I absolutely adore this show. So, I'm making yet another exception and posting non-lyrics.
Regret comes in all shapes and sizes. Some are small, like when we do a bad thing for a good reason. Some are bigger, like when we let down a friend. Some of us escape the pangs of regret by making the right choice. Some of us have little time for regret because we're looking forward to the future. Sometimes we have to fight to come to terms with the past. And sometimes we bury our regret by promising to change our ways. But our biggest regrets are not for the things we did, but for the things we didn't do.
Sometimes it feels like it was yesterday; graduating high school, saying goodbye. That feeling that you get at 17 or 18, that nobody in the history of the world has ever been this close, has ever loved so fiercely, laughed as hard, or cared as much. It feels like it was yesterday, and sometimes it feels like someone else's memory.
All girls really want is someone to want them back.
People think that if you love someone hard enough then everything is just going to work out. Well, people are wrong.
Imagine a future moment in your life where all your dreams come true. You know, its the greatest moment of your life and you get to experience it with one person. Who's standing next to you?
She showed me that you can find the good in anybody if you just give them a chance, benefit of the doubt. Sometimes people disappoint you, sometimes they surprise you, but you never really get to know them until you listen for what's in their hearts.
Now is our time to shine. With opportunities to dream and possibilities vast. Now is the time for all of us to become the people we've always dreamed of being. This is life. You're here. You matter. The world is waiting.
Do you ever wake up from a really good dream and just try to get back to sleep? Or you have the flu and promise yourself you'll appreciate normal so much more if you could just get back to it? That's the way I feel. I just want things to go back to the way they were.
Life's funny sometimes. It can push pretty hard, like when you fall in love with someone but they forget to love you back.
The important thing is not to be bitter over life's disappointments. Learn to let go of the past and recognize that everyday wont be sunny and when you find yourself lost in the darkness of despair, remember its only in the black of night that you see the stars and those stars see you back home. So, don't be afraid to make mistakes, to stumble and fall, because most of the time, the greatest rewards come from doing the things that scare you the most. Maybe you'll get more then you could have ever imagined. Who knows where life will take you, the road is long and in the end, the journey is the destination.
Every once in a while people step, they rise above themselves. Sometimes they surprise you and sometimes they fall short. Life is funny sometimes. It can push pretty hard, but if you look close enough you find hope. In the words of children, in the bars of a song, and in the eyes of someone you love and if you're lucky, I mean if you're the luckiest person on this entire planet, the person you love decides to love you back.
If you're always looking for reasons not to be with somebody, well, you'll always find them, and I guess at some point you should let go and give your heart what it deserves.
When you pick a boy you want to be with, make sure that he'll be someone who respects you and treats you well, that he's someone who makes your heart race, someone you love because of what he is, not what he does. Use your head and follow your heart.
Misery is an old friend and it tricks you sometimes into thinking that it's just always gonna be there and that you can't be happy, but you can. You can walk away from pain, and I think being in love's the best way to do it.
If you look closer you might see someone like you; someone trying to find their way, someone trying to find their place, someone trying to find their self. Sometimes it seems like you are the only one in the world who's struggling, who's frustrated, unsatisfied, or barely getting by, but that feeling's a lie, and if you just hold on, just find the courage to face it all for another day, someone or something will find you and make it all okay, because we all need a little help sometimes. Someone to help us hear the music in the world, to remind us that it won't always be this way. That someone is out there and that someone will find you.
What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gages, and dials, and registers, and we can only read a few, and those perhaps not accurately.
You know, I could've held you in my arms forever and it still wouldn't have been long enough.
Do not let your fire go out spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours.
Many years from now, somebody tell me you’ve got love figured out, because I got news for you. It’s pretty darn messy right now, but I guess it’s always been that way; wanting to be loved, to find somebody that makes your heart ache in a good way. So, if you’re robots, or aliens, or something and you’re watching this right now and that feeling no longer exists, well, you missed it and I feel sorry for you because as far as I can tell, that’s what it’s all about and that’s what I know it should be about.
You know how you find a song and you just listen to it over, and over, and over again, until it becomes this soundtrack, until you find a new one?
------- Or, until you wanna forget the things that it reminds you of.
I guess it's easier to see what we want, than to look for the truth.
Edit:
Julianne: Is everything ok?
Brooke: Yes. No. I don't know. Look, the last thing I want to do is make it awkward between us, but I need to know something; is this going anywhere?
Julianne: This conversation? I have no idea. I'm completely lost.
Brooke: This. You and me. What are we doing?
Julianne: I don't know. We're hanging out, we're having fun.
Brooke: Right. Pretty much what I expected your answer to be.
Julianne: What's wrong with having fun?
Brooke: Nothing, and in the past I would have been fine with a fling, and I'm sorry that you missed out on that version of me, but I've changed. I'm really trying...
(I had to add this, because it was on right after I had the same exact conversation with this boy I was really into. It makes me feel less alone, that someone, somewhere, some time, was feeling the exact same emotion as me. I love One Tree Hill for that reason.)