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I really don't want to be one of those people who uses encoded away messages on AIM ("plunging into the deep end" or "putting the pieces back together") or changes my profile/theme song on myspace (Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend"?). I also hope that I spend more time musing thoughts of my own on this blog rather than citing others.

But every once in a while, as a writer, you come across something that touches some hidden place so deeply inside that it makes you wonder if the artist didn't channel you when they wrote it. Sometimes it's just a short stanza, chorus, or hook. The best songs...those are the ones that fit all the way.

On my computer and in various journals around my room here and in Texas are one liners or concepts that I'd like to one day form into whole poems or songs. I am brilliant in small doses (so I think anyway), but really haven't taken the time to develop the craft into anything worth putting "out there." Thus, I must give a hearty hats-off when I cross paths with a bit of writing that resonates like emotional plagiarism. Without any further adieu, I present, "Love Song" by Sara Barneilles:

Head under water
and they tell me to breathe easy for a while
the breathing gets harder, even I know that
you made room for me but it's too soon to see
if I'm happy in your hands
I'm unusually hard to hold on to

Blank stares at blank pages
no easy way to say this
you mean well, but you make this hard on me

I'm not gonna write you a love song
'cause you asked for it
'cause you need one, you see
I'm not gonna write you a love song
'cause you tell me it's
make or breaking this
if you're on your way
I'm not gonna write you to stay
If all you have is leaving I'm gonna need a better
reason to write you a love song today

I learned the hard way
that they all say things you want to hear
and my heavy heart sinks deep down under you
and your twisted words,
your help just hurts
you are not what I thought you were
hello to high and dry

Convinced me to please you
made me think that I need this too
I'm trying to let you hear me as I am

I'm not gonna write you a love song
'cause you asked for it
'cause you need one, you see
I"m not gonna write you a love song
'cause you tell me it's
make or breaking this
if you're on your way
I'm not gonna write you to stay
if all you have is leaving I'm gonna need a better
reason to write you a love song today

Promise me that you'll leave the light on
to help me see with daylight, my guide, gone
'cause I believe there's a way you can love me
because I say

I won't write you a love song
'cause you asked for it
'cause you need one you see
I'm not gonna write you a love song
'cause you tell me it's make or breaking me
is that why you wanted a love song
'cause you asked for it
'cause you need one you see
I'm not gonna write you a love song
'cause you tell me it's make or breaking this
if you're on your way
I'm not gonna write you to stay
if your heart is nowhere in it
I don't want it for a minute
Babe, I'll walk the seven seas when I believe that
there's a reason to
write you a love song today