Backward to the Future
We need to get back to eating foods that kept our ancestors healthy for thousands and even millions of years. There’s a lot we can learn from the past and those who don’t learn the painful lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. So here’s a little retrospective music for looking back to learn our lessons to help us cope with the future.
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Live the Life.
One minute I held the key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand
Viva la Vida – Coldplay 2008
If you love someone, don’t forget to show it.
When the future’s architectured
By a carnival of idiots on show
You’d better lie low
Violet Hill – Coldplay 2008
Horrible History. Let’s not repeat it.
If I were your appendages
I’d hold open your eyes, so you would see
That all of us are heaven sent
And there was never meant to be only one
To be only one
Megalomaniac – Incubus 2004
More questions than answers.
Why do we never get an answer
When we’re knocking at the door
With a thousand million questions
About hate and death and warIt’s where we stop and look around us
There is nothing that we need
In a world of persecution
That’s burning in it’s greed
Questions – Moody Blues 1970
Sometimes you don’t know what you have until you lose it.
Oh no, not me
We never lost control
You’re face to face
With the man who sold the world
The Man Who Sold the World – Nirvana
To be or not to be … selfish?
Does it really matter?
Nothing really matters
Love is all we need
Everything I give you
All comes back to me
Nothing Really Matters – Madonna 2006
And here’s a little tribute to modern medicine, drugs, and poor diet.
I want you to know
He’s not coming back
Look into my eyes
I’m not coming back
Knives Out – Radiohead 2008
And running the rat race.
Find out who you are before you regret it
Because life is so short, there’s no time to waste it
Run Baby Run – Garbage 2005
But don’t panic.
And we live in a beautiful world
Yeah we do, yeah we do
Don’t Panic – Coldplay 2001
Who makes up all the rules?
We follow them like fools
Believe them to be true
Don’t care to think them through
They – Jem 2005
To our children’s children’s children.
With the eyes of a child
You must come out and see
That your world’s spinning ’round
And through life you will be
A small part of a hope
Of a love that exists
In the eyes of a child you will see
Eyes of the Child – Moody Blues 1969
A celebration of femininity.
Wherever, whenever
We’ll learn to be together
Suerte – Shakira 2004
I view the list
And take my pick
I view my fate
And make a choice
‘Cause it’s nobody else’s but mine
Breathe Your Name – Sixpence None the Richer 2006
And masculinity?
Pay your surgeon very well
To break the spell of aging
Sicker than the rest, there is no test
But this is what you’re craving
Californication – Red Hot Chili Peppers 1999
Who knew the other side of you
Who knew what others died to prove
Too true to say goodbye to you
Too true, too sad sad sad
Dani California – Red Hot Chili Peppers 2006
And now for a lighter note or two.
We need more sun and fun. Get that vitamin D!
It’s not having what want
It’s wanting what you have
Soak Up the Sun – Sheryl Crow 2002
On an island in the sun
We’ll be playin’ an’ havin’ fun
Island in the Sun – Weezer 2001
A little dancing is good exercise.
Casino – Acoustic Alchemy 1992
With a love like that, you know you should be glad!
She loves you/I want to hold your hand – The Beatles
Don’t take it for granted
Happy Holidays !
P.S.
Thanks to Wildernessgal for the inspiration for the title to this post.