“Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”
—C.S. Lewis (via kari-shma)
June 2011
That secret that you know
but you don’t know how to tell
It fucks with your honor
and it teases with your head
Valentine
Jessie Ware and Sampha
If you’re into the xx and Drake then you’ll enjoy this song.
Valentine by Jessie Ware and Sampha (MF)
To the General Public
There has been an explosion:
Over there, you see me unraveled.
And here, you pick up my limbs.
You can keep them and take every inch of me home
Frame my heart or put my lungs in a glass case.
Maybe open up a museum of the crude arts
“I thought about all the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it’s in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via aepocrypha)
Of the fear that we lost our future
I think these walls are empty
and all the stories are in caves
They whisper it out in echoes
telling tales we weave in wonder
These are the places I can hide in
These are places I can confide in
You stand at the end of a corridor
I’ll enter through your front door
To meet your mom maybe six years from now.
“The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.
But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now
mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater.” —The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien (via obdormio)
But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now
mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater.” —The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien (via obdormio)
Listen
And I said I know it well
That secret that we know
That we don’t know how to tell
I’m in love with your honor
I’m in love with your cheeks
Blood Bank - Bon Iver
the things I can't forget
In my life, everything I have stems from something I lost.
I hold memories of nights that shimmer still. And I traded those for the hope that things last.
I have a box of mistakes that I hang around my neck. And for each one, I gave away peaceful sleep.
I had these chances to save myself. Instead, I reached for the sins to slit myself.
Maybe I did it out of habit. My most acute reflex has been to push the knife deeper.
Tear stains on my blanket are like fresh tattoos, running ink.
“Don’t let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries, that way of thinking will have changed. Live now what others will only live in the future.”
—Paulo Coelho (via inspiri)
All Of The Lights (Ellie Goulding x Portland Cello Project x Kanye West)
The Hood Internet
Ellie Goulding’s Lights vocals over an instrumental of Kanye West’s All Of The Lights.
“You are more than a list of mistakes and if anyone tells you otherwise, let it be the last they make.”
—I Wrote This For You: The Names They Gave You (via kari-shma)
To what was golden
Life’s always unfair
planes take people far away
so few bring them back
It was a night like any other
stealing away, running for cover
hiding our tracks,
ignoring the thunder
There were matches
but they all burned out
so you lowered your head
unto my chest
and lit your cigarette
from my flaming heart.
