iris

i think this is my favourite song of all time. i first knew of it when i told yuwei i bought the cd for 1999 grammy nominations and he said yeah iris is a good song, i listened to it and i got hooked. back then in sec2 we were very close and i remember once we went china town to take photos for some project and then went to town. we ended up at heeren i think and had a drink n some food at spinelli's.

that was the strongest memory i have of our friendship then, and i always remember those moments when i listen to that song. i have many songs that have moments attached to them, and when i told people of that, they realised it too!

i recorded it onto a md and every morning i used the md to wake me n gab up, and he said later on that iris reminded him of those moments too.

i told this to a girl i liked alot in sec4, and she asked me to listen to their other song, lazy eye. after we became close she told me goo goo dolls reminded her of me. haha but that's all.

so these are the magic words in the beautiful song:

and i'd would give up forever to touch you,
cause i know that you'll feel me somehow.
you're the closest to heaven that i'll ever be,
and i don't want to go home right now.

all i can taste is this moment,
all i can breathe is your life.
cause sooner or later it's over,
i just don't want to miss you tonight.

and i don't want the world to see me,
cause i don't think that they'll understand.
when everything's made to be broken,
i just want you to know who i am.

and you can't fight the tears that ain't coming,
or the moment of truth in your lies.
when everything feels like the movies,
yeah you bleed just to know you're alive.

such a short but beautiful song. and it means so much to me.