August 2011
Ain't No Reason
Brett Dennen
Brett Dennen - Ain’t No Reason
[H]ouse MD - 3x21 “Family”
There ain’t no reason things are this way
It’s how they’ve always been and they intend to stay
I can’t explain why we live this way
We do it every day
Preachers on the podiums speaking the sayings
Prophets on the sidewalk begging for change
Old ladies laughing from the fire escape
Cursing my name
I got a basket full of lemons and they all taste the same
A window and a pigeon with a broken wing
You could spend your whole life working for something
Just to have it taken away
People walk around pushing back their debts
Wearing paychecks like necklaces and bracelets
Talking about nothing, not thinking ‘bout death
Every little heartbeat, every little breath
People walk a tight rope on a razors edge
Carrying their hurt and hatred and weapons
It could be a bomb, or a bullet or a pen
Or thought, or a word or a sentence
There ain’t no reason things are this way
It’s how they’ve always been and they intend to stay
I don’t know why I say the things I say
But I say them anyway
But love will come, set me free
Love will come, set me free, I do believe
Love will come, set me free, I know it will
Love will come, set me free, yes
Prison walls still standing tall
Some things never change at all
Keep on building prisons, gonna fill them all
Keep on building bombs, gonna drop them all
Working your fingers bare to the bone
Breaking your back, make you sell your soul
Like a lung, it’s filled with cold
Suffocating slow
The wind blows wild and I may move
The politicians lie and I am not a fool
You don’t need no razor or a three piece suit
To argue the truth
They air on my skin in the world under my toes
Slavery stitched to the fabric of my clothes
Chaos and commotion wherever I go
Love I try to follow
Love will come, set me free
Love will come, set me free, I do believe
Love will come, set me free, I know it will
Love will come, set me free, yes
There ain’t no reason things are this way
It’s how they’ve always been and they intend to stay
I can’t explain why we live this way
We do it every day
Chuck: I can’t even hug you? What if you need a hug? A hug can turn your day around.
Ned: I’m not a big fan of the hug.
Chuck: Then you haven’t been hugged properly. It’s like an emotional Heimlich. Someone puts their arms around you and they give you a squeeze and all your fear and anxiety come shooting out of your mouth in a big wet wad and you can breath again.- Pushing Daisies, 01.01 - Pie-lette
“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night’s sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake someone else up, so that they can feel this way, too.”
—Lemony Snicket (via madeleinelily)
“It is one of life’s bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.”
—Lemony Snicket (The Grim Grotto)
“No, there is not a thin line between love and hate. There is, in fact, a Great Wall of China with armed sentries posted every twenty feet between love and hate.”
—House, M.D. Episode 1.03 (via incameracaritatis)
“There’s a gate in our heads, too — that’s what I think. One that keeps the insanity in all of us from flooding our intellects. And at critical moments, it swings open and all kinds of weird shit come flooding through.”
—Stephen King. “Just After Sunset”. (via fuckyeah-unclesteve)
- V: I told you, only truth. For 20 years, I sought only this day. Nothing else existed... until I saw you. Then everything changed. I fell in love with you Evey. And to think I no longer believed I could.
- Evey Hammond: But I don't want you to die.
- V: That's the most beautiful thing you could have ever given me.
“And so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love’s ever been the more destructive weapon.”
—Stephen King. “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”. (via fuckyeah-unclesteve)
Sherlock and Watson kill a guy.
- Watson: I like the hat.
- Sherlock: Oh, I just picked it up.
- Watson: Did you remember your revolver?
- Sherlock: I knew I forgot something. Thought I left the stove on.
- Watson: You did.
“We call it white because because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can’t remember.”
—Stephen King. “Duma Key”. (via fuckyeah-unclesteve)
“If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.”
—Dr House (via dorianwithapipefullofclay)
Reblog if you wish you could sleep next to the person you have feelings for every night.
After New Vegas, Fallout 3 just isn't as fun as it used to be.
“Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway.”
—
Robert Downey Jr.
(via downeylove)
Seriously. Can we all just take a moment to appreciate how fucking sexy Robert looked at the D23 expo.
