Waiting for Something Big to Happen...

If I had a reason, I would...

If you hold my hand
I jump
If you make me trust
I fly
If you show me passion,
if you ask me to...


If you give me a reason,
I will.


Rose

Still Living

Still Living is the name of a Brazilian rock band, whose guitarist is a subscriber of one of my websites. It seems that we are mutual fans! I've seen myself in several of their song's words... Passion is such a universal feeling! It just bugs me when people try to kill their passion in name of the false concept of being "correct" and following stupid behavioral rules.

Still Living is an independent band and their songs are mainly AOR and melodic hard rock. They are from Garanhuns, Pernambuco (one of my favorite states in the northeast coast of Brazil!) and they have been doing a great job with their words and instruments since 2004.

Many of their songs and videos shared around the Net are still a little raw. Handsome Pedro Gilberto (vocal) has a low-toned voice, which in many songs gets obscured by the high-toned instruments (this makes it hard to understand the words and fully "feel" the song). They are working on a demo CD, so I guess little details will be soon addressed.

It's worth checking these guys out! The music arrangements are really good! I especially like the song Trying to Believe... very nice groove!

http://www.myspace.com/stilllivinghardrock

And here you can listen to some others songs, right when you open the site.
http://palcomp3.cifraclub.terra.com.br/still_hardrock/


If you are a rock expert or a rock snobbish, forgive my "like-everything-what-makes-me-happy" style! I am no expert in music, but I love everything that makes me drift away (i.e. think, dream, dance, cry, laugh... good wine... love...).

Here are the words of Stream of Life. I like the words in this song (pity we can't hear them clearly in the demo video!). These words reflect a bit of my own life poetry. Yep...the storm will pass... I'm too, "Trying to Believe", and I am "Still Living"! ;-)

Stream of Life

in the dark days of this year
you saw your dreams disappear…
you’re feeling all alone
like a shadow on the wall…

now you want to blame the world
tomorrow is getting colder…

you need to come home
or find a little shelter
There's a broken feeling
knocking on your door

you’re not the only one
in the stream of life
now you must be strong
to break the chains around you

what will life bring you now?
all the faith is going down…
more than a tragic day
you’re lost along the way…

in your eyes I see the pain
and your heart beats away…

rain keeps on falling
in the strongest storm


Go Still Living! Keep that passion on! Keep following your dreams! I am proud of you guys! :-)


Rose

Is that Love or Passion?

I am listening to one of my Italian CDs and getting lost in my thoughts... I stop to observe my cats. Topaz is lying down in front of the heat vent - smart girl! Onyx comes by and starts grooming her. He licks the top of her head, so affectionately. She seems to enjoy it - how else would she groom the top of her own head?

That sweet scene of nature brought tears to my eyes... plus the songs... plus some old memories...

Yeah... like the cats we all need some special grooming, don't we? Certain things are better when the "cat friend" does to us...

Acceptance. Interaction. Affection. Discoveries. And Love. Different kinds of love.

How many times do you believe one can fall in love? I believe numerous times. Different kinds of love, sometimes at the same time. Who's to say what is to be? Life just happens! "Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans" said John Lennon. "...and trying to understand the rights and wrongs",  said I.

Sometimes we may love someone only to discover later a transformation... into another kind of love. Another intensity takes place, different feelings, desires... or no desires. Just acceptance. And sometimes no acceptance, either.


Sometimes we change. Many times when we change, the other does not. And we want more from life; the other does not.

We are then hungry for life, wonder, fantasy, sex, intensity... that "one moment in life". We hunt, following our instincts like wild beasts craving for happiness. We then find what feeds our soul, our mind, our energy. We discover life again... all the colors... sounds... sensations.

Is that love or passion?

It seems to me that love is something more heavenly (heaven being a peaceful state of mind). It's more of a reasonable feeling. Acceptance, calm, tolerance. Love is kind... is pastel blue... healthy breeze. But passion... oh, passion is different!

Passion is like a roller coaster with no breaks! It's not peaceful or calm. It's intense and alive! It can be kind... kind of "nice-naughty"! It's sparkling red... a mad storm!

Passion is always boiling. Love is always simmering.
Love is the safe harbor. Passion is the explosion.


Love keeps you safe. But it can be boring if there is no passion.
Passion keeps you alive. But it can be harmful if there is no love.

What if you are in love? And passionate? And so alive? What do you do?  Fear the emotion? Avoid it? Run away? Despair? 

Just do it! Just live it! Life just happens if you are open to it. A dear friend of mine says, "Everything works if you let it".

Dear... I am letting it!

Are you?

Rose