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Being Poor





Being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs.

Being poor is a motivator to never be as poor as your parents.

Being poor makes you appreciate everything you’ve earned.

Being poor means having your life gone over with a fine tooth comb to see if you’re bad enough to help.

Being poor means never telling anyone how your day's really going.

Being poor is always walking.

Being poor is getting socks and underwear for Christmas.

Being poor is wondering if your well-off sibling is lying when he says he doesn’t mind when you ask for help.

Being poor is people angry at you just for walking around in the mall.

Being poor is people thinking they know something about you by the way you talk.

Being poor is knowing you work as hard as anyone, anywhere.

Being poor is people surprised to discover you’re not actually stupid and lazy.

Being poor is a six-hour wait in an emergency room with a sick child asleep on your lap.

Being poor is picking the 10 cent ramen instead of the 12 cent ramen because that’s two extra packages for every dollar.

Being poor is knowing you’re being judged.

Being poor is people who have never been poor wondering why you choose to be so.

Being poor is knowing how hard it is to stop being poor.

Being poor is seeing how few options you have.

Being poor is running in place.

Being poor is people wondering why you didn’t leave.

Being poor is spending the rest of your life trying to escape.


(http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/)

Let there be music...

GUYS, GUYS, GUYS!

Psssssssssssst.

Adam put a bonus track on his European album release. It's called 'Can't Let You Go', and it is... phenomenal. I always had trouble deciding on a favorite Adam track (because I love so many of them), but this song makes it very easy. 'Can't Let You Go' is what it's all about. THIS is why I love Adam Lambert.

I love the emotion with which he sings every word of this, and the way Adam starts out in his lower range for the verse and just builds to this (as Ted Mosby would say) hauntingly beautiful sound that gives me shivers.

And the lyrics!


Guess it was not meant to be
It's not as bad at it seems
It only burns when I breathe
You saw the way that I felt
I'm better off by myself
That's the tale I'd like to tell

But it's not that easy for me to say goodbye
Everything in me wants you back in my life
Can't let you go...
Can't let you go...

It feels like dawn of the dead
The bombs going off in my head
Never a moment of rest
Nothing kills more than to know
That this is the end of the road
I know that I've got to let go

...

Wish I could just run away
To have all your memories erased
'Cause constantly they're haunting me

But it's not that easy for me to say goodbye
Everything in me wants you back in my life
Can't let you go...
Can't let you go...
Can't let you go...
Can't let you go...


I ♥ you, Adam! So, so fucking much!


EDIT: LJ is so weird sometimes.