Everything flows and nothing stays. 1
Heraclitus
I can feel no sense of measure
No illusions as we take
Refuge in young man’s pleasure
Breaking down the
dreams we make real
Yes
Leave It
Why don’t you guide me in
if I’m such a lost soul?
I’m spinning around
Audioslave
Revelations
Yeah, the world would swing
if I were king
Tom Petty
It’s Good to be King
Spin Doctors
(Turn It Upside Down)
Since I’m so broken down,
why don’t you fix me?
Audioslave
Revelations
If Columbus was wrong,
I’d drive straight off the edge
Alkaline Trio
Radio
The crust is elusive
when it casts forth
to the childlike man
Ween
Ocean Man
In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky
and they stand there
Yes
Roundabout
Oh, there’s a mountain
that no man has mounted
I’m gonna stand on the peak
Lord Huron
Ends of the Earth
Did you think that your
feet had been bound
By what gravity
brings to the ground?
Did you feel you were tricked
By the future you picked?
Well, come on down
Peter Gabriel
Down to the Earth
WALL-E Soundtrack
Lay me on the ground
And fly me in the sky
Show me where to look
Tell me, what will I find?
What will I find?
Collective Soul
Shine
Some were never meant to leave the ground
Imagine Dragons
Look How Far We’ve Come
Nothing to see here, move along
Nobody to hear your
black swan song
Alkaline Trio
I Can’t Believe
Butterfly in the sky,
I can go twice as high. 3
Reading Rainbow
Read the scene where
gravity is pulling me around
Shift the swaying river’s shift
Oceans fall and mountains drift
R.E.M.
Feeling Gravity’s Pull
I’ll be the roundabout
The words will make you
out and out
Yes
Roundabout
Imagine all the people…
John Lennon
Imagine
Don’t be concerned
It’s just the way that gravity works
round here
Franz Ferdinand
Always Ascending
Everything changes and nothing stands still. 4
Heraclitus
Now Andy did you hear about this one?
R.E.M.
Man on the Moon
Under water,
Time is standing still
You’re the treasure,
Dive down deeper, still
BØRNS
10,000 Emerald Pools
It’s a wandering star
that lights my way tonight
Lucero
Wandering Star
I hoped to find why the
world wasn’t glowing
It’s darker as we end this ride
Our Lady Peace
Starseed
Notes & References:
- https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Heraclitus
↩︎ - Wall-E
↩︎ - Reading Rainbow
↩︎ - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Heraclitus
↩︎ - Louisville Times – 1927
↩︎ - Unknown
↩︎ - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Heraclitus
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Songs:
Yes – Leave It
Audioslave – Revelations
Tom Petty – It’s Good to be King
Alkaline Trio – Radio
Ween – Ocean Man
Yes – Roundabout
Lord Huron – Ends of the Earth
Peter Gabriel – Down to the Earth
Collective Soul – Shine
Imagine Dragons – Look How Far We’ve Come
Alkaline Trio – I Can’t Believe
R.E.M. – Feeling Gravity’s Pull
John Lennon – Imagine
Franz Ferdinand – Always Ascending
R.E.M. – Man on the Moon
Børns – 10,000 Emerald Pools
Lucero – Wandering Star
Our Lady Peace – Starseed
Billy Joel – River of Dreams
Coldplay – Up&Up (Official Video)
You could not step twice into the same river. 7
Heraclitus
We all end in the ocean
We all start in the streams
We’re all carried along
By the river of dreams
Billy Joel
River of Dreams