Life in Lyrics: With A Little Help From My Friends

This week Life in Lyrics will be on 'Friendship'. 'Friendship' is surely about the only other element in life, aside 'Family' that would match the magnitude of the impact 'Love' can bring in one's life but all three are inter-related really so there's no point discussing which is more important (although being the romantic that I am, 'Love' tops everything for its universality and its absoluteness).

Anyway, this week's song is The Beatles's 'With A Little Help From My Friends'. I decided to use the clip from the movie musical Across the Universe because it kinda portrayed the carefree college student life which I thought was appropriate for me lah since I'm at college.

What would you think if I sang out of tune

Would you stand up and walk out on me
Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song
And I'll try not to sing out of key


Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends


What do I do when my love is away
Does it worry you to be alone?
How do I feel by the end of the day
Are you sad because you're on your own


No, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends


Do you need anybody
I need somebody to love
Could it be anybody
I want somebody to love


Would you believe in a love at first sight
Yes, I'm certain that it happens all the time
What do you see when you turn out the light
I can't tell you but I know it's mine


Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends


Do you need anybody
I just need someone to love
Could it be anybody
I want somebody to love


Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Yes I get by with a little help from my friends
With a little help from my friends

I don't really think this needs much explaining. Let's just say that with what's been happening in my life the past few weeks, I'm really glad I have some very great friends to rely on for almost anything. Almost three years in the UK and I'm really glad to have a small circle of tight and close friends for both fun and sad times. Even though I rarely tell my friends what my troubles are or what's bothering me, they would always be there when I need them, no questions asked.

Yes, I'm a very private person and I mostly keep to my small circle of friends

and having them all around me are enough to cheer me up on any sullen day. I'm pretty sure many will agree that quantity is never quality. I have only, to date, 174 friends on Facebook and I put my profile unsearchable so that people won't be able to search for and add me. I'm not implying that those with well over 1000 friends on their Facebook profiles don't care much about real friendship with their friends but it annoys me, supremely, when people ask me what's my Facebook profile username five minutes into the conversation as if the whole 'getting-to-know-me' can be done through it. And it's even more annoying when people start saying I'm unfriendly for not accepting their 'friend' requests when those people never even try to be friends with me in real life! Seriously, how pathetic can you be?!

To finish this entry, I'm putting a video of Kenny Loggins's 'Your Heart Will Lead You Home'. I first heard it back when I just enrolled into MRSM Beseri, a boarding school seven hours away from home, when I was 16 and it was the one song that made me realise the important of friends especially when you're away from your family. I was planning to use the song in last two week's Life in Lyrics because I was feeling a lil' overwhelmed with all the workloads and I was thinking about home but the plan has been postponed due to various circumstances so I'll just put the video here.



So yeah, thank you guys. You know who you are!