Worlds Apart

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No, the title of this entry has nothing to do with the pictures. I just decided to throw them in, so it wouldn't be all words.

Pictures taken at the canteen last Thursday. Li-Shia's tucking into nasi lemak (she's got a strange craving for them lately), with a bottle of soya milk (one of her favourite drinks) by the side. And Wai Loon's smiling at pulut inti; very delicious, I must say (the pulut, not the smile).


Haven't been blogging lately. Have neither the time nor the inspiration. Just finished writing the first draft for a science essay (for competition, due this week). Have been listening to Jars of Clay's 'Worlds Apart' over and over again, for the last few hours (background music).

Great song.


I am the only one to blame for this
Somehow it all adds up the same
Soaring on the wings of selfish pride
I flew too high and like Icarus I collide
With a world I try so hard to leave behind
To rid myself of all but love
to give and die

To turn away and not become
Another nail to pierce the skin of one who loves
more deeply than the oceans,
more abundant than the tears
Of a world embracing every heartache

Can I be the one to sacrifice
Or grip the spear and watch the blood and water flow

Chorus:
To love you - take my world apart
To need you - I am on my knees
To love you - take my world apart
To need you - broken on my knees

All said and done I stand alone
Amongst remains of a life I should not own
It takes all I am to believe
In the mercy that covers me

Did you really have to die for me?
All I am for all you are
Because what I need and what I believe are worlds apart

And I pray

Chorus


Additional: [this is the best part]

I look beyond the empty cross
forgetting what my life has cost
and wipe away the crimson stains
and dull the nails that still remain
More and more I need you now,
I owe you more each passing hour
battle between grace and pride
give up not so long ago
So steal my heart and take the pain,
wash the feet and cleanse my pride
take the selfish, take the weak,
and all the things I cannot hide
take the beauty, take my tears
this sin-soaked heart and make it yours
take my world apart
take it now, take it now
and serve the ones that I despise
speak the words I can't deny
watch the world I used to love
fall to dust get blown away
I look beyond the empty cross
forgetting what my life has cost
so wipe away the crimson stains
and dull the nails that still remain
so steal my heart and take the pain
take the selfish, take the weak
and all the things I cannot hide
take the beauty, take my tears
take my world apart, take my world apart
and I pray, and I pray, and I pray
take my world apart

Worlds apart.