If The World Should End

“If The World Should End”

Don’t think about tomorrow
We’ve only got today
There’s nothing I want from you
Not a word you have to say

You are all I need
And all I can defend
All I need to hold on to
If the world should end

In my imagination
I could not have made this up
In a world stranger than fiction
Ours is no fictional love

I can see the you
Under your second skin
I can feel your heartbeat quicken
Quicken and then slow

There’s nothing else I need to know
And there’s nothing
You need to pretend
If the world should end

And the sky tonight is luminous
For all the wrong reasons
And every doorway is hiding something
And if this world should all come crashing down
I wouldn’t care at all

And if there’s no tomorrow
I’ll have today again
There’s no time for sorrow
When there’s no such thing as time

And if the darkness will descend
Don’t need a saviour or a friend
I can say I’ve really loved
If the world should end

–Bono and The Edge, Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark

Inexplicably, the last day or so has seen headlines proclaiming that global tensions are easing.

This is baffling to me as saber rattling and twitter rants rage between potentially gravely unstable and impulsively vitriolic heads of states.

This is also baffling to me as horrific domestic social atrocities are being committed not on many sides but by a racist, bigoted, morally repugnant side.

I’m feeling awful about the world.  I’m feeling only marginally better about myself as I struggle with various, truly “small potato” relative problems of a personal nature.

In many ways, I’m feeling hopeless and helpless.

And so I do what I always seem to do at times like these — I figure out a way to run away.

But today’s a little different.  In my own bit of social activism, I’m opting to take a stand… sorta, kinda, not really but I’m telling myself I am anyway.

Today, I registered for this:

If the world should end… the $80 registration fee I’d be out wouldn’t even crack the top 1000 things I’d be worrying about.

So why not?

Excerpt from “Rise Above 2”

And you can rise above
Free your soul
Open your eyes up
Rise above yourself and take control
And you can rise above
The need to love
Yourself
To release yourself and rise above it all

And you can rise above
I will be there
Open your eyes up
You were never alone
And you can rise above
Inside your dreams
Yourself
I’ve been watching and waiting for you

And you can rise above
Open your eyes to love
And you can rise above
Yourself

–Bono and The Edge, Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark