Recently, I came across two really wonderful songs that I find very meaningful. First was Kris Allen’s Live Like We’re Dying and the second is John Lennon’s Imagine as performed in the TV series Glee.
Kris Allen’s song basically summarizes my obession with life and death. To be able to appreciate death as a requisite of life. Yes, we MUST all die someday, that’s why life is worth living. I try my best to live each day of my life to the best that I can, to enrich myself and enrich other’s. Life simply isn’t as meaningful without death. Live each day as it is your last, it may very well be, and count every new day as a blessing 
The second song I came across while watching Glee – an American TV series. Sigh. Talking about a better world. Don’t we all wish for a better world? One day…
John Lennon – Imagine
Imagine there’s no Heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
Kris Allen – Live Like We’re Dying
Sometimes we fall down and can’t get back up
We’re hiding behind skin that’s too tough
How come we don’t say “I love you” enough
‘Till it’s too late, it’s not too late
Our hearts are hungry for a food that won’t come
We could make a feast from these crumbs
And we’re all staring down the barrel of a gun
So if your life flashed before you
What would you wish you would’ve done?
Yeah… we gotta start
Looking at the hands of the time we’ve been given here
This is all we got and we gotta start pickin it
Every second counts on a clock that’s tickin’
Gotta live like we’re dying
We only got
86,400 seconds in a day too
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we’re dying
And if your plane fell out of the skies
Who would you call with your last goodbye?
Should be so careful who we live out our lives
So when we long for absolution
There’ll no one on the line
Yeah… we gotta start
Looking at the hands of the time we’ve been given here
This is all we got and we gotta start pickin it
Every second counts on a clock that’s tickin’
Gotta live like we’re dying
We only got
86,400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we’re dying
Like we’re dying, oh, like we’re dying [x2]
We only got
86,400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we’re dying
You never know a good thing ’til it’s gone
You never see a crash ’til it’s head on
All those people right when we’re dead wrong
You never know a good thing ’til it’s gone
Yeah… we gotta start
Looking at the hands of the time we’ve been given here
This is all we got and we gotta start pickin it
Every second counts on a clock that’s tickin’
Gotta live like we’re dying
We only got
86,400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we’re dying
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I love those songs!
Comment by Ego — February 5, 2010 @ 4:57 pm