the brightside

(For everyone who has not heard this song yet, download Mr Brightside by the Killers. Get the THIN WHITE DUKE remix, its perfect.)

I want to put this down.

I want this to be be permanent somewhere, if not in air and touch then in words.

THIS. This is what it feels like to be happy.

Ok, not a time for mysteries. Not a time to hide what I want to say. This is just a image, this is just me trying to savour a moment.

I didn’t want to go, standing for hours at end while some random plays his guitar to a dead audience is not my scene. And that’s exactly how it was, some pubescent boys screaming into a mic and getting insanely happy because they actually managed to get a girl to look at them. I stood at the front, my back facing the band, my eyes half shut, my mind millions of miles away.

One band two band three band.

I want to go home NOW.

I started feeling sick, small confined spaces make me faint. I walked out for a breather, and sat down with the people who mattered some where in the back. Our guys came on stage, and I realized that this wasn’t the time to have moved away from my killer spot.

‘So, this is for the class of 2006.’

The guitar starts playing, I grin. This is it. Im on my feet, im running, I trip, I hurt myself on the wires. I don’t care.

We all barge onto the stage, picking each other up. We sit, and the man of the hour begins to sing.


Coming out of my cage
And I've been doing just fine
Gotta gotta be down
Because I want it all
It started out with a kiss
How did it end up like this?
It was only a kiss
It was only a kiss

I start shrieking. The words come out of my mouth. Shrill, loud and carefree. We all get up and start jumping with the beat. Our own odd version of headbanging. The crowds thinks we are crazy, but we don’t care, we love our madness.


Now I'm falling asleep
And she's calling a cab
While he's having a smoke
And she's taking the drag


The lighters came on, we jump harder, the flimsy wood of the stage can’t take our weight. We can feel the ground beneath us shake, but we jump anyway. We jump for our sanity, we jump for our insanity- hell we jump with joy. Now they're going to bed And my stomach is sick And it's all in my head But she's touching his chest now All of us know the words, every single one of us. Im surrounded by everyone I adore, everyone I would give everything for. Fifty mad people going insane, lights bouncing of our clothes, voices being heard for miles. The guitar picks up. He takes off her dress now Let me go And I just can't look It's killing me And taking control The main part was coming, we make a circle for him. Arms linked, bodies moving in one solitary motion. Up. Down. We sing and we dance. And in that moment, the world didn’t seem grey anymore, nobody mattered. There was me and there was them, and I was happy. I was so so happy.

Jealousy
Turning saints into the sea
Turning through sick lullaby Choking on your alibi
But it's just the price I pay
Destiny is calling me
Open up my eager eyes
Coz ,i'm Mr. Brightside


I never

Oh shit this is the last part.

I never

Jump for the world to see

I neverrrrrrr

Truly breathtaking.

The song ended, but we stayed in our moment. The guitar stopped, the drums did their final solo, but we stayed.

Remember this, when things don’t turn out exactly how you want or when your mind burns at the thought of waking up to a tomorrow. Remember this when you feel theres no reason left and that you are slowly unraveling into nothingness.

This in itself, is a reason to live.