Wednesday, December 5, 2012

An Anthology of Looking: Train - Parachute

Today I'm celebrating one of the highlights of my life: watching Train live in concert in Jakarta precisely a year ago, with my very best best old friend, Grace Susetyo :). Nope, I was, and am not, following over the hype of their Hey Soul Sister hit. (I kinda smirked when I chatted with of some of the concert-goers: yeah, they're the one who sing Hey Soul Sister right? We got the tickets for only 150,000 rupiah from some ticket tout outside. Me: yeah...Hey Soul Sister-hitters huh? Whattt? 150,000 rupiah??? gahhh! But hey, I bought the tickets in full price alright, that's the least I can do for free-internet-downloaders like me ;;D !!) 

Have you heard their Drops of Jupiter, Meet Virginia, She's on Fire, Calling All Angels, When I Look to the Sky, I'm About to Come Alive, Ordinary (OST Spider-Man 2 by the way)...no no no? Men go get their albums then, don't just stop at that one Sister track!

#4 track in their 2009 album. My lucky number. I was lucky yesterday (a year ago), today (a year ago), but not tomorrow (a year ago). Tomorrow (a year ago) I would decide to take a free fall, so I needed (and still need) a parachute. 



Written by Pat Monahan & Gregg Wattenberg
From the album "Save Me, San Fransisco" (2009)

I wanna take you with me to life with no more yesterdays
We can start again awake and so excited
And change the way we always push
The way we pull

I open up and be your parachute
And I'll never let you down
So open up and be my human angel
And we'll only hit the ground
Running

And when the world gets sharp and tries to cut you down to size
And makes you feel like giving in
Oh, I will stay, I will rain, I will wash the words and pain away
And I will chase away the way we push
The way we pull
You're beautiful

I'll open up and be your parachute
And I'll never let you down
So open up and be my human angel
And we'll only hit the ground
Running

And if it feels like we might drop
It will stop
So don't look down
It wouldn't be the same without you
This life is too good to give up on

I'll open up and be your parachute
And I'll never let you down
So open up and be my human angel
And we'll only hit the ground
And we're gonna hit the ground
Running

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