Encouragement from Switchfoot

Bleeding thoughts
Cracking boulder
Don't fall over

Fake your laughter
Burn the tear
Sing it louder
Twist and shout

Way up here
We stand on shoulders
Growing colder

Laugh or cry
I won't mind
Sing it louder
Twist and shout

Immovable shadows
The concrete girl
They'll rock your world to nothing

And they're swimming around again, again
And they're swimming around
The concrete girl

Catch your breath like four-leaf clover
Hand it over

Scream to no one
Take your time
Sing it louder
Twist and shout

Nothing to run from is worse than nothing
And all your fears of nothing

And they're swimming around again, again
And they're swimming around
The concrete girl

Concrete girl don't fall down
In this broken world around you
Concrete girl don't fall down
Don't fall down my concrete girl

Don't stop thinking
Don't stop feeling now

One step away from where we were
One step back to nothing
And we're standing on top of our hopes and fears
And we're fighting for words now concrete girl

And we're swimming around again, again
And we're swimming around now
Concrete girl

Concrete girl don't fall down in this broken world around you
Concrete girl don't fall down
Don't fall down my concrete girl

Concrete girl don't fall down in this concrete world around you
Concrete girl don't fall down
Don't break down my concrete girl

"Concrete Girl" by switchfoot

Candide

I have read many books and short stories in my life, but none are as depressing or as funny as Candide. I'm not sure that it was intended to be funny, but the writing style and word choice is what makes it funny to me. It is lines like this one that make this story funny,
"I am the best natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three men, and of thees three two were preists." Good thing he isn't bad tempered, or he could fight the whole war himself.