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Flaming Lips: Do You Realize

Do You Realize - that you have the most beautiful face
Do You Realize - we're floating in space -
Do You Realize - that happiness makes you cry
Do You Realize - that everyone you know someday will die
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round
Do You Realize - Oh - Oh - Oh
Do You Realize - that everyone you know
Someday will die -
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round

           

The Flaming Lips song “Do you Realize” makes me imagine the happiness the Holbrookes may have experienced with a simple change in attitude. Although this song is depressing, like the book, it gives a spin and offers a bright side to such heavy ideas, unlike the book. If the characters in Yonnondio could’ve found joy in each other more often maybe their existence wouldn’t have been as frustrating and tedious as it was.

The lyrics “instead of saying all of your goodbyes-let them know you realize that life goes fast it’s hard to make the good things last” illuminate that life is short and it would be spent better enjoying it then complaining about it ending. The Holbrookes could have gotten much more happiness from each other if they had accepted their lives as they were and accepted the notion that it may not get better. Just because you “realize” that life is short it doesn’t mean you should work yourself to death to try to improve it. It means you slow down and make those good things last and enjoy it.