Greenfinch and Linnet Brid

Green finch and linnet bird,
Nightingale, blackbird,
How is it you sing?
How can you jubliate,
Sitting in cages,
Never taking wing?
Outside the sky waits,
Beckoning, beckoning,
Just beyond the bars.
How can you remain,
Staring at the rain,
Maddened by the stars?
How is it you sing anything?
How is it you sing?

Green finch and linnet bird,
Nightingale,blackbird,
How is it you sing?
Whence comes this melody constantly flowing?
Is it rejoicing or merely halloing?
Are you discussing or fussing
Or simply dreaming?
Are you crowing?
Are you screaming?

Ringdove and robinet,
Is it for wages,
Singing to be sold?
Have you decided its
Safer in cages,
Singing when youre told?

My cage has many rooms,
Damask and dark.
Nothing there sings,
Not even my lark.
Larks never will, you know,
When theyre captive.
Teach me to be more adaptive.

Green finch and linnet bird,
Nightingale, blackbird,
Teach me how to sing.
If I cannot fly,
Let me sing.

From the Broadway Musical Sweeney Todd

My, my what an interesting weekend. All the madness started Friday, when I went shopping for my Halloween costume. . . That was fun. I now have what could become a dangerous addiction to Hot Topic. After shopping and just generally creating havoc at the mall my roommate and I decided that it was time that we watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show. OH My Freaken' Goodness! That was so much fun. Then we sat around Newman House and just talked and watched what ever we could find on TV. That was a fun night. . . We stayed up until 2, I think. . . . Saturday I got up at 10:40 and did some homework, not much but I did do some. Hehe, then I took a nap and Went to a concert with my roomy and the Newmanites. We went back to Newman and ended up staying there until about 1:30ish. . . . That place is a black hole I swear. I got a phone call at 2 in the morning. That was fun. . . And I actually woke up in time for Church on Sunday. Yah! Sunday I did more homework and eventually ended up at Newman again, I watched Grey's Anatomy there and made it home at a decent hour, got a phone call from my Mom and Dad. And actually got to bed at 1 I think . . . Monday was Monday, gloomy and cold. It actually snowed! Geesh. . . Choir is getting more and more intense, We have a performance on Friday and we are no where near ready. Monday wasn't too bad, I started feeling a little dizzy towards the end of the day, and decided that no matter what I was going to get to bed early. Yay for crazy weekends with roommates and interesting occurrences at the mall. . . I think that its nap time.
In the velvet darkness
Of the blackest night
Burning bright
There's a guiding star
No matter what or who you are

There's a light
The darkness must go
Down the river of night's dreaming
Flow morphia slow
Let the sun and light come streaming
Into my life, into my life

There's a light
Burning in the fireplace
There's a light, a light

In the darkness of everybody's life

Well, this weekend was productive to say the most. Friday, I gave blood(Fed the Vampires). I did ok, no passing out or anything, a little dizzy walking home, but I had Suzanne with me so if I had fallen I would have been ok. After that I took a nap and then went over to the Foster's for dinner and a movie with some other RUF girls. That was so fun, we watched How to lose a guy in 10 days. Good movie and good group of girls. I got up at 9 today! Amazing! Suzanne and I cleaned up the room a little, so it looks descent now, which is nice. I dusted! YAY! I actually attempted to do some homework. I ended up sleeping, I woke up around 6:40, I have no idea why I was that tired but I slept. So that means there is going to be no sleep for me tonight. Maybe I'll actually go swimming, like I've been going to for the past three weeks. But I'm thinking that I definitely have to get out of this room before I go nuts.
I'll tell you flat out
It hurts so much to think of this
So from my thoughts I will exclude
The very thing that
I hate more than everything is
The way I'm powerless
To dictate my own moods
I've thrown away
So many things that could've been much more
And I just pray
My problems go away if they're ignored
But that's not the way it works
No that's not the way it works
When I go down
I go down hard
And I take everything I've learned
And teach myself some disregard
When I go down
It hurts to hit the bottom
And of the things that got me there
I think, if only I had fought them