Luke Strand

Fleet Foxes – Blue Spotted Tail (82 plays)

Why in the night sky are the lights hung?

Why is the earth moving round the sun?
Floating in the vacuum with no purpose, not a one,
Why in the night sky are the lights hung?

Why is life made only for to end?
Why do I do all this waiting then? 
Why this frightened part of me that’s fated to pretend?
Why is life made only for to end?

(Source: lalalomo)

"He offered her the world. She said she had her own."

— Monique Duval

Campfire cuddles under the stars.

Gooey marshmallows and chocolate bars.

Pale flesh exposed to the cold night.

Skinny dipping in the moonlight.

Late night revelations.

From contingent conversations.

Chance

the assumed impersonal purposeless determiner of unaccountable happenings

The Cinematic Orchestra – To Build A Home (924 plays)

There is a house built out of stone
Wooden floors, walls and window sills… 
Tables and chairs worn by all of the dust… 
This is a place where I don’t feel alone
This is a place where I feel at home… 

And I built a home
For you
For me

Until you disappeared
From me
From you

And now, it’s time to leave and turn to dust… 

Out in the garden where we planted the seeds
There is a tree as old as me
Branches were sewn by the color of green
Ground had arose and passed it’s knees

By the cracks of his skin I climbed to the top
I climbed the tree to see the world
When the gusts came around to blow me down
Held on as tightly as you held onto me
Held on as tightly as you held onto me… 

And, I built a home
For you
For me

Until you disappeared
From me
From you

And now, it’s time to leave and turn to dust…

(Source: musicalaspirations, via musicalaspirations)

"Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Perfect Circle – 3 Libras (302 plays)

Threw me you’re the obvious
And you flew with it on your back
A name in your recollection
Down among a million same

Difficult not to feel a little bit
Disappointed and passed over 
When I look right through,
See you naked but oblivious

And you don’t see me

But I threw you the obvious
Just to see if there’s more behind the
Eyes of a fallen angel,
Eyes of a tragedy

Here I am expecting just a little bit
Too much from the wounded
But I see, see through it all
See through, see you

‘Cause I threw you the obvious
To see what occurs behind the
Eyes of a fallen angel,
Eyes of a tragedy

Oh well, oh well
Apparently nothing,
Apparently nothing at all

(Source: pancakeradio)

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Daughter – Youth (1,723 plays)

Shadows settle on the place, that you left
Our minds are troubled by the emptiness
Destroy the middle, it’s a waste of time
From the perfect start to the finish line

And if you’re still breathing, you’re the lucky ones
‘Cause most of us are heaving through corrupted lungs
Setting fire to our insides for fun
Collecting names of the lovers that went wrong
The lovers that went wrong

We are the reckless
We are the wild youth
Chasing visions of our futures
One day we’ll reveal the truth
That one will die before he gets there
And if you’re still bleeding, you’re the lucky ones
‘Cause most of our feelings, they are dead and they are gone
We’re setting fire to our insides for fun
Collecting pictures from the flood that wrecked our home
It was a flood that wrecked this

And you caused it
And you caused it
And you caused it

Well I’ve lost it all, I’m just a silouhette
A lifeless face that you’ll soon forget
My eyes ae damp from the words you left
Ringing in my head, when you broke my chest
Ringing in my head, when you broke my chest

And if you’re in love, then you are the lucky one
‘Cause most of us are bitter over someone
Setting fire to our insides for fun
To distract our hearts from ever missing them
But I’m forever missing him

And you caused it
And you caused it
And you caused it

(Source: rougeeee)

"Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. Sit still with me and meditate on how useless effort is, how alien the will, and on how our very meditation is no more useful than effort, and no more our own than the will. Meditate too on how a life that wants nothing can have no weight in the flux of things, but a life that wants everything can likewise have no weight in the flux of things, since it cannot obtain everything, and to obtain less than everything is not worthy of souls that seek the truth."

— Fernando Pessoa (via atransitoryfragment)

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The second time you fall in love with someone, you’re going to feel so relieved. When you get your heart broken for the first time, you can’t imagine loving someone else again or having someone else love you. You worry about your ex finding love before you do, you worry about being damaged goods. And then it happens. Someone else loves you and you can sleep well at night.

The second time you fall in love with someone, it’s going to feel different. The first time felt like a dream almost. You were untouched, untainted by anyone. You accepted love with wide open arms and desperation. “Love me, love me, love me!” So you did. And then it fell apart and left you shocked to the core. You realized that people could be cruel and break your heart. You realized that people could stop meaning the sweet things they said to you just yesterday. So when you go into it again, you’re going to keep in mind everything that you’ve learned. You’re going to say, “Love me, love me, love me…until you don’t. In which case, I would like some advance warning. Thanks!”

The second time will not be the first time. The first time is an insane magical life gift that you can never reclaim. But that’s okay. The second time is more real anyway. The second time can involve some amazing love.

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Ryan O’Connell (via stoneyxochi)

(via atransitoryfragment)