Cheers!
BY BURAK ŞAHİN (IR/IV)
burak_s@ug.bilkent.edu.tr
Since I'm going to graduate this semester, I've been thinking over all my college years. It's really a difficult time for me. For the first time, I'm writing about myself in this column, so that you can understand how complicated it is. Good-byes are always tough, and I always choose the easy way out. So, I'll try to summarize my Bilkent years with a few songs that can explain my feelings better than I can.
Here, then, are my last picks for Bilkent News:
BUSEL
Radiohead - Exit Music (for A Film)
"Wake from your sleep
The drying of your tears
Today we escape
We escape
Pack and get dressed
Before your father hears us
Before all hell breaks loose"
First Year / Freshman
Kings Of Convenience - Homesick
"I've traveled far and I've burned all the bridges
I believed as soon as I hit land
all the other options held before me,
would wither in the light of my plan.
Homesick.
Because I no longer know where home is."
Second Year / Sophomore
The National - Fake Empire
"Turn the light out say goodnight
No thinking for a little while
Let's not try to figure out everything at once
It's hard to keep track of you falling through the sky
We're half-awake in a fake empire"
Third Year / Junior
Morrissey - Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
"Haven't had a dream
In a long time
See, the life I've had
Can make a good man
Turn bad
So for once in my life
Let me get what I want
Lord knows
It would be the first time"
Fourth Year / Senior
Oasis - Live Forever
"Maybe I just wanna fly
Wanna live, I don't wanna die
Maybe I just wanna breathe
Maybe I just don't believe
Maybe you're the same as me
We see things they'll never see
You and I are gonna live forever
Gonna live forever
Live Forever
Forever"
These songs pretty much explain the moods I've been in during these years -- but I don't know what I should feel now. "Emptiness" might be the right choice this time. I won't be suggesting any more songs, bands or festivals for you to listen to or go to. What I am suggesting is that I hope none of you will ever find yourselves in a place "Where Dreams Go To Die." Cheers!