Baby, I get so scared inside and I don't really understand
Is it love that's on my mind or is it fantasy?
Heaven, is in the palm of my hand and it's waiting here for you
What am I supposed to do with a childhood tragedy?

If I close my eyes forever
Will it all remain unchanged?
If I close my eyes forever
Will it all remain the same?

Sometimes, its hard to hold on, so hard to hold on to my dreams
It isn't always what it seems when you're face to face with me
Like a dagger you stick me in the heart and taste the blood from my blade
And when we sleep would you shelter me in your warm and dark embrace?

If I close my eyes forever
Will it all remain unchanged?
If i close my eyes forever
Will it all remain the same?

Will you ever take me?
No I just can't take the pain
Would you ever trust me?
No I'll never feel the same (oh)

(instrumental)

I know I've been so hard on you
I know I've told you lies
If I could have just one more wish
I'd wipe the cobwebs from my eyes

If I close my eyes forever
Will it all remain unchanged?
If I close my eyes forever
will it all remain the same? (Oh yeah)

Close your eyes...
Close your eyes...
You gotta close your eyes for me..........

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I'm sitting here staring at the Wall Street Journal, and on the front page is an article that one of my CSW students could use in his essay. He's writing about the collapse of the American car industry, and the article suggests that auto parts suppliers have been spurred to innovate, while the car designers themselves have not.

This gave me an idea for a project in CALL. Using a variety of newspapers, for example, the WSJ, the Chicago Tribune, and a local paper, I'll choose an article from each paper for the students to read. Then, the students will be asked what they think the differences are between these papers. The students won't realize it, but they'll be identifying tone, voice, style, audience, the usual rhetorical suspects.

After that, the students will choose a section from the newspapers and then choose a topic appropriate for that section. Then, the students will write an article for that section.

We'll combine the articles into a class newsletter, and publish it from the class website.

Hmm....

ARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH

The chronicle of the thesis.

One page, three hours, and it's not at all what I want to say!

I mean, it's what I want to say, but not how I want to say it.

So, what I usually do when this happens, is do something else, then read some more, then go back to writing.

I'm going to do something else for a while.