You Can Never Go Home

Open the door and adjust my eyes
The concrete streets are as gray as the skies
The wind stings my face and the world just melts away

And it brings me back to another place where memories are such a waste
You can never go home, you left that world behind

Is this the only place
The only place to go
Are these tired words, the only that we know
The old familiar taste, of the bottle in my hand
Or is this the only place, I can understand

Your whiskey tainted wisdom spits like vomit from your mouth
The walls are closing in and I just gotta get out...

Of my head and of this town
Familiar places are bringing me down,
The truth can be hard to swallow
When it spits right in your face.

Is this the only place
The only place to go
Are these tired words, the only that we know
The old familiar taste, of the bottle in my hand
Or is this the only place, I can understand

Spilt the gas and lit the match
you turn and walk away
Bridges burn, that lessons learned,
I guess there's nothing left to say

(Get out, get out, get out, get out)
I just gotta get out
(Get out, get out, get out, get out)
I just gotta get out
(Get out, get out, get out, get out) You can never go, you can never go, you can never go home
I just gotta get out
(Get out, get out, get out, get out) You can never go, you can never go, you can never go home
I just gotta get out

You Can Never Go Home Lyrics

I don't know what I'm searching for
I never have opened the door,
Tomorrow might find me at last,
Turning my back on the past,
But, time will tell, of stars that fell,
A million years ago.
Memories can never take you back, home, sweet home.
You can never go home anymore.

All my life I never really knew me till today,
Now I know why, I'm just another step along the way,

I lie awake for hours, I'm just waiting for the sun.
When the journey we are making has begun,
Don't deny the feeling that is stealing through your heart,
Every happy ending needs to have a start.

All my life I never really knew me till today,
Now I know why, I'm just another step along the way,

Weep no more for treasures you've been searching for in vain.
'Cos the truth is gently falling with the rain,
High above the forest lie the pastures of the sun,
Where the two that learned the secret are now one.

I don't know what I'm searching for
I never have opened the door,
Tomorrow might find me at last,
Turning my back on the past,
But, time will tell, of stars that fell,
A million years ago.
Memories can never take you back, home, sweet home.
You can never go home anymore.

You Can't Go Home Again

You Can't Go Home Again is a novel by Thomas Wolfe published posthumously in 1940, extracted from the contents of his vast unpublished manuscript The October Fair.

The novel tells the story of George Webber, a fledgling author, who writes a book that makes frequent references to his home town of Libya Hill. The book is a national success but the residents of the town, unhappy with what they view as Webber's distorted depiction of them, send the author menacing letters and death threats.

Wolfe, as in many of his other novels, explores the changing American society of the 1920s/30s, including the stock market crash, the illusion of prosperity, and the unfair passing of time which prevents Webber ever being able to return "home again".

The title comes from the denouement of the novel in which Webber realises: "You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood ... back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame ... back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time – back home to the escapes of Time and Memory."

The phrase “you can’t go home again” has entered American speech to mean that once you have left your country town or provincial backwater city for a sophisticated metropolis you can’t return to the narrow confines of your previous way of life and, more generally, attempts to relive youthful memories will always fail. It has been suggested that the phrase is sometimes spoken to mean that you can’t return to your place of origin without being deemed a failure.

To Play my part

« Deslumbrante e tremendo quão velozmente me mataria o amanhecer,
Se eu não pudesse, agora e sempre, oferecer ao mundo o amanhecer de mim.

Nós também nos elevamos deslumbrantes e tremendos como o sol,
Descobrimos o nosso próprio Ser, ó alma minha, no meio da calma e da
frescura do dia que vem.

A minha voz persegue o que os meus olhos não alcançam,
Com a minha língua rodeio mundos e mundos.

O meu discurso é gémeo da minha visão, incapaz de se medir a si próprio,
Provoca-me sempre, e sarcasticamente diz:
Walt, se conténs tanto, porque é que não lhe dás saída? »

Japanese Commercials

Remember that scene from "Lost in Translation" when Bill Murray makes a commercial? Ever wonder how must be japanese commercials with occidental celebrities? Don't wonder any more my friend - the answer is Japander. Here you can watch to a big "collection" of tv japanese commercials staring occidental celebrities and laugh, until your eyeballs explode and your brain melts, with the most silly and weird ads. There you'll find: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, Whoppie Goldberg, David and Victoria Beckham, George Lucas, Eddie Murphy etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc.

ENJOY! :)

Desktop

One of the things i like to do in my computer - personalize it! Well, I just like to transform XP's aspect. So this is how my desktop is like right now:

I actually have things written on those post-it but I erased them :P - hey! you don't want to know how's my life right now- believe me...

If you think those virtual post-it can be useful to you (and they are) you can catch them at: POST-IT - there’s a free version (freeware) available that only includes the yellow notes with no special effects :P

The clock i got it from... I don't remember! I think it was from Tucows! Its called "ClocX" and its also freeware - you can choose from different colors and frames or include one made by yourself. It also has a Calendar and Alarms (to show a message, play a sound, execute a program or shut down the computer).

For the icons bar I use a program called ObjectDock (also available in freeware). The icons really magnify with a really smooth animation (has some options) when the mouse goes over them. You can get it in Stardock.
The program comes with hi-res icons gallery, but if you want different ones you can get some at Iconfactory, they have some cool icons. Remember they have to be hi-res (png icons) so they don’t pixelize when magnified.

Finally, the background was made by a young artist: Andrew. I really like his work. His portfolio in LifeAllows.

Be cool !!