Happy Valentine Daze - Wake Up to Love

Wake up, Sleeping Beauty. It's Valentine's Day. Your Paramour is waiting for you.

Hear it? Is it a death knell or a resurrection anthem? You can make it either, or something in-between, or less or more. Keyword is "you." You live your life.

Within you, by you, of you - it's you. Go hard, go soft, go apathetic, go apologetic, go ballistic: it's you. Make no mistake or excuses about it, your life is you. And what you do with it is - undeniably, unequivocally - up to you.

In the club vernacular of first decade, 21st Century, Paramore, a pop rock, power pop group out of Tennessee, has nailed it. Paramore's "Crush Crush Crush" [video] is so, so right for the ring tone of Hallmark's seasonal hugs-n-kisses, phone-around, love fest this February 14, 2008 - "our" Valentine's Day. (The tune would make it good on the alarm clock circuit, too. No lying in bed when that baby goes off...)

Crush Crush Crush embodies the desperate cloying angst of the about 20-somethings grieving for the death of the emotional connection they hope will live forever - if they ever found it, will ever find it, or would know it, if they did.

Yes - hope. For underlying Crush Crush Crush is what drives all of us - hope. Remember when you had hope?

Did you lose it somewhere back there in the 20th Century when you were a 20-something? It's still there - go back and get it...it's been waiting for your return. And what better day to redeem your hope than Valentine's Day, 2008?

Have a Happy Valentine's Day, Sleeping Beauty. Go get your Paramour. Go get your Hope.
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For those of you with aural deficit deficiency (the plague of us "50 is the new 30, 60 is the new 40"ers), the lyrics to Crush Crush Crush are below.

"Crush Crush Crush" Lyrics
by Paramore (official website)
lead singer Hayley Williams

I got a lot to say to you-
Yeah, I got a lot to say,
I noticed your eyes are always glued to me
Keepin' `em here and it makes no sense at all

They taped over your mouth
Scribbled out the truth with their lies
Your little spies
They taped over your mouth
Scribbled out the truth with their lies
Your little spies

Crush Crush Crush Crush Crush