Self Reliance, Emerson

"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts, they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art hath no more affecting lesson for us than this."

in other words...

I wish I had written this song. Actually, I wish I had written her entire album. I love music for so many reasons...one being that it says what I'm feeling without me having to say. This song is a work of genius to me...Don't stifle your creativity/reject your thoughts...you could come up with something beautiful like this. Oh unrequited love...."does anybody know how to hold my heart?" just wondering....

Basket Case

by Sara Bareilles

Don't want to talk about it to you

I'm not an open book that you can rifle through

The cold hard truth that you see right to

I'm just a basket case without you

He's not a magic man or a perfect fit

But had a steady hand and I got used to it

And a glass caged heart and invited me in

And now I'm just a basket case without him

Begging for the truth

So I'm sayin it to you

I've been saving your place

What good does it do?

Now I'm just a basket case

Now I'm just a basket case

Don't say much and it'll stay that way

You got a steel train touch

and I'm just a track you lay

So I'll stay right here

underneath you

I'm just a basket case

it's what we do

You're begging for the truth

So I'm sayin it to you

I've been saving your place

What good does it do?

Now I'm just a basket case

Won't somebody come on in and tug at my seams

Oh send your armies in, of robbers and thieves

to steal the state I'm in

I don't want it anymore

You're begging for the truth

So I'm sayin it to you

I've been saving your place

What good does it do?

Now I'm just a basket case

Now I'm just a basket case

Now I'm just a basket case

Now I'm just a basket case