The mind is a weird thing. I was super happy blogging my merry way, then I had the thought that my content is pretty random, but at the same time, boring. The reason I’m still doing it is that it helps me deal with the said mind. The song I picked today, The Right Thing, by Isaac Levi, is a new artist to me. As a matter of fact, the music video visualiser and I am going to comment on an accessibility thing for me.
As many of you know, I’m dyslexic, and the lyrics in the video were made only a half shade lighter in colour than the background, so there’s barely any contrast, which makes them hard to read or even unreadable. Now, on to the music and lyrics of this song. The last line/verse is life itself speaking, “When the wrong thing feels so good?” I mean, I feel life is an ongoing battle between the heart and the mind. The next line I noticed is “Or just a bookmark in my past”, it is possible to forgive, but with every emotion there is a stored memory, so it can’t be forgotten.
The Right Thing, by Isaac Levi:
An old friend once told me that
New beginnings are often disguised as
Painful endings
This morning I woke up in my bed
Took a pill for the pain in my head
I just wish that it’d work for the one in my chest
Isn’t love so complicated?
Hate to think that this feeling’s wasted
Or just a bookmark in my past
That almost lasted for years
And we were so close but so damn far
Now I don’t know where you are
And that’s just fucking hard
How do you choose to do the right thing
When the wrong thing feels so good?
And how do you tell her that you’re leaving
When you don’t know if you should
‘Cause she was my home, yeah, she was safety
God knows that she was amazing
But it would’ve been selfish to stay
How do you choose to do the right thing
When the wrong thing feels so good?
So tired of running my mouth
To my friends or anyone who hears about
Our painful ending
She just made sense of all of my hurt
At my worst she always had a way with words
I just wish that I could talk to her about her
Is love really that complicated?
Maybe somehow we could’ve saved it
How long ’til the doubts come back?
And I’m retracing all my tracks
And we were so close but so damn far
Now I don’t know where you are
How do you choose to do the right thing
When the wrong thing feels so good?
And how do you tell her that you’re leaving
When you don’t know if you should
‘Cause she was my home, yeah, she was safety
God knows that she was amazing
But it would’ve been selfish to stay
How do you choose to do the right thing
When the wrong thing feels so good?
Bookmark:
A bookmark that is wrapped
With bits from the life
That was lived
A mix of happy and sad
But they don’t make a picture
Just a feeling that hits
Out of the beat of time
Alex
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