
The Rembrandts – I’ll Be There for You
So, no one told you life was gonna be this way.
Your Job’s a joke, you’re broke, your love life’s D.O.A.
It’s like you’re always stuck in second gear.
And it hasn’t been your day, your week, your month, or even your year.
But -
I’ll be there for you … when the rain starts to fall.
I’ll be there for you … like I’ve been there before.
I’ll be there for you … cause you’re there for me, too.
You’re still in bed at ten and work began at eight.
You’ve burned your breakfast, so far everything is great.
Your mother warned you there’d be days like these.
But she didn’t tell you when the world has brought you down to your knees.
That -
I’ll be there for you … when the rain starts to fall.
I’ll be there for you … like I’ve been there before.
I’ll be there for you … cause you’re there for me, too.
How can you tell that TV is evil?. I can tell when I watch Friends to seek comfort and consolation. Life is hurting you? Well, Chandler, Monica, Rachel, Joey, Ross and Phoebe are There for You, right? Only, they are not.
And my essay deadline is still in 17 hours. Someone just left in a plane, and I have only myself to blame. My classmates are better at what I am doing, but they are many years younger. And they do more. And hey, my best friend (outside of the TV screen) is going to be on an 80-hours working week soon, and probably ten flight hours away from me anyway. Meanwhile, I pursue my pointless studies, spending the money that my younger siblings won’t have by the time they want to study.
But hey, things worked out fine for the Friends. Why should happy endings be confinded to sceenwriters’ fantasies?
Okay, enough, back to my essay (limited to humiliating 1400 words). Compare the conceptions of justice in Cleon’s speech in the Mythilenian debate and any other Athenian speech in Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. (I chose the anonymous envoys’ speech at the Spartan assembly — that’s gonna be fun!)
*Cleon is “the most violent man of Athens”, and the envoys argue that it is the law that the strong controls the weak, and that power trumps justice. Fun, innit?