Splendor In The Grass

Today I just bought an album of Pink Martini: A Retrospective. Listening to this song, Splendor In The Grass, for the first time .... I fell in love with it right away. Her voice of course is beautiful as usual, the rhythm, the music, the MV together with the lyrics makes it so touching! I feel so good just to listen to it.

Life, this word I'm pretty sure a lot of people try to define. What is it really? I actually think about it from time to time. There're times that we want something badly that we see nothing else. It makes us become blind and miss lots of beautiful things in our life. Yes, we can never get enough of them. Time flies and we move forward, some time so fast that we look over the ones we love. Surrounded by beautiful things that are always there, we never even take a glimpse, the beautiful little flowers growing up on the path in the midst of people living in the city. Happiness is so close, it's everywhere. Go outside and look around, there do you notice it? They're calling you :)

Splendor In The Grass

Pink Martini


I can see you're thinking baby
I've been thinking too
about the way we used to be
and how to start a new

Maybe I'm a hopeless dreamer
maybe I've got it wrong
but i'm going where the grass is green
if you like to come along

Back when I was starting out
I always wanted more
but every time I got it
I still felt just like before

Fortune is a fickle friend
I'm tired of chasing fate
and when I look into your eyes
I know you feel the same

All these years of living large
are starting to do a sin
I wont say it wasn't fun
but now it has to end

Life is moving oh so fast
I think we should take it slow
rest our heads upon the grass
and listen to it grow

Going where the hills are green
and the cars are few and far
days are full of splendor
and at night you can see the stars

Life's been moving oh so fast
I think we should take it slow
rest our heads upon the grass
and listen to it grow

Quotes: The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye, novel by J.D. Salinger

"The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go there a hundred times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish, the birds would still be on their way south, the deers would still be drinking out of that water hole, with their pretty antlers and their pretty, skinny legs, and that squaw with the naked bosom would still be weaving that same blanket. Nobody'd be different. The only thing that would be different would be you." 

-- Chapter 16 ---

"I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go? I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away." 

"She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls, if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hands all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something. Jane was different. We'd get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we'd start holding hands, and we won't quite till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were."

"People always clap for the wrong things."

"I'm always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though."

"The thing is, most of the time when you're coming pretty close to doing it with a girl, she keeps telling you to stop. The trouble with me is, I stop. Most guys don't. I can't help it. You never really know whether they want you to stop or whether they're just scared as hell, or whether they're just telling you to stop so that if you do go through with it, the blame'll be on you, not them. Anyway, I keep stopping. The trouble is, I get to feeling sorry for them."

"Catholics are always trying to find out if you're Catholic."

"Girls. You never know what they're going to think."

"Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody."

Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.

"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited andstimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry."

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

คุณเป็นโรคนี้หรือเปล่า

อายุ 15   สอบเข้าโรงเรียนดีๆ ไม่ได้ ......... รู้งี้ น่าจะตั้งใจเรียน


อายุ 20   เลือกทางเดินชีวิตผิด ............ รู้งี้ น่าจะเลือกคณะที่ชอบ


อายุ 30   ถังแตก ........... รู้งี้ น่าจะออมเงินไว้บ้าง


อายุ 50   ถูก early retire (เกษียณก่อนกำหนด) ........... รู้งี้น่าจะเสี่ยงลงทุนทำอะไรของตัวเอง


ตาย ........... รู้งี้ รักษาสุขภาพดีกว่า


มันไม่สำคัญว่า ชีวิตคุณพูด "รู้งี้" มากี่ครั้ง ...... แต่มันสำคัญว่าคุณ "รู้" แล้ว "ทำ" หรือยัง


อย่าให้ชีวิตของคุณต้องมีคำว่า "รู้งี้" จนลมหายใจสุดท้าย

"Don't lose hope. 

You never know what tomorrow will bring."

อย่าได้เสื่อมศรัทธาเพราะเราไม่รู้ว่าวันพรุ่งนี้จะเป็นเช่นไร