Incubus Lyrics - Love Hurts

Attached below are the lyrics of an song by the band Incubus. I posted it up on here because i have dedicated myself to learn the words.

UPDATE 29/11/07: This song has caused me to write up analytical statements about myself, which are below the lyrics, if anyone cares to read.

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Tonight we drink to youth
And holding fast the truth
Don't want to lose what I had as a boy
My heart still has a beat
But love is now a feat
As common as a cold day in L.A.

Sometimes when I'm alone I wonder
Is there a spell that I am under
Keeping me from seeing the real thing

Love hurts
But sometimes it's a good hurt
And it feels like I'm alive
Love sings
When it transcends the bad things
Have a heart and try me
'cause without love I won't survive

I'm fettered and abused
Stand naked and accused
Should I surface, this one-man submarine?
I only want the truth!
So tonight we drink to youth!
I'll never lose what I had as a boy

Sometimes when I'm alone I wonder
Is there a spell that I am under
Keeping me from seeing the real thing?

Love hurts
But sometimes it's a good hurt
And it feels like I'm alive
Love sings
When it transcends the bad things
Have a heart and try me
'cause without love I won't survive

Without love I won't survive

Love hurts
But sometimes it's a good hurt
And it feels like I'm alive
Love sings
When it transcends the bad things
Have a heart and try me
'cause without love I won't survive

Love hurts, ohhh-oh ohh
Love hurts
Without love I won't survive
Love hurts la-la-la-la-la-la oh
Love hurts
Without love I won't survive

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I usually never listen to the words of a song. I think of the vocals as just another instrument, a simple sound combining with the other instruments, but not something that has expressed a thought or statement.

Thoughts that do arise are unique to me, because they are created by how the sounds emotionally sway me at that point in time.

Thats why when i was growing up, i found it very easy to enjoy techno, electronica and rap/hip-hop/r&b music. With alot of techno music, they just repeat the same words over and over again and the brain starts to ignore them. With rap there are soo many words squished into the one song, the only words people can remember is the chorus.

Perhaps i am a very simple minded person. The beat and the simple sounds are all i need to please the soul. Perhaps thats why i dont usually listen to 'white people music'

White people analyse too much. they hurt too much. Instead of black and white they meddle in the grey area way too much. They are frustrated and over-sexed, or severely under-sexed. And this is expressed in their music.

Well, thats what i think anyway. Sometimes i think white people make life way too hard on themselves.

Its very hard for me to instantly like their music. It has to be ground down, worked in and repeated severally. The trigger for me to like Caucasian tunes is women.

When I think a women is damn sexy, their musical appetite seems to grow on me. From Sara and her lips on the hilltops [back in my highschool days], to Karen and her miniskirts at the Big Day Out - women and their charms have broadened my tolerances to this overly angry/sad/over-analytical music.

The song above, 'Love Hurts', would never have been noticed by me if Karen hadn't mentioned it in her journal. The band 'Queen' would be nothing if not for Sophia. The Dandy Warholes, Muse, Metallica, The Strokes, The Living End, Oasis, The Cure, Green Day - they would have meant nothing to me without women.

Strange that...

This is the first actual blog post i've made in months. And of course it lingers on about women, again. Shit i must be the horniest little blighter this side of West Auckland.

Karen, dont you say anything! i know your laughing, cut that out!

This is one of things on my 'most desired things in life' list.

The following script below is totally not mine.
i got it off http://users.tkk.fi/~adent/crazy.html
I thought it was pretty awesome:

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How to be CRAZY ?

Getting started:

Going crazy is actually very easy - all you need to do is to stop thinking the way everybody else is thinking and come up with some original thoughts.

Everybody else will immediately think you have gone crazy.

Well, of course, unless you express your original thoughts by creating something that might be understood as art. In this case people will assume that you are an artist. But on the other hand because artists are widely considered to be crazy you'll end up getting it right anyway.

So there's really nothing to it. Getting crazy is a piece of cake. Believe me - I've done it a number of times.

Staying crazy:

Now here's when things get difficult. For some odd reason other people hate it if someone is acting crazy - it really bugs them. So they will immediately start to guide you back to being normal. And they'll use any means availaible - first they'll persuade you gently "to just think like everybody else is thinking". But if that doesn't help then they will gradually start to get more serious about turning you back into "normal". In fact it gets pretty nasty from here on. They'll pump you full of drugs, lead high voltage through your head and eventually turn you into a pumpking. This of course means that they have succesfully cured you because pumpkins sure as hell don't think originally and therefore can't be crazy either, can they ?

I really don't know why people think it is so terribly dangerous to be crazy - maybe it's written down somewhere in that really old book, whose name I cannot remember at he moment... You know - the one that has lots of weird and obsolete rules and commands in it. And a lot of things about wars and killing in the name of some old fellow with a beard. Oh yes: The bible, that's what it's called - I remember it now. But let's forget fairy tails and bed time reading for a while and get back to business, i.e. staying crazy succesfully...

The trick of course is to BE CRAZY WITHOUT SHOWING IT. And this is very difficult indeed. When you are dealing with other people you have to act as if you were just like them - normal. Simple you might think ? You guessed wrong...Let me tell you why:

You have to constantly look out for two major mistakes. First one, the one that most beginners in being crazy make, is that they pay too much attention to acting normal and gradually stop being crazy and end up being normal. This of course means a total failure as far as being crazy is considered, not to mention that the effort of getting crazy in the first place gets waisted and you have to start everything from the beginning again.

The other common mistake is consentrating too much on being crazy and accidently showing signs of craziness in front of people. All you need to do is to slip out something that people find difficult to understand. Something like "I would like to do this just because there isn't a reason not to do it" or "Have you ever stopped to think that there are no reasons at all for our existance except the ones that we have made up ourselves ?". Oh boy - you'll be in a lot of trouble. Well, unless you are extremely lucky and the person you are talking to is also trying to be crazy. If this is the case you'll probably get away with it because the other person is consentrating so much on not to show that he/she is trying to be crazy that they won't have the time to notice that you slipped out something unusual. But this happens very rarely because, lets face it, being crazy is a very underrated sport with few serious enthusiasts.

So most likely the person you are talking to is just an average Joe thinking the average way - at least up to the point when you slip out something that strikes odd to him/her. This will naturally get his/hers thoughts all messed up for a while and places you under immmediate suspicion. However, responding very quickly to your own mistake might still save the situation. Trying to pass the whole thing as a funny joke is definitely recommed: Make a big grin, laugh at yourself and mumble something about the three men in a falling aeroplane with only two parashutes. Absolutely anything (exept other unusual thoughts) will do. Just get the other persons mind of your "slip". Make him feel comfortably about forgetting that odd idea you brough up and you'll get away scot free. This might take some practice but eventually you will get the hang of it and thereby you'll need to pay less attention on acting normal and consequently have more time to concentrate in being crazy. So practice indeed is the key to success in the field of craziness just like it is in football or alpine skiing.

So you have succeeded in being crazy for a longer period of time - what's the point of it ?

Being crazy is actually very good for you. In more ways than one might think. First of all you don't have to worry about going crazy - you already are. Pieceful mind is guaranteed. And there's lots more. For once you don't have to stress about being so succesfull - You are crazy, remember ? Crazy people don't usually do that well in life so no matter how badly you perform you don't need loose any sleep over it. And you can always feel good about the fact that you have succeeded in being crazy. After all that is not an easy task while considering all those problems involved with it.

And last but not the least:

World will finally make some sense for you. Everybody is always saying that things are going crazier /1/ day by day so if you manage to go along and be crazy, everything is going to look quite locigal to you and you'll end up worring a lot less about the world and instead spend more time being happy with it. And you should also keep in mind that being crazy is absolutely free of cost. No expensive club memberships or equipment are needed. So one could really say that going crazy is for everyone. And to top it off it's even safe on the enviroment.

So try it out - go CRAZY !