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121312 -- Year In Review
Dec. 13th, 2012 01:23 pmSo I decided Facebook didn't do a good enough job of summarizing my year with posts -- so I figured I'd do it myself. At the end of my junior year at Miami I wrote a very Broadway-esque piece about, well, my junior year. Here it is again, with updated words that talk about 2012...because it kind of sucked.
These halls I walk
-- these tunnels echo
of faded times and long ago
I walk these lines
These numbered back roads
Waiting for the day
When I'll say "hello"
The empire stands
Strong and proud as ever
By the chandelier
Just like it did last fall
-- after all, after all
"it's just a game?" -- It's not a game!
Still, I'm the one who leaves behind the paper cranes --
and I'd do it all the same
Just to hear your name one more time
I'd do it all the same
Just to know your name and make it mine
See, I wake up at eleven o'clock
And everyone's at WORK
I've got someone who won't stop acting
Like a total jerk
And here I sit still unaware
Of the background noise and the meaning of the hair
So what, six train? I'll ride you again
To the Hudson Metro Line
Say ichi, ni, san!
One and a two and a three and a four
Ichi, ni -- nan?
How could I remember --
lonely night at the carnival and come all who are strong
Take away where I belong, no
Give me back where I belong!!
and I'd do it all the same
Just to hear your name one more time
I'd do it all the same
Just to know your name and make it mine
-- stop, hammer time! (piano solo)
He's strong and sure, and doesn't need help
With his eyes held straight, an unwavering gaze
Tie a yellow ribbon around my neck
And let me go again
He'll never be alone, you see
For I've got hope in the kaleidoscope
Help me find this destiny line
And blast me off again!
Oh, this damned life
Screwed damned score
Rewrite this life to what I had before
Out, damned girl
That damned tour -- stop!
The music quiets as I board the nearest train
I'm done -- tired with failure -- tired with life
It's times like these I wonder what I came to New York for
And then I think of you
And I remember, for sure --
Every sad, unpaid day these walls echo of
Every Code Red, every battle
Every late train, every song
Every promise that I whispered under lights that won't come true
Every booth and every mint tea,
Every word and every tune
Everything that I did this year
Somehow leads me back to you
Because when it comes down to it...
I'd do it all the same
Just to hear your name one last time
I'd do it all the same
Just to know your name
I'll make it mine...
These halls I walk
-- these tunnels echo
of faded times and long ago
I walk these lines
These numbered back roads
Waiting for the day
When I'll say "hello"
The empire stands
Strong and proud as ever
By the chandelier
Just like it did last fall
-- after all, after all
"it's just a game?" -- It's not a game!
Still, I'm the one who leaves behind the paper cranes --
and I'd do it all the same
Just to hear your name one more time
I'd do it all the same
Just to know your name and make it mine
See, I wake up at eleven o'clock
And everyone's at WORK
I've got someone who won't stop acting
Like a total jerk
And here I sit still unaware
Of the background noise and the meaning of the hair
So what, six train? I'll ride you again
To the Hudson Metro Line
Say ichi, ni, san!
One and a two and a three and a four
Ichi, ni -- nan?
How could I remember --
lonely night at the carnival and come all who are strong
Take away where I belong, no
Give me back where I belong!!
and I'd do it all the same
Just to hear your name one more time
I'd do it all the same
Just to know your name and make it mine
-- stop, hammer time! (piano solo)
He's strong and sure, and doesn't need help
With his eyes held straight, an unwavering gaze
Tie a yellow ribbon around my neck
And let me go again
He'll never be alone, you see
For I've got hope in the kaleidoscope
Help me find this destiny line
And blast me off again!
Oh, this damned life
Screwed damned score
Rewrite this life to what I had before
Out, damned girl
That damned tour -- stop!
The music quiets as I board the nearest train
I'm done -- tired with failure -- tired with life
It's times like these I wonder what I came to New York for
And then I think of you
And I remember, for sure --
Every sad, unpaid day these walls echo of
Every Code Red, every battle
Every late train, every song
Every promise that I whispered under lights that won't come true
Every booth and every mint tea,
Every word and every tune
Everything that I did this year
Somehow leads me back to you
Because when it comes down to it...
I'd do it all the same
Just to hear your name one last time
I'd do it all the same
Just to know your name
I'll make it mine...
