The Movement You Need Is On Your Shoulders...
And, no, I don't think he's talking about parrots. Did you know that Paul's mother was named Mary? It kind of makes you think more about the lyrics in Let it Be. Who would've thought that only two months after school started, life would change dramatically? In sixth grade, I never realized that the eighth graders were quite so young. But, they always seem to have drama, don't they? This year has been no exception. I'm just ready to be fourteen. I know that I can't slow down my aging, and so why not live in the moment? I sound a little incredulous, what with all of these rhetorical questions. :D I cannot believe quite how much I have changed as an individual since sixth grade. I don't even remember half of the things I found unbearably funny back then, and I know for a fact that so many of my mannerisms are different. How short were we? It seems like each year, the little guys get shorter and shorter.
How come my hands seem more elegant when they're cold?
Why does romance work the way it does?
Will you go on a midnight adventure with me?
Why do our freckles have to be perfectly alligned? That was not fair, universe.
What do you mean, things will work out?
What if we've already messed things up beyond repair?
Who is that poem really about?
Is it bad that I'm confused by myself?
Why do I remember the things that I do?
posted by Samantha at
3:44 PM
8 Comments:
Lol! I know, right? The sixth graders are TINY! Then again, I am way too tall to be legal... maybe that has something to do with it.
November 17, 2008 at 8:33 PM
And what, pray tell, brings up the Beatles? I've been on a Paul binge myself recently, though I find "I've Just Seen a Face" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjphAmuAlJs) stuck in my head.
November 17, 2008 at 9:02 PM
Miles: The sixth graders are terribly small, but I think it's not just that we've gotten taller, maybe it's a genetic mutation and our generations are slowly shrinking... Life brings up the Beatles. There hasn't been one year in my life, and I mean this, that the Beatles have not influenced or comforted me somehow. :) I grew up watching Yellow Submarine and listening to their records (along with our Pink Floyd double album; I'd always put those ones in!), and lately, I'm finding parallels in some of the stories they tell and some of the stories I'm part of. If that answered anything, I'm awfully wandering today. Also, Across the Universe has me singing songs at the top of my lungs with some equally enthralled classmates, switching between classic versions and the new renditions before school. :D Got to love art schools. Alright, sorry about the novel here.
November 19, 2008 at 7:28 PM
Oh, the more, the merrier. Great writing should come in abundance. So, you're a fellow Beatlefan (Beatleing? Beatleite?), eh? I've always got a Paul McCartney song of the week. This week is "While my Guitar Gently Weeps", which, I suppose, is George Harrison, but close enough. I can't wait for the day I can be at VSAA. It sounds like an awesome, liberal, artsy, interesting place.
November 19, 2008 at 7:36 PM
Miles: YES, I AM. And that happens to be my song of the week, I'll have you know. :O Harmonic! I pull songs from nowhere, though, and I'll just randomly sing. People usually join in or bob their heads along. I love VSAA. We are definately a very awesome, liberal, artsy, interesting place. Now, hurry up and get in. :)
November 19, 2008 at 9:40 PM
I do my best. And, to be clearer, it's not really a song of the week, but a "song of the close to 5-day period within which it dominates my musicality." I think I feel a "Put it there" urge coming on. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaI8so2D3n8). That's not even Beatles; it's late McCartney with Wings, I think.
November 20, 2008 at 8:53 PM
That doesn't sound too like Wings to me, but I don't know! Thank you for introducing me to that song; it's lovely. :) I can't believe I've never heard it before.
November 22, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Maybe it's his own band, then. Yeah, I like that one a lot.
November 22, 2008 at 4:52 PM
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