Hollow and of no use

[lizblackdog]

Everything is open

Nothing is set in stone

Rivers turn to oceans

Oceans tide you home

Home is where the heart is

But your heart had to roam

Drifting over bridges

Never to return

Watching bridges burn



You're driftwood floating underwater

Breaking into pieces, pieces, pieces

Just driftwood, hollow and of no use

Waterfalls will find you, bind you, grind you



Nobody is an island

Everyone had to go

Pillars turn to butter

Butterflying low

Low is where your heart is

But your heart has to grow

Drifting under bridges

Never with the flow



And you really didn't think it would happen

But it really is the end of the line

So I'm sorry that you've turned to driftwood

But you've been drifting for a long, long time



Everywhere there's trouble

Nowhere's safe to go

Pushes turn to shovels

Shovelling the snow

Frozen you have chosen

The path you wish to go

Drifting now forever

And forever more

Until you reach your shore



You're driftwood floating underwater

Breaking into pieces, pieces, pieces

Just driftwood, hollow and of no use

Waterfalls will find you, bind you, grind you



And you really didn't think it would happen

But it really is the end of the line

So I'm sorry that you've turned to driftwood

But you've been drifting for a long, long time

You've been drifting, for a long, long

Drifting for a long, long time

This is like my theme song. The story of my life in under four minutes.

In other news, my dogs are howling to go out and play, my knee just made me yawp out loud with pain getting up to put something in the bin, and I have to go to my sister's this evening because it's her birthday.

someone make it stop. just make it stop.

Comments

[moviegrrl.livejournal.com]

{{hugs you tight}}
If I could make it stop, you know I would...

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

thank you... i am crossing my fingers that your troubles will be a bit better soon. The signs look propitious.

I'll survive. I always bloody survive, and I really have nothing to complain about. I'm probably hormonal. Again.

[mcsassypants.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Lots of hugs. And cookies. And tea. I'd offer puppies and kittens, but I know you have lots of those already.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

ooo pretty icon!

yeah, i have way too many puppies and kittens. they help me a lot though. thank you :)

[mcsassypants.livejournal.com]

The critters are so very useful at pulling one out of funks, or at least forcing you to pay attention...or something. I totally lost my train of thought because I just realized that we didn't give Christina her medication this morning. CRAP!

[danasaur.livejournal.com]

I really really like that song,and I know nobody besides myself who likes Travis.
Feel better! Maybe take your dogs out to play, that always makes me feel better.

taking my dog out to play, not your dogs, as...yeah.you get it.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

i just took mine out to play. I really didn't want to, but Spike expects it and will be unbearable if he doesn't get it.

On the way home we saw a couple across the street with one of those pull-along shopping bags on wheels. Spike mistook it for a strange dog and barked his idiot head off at it. Despite myself, I feel a touch better. They do me so much good.

Travis are probably more popular here than in the US. There's a few of their songs got stuck irrevocably in my head from when they got a lot of radio play in 1999/2000 - just after John died and I spent about four months shut in my bedroom with the radio on constantly. There are a bunch of songs from around that time that got invested with a heavy emotional weight for that reason - Driftwood was one I already liked, but Turn is a hard one to listen to.

[danasaur.livejournal.com]

The only song they really ever played in the states was Why Does it Always Rain on Me and Side of their next album. Coldplay sort of appeared around the same time as Travis, and everyone here liked Coldplay more, I guess.

When I was first diagnosed with cancer, I was supposed to be dead in a year (they thought it had spread to my lungs.) I locked myself up and listened to certain albums a lot, and I had to take a few songs off my playlist because they still bum me out a lot. I don't know why, but being emo makes me want to listen to those songs specificly and make myself feel worse.
I'm glad the dogs made you feel better. If I can get to a scanner today, I'll post some preliminary sketches of pirate dogs (I'm having an issue with Spike. He looks a little too simmilar to Chalupa.)

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you didn't die. Don't do it any time soon.

yeah, Travis are perfect for that. I don't know what it is with Coldplay, I can't stand them.

[danasaur.livejournal.com]

I don't like Coldplay much, either. I don't get why they're so popular..
I'm glad I didn't die, too. My tumor was 5 or 6 years old, and it really was crazy that it didn't spread. If it is,in fact, coming back (and I'm pretty convinced. The suspicious lump is turning purple, and that's a characteristic trait) it's highly unlikely to kill me if I treat it fast-like(95% survival rate. woo)

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

also EEEEE PIRATE DOGS!!!! *excited*

[danasaur.livejournal.com]

I came up with this possible Spike that looks kind of like a scruffy wolf/crocodile kinda thing...I don't know if I will use it

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I think of his more as the dashing smooth type, with his sideburns and his big swashy tail... I'll trust you, though. I've always liked everything you've done.

[danasaur.livejournal.com]

He has to have a degree of scuffy, he IS a pirate, after all...but kind of a classy scruffy, since he's the captain...He's a bit more difficult then the others.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Just think Jack Sparrow in a dog suit and you can't go too far wrong :-D

[danasaur.livejournal.com]

ah good, that was round abouts my thinking :)

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

It's pretty close to his thinking too. It makes him fun to live with.

[danasaur.livejournal.com]

I couldn't get to a scanner today, by the way (I was still paying off medical bills, rats got sick, I was still sickish, pawned all my good computer equipment, still recovering from this, meh) buut I'll try to get it online soon. You get to approve anything I eventually use.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

it kills me to think of you struggling to pay for being sick. I know life isn't fair but - fucking hell!

[danasaur.livejournal.com]

It happens. I've managed pretty well, considering :) I just wish I still had good computer equipment.

[purplewaxhand.livejournal.com]

Feel better soon liz

[randomyst.livejournal.com]

Oh dear.

Let me distract you with naked George.

[ulva.livejournal.com]

Yeah so I've guessed that there's been a depression thing going on lately. There's nothing I can do and nothing I can say which annoys me to no end.

I love you darling.

*10 000 hugs* ...insufficient but all I can offer.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

thank you, thank you darling.

I've been holding my own against it for a while but I think the hormones are kicking in and that kinda tips the balance.

love you.

[bulletslc.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh, I love Travis! And that song is just so right....I feel that way too, most of the time.