2001 Soundtrack

One Thing

One thing is all that’s important to everyone

It’s different for everyone

Sometimes it’s the same

Only for some people

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There’s only one thing

That’s most important to everyone

When faced with a choice

It comes down to one thing

Even if it’s a mistake

It’s always one thing, just one thing

If you know what it is for you, you’re ahead

If you find someone who has the same one thing

You’re happy no matter what

Nothing else in your life needs to matter

To them or to you

Nothing else in their life needs to matter

To them or to you

Just that one thing in common that the two of you share

One thing, that one thing

I don’t know what mine is

Love or the random, or growth, or the unknown

I think its love

And when that fails it’s the unknown

But I don’t know

Love only fails temporarily though

There’s almost always someone coming

Hopes and dreams keep us believing

Because we don’t know

If we knew, we wouldn’t need to believe

Life is that simple

To focus on the one most important thing

That one thing

What is it?  I wish I knew

Then I wouldn’t have to be a believer

And neither would you

I remembered this theory from a stupid movie

But that wasn’t what inspired this

Alcohol and truth

Blend in strange ways

There’s a crack between the two worlds we have access to

That beer and inspiration sometimes

Seem to open or pry

Tonight I was lucky enough to see through

And as always I want to share it with you

Someone who sometimes seems able to see too

ⓒ 2001 Shawn Michael Quinn

If Nothing Else

Give me this, if nothing else

You don’t understand

Or you don’t care

Fine!

Just give me this

If nothing else

A moment to tear

A moment free of fears

A moment alone

A moment to feel alive

Like a bench with any view

Watching people move

In and out of my reality

In and out of breath

Cold air and bored stares

Memories like fantasies

That I dress up with lies

And more questions why

Give me this, please!

If nothing else

How beer tastes

When you’ve been desensitized to everything else

How love feels

After you’ve given up on it

How beautiful she looks

When you’ve already fallen out of love with her

I don’t understand either

I just try to

If nothing else

I don’t know if there’s a God

Or something after

This waste of time

I don’t know if what I believe in is true

Or even if I truly believe in it

I’m just here wasting time, like you

Wandering around in the dark

Pretending I know or believe

Or that it matters

If nothing else

Give me this

Please!

ⓒ 2001 Shawn Michael Quinn