Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Make you crazy

So Brett Dennen, one of my favorite musicians by the way, has this song called Make You Crazy this has been one of my favorite songs for years. The message is beautiful and inspiring, the video however is not. The lyrics get at the heart of all the things that hurt about society in a catching tune to boot.


You know it's hard to be yourself,
free yourself, to see yourself
When all around you there are lies just to get you,
Spies just to get you, to buy so they can get you

There are cameras in the sky, lasers in our living rooms
There are wolves watching wearing sheep's costumes

It's enough to make you go crazy (Woah)
It's enough to make you mad
It's enough to make you go crazy (Woah)
And I'm amazed I haven't yet

Isn't it a shame the way we cheat each other, treat each other,
beat each other?
It's a shame the way we use one other, abuse one another,
and screw one another, it's true.

They will lock you up in prison but they won't call it slavery
There are stolen children raised and trained in armies

It's enough to make you go crazy (Woah)
It's enough to make you mad
It's enough to make you go crazy (Woah)
And I'm amazed I haven't yet

Don't hesitate to speak your mind (Speak your mind)
Never hesitate to speak your heart (Speak your heart)
They'll call you crazy when you speak your mind (When you speak your mind)
So never, never hesitate (Never hesitate)
From http://6lyrics.com

'Cause it's enough to make you go crazy (Woah)
It's enough to make you mad
It's enough to make you go crazy (Woah)
And I'm amazed I haven't yet

Femi solo

NA SOL THEM GO LOCK YOU FOR PRISON
NA SOL THEM GO BEAT YOU FOR PRISON
THEM NO CALL IT SLAVERY
IT'S HIM THAT MAKE ME VEX

NA SOL THEM GO LOCK YOU FOR PRISON
NA SOL THEM GO BEAT YOU FOR PRISON
IT'S HIM THAT MAKE ME VEX
IT'S HIM THAT MAKE ME CRAZE

It's enough to make you go crazy (Woah)
It's enough to make you mad
It's enough to make you go crazy (Woah)
And I'd be crazy not to care

Some of this song is a little extreme but the very end gets me, "And I'd be crazy not to care". I am not  sure what this craft will be yet. I am thinking it might involve origami cranes but today this means so much to me because Thursday Hillary Clinton will be visiting Myanmar/Burma, this is an amazing chance for a real change to happen in a country that takes up such a large place in my heart. It might actually make me crazy, but I would rather be crazy and passionate then crazy and uninterested.
I hope you have found those things that make you crazy,
Sarah

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Dream........

Time..... If I had more of it I would post more of my projects, but I am in college and don't really know what free time is anymore. I have made a bunch of things. (and baked a lot, who would have thought?) I will try to post some more over thanksgiving break. And try some more ideas out. But about what I have time to share.....

So, I am really getting into the written word. It is so versatile. I prefer art journaling but that isn't always an option given my lack of free time or much space. But getting things written down help processing thoughts, I find. I have spent a lot of time thinking about my future, college kids are supposed to do that I guess, and what my dreams are and the thing that has been in my heart for so long continues to grow. (sorry Mom and Dad). I wrote a train of thought poem about it and I thought I would share it:


Sometimes I wonder if it is in my blood. If every time my heart beats it spreads. 
Through my fingers, down to my toes, around my head. It fills the chambers of my heart. 
Ba Bump Ba Bump 
It grows stronger. My dream grows stronger. 
I am at the edge but not through the threshold.
My heart, the hands on my back, propels me forward. 
Ba Bump One day 
Closer and closer to exploding with fear and with light and joy.
Soon my dreaming heart soon

So at this point I don't really know how I am going to get to the point were I follow my dream, but I know I will.

I hope you find your dream. Even if it rips you to pieces.