wake and rise and face the day and try to stop the day from staring back at me

[some_stars]

I've been looking up Mountain Goats lyrics for unspecified purposes, and I'm both horrified and, ultimately, completely unsurprised to learn that apparently many people think Romans 10:9--which IMO is the best song ever written about depression--is a happy and hopeful song. Helpful hint for those people: NO.

That SONG, god. There have been many days when playing that song in the car, singing along, crying too hard to sing along, playing another song, then coming back to this one and repeating the cycle was the only thing that could get me into the car to go to school and keep me from stopping and turning the car back around. What makes it so amazing and perfect and true is that it's all about hope without actually being hopeful. ...actually it's pretty much all that stuff my tattoo is about so obviously I was going to fall in love with it.

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[vass]

Every time I sing along with that song in the car, I sing it as "Maybe you will be saved one day." I know the correct word is 'surely', I've never misheard it, but I just can't make myself sing it.

But that 'maybe' is still better than 'not at all', so one foot in front of the other, and on and on, while the world pelts refuse and angry birds and red-hot meteorites at your head.

Optimism is not the easy choice.