Thank You - Led Zeppelin

If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you.
If the mountains should crumble to the sea, there would still be you and me.

Kind woman, I give you my all, Kind woman, nothing more.

Little drops of rain whisper of the pain, tears of loves lost in the days gone by.
But my love is strong, with you there is no wrong,
together we shall go until we die. My, my, my.
Inspiration's what you are to me, inspiration, look... see.

And so today, my world it smiles, your hand in mine, we walk the miles,
Thanks to you it will be done, for you to me are the only one.
Happiness, no more be sad, happiness....I'm glad.
If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you.
If the mountains should crumble to the sea, there would still be you and me.

Hated to see you go

Hated to see you go
Almost had tears in my eyes
Whatever you have let me know
Are only a pure heart's cries

To not hurt anyone is your aim
You fear you may do it someday
Rest assured, there is no shame in your claim
I have only come to love you more this way

All it takes is a little integrity
To keep two souls from tearing away
Just the minimum possible reciprocity
And we can be on our way

In Limbo

Yeah, that's exactly where I am
between the heaven of love
and the abode of the damned
all it takes is a little shove

to trip me up so high
into the bright blue sky
or the dungeon, dark and deep
where i shall never sleep

this fortnight shall be
the longest i'll live to see
cause in that one word lies my future
don't say no, this heart can't take another puncture

say yes, please say yes
i shall give it all i got
i promise i wont make a mess
i'll give it my best shot

Somebody sang.....

If you can just get your mind together
Then come on across to me
We'll hold hands and then we'll watch the sunrise
From the bottom of the sea

Trumpets and violins I can, hear in the distance
I think theyre callin our name
Maybe now you cant hear them,
But you will, if you just
Take hold of my hand

Is this love - Rihanna

I don't know
If this is love oh
All i know is for sertain
You've been callin me up and saying
Baby where you at
I wanna come home with you
Do everythin possible and then

Oh im here but is this thing we have called love
Is this love oh
I'll never know
But when you do
Please just let me know (let me know oh)

Is this love
baby please understand all my needs
i need to know if you care ( if you care)
dont make me wait no longer (dont make me wait no)

Is this love - Bob Marley

I wanna love you and treat you right;
I wanna love you every day and every night:
Well be together with a roof right over our heads;
Well share the shelter of my single bed;
Well share the same room, yeah! - for jah provide the bread.
Is this love - is this love - is this love -
Is this love that Im feelin?
Is this love - is this love - is this love -
Is this love that Im feelin?
I wanna know - wanna know - wanna know now!
I got to know - got to know - got to know now!

I-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i - Im willing and able,
So I throw my cards on your table!
I wanna love you - I wanna love and treat - love and treat you right;
I wanna love you every day and every night:
Well be together, yeah! - with a roof right over our heads;
Well share the shelter, yeah, oh now! - of my single bed;
Well share the same room, yeah! - for jah provide the bread.

Is this love - is this love - is this love -
Is this love that Im feelin?
Is this love - is this love - is this love -
Is this love that Im feelin?
Wo-o-o-oah! oh yes, I know; yes, I know - yes, I know now!
Yes, I know; yes, I know - yes, I know now!

I-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i - Im willing and able,
So I throw my cards on your table!
See: I wanna love ya, I wanna love and treat ya -
Love and treat ya right.
I wanna love you every day and every night:
Well be together, with a roof right over our heads!
Well share the shelter of my single bed;
Well share the same room, yeah! jah provide the bread.
Well share the shelter of my single bed

Is this love - Whitesnake

I should have known better
Than to let you go alone,
Its times like these
I cant make it on my own
Wasted days, and sleepless nights
And I cant wait to see you again

I find I spend my time
Waiting on your call,
How can I tell you, baby
My backs against the wall
I need you by my side
To tell me its alright,
cos I dont think I can take anymore

Is this love that Im feeling,
Is this the love, that Ive been searching for
Is this love or am I dreaming,
This must be love,
cos its really got a hold on me,
A hold on me...

I cant stop the feeling
Ive been this way before
But, with you Ive found the key
To open any door
I can feel my love for you
Growing stronger day by day,
An I cant wait to see you again
So I can hold you in my arms

Is this love that Im feeling,
Is this the love, that Ive been searching for
Is this love or am I dreaming,
This must be love,
cos its really got a hold on me,
A hold on me...

Is this love that Im feeling,
Is this the love, that Ive been searching for...
Is this love or am I dreaming,
Is this the love, that Ive been searching for...

Writer's Block

I got writer's block
I can't write anymore
There's no key to this lock
This is such a bore

Words galore
But sentences rare
like a dried up shore
the river runs bare

Inspiration's on the brink
The mind lacks energy
No thoughts worth ink
Complete lethargy

Uncertain times; certain future

The only thing that can be said with 100% certainty when a human being is born is that he or she will die. Everything else inbetween is a game of chance. This is no great revelation yet the human mind does not comprehend this simple truth during it's lifetime. Everyone has to die someday, but that doesn't stop us from grieving. Sometimes so much that one is not able to cope with the loss.

I once saw a documentary on Jane Goodall's attempt to study the life of the great ape. There was one particular mother that she followed through the birth of the third child. Apes have the same instinctual behaviour found in all other mammals that is of weaning away the child after it has grown enough to feed on whatever else the grown ups do. But in the case o the third child it was a little different. The mother was so old by the time she had the third child that she could not succeed in weaning him away even a long time after the usual period. Eventually the kid was so dependent on his mother for everything right from feeding to playing - he did not even play with his friends/cousins. One fine day the old mother dies leaving this kid absolutely unprepared for life ahead. The mother's body is on a rock by a stream slowly rotting. This kid climbs up a tree and builds himself a nest - the first time he shows adult behaviour, and settles into it looking down on his mother's corpse. The camera crew did sucha a good job of capturing his emotions; everone could see he was overcome with extreme grief. Finally the kid dies of grief in his nest. If you saw the documentary you would be moved to tears unless you're the type who's heart is made of granite.

The moral of this story is that this grief thing is not unique to humans alone. However humans are supposed to have the sixth sense which helps in rational thought. Why then are we still like our ancestors? We worry about everything we experience or do. Anxiety, depression, elation, fear and such emotional states are purely a product of the fertile mind irrigated by the sixth sense. Wisdom is like ether -available everywhere. But the so called rational mind is spoilt by the concept of free will, the ability to choose.

can't get you out of my mind

can't get you out of my mind
you seem to have got me in a bind
pray tell
is this some magic spell
is it your charm or your grace
that fills my mind till there's just no space
or is it your elegance
that keeps me in this trance
thy overflowing cheerfulness
is hard to ignore; i confess
whatever in the world it is
to me this feels like bliss
time spent next to you seems like eternity
such company could cure insanity
tell me oh tell me will this last
will we remember together, good times from the past

Floccinocinihilipilification

If you didn't know yet, this is one of the longest words in English. It means to estimate things to be small or usless. I've heard of antidisestablishmentarianism too, but what i want to write today has more to do with flocci....

What I want to write is about the opposite of flocci... i.e. estimating things to be big or very important than they actually are. Two years ago around the same time of the year I got into a high and preached the value of time spent with the family to all the married people in my office and particularly to the ones with kids. I did that because I saw that these people valued their jobs more than their families. On average people left office only by about 9pm. Well you could have pardoned them if they really had that much work. But the truth was that there was hardly 8 hour worth of work. Without execption everyone wasted about 4 hours of their time in office chit-chatting over coffee or cigarettes. I don't claim to be an exception but I had a valid argument - I was living alone so it didn't matter when I went home. Everyone agreed with my observation but didn't want to change what they did.

Last week one of my colleagues who had been with the company a long time and was respected by all, left the organization. He was one of my targets during my rambling about putting life before work. A hardcore workaholic he did not even listen to what I had to say, or it appeared so. But when he left he admitted that the principal reason for his decision to quit was to find a less demanding job so that he could spend more time with his only daughter of 5. When he said this to me I thought he was just giving me a reason I would love to hear. But it was true ( how i verified that is another story).

This morning over our first cigarette break another colleague to whom I had preached decided that he would quit drinking and spend that time with his family. "First is my health, second is my job, no sorry, second is my family and third is my job," he said. I second that. First is my health, second is to build a family and third is my job. I shall not floccinocinihinipilificate the first two in favour of the third. There, I managed to provide you a example of how to use one of the longest words i the english language.