 3:09 pm

A beautiful song and even more beautiful was your interpretation of it. Learned a couple of new words, too. Great post! Keep them coming.

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Organic Motherhood with Cool Whip 2010/12/09 - 10:44 am

Wow, Debi. That first paragraphy is like really amazing poetry. You should submit that somewhere. Seriously. It is beautiful, powerful and made me want to cry. (In a good way!) You are very talented, sister. Very very.

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