"just do your thing
if it makes you feel better
you're running that race
a little bit faster now
towards your finish lines
such a disgrace
you missed all the beautiful
you can't buy back the time
so stop and love
and dance and live
and laugh until you cry
don't wake up to realize that
your time has passed you by."


- edwin mccain, excerpts from just do your thing


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this ruined puzzle


this ruined puzzle is beige with the pieces all face down
so the placing goes slowly.
the pictures of anything other than it's meant to be.
but the hours they creep,
the patterns repeat.
don't be concerned, you know i'll be fine on my own.
i never said "don't go".


i've written a note,
it's pressed between pages
that you've marked to find your way back.
it says "does he ever get the girl?"
but what if the pages stay pressed,
the chapters unfinished,
the stories too dull to unfold?
does he ever get the girl?


this basement's a coffin
i'm buried alive.
i'll die in here just to be safe.
I'll die in here just to be safe.
'cause you're gone
i get nothing
and you're off with barely a sigh.
i never said "good-bye"


does he ever get the girl?


- dashboard confessionals, this ruined puzzle


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"you cannot remove anxiety by arguing it away." - paul tillich


"there's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done." - sara teasdale (one of my favorite poets of all time)


"don't find fault. find a remedy" - john ford




lyrics on the way.