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jangle-poets-digest       Monday, June 22 2009       Volume 10 : Number 032



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  [JP] "Breathe"                                        [MercyHouse1@aol.com]

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Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:14:23 EDT
From: MercyHouse1@aol.com
Subject: [JP] "Breathe"

Stephen and I were watching the strange ending of Stanley Kubrick's 1968  
film "2001: A Space Odyssey" last night.  

After the "trippy-lights" passage near the end, astronaut David Bowman  
(played by Keir Dullea) is incrementally transformed from young man to  
middle-aged man to elderly man to Star-Child floating in space high above the  
earth.
 
I was reminded of the premise of the Kennedys' song "Breathe" from the  
album Better Dreams, about the ambiguity between dying and being born.  If  
being born is a kind of dying, being cast out from the Eden-like safety of the  
womb, is death, too, a passageway to another world and a "New Way to  Live" 
?
 
Breathe
(Pete & Maura Kennedy)
 
Didn't we all die?
Didn't we all die at the start?
Aren't we alright?
Aren't we alright, for the most part?
Is there an ending,
Really an end to all of this?
Or just a beginning,
Another beginning, so why resist?
 
Take a breath
Let it out
Let it in
Just begin again and
 
Breathe into a new life
Breathe out all the old times
Nothing to hold onto anymore
Watch the light
Let it shine
Just like being born
But you're wiser this time
 
What are we scared of?
Why are we frightened of the dark?
Maybe it's nothing
Maybe it's nothing but a spark
Everyone's longing
Everyone's longing to be wise
But what if it's simple
Easy as opening your eyes?
 
 
Take a breath
Let it out
Let it in
Just begin again and
 
Breathe into a new life
Breathe out all the old times
Nothing to hold onto anymore
Watch the light
Let it shine
Just like being born
But you're wiser this time

Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/
Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy
merchandise...what more could you ask for?

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