Have we forgotten how to fall in love with each other in person? Most people you meet these days are obsessed with personal rules forbidding themselves from dating in the workplace, or little green and red flags ruling who they can be with. It’s good to have personal boundaries. It’s good to observe those patterns our previous generations have enslaved themselves to. But I still feel like we’re missing something when we omit what made their lives both tumultuous and something greater. We can be better while still allowing more parts of our lives– more parts of the world in. That’s what I think. It’s what I hope.

These dating apps… Do they work well for you? Do they help you, or do they intensify an obsession with how others view you? Strike that balance. You’re worth cutting yourself some slack, just as well as you’re worth your healthy habits. You’re alright, partner.

I had some inspiration from pop singers like Billy Joel with this one. Can you tell? His recent song, Turn the Lights Back On? The man shows what it means to be a legend his whole career. I don’t know that much about his personal life, but I’d rather not investigate it online. He’s still just one man. He’s still worth talking to in order to discover those intricacies from his eyes. Well, at any rate, here’s to him.

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Picture of a Piano

Porcelain pictures on the wall
Going down the hall
What a life we live
Another story started for a path we won’t for…
Give

Rose
For a saucy pose
Now the neighbor knows
Oh an open close

Let them think on how we dwell
Sell our demise
And pave our path as well

Paint the house and the river and the car
Pin the map, show them how you are
As you do

On the social media apps
Every day ’til the moms collapse
Get it through

Carry out our devilish tasks
For the animals we screen

In your head so if nobody asks
We’re on the road again to New Orleans

Who sold the smile to a crocodile
When the paint thinner’s getting lean

Stay around a mile just a little while
Coming on to any kind of better scene

Who’s on the way to a brighter new day
With the heart a-beating fast on the pavement

Stronger by day and she’s got something to say
But a man she knew is onto enslavement

Tell me a story that she knew well before me
And I’ll pour out all my favorites to you

She knew where to go when she’s upset

Her family blew all her cash on a secret

But every night when the moon catches right
Thinks of you

Her Disney daydream
Comes to an end
She’s holding a scream
‘Cause she’s been playing pretend
Hear her for mountains
With her eyes as a fountain
She’s remaking the colors to blue

I couldn’t do justice to sound
The voice that she made with nobody around
But there isn’t a doubt in my mind she was thinking of you

There isn’t a doubt in my mind

She was thinking of

You