Being Alive

Ewell 2021-10-20 17:23:35

I’m going to copy this song of Charlie here. If one day I have a dispute with my lover, I will re-read this lyrics, listen to this song, and think about why we had to put in a paragraph in the first place because we were serious. There is bound to be a dispute in the relationship.

BEING ALIVE

By Charlie

Someone to hold you too close

Someone to hurt you too deep

Someone to sit in your chair

To ruin your sleep

(It's true, but there's more than that. Is that all you think there is to it? You have so many reasons for not being with someone, Robert. But you haven't got one good reason to being alone. Come on, you 're onto something, Robbie. You're onto something.)

Someone to need you too much

Someone to know you too well

Someone to pull you up short

To put you through hell

(You see what you look for, you know? You're not a kid anymore, Robbie. I don't think you'll ever be a kid again, kiddo.)

Being alive

Being alive

Being alive

(Blow out the candles, Robert, and make a wish, want something.)

Somebody hold me too close

Somebody hurt me too deep

Somebody sit in my chair

And ruin my sleep

And make me aware of being alive

Being alive

Somebody need me too much

Somebody know me too well

Somebody pull me of short

And pull me through hell

And give me support for being alive

Make me alive

Make me alive

Make me confused

Mock me with praise

Let me be used

Vary my days

But alone

Is alone

Not alive

Somebody crowd me with love

Somebody force me to care

Somebody make me come through

I'll always be there

As frightened as you

To help us survive

Being alive

Being alive

BEING ALIVE.

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  • Nora Fanshaw: People don't accept mothers who drink too much wine and yell at their child and call him an asshole. I get it. I do it too. We can accept an imperfect dad. Let's face it, the idea of a good father was only invented like 30 years ago. Before that, fathers were expected to be silent and absent and unreliable and selfish, and can all say we want them to be different. But on some basic level, we accept them. We love them for their fallibilities, but people absolutely don't accept those same failings in mothers. We don't accept it structurally and we don't accept it spiritually. Because the basis of our Judeo-Christian whatever is Mary, Mother of Jesus, and she's perfect. She's a virgin who gives birth, unwaveringly supports her child and holds his dead body when he's gone. And the dad isn't there. He didn't even do the fucking. God is in heaven. God is the father and God didn't show up. So, you have to be perfect, and Charlie can be a fuck up and it doesn't matter. You will always be held to a different, higher standard. And it's fucked up, but that's the way it is.

  • Bert Spitz: You know what this is like? This is like that joke about the woman at the hairdresser, she's going to Rome. You know this?

    Charlie: I don't.

    Bert Spitz: This woman is at her hairdresser, and she says, "I'm going to Rome on Holiday." And he says, "Oh, really? What airline are you taking?" She says, "Alitalia." He says, "Alitalia? Are you crazy? That's the worst - that's terrible. Don't take that. Where you gonna stay?" She says, "I'm gonna stay at the Hassler." "The Hassler? What, are you kidding? They're renovating the Hassler. You'll hear hammering all night long. You won't sleep. What are you gonna see?" She says, "I think I'm gonna try to go the Vatican." "The Vatican? You'll be standing in line all day long. You'll never get to see anything."

    Charlie: I'm sorry, Bert, am I paying for this joke?