Friday, July 13, 2012

Bloom.

"I've spent my whole life chasing immortality,
having the need--not just the want--to be extraordinary.
There's a certain unpleasantness to drowning in the knowledge,
that I'll die in the middle of a sent--"
The Fault In Our Stars
Bloom
Something about this part of this song strikes me so hard. I love the novel The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (furthermore referred to as TFioS for the sake of shorthand), and I have since it was released. I read it in a matter of hours, absolutely bawling during the second half. I won't say what made me cry so hard; I don't want to spoil it for anyone who has not yet read it (cough Kylie cough).
Because that book spoke so profoundly to me about the matter of our impermanence, as individuals and as a species, and what defines a meaningful life--and death--I, of course, dived headfirst into many different branches of fanship. TFioS touched so many lives and I wanted to see how it had.
This song was one of the first things I found.
It seemed like Bloom dove right into my head and ripped out my deepest dreads and feelings and vomited them into their song (which is beautiful. It's on iTunes). These lyrics have been stuck in my head, tattooed to the back of my eyelids; I hear them when I'm awake and see them while I dream.
I will never be able to get over them.
They're words I've always secretly lived too and words I want to stop relying on.
They're words I want to honestly say don't describe me.

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