Wicked Weekend

I've just had one of the most relaxing weekends of the year! My friends and I call it the Pod Weekend Getaway. With absolutely no commitments (or well, no commitments that we wanted to think about, anyway =P), it was great to be able to sleep in, laze around and chill with some friends over brekkielunchdinnersupper, cardgames, drinks and movies...*sighs* if only time went by a bit slower! Alas, all good things must come to an end. And even if we don't end up having a real post-graduation trip at the end of the year, at least we had this weekend together. :)

The not-so-fun bit, unfortunately, was the drive down by myself. Before reading on, you must know that I have the tendency to fall asleep in the most random places at the most random times, and I'm quite prone to micro-naps while driving too. Sometimes blasting music through the stereo doesn't work. =/ So how on earth was I supposed to keep myself occupied during the entire hour's drive?!?! As ironic as it sounds, Wicked saved the day! One of my mates gave me a CD of Wicked The Musical soundtracks, which pretty much kept me awake, together with some lollies and a frozen coke. So there I was, laughing and humming myself silly to those songs on Kwinana Freeway all the way to Crab Manor and  back. I now know the tunes of all the songs and I have a few favourite ones.

And because it was such a long drive down, I also had the opportunity to do some thinking. About the lyrics and the music. About the characters and the story. These are the few lines that particularly stood out, maybe because they relate to me, or someone that I know, or maybe because they actually make sense, or I just like it:

"Don't wish, don't start

Wishing only wounds the heart."

"Unlimited, together we're unlimited

Together we'll be the greatest team there's ever been

Dreams, the way we planned 'em if we work in tandem

There's no fight we cannot win

Just you and I, defying gravity

With you and I, defying gravity."

"There's a girl I know, he loves her so."

"So much of me is made of what I learned from you

You'll be with me like a handprint on my heart

And now whatever way our stories end

I know you have re-written mine by being my friend.

Who can say if I've been changed for the better

But because I knew you, because I knew you

I have been changed for good."

"kiss me too fiercely/hold me too tight/I need help believing/you're with me tonight/my wildest dreamings/could not foresee/lying beside you/with you wanting me/and just for this moment/as long as you're mine/i've lost all resistance/and crossed some borderline."

"Ev'ry so often we long to steal to the land of what-might-have-been

But that doesn't soften the ache we feel when reality sets back in."

Wicked. Possibly one of the best musicals I will ever have lived to watch. :)