Birds without Wings - David Gray

Thought I would draw your attention to David Gray and his song birds without wings. You can not help but wonder how long we have left on this planet if we keep up at the rate we are going. We can not agree on much these days. Carbon Credits - Carbon Quotas, what will it be, what will become of us. Lately I noticed that I my priorities are changing and I am better able to come to grips with our situation. If you need help doing the same read the lyrics to the song, I bet you will start to understand.

wishing that something would happen
a change in this place
'cos I'm tearing off the fancy wrapping
find an empty package

take for a while
your trumpet from your lip
loosen your hold loosen your grip
on your old ways
that have fallen out of step
in a changing time
hoist a new flag
hoist a new flag

angry sun burn down
judging us all
guilty of neglect and disrespect
and thinking small

and death by boredom
and death by greed
if we can't stop taking
more than we need

but across the fractured landscape
I see the same things
tired ideas
birds without wings

birds without wings
birds without wings

and these are just thoughts
of lack lustre times
I've no interest
in excuses you can find

like you've had a hard day
now you're too tired to care
now you're too tired to care
you've had a hard day

well across the fractured landscape
I see the same things
tired ideas broken values
many with the notion
that to share is to lose
a hollow people bound by a lack
of imagination and too much looking back
without the courage to give a new thing a chance
grounded by this ignorance

(and the cat comes)
We're just,
birds without wings
birds without wings
birds without wings

Damien Rice

This guy continues to impress me. I have watched several interviews with him, isn't you tube great, where it appears that he just wants to make his kind of music. His first album was full of simple acoustic sounds pounded down with heavy heart lyrics. Not sappy - heavy.

Here is one of his new songs

in the new year

Was reading the news the other day and realised that I needed something for the blog for the new year. I have a loyal following out there, you know who you are, and thanks for the support. All the newspapers ran stories discussing the past and promoting the future. There are several things that come to mind about the future.

1. EverGreening - the continued move towards a green lifestyle. A continued green architecture movement combined with emerging green materials. 2007 will also see the environment king maker in politics, at least in Canada

2. Solitary Confinement - I think there is going to be a recognition that more people, while digitally connected, are becoming more physically isolated. Electronic communities connect people but on only so many fronts. There will be a recognition that this is putting some people at risk(healthy and safety)

3. Culture on Line - is not the advent of an e-culture but rather a move towards preserving and displaying culture electronically. The focus thus far has been on how the internet has changed and influenced our culture rather than picked it up by the bootstraps and propelled it. We saw some of this in Second Life last year, look for this to be a huge boom area. Get In.