Dec 1, 2009
Empire State of Mind
by Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys
Live like you give a damn… Okay, let’s talk about shivers and inspiration. I love this song and I heard it on the YouTube Live Alicia Keys concert. I’ve decided something. I want my children to grow up somewhere with energy. I wish I had grown up somewhere with a lot of energy. I feel like Toronto is a little dead on its feet. People do things, but it feels lacking, feels half done.
But it is a state of mind and I should do more to create that energy by choosing the places to go and the things I do. If my children go to a show 20 years from now and only end up bobbing their head a bit, I will feel like I’ve failed them. I don’t want them dead on their feet.
“Eight million stories…”
So, in only 24 hours, I have killed this song. I have loved it to death. It has become my velveteen rabbit.