Monday, May 4, 2009
cause Elvis ain't dead and you're coming back
This Mid-Years, I've been feeling so hopeless about everything that i've taken to praying before exams and after 'em and hey! It's actually been working! Today's Chem totally exceeded expectations! "Pur-raise the lawrd!"
Anyways, thanks to Naomi, I got myself started on teen tragedy songs with eerily upbeat melodies. Take Teen Angel by MarkSomething for example:
What was it you were looking for
that took your life that night?
They said they found my high school ring
clutched in your fingers tight.
Listen to it and you'd never guess that it was based on the true story of a boyfriend narrowly escaping from a train car crash with his girlfriend. Girlfriend runs back and gets killed when a second train rams into the wreck. When they find the body, they find the boyfriend's ring in her clenched fist. Ring = reason for returning to train car, resulting in imminent death? Who knows.
When I woke up, the rain was pouring down.
There was people standing all around.
Somethin' warm runnin' through my eyes,
But somehow I found my baby that night.
I lifted her head, she looked at me and said,
Hold me darlin, just a little while.
I held her close, I kissed her; our last kiss.
Kleenex. Sob!
{POSTSCRIPT}
Alot of people don't know this but while the Pearl Jam rendition of Last Kiss is more popular and more moving, the actual lyrics were written by this guy Wayne Cochran. You see, he lived along this really dangerously fast and busy highway so one night, the Saturday before Christmas that year, a car with four teenagers ran right into a flatbed truck. It must have been going really fast since it managed to crush itself under the truck even though the truck wasn't moving. So anyways, this petrol kiosk guy nearby was helping with the bodies but it was so bas that he DIDN'T EVEN RECOGNISE HIS OWN DAUGHTER'S BODY. Now that's really really sad.
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