Recommended song of the day !!

Awesome lyrics....Linkin Park - What I've Done. Here's the link on youtube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8sgycukafqQ

In this farewell
There’s no blood
There’s no alibi
‘Cause I’ve drawn regret
From the truth
Of a thousand lies

So let mercy come
And wash away
What I’ve done

I'll face myself
To cross out what i’ve become
Erase myself
And let go of what i’ve done

Put to rest
What you thought of me
While I clean this slate
With the hands of uncertainty

For what I’ve done
I start again
And whatever pain may come
Today this ends
I’m forgiving what I’ve done!!!

What I’ve done
Forgiving what I’ve done
Let mercy come and wash away what I’ve done
I'll face myself to cross out what i’ve become, erase myself and let go of what i’ve done

Afterglow

Slightly retro, I heard this song after a long time on the radio as I drove to the office on a rushhour monday morning. Performed by Inxs who released their album in 2005. "Afterglow" is a spine tingling anthem that is probably the best song on the album, but certainly the most beautiful rock balllad since U2 released "With Or Without You" many years ago. Bloody fantastic...here goes the lyrics....

Here I am, lost in the light of the moon that comes through my window
Bathed in blue, the walls of my memory divides the thorns from the roses
It's you and the roses

Touch me and I will follow in your afterglow
Heal me from all this sorrow
As I let you go I will find my way when I see your eyes
Now I'm living in your afterglow

Here I am, lost in the ashes of time, but who owns tomorrow?
In between the longing to hold you again
I'm caught in your shadow, I'm losing control
My mind drifts away, we only have today

Touch me and I will follow in your afterglow
Heal me from all this sorrow
As I let you go I will find my way
I will sacrifice 'til the blinding day when I see your eyes
Now I'm living in your afterglow

When the veils are gone, as I let you go, as I let you go

Touch me and I will follow in your afterglow
Heal me from all this sorrow
As I let you go I will find my way, I will sacrifice
Now I'm living in your afterglow

Bathed in blue, the walls of my memory divides the thorns from the roses
It's you who is closest

Creations of a Lesser God ?

Maybe it's the animal lover in me that has forced me to write this up, but I couldn't resist the urge to vent out my frustration for being helpless when I saw a leopard being brutally stoned to death on a news channel on TV today. Its fault - it had unknowingly strayed into the "civilization".
What was disgsting was the fact that the poor thing was trapped in a net first by the zoo authorities and then beaten to death by them when it was fully known tht it could cause no harm and could very well be released into its natural habitat.
I wonder whether our responsibilities towards endangered species is mere paperwork chalked out
by unscrupulus politicians as a marketing gimmick..In fact, on second thought, they are not to be blamed. It's us - the people , who acted on the impulse of kiling the beast and the prime reason was evidently a lack of awareness and and a sense of responsibility towards environment among the masses. Again , the root cause for this is - in our schools we are taught to "fear" wild animals rather than consider them as a "species with a right to survive".
Its high time for a change of attitudes lest we head for ecological disaster. Moreover, in Hinduism , they say that you get a human's life after billions of lives as other creatures, then why waste others' lives ? Sparing a life might leave u richer by a thousand blessings.

Illusion of reality !

I close my eyes just for a moment and the moment is gone as all my dreams pass before my eyes. Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky, everything crumbles to the ground like a drop of water in an endless sea, though we refuse to see that all the money won’t buy the lost minute that slips away as we are entrenched in the illusion of the reality of life.

The Power of communication

'It is not easy to find words in these supreme moments, if you know what I mean. What I mean is, you get a moment like this---supreme, as you might say--with the clouds all cleared away and the good sun buzzing along on all six cylinders--and, you feel..well, I mean, dash it!
"Thank you, Jeeves," I said.
"Not at all, sir." '

Like a river ..

All the life we wait for a fairytale and live in a fantasy without a meaning. And when the sun gets so bright that it leaves no shadows, we turn away to face the cold, enduring chill of the night. The moon gets up as we see the sun go down leaving behind scars carved into stone on the face of the earth.I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts. While bullets rip the night of the merciful and the stars fall from the sky, the moon turns red and then we run like a river to the sea.

When September ends

Summers have come and almost passed. The rain comes again falling from the stars drenched in my pain, reminding again who we are as my memory rests but never forgets what I lost. The innocent can never last, so wake me up when september ends.