Allow Me to Digress

Even children get older, and I’m getting older too…

If you know that I’m quoting a song… wow!  You know that song?  Do you know the title? (I don’t know too many songs you see ;)  I must have heard this song a lot of times but never bothered to look it up, and I think there have been a lot of movies that include this song in their soundtracks.  I got interested in this song because I watched "Jersey Girl" recently.  I’ve seen it for the second time but then it was still fun to watch.  When you have so much time in your hands you notice things you’ve never noticed before.   

Anyway, allow me to digress further.  I think after "Daredevil" this is my favorite Ben Affleck movie. Or maybe, I like "Jersey Girl" even better than "Daredevil."  Nevermind.  I’m no Ben Affleck fan anyway.  Incidentally, I also watched "The Wedding Planner" in Japanese, also with Jennifer Lopez.  (Jennifer Lopez had a short part in "Jersey Girl.")  I’m looking for that movie’s soundtrack song list too.  Yes, I watched it dubbed in Nihongo, and all that I understood are pronouns, such as watashitachi, and of course, "kekkon." (Get married.  It’s a movie on weddings afterall.) Fortunately I’ve seen that movie before.

When I like a song, I don’t mind playing it the whole day. I’m listening to "Landslide" now for the nth time since last night… I wonder what the writer was thinking when he wrote this.  There’s nothing romantic about "landslide" (maybe for someone who’s living here in the Philippines.)  Landslides are muddy.  What comes to mind are dark murky waters.  How can you see your reflection?  The last thing one would probably thing about would be a love song.

Well, here’s a refreshing perspective on "Landslide" on snow-covered hills…

Landslide (by Fleetwood Mac)

I took my love and I took it down
Climbed a mountain and turned around
And I saw my reflection in the snow-covered hills
’til the landslide brought it down
Oh, mirror in the sky -What is love?
Can the child within my heart rise above?
Can I sail through the changin’…ocean tides
Can I handle the seasons of my life?
I don’t know…..I don’t know
Well I’ve been afraid of changin’
because I’ve built my life around you
But time makes you bolder, even children get older
And I’m getting older too….
So, take my love…take it down
Climb a mountain and turn around
and if you see my reflection in the snow-covered hills…
well the landslide will bring it down
The landslide will bring it down

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