starting to drown

I really am in love with lyrics. One of my favorite pastimes is making useless PowerPoints of photos I find on the internet (or take myself) and adding a short clip of a lyric to it. The little phrase under my blog's title ("It's a silly time to learn to swim when you start to drown") is a lyrics from Tegan and Sara's My Number. I love the thought of using art as a socially evocative media (think, Daniel Martinez). So anyways, I just discovered my new favorite song for the time being:

Cookie Jar

>>Jack Johnson

I would turn on the TV but it's so embarrassing

to see all the other people I don't know what they mean
and it was magic at first when they spoke without sound

But now this world is gonna hurt you better turn that thing down

Turn it around

"It wasn't me", says the boy with the gun

"Sure I pulled the trigger but it needed to be done

Cause life's been killing me ever since it begun

you can't blame me cause I'm too young"

"You can't blame me sure the killer was my son
But I didn't teach him to pull the trigger of the gun

It's the killing on this TV screen

you can't blame me it's those images he seen"

Well "You can't blame me", says the media man
well "I wasn't the one who came up with the plan

I just point my camera at what the people want to see

Man it's a two way mirror and you can't blame me"

"You can't blame me", says the singer of the song
or the maker of the movie which he based his life on

"It's only entertainment and as anyone can see

the smoke machines and makeup and you can't fool me"

It was you it was me it was every man

we've all got the blood on our hands

we only receive what we demand

and if we want hell then hells what we'll have

And I would turn on the TV

but it's so embarrassing

to see all the other people

I don't even know what they mean

and it was magic at first

but let everyone down

and now this world is gonna hurt

you better turn it around

turn it around