if i just lay here, would you lie with me...

i really like this song "chasing cars" by snow patrol from their 2006 album eyes open, recently featured in the season finale of grey's anatomy - the only serial i follow.

here is the video:


here are the lyrics:

We'll do it all
Everything
On our own

We don't need
Anything
Or anyone

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel

Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life

Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads

I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life

All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see

I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?


ps - also great another song by snow patrol "chocolate" from their 2004 album final straw was the theme for the recent movie the last kiss.

love & renunciation

"only one who has renounced can truly love. to the degree you have renounced, to that degree will you have the ability to love. often people think whose who renounce cannot love, and those who love cannot renounce. this is because renunciates do not seem to be in love, and so-called lovers are possessive and greedy.

true love is not possessive; it brings freedom, and renunciation is nothing but freedom. only in freedom can love blossom fully. when you are in love you say, "i want nothing; i just want this." renunciation is, "i do not want anything. i am free." in love there are no other needs. renunciation is having no needs. love and renunciation, although appearing to be opposites, are two sides of the same coin.

only renunciation can sustain love and joy. without renunciation love turns into misery, possessiveness, jealousy and anger. renunciation brings contentment and contentment sustains love. without renunciation one gets discontented, frustrated, sad, fearful, suspicious, analytical. and the whole soap opera begins.

so-called renunciates have run away from life frustrated and disappointed. real renunciation is born out of knowledge and wisdom - knowledge of life in the background of time and space and in the context of this magnanaimous universe."

- sri sri ravi shankar