"Here's To The Fools Who Dream"

A few weeks ago - NO WAIT IT'S BEEN A MONTH.....WUT THE HECK - I watched the beautiful La La Land. (You can read my review HERE.) It's an amazing, captivating, brilliantly produced film, and blew my mind in so many ways. But it was its profound and gut-wrenching message that truly touched my heart.

A lot of bloggers have done posts of La La Land, sharing how it spoke to them, and so I'm not going to do quite the same. Basically, I just want to share the lyrics (and the video) of one of the most beautiful songs in the film, which portrayed so spectacularly the heartache and dissolution that so many of us face in life: whether it's in acting, singing, writing, or anything else.  It speaks to the dreamers - the ones who've been beaten down by failure after failure and don't think they can get up again.  It says that there's something beautiful in our mistakes - in our so-called failures. Because we learn from them, and because we grow. And it tells us to never, never stop dreaming. 

Hope you love it as much as I do <3  

Here's To The Fools Who Dream 

My aunt used to live in Paris. 

I remember, she used to come home and she would tell us 

these stories about being abroad 

And I remember, she told us that she jumped into the river once. 

Barefoot. 

 She smiled... 

 Leapt without looking 

And tumbled into the Seine 

The water was freezing 

She spent a month sneezing 

But said she would do it again 

Here's to the ones who dream 

Foolish as they may seem 

Here's to the hearts that ache 

Here's to the mess we make 

She captured a feeling 

Sky with no ceiling 

The sunset inside a frame 

 She lived in her liquor 

And died with a flicker 

I'll always remember the flame 

Here's to the ones who dream 

Foolish as they may seem 

Here's to the hearts that ache 

Here's to the mess we make 

 She told me: "A bit of madness is key 

To give us new colors to see 

Who knows where it will lead us? 

And that's why they need us" 

So bring on the rebels 

The ripples from pebbles 

The painters, and poets, and plays 

And here's to the fools who dream 

Crazy as they may seem 

Here's to the hearts that break 

Here's to the mess we make 

I trace it all back to then Her, and the snow, and the Seine 

Smiling through it 

She said she'd do it again

- Music by Justin Hurwitz and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

- Performed by Emma Stone 

La La Land (2016)  

Have you watched La La Land? What did you think of it? Did this song speak to you?