Stay

Spent a lot of time watching movies this weekend. Seems that for some bizarre reason 40min was enough for Saturday night. Oh well... Moving between two movies in particular, "The Machinist and "Reality Bites".

The Machinist became somewhat predictable about half way in, but for me it really hit home that the poor guy hadn't slept in so, so very long. I his case, it would seem he'd committed an atrocity that he was unable to sleep. Eventually as everything unravels he finally falls asleep in the end. Wonder what I may have to do to get some sleep?

"Reality Bites" is one of those off the wall movies with random folk interacting with each other. It's a food example of how we can so often spend so much time looking in when we really should be taking a bit more notice of things around me.

"Stay" by Lisa Loeb is taken from Reality Bites and really made me think of what it is that I truly see. Is all I hear and see just what I want to?

You say I only hear what I want to
You say I talk so all the time so

And I thought what I felt was simple
And I thought that I don't belong
And now that I am leaving
Now I know that I did something wrong 'cause I missed you
Yeah yeah, I missed you

You say I only hear what I want to:
I don't listen hard, don't pay attention to the distance that you're running
To anyone, anywhere
I don't understand if you really care,
I'm only hearing negative
No, No, No, Bad

So I, I turned the radio on, I turned the radio up (turn the radio)
And this woman was singing my song:
Lover's in love and the other's run away
Lover is crying 'cause the other won't stay
Some of us hover when we weep for the other who was
Dying since the day they were born
Well, well, this is not that
I think that I'm throwing, but I'm thrown

And I thought I'd live forever, but now I'm not so sure
You try to tell me that I'm clever
But that won't take me anyhow, or anywhere with you

You said that I was naive and I thought that I was strong
I thought, "hey, I can leave, I can leave."
Oh, but now I know that I was wrong, 'cause I missed you
Yeah, I miss you

You said, "You caught me 'cause you want me and one day you'll let me go
"You try to give away a keeper, or keep me
'Cause you know you're just so scared to lose
And you say, "Stay."

You say I only hear what I want to

Do we only hear what we want to, desperately searching for a little rest when what we need to do is truly face reality, no matter what that may be.