Shangri-La

The urban people, handicapped from detachment and loneliness, long for a place of eternal peace. So they travel far and wide, to the highest mountain just a notch below the clouds, looking for that perfect spot, a place where one could just sit outside on that day when the sun comes out, smoking and talking, pacifying the eternally restless soul.

The mountain people, handicapped from ignorance and poverty, long for a place of progress. When they dream at night, they dream of speaking other languages, of surviving illnesses, of having the luxury to choose their paths. They dream of that perfect day, the day when the sun comes out, when one could set out on a long journey to betterment.

Could it be that place is not what we need to search for?

Gotta gotta be down

Gotta get a move, gotta get out here, gotta change, gotta think, gotta challenge myself
Gotta see what's on the other side, gotta accept, gotta be grateful, gotta be happy, gotta be thankful
Gotta be good, gotta be bad, gotta evoke, gotta inspire, gotta let go, gotta accept, gotta dream, gotta forget
Gotta feel good about myself, gotta live by principles, gotta learn new principles, gotta be tolerant, gotta be tough, gotta be easy

One day you'll learn

The next person comes is even crazier
The next person comes is even stupider

And there's nothing you can do about it

So I suggest you do what I do
Fix your drink a little stronger and suck it up like a real pro
And laugh, laugh a little, laugh a lot, laugh at them, laugh at yourself

Don't be too caught up in this little melodrama called life
Because nobody ever gets out of it alive anyway.

Closing Time

Those were the times when the days gone wild
ditching the crowd to kiss in the dark
Remember the blackness never seemed too dark
because your eyes made such a spark?

Those were the songs that we used to dance to
arms in arms the way we used to do
whispering lots of sweet nothings
swaying all the way till beginning of the morning
we were all things, then nothing

Remember how we lived carelessly
how we loved recklessly
Those were the times
when we were simultaneously dead and so alive

Now that closing time is approaching
We smooth our hairs and pack our credit cards
Get on with life and never look back
Although it’s best for us not to forget, we should only get wiser