"Why Georgia"

John Mayer

I am driving up 85

in the kind of morning that lasts all afternoon

im just stuck inside the gloom

Four more exits to my apartment

but I am tempted to keep the car in drive

and leave it all behind

Cuz I wonder sometimes

about the outcome

of a still verdictless life

Am i living it right

am i living it right

am i living it right

why why georgia, why

I rent a room and i fill the spaces

with wood in places to make it feel like home

but all i feel's alone

might be a quarter life crisis

just a stirrin in my soul

either way

i wonder sometime about the outcome

of a still verdictless life

am i living it right

am i living it right

am i living it right

why why georgia why

so what so i've got a smile on

its hiding the quiet superstitions in my head

dont believe me

dont you dare believe me

when i say ive got it down

everybody's just a stranger

but that's the danger in

going my own way

i guess it's a price i have to pay

still everything happens

for a reason

its no reason not to ask yourself

if you are living it right

are you living it right

are you living it right

why tell me why

why why georgia why

That's Hallelujah, written by Leonard Cohen. But if you want to hear it sung beautifully, listen to Rufus Wainwright do it, it's on the Shrek soundtrack.

On a side note, i don't know why i keep posting so many lyrics, i guess i'm going through one of those phases. I think i'm rediscovering good songs that i haven't listened to in a while.

-Lara

On Wednesday I got up, did my hair nicely, put on nice clothes and makeup, sprayed myself with Coconut Lime Verbena, and went to school like usual. For some reason, at the end of the day i felt really bad about myself. I think i might have figured out why.

I realized that SO many more people talked to me on Wednesday than they usually do. Guys paid more attention to me. More people were interested in what i had to say. I didn't have anything more interesting to say than usual, they were just more interested. Is it really all because I looked better? How shallow is that? Honestly, i noticed a huge difference in attention from guys, all of a sudden they all wanted to poke me or tickle me or talk to me or touch my hair- it's kind of FAKE don't you think? And plus it pulls me apart, because I LOVE the extra attention, but i HATE why i get it.

So that's where I'm at. I'm glad that people think I look good, i just wish the world wasn't so subconciously shallow and surface level about things. Weird

-Lara

PS- Home in a week!!

I heard there was a secret chord

That David played and it pleased the Lord

But you don't really care for music, do you?

It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth,

the minor fall, the major lift,

the baffled king composing Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof,

you saw her bathing on the roof,

her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you

She tied you to a kitchen chair,

she broke your throne, she cut your hair,

and from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Maybe I have been here before

, I know this room; I have walked this floor,

I used to live alone before I knew you

I've seen your flag on the marble arch,

love is not a victory march,

it's a cold and its a broken Hallelujah

There was a time you let me know whats really going on below,

but now you never show it to me, do you?

(and) Remember when I moved in you; the holy dark was moving too,

and every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Maybe there's a God above,

and all I ever learned from love

was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you

And its not a cry you can hear at night,

its not somebody who's seen the light,

its a cold and its a broken Hallelujah

Well i had an interesting day today....

didn't start off that way, so we'll just start when i got off of work...

went to see Seussical!! It was AWESOME CONGRATS MY 07 BUFAS!!

Then i went to go see the Incredibles with Hope. Guess what, it was incredible. Go figure

We're driving home at 2:30 in the morning, Hope and i both decide to look out the left hand window at the same time and low and behold we see a shooting star- oh no wait, the shooting star just burst into a big green explosion. NO JOKE. i'm not kidding. I don't know WHAT the hell it was. We were like "oh shooting st-WHOA! WTF!"

I drop Hope off, after laughing off the fact that we just saw something extremely weird and unexplainable. As I'm driving home I pass a couple of drunk guys walking down 96B. This one guy decides it would be best if he jumped in front of my car. Luckily, my super speedy Pontiac beat him to the chase and i missed him by a couple inches. I look back and he's standing in the road laughing...after he almost died. It took me a couple minutes to realize that i had almost taken part in a suicide, I promptly called Hope and told her about it.


So that was my night- anyone care to compare?!

-Lara