Leaning out the window
Posted on August 4th, 2008 at 5:20 am by tt

permanent record: Keanuvision.com

I cried today. Well sort of. It was just a micromininano second of ‘crying’. There were tears in my eyes a little time before that because of this movie on HBO. It was just a very short thing….the ‘crying’. I don’t even remember if there was a sob. Just a micromininanopico second. I just ‘swelled up’. There was this incredible burst of emotions. The movie was over. The credits were over. I just sat there staring… at nothing. Then it happened. It just grabbed me. Like they say a big explosion lifts up a body into the air and throws it way high before ‘gravity takes over’, or rather the force loses its force.
This was like an implosion. My organs just felt like it was being squeezed form all around. The force was crushing me. Then it went to my head… the force. Blankness continued. Then suddenly I felt like I was actually gonna cry. My life zapped through. The recent past part of my life. Well parts of the recent past of my life. It was not actually anything. It was nothing. It wasn’t the events that zapped past. It was just like an accumulation of all the emotions of the events squeezed into one small particle. Zap. And I felt like I was gonna have that big breakdown that I’d been waiting for. I prepared for all the flow of tears and sobs and everything.

I was getting ready for it all. It looked like my whole life’s disappointments was about to be squeezed and juiced out from my eyes. They were like filled with tears. Then the big force hit. Bang. And it was gone. For a tiny winy period of time the whole weight of the world was upon me. And then it was gone. The force lost its force. But it had just been of such magnitude.

And suddenly I felt free. That’s what crying is supposed to do no? Wash out all the pain and the bad things and leave the good things. And man did it clean things up! I was totally free of all my life’s bad things for a moment after that. I felt empty. I mean good empty. Emptiness is something that usually haunts me. It’s like an aura kind of thingy. Emptiness is the force that surrounds me. But this was a different emptiness. Cuz it made me feel .. err… light.

Not that I don’t like the other emptiness. I feed on the emptiness.

It all started from this beautiful lil solo from a Keanu Reaves movie. It was so beautiful. “It moved me to tears.” I just checked wikipedia and it says the movie’s called Permanent Record. The thing was so beautiful. The solo peace I mean. Well the movie was great too. The parts that I got to see. The last quarter. And it chucked out the suicide story I had been writing in my head out the window. The bits of the story that I never wrote and never probably will. Woosssh.

But man it felt good. The bit of crying. I’m still suffering some of the after effects. The small bit of ‘euphoria’. Serotonins n other hormones going straight to my head and leaving behind bits of the radioactivity.

Amazing. All I could cry and it wasn’t much. It was really nothing really. But it was everything. Amazing how everything got squeezed into an iota and it was enough. Enough for me. For now. Phooo.

 


Now the song, the solo was great. In the movie Lauren (Jennifer Rubin) sings it. I forgot waht the credits said, so I checked imdb and it says it was song by Shea Adamson, so if any of you know where to find the solo, in youtube or places pleas do tell me. Like if anyone is reading this pathetic shyt.

Your friends may lie
The truth can come from strangers
If I knew why,
We wouldn’t be in this danger
Leaning out the window of my car
And wishing on another lucky star.
Life is long
It is not made to measure
You will go on
The same in pain and pleasure
Wondering how we ever got this far…
And wishing on another lucky star.

Life goes on
As sure as the sky
It’s come and gone
In the wink of an eye
You leave your home
In the wings of the night
You will never die.

The world is cold
The heart gets torn and tattered
The one you hold

It can be dropped and shattered
Leaning out the window of my car
And wishing on another lucky star.

-Wishing on another lucky star
Permanent Record, 1988

Saw it again and it still makes me wanna cry…

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13 Comments »

touching song…why do you always have to create suspense … mpk

Comment by syko — August 23, 2008 @ 5:59 am


What suspense?

Comment by tt — August 23, 2008 @ 9:31 am


Great song. Thanks for sharing.

Comment by VZ — March 9, 2009 @ 2:18 pm


I am also looking for the solo version of the song… Have you found it yet?

Cheers, Jay

Comment by Jay — July 1, 2009 @ 12:57 am


there IS one with JD Souther, but it is the full version and got all instruments and is faster..don’t like it after this
I searched all over and guess the solo was never meant for release. I just converted the youtube version to mp3…even with the interruption (and low sound quality) it’s still great

Comment by tt — July 1, 2009 @ 3:02 am


I guess that is the only way to ensure you have a copy, even if the it is not HQ. I will look at doing the same!

Comment by Jay — July 7, 2009 @ 10:15 pm


where could we found the song performed by Shea Adamson?

Comment by ming — July 16, 2009 @ 7:36 am


youtube….

Comment by tt — July 16, 2009 @ 5:23 pm


Thanks tt

Comment by ming — July 17, 2009 @ 12:40 am


The way would be to grab it from the DVD….which I cannot find anywhere….got to raid the cable ppl i guess….or maybe start a campaign to make her sing again or better for the producers to release the song….hey if anyone finds the song anywhere…SHARE it please

Comment by tt — July 17, 2009 @ 4:14 am


Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.

Comment by sandrar — September 10, 2009 @ 10:56 am


I hear ya. I haven’t shed a tear without the help from Jack Daniels since I returned from Iraq. This song did it for me. Her voice, just shot right through me. No one could EVER sing it like she did. I am doing my best to find her solo somewhere. WHAT WAS THE DIRECTOR THINKING??? INTERUPTING THAT!! Goodness…. If you find it somewhere, please email me. Thanks and it’s nice to see others feel the same way about it that I do. I remembered that song from my child hood, all i could remember was leaning out the window of my car. The you tube version and this is where it lead me.
-Soldier Bob

Comment by Soldier Bob — June 26, 2010 @ 10:28 am


Sorry mate,. No success. Started searching since august 08, it’s now end of june 2010. And that youtube thing is all that exists. Haven’t even been able to find it in numerous DVD stores. And not even on Torrent and other P2P places. Got all my top torrent friends n their friends n their friends’ friends. Nada. The only copy of the film probably lies with the cable TV guys. I’m beginning to feel that not even the producers have the copy of that track, undisturbed. Maybe the singer does. I am ready to bet that the guy who wrote it and holds the rights to the song has deleted it cuz her solo is so much better than the actual song. Maybe we should do facebook search for the singer. That’s one thing I’ve not tried. Or a facebook campaign to revive the song (uninterrupted) for download.

Comment by tt — June 26, 2010 @ 5:22 pm


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