Sunday, August 24, 2008

fwame wesistant

i found this poem a couple days ago, i thought it was worth sharing.

Maybe Dat's Your Pwoblem Too by James Hall

All my pwoblems
who knows, maybe evwybody's pwoblems
is due to da fact, due to da awful twuth
dat I am SPIDERMAN.

I know. I know. All da dumb jokes:
No flies on you, ha ha,
and da ones about what do I do wit all
doze extwa legs in bed. Well, dat's funny yeah.
But you twy being
SPIDERMAN for a month or two. Go ahead.

You get doze cwazy calls fwom da
Gubbener askin you to twap some booglar who's
only twying to wip off color T.V. sets.
Now, what do I cawre about T.V. sets?
But I pull on da suit, da stinkin suit,
wit da sucker cups on da fingers,
and get my wopes and wittle bundle of
equipment and den I go flying like cwazy
acwoss da town fwom woof top to woof top.

Till der he is. Some poor dumb color T.V. slob
and I fall on him and we westle a widdle
until I get him all woped. So big deal.

You tink when you SPIDERMAN
der's sometin big going to happen to you.
Well, I tell you what. It don't happen dat way.
Nuttin happens. Gubbener calls, I go.
Bwing him to powice, Gubbener calls again,
like dat over and over.

I tink I twy sometin diffunt. I tink I twy
sometin excitin like wacing cawrs. Sometin to make
my heart beat at a difwent wate.
But den you just can't quit being sometin like
SPIDERMAN.
You SPIDERMAN for life. Fowever. I can't even
buin my suit. It won't buin. It's fwame wesistent.
So maybe dat's youwr pwoblem too, who knows.
Maybe dat's da whole pwoblem wif evwytin.
Nobody can buin der suits, dey all fwame wesistent.
Who knows?

so what do you think about it? i thought this song by switchfoot went along pretty well with it.

C'mon C'mon
(lyrics written by Jon Foreman)

You've been living life like it's a sequel
And you're already bored with the plot
As if the cast and the score are more money then before
But the script and the backdrops are stock

We've got the rest of our lives to regret
All the words that we've said here
But did not put our bet,
In the morning
Let the morning find us in bloom

So come on, come on, come on
Lets not be our parents
Oh come on, come on, come on
Lets follow this through
Come on, come on, come on
Everything's waiting
We will rise with the wings of the dawn
When everything's new
When everything's new

Let us rise up with the summer sun
Let these songs awaken the dawn
Let us breathe every breath like a gift to be kept
Let us breathe it all in till it's gone

We've got the rest of our lives to live out
All these dreams that we stayed up tonight talking about
In the morning
To start hoping
But nothing to soon

So come on, come on, come on
Lets abandon this darkness
Oh come on, come on, come on
Lets follow this through
Come on, come on, come on
Everything's waiting
Well be lit up like fire and gold

When everythings new

so whats your opinion on this subject? i want to get some other peoples opinions before i post mine.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This really hits home for me. I've been living the same old boring life every single day. It seems like life is just one song repeting over and over and over until it become overplayed and no one wants to hear it anymore. Although in the beginning everyone loves that new hit song, it does become old and people, including yourself, loose interest and it becomes very monotonous.
I thought of a of the song "I Dare You to Move" whenever I was pondering over this topic. Although the song does have a religious side to it, I still believe it fits and we should all follow through with it.

Welcome to the planet
Welcome to existence
Everyone's here
Everyone's here
Everybody's watching you now
Everybody waits for you now
What happens next?
What happens next?

I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened before

Welcome to the fallout
Welcome to resistance
The tension is here
The tension is here
Between who you are and who you could be
Between how it is and how it should be

I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened

Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself?
Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna go?
Salvation is here

I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened before