OFF TANGENT | A Lyrical Life

I've been playing a lot of Sarah McLachlan recently. You know how sometimes, like a miracle, a song just seems to be about your life?

Actually, it's quite sad - because life is larger than a song, or a book for that matter. But I can admit sometimes - it feels like it's all about you.

A friend once pointed out hoobastank's Reason is the "Story of My Life." For the reason mentioned above, I disagree. My life is larger than that song. My friend got it wrong; my Ex is NOT The Reason I want to change my life.

Rather, I realised the choices I had made were making me unhappy. I chose to change because I believe I deserve to be happier.

But I concede there are still songs that echoed the little unhappy chapters in my life. I set these songs on "Repeat" mode on my mpeg player sometimes, when the mood hits me.

This is one of them (and it's not Sarah McLachlan):

Change
Tracy Chapman

If you knew that you would die today
If you saw the face of God and love
Would you change?
Would you change?

If you knew that love can't break your heart
When you're down so low you cannot fall
Would you change would you change?

How bad how good does it need to get?
How many losses how much regret?
What chain reaction
What cause and effect
Makes you turn around
Makes you try to explain
Makes you forgive and forget
Makes you change
Makes you change

If you knew that you couldn't be alone
Knowing right being wrong
Would you change?
Would you change?
If you knew that you would find a truth
That brings a pain that can't be soothed
Would you change would you change?

How bad how good does it need to get?
How many losses how much regret?
What chain reaction
What cause and effect
Makes you turn around
Makes you try to explain
Makes you forgive and forget
Makes you change
Makes you change

Are you so upright you can't be bent
if it comes to blows
Are you so sure you won't be crawling
If not for the good why risk falling
Why risk falling

If everything you think you know
Makes your life unbearable
Would you change?
Would you change?
If you'd broken every rule and vow
And hard times come to bring you down
Would you change?
Would you change?

If you knew that you would die today
If you saw the face of God and love
Would you change?
Would you change?