#329 / Return To Innocence

A recently seen Facebook image of a woman putting on lipstick almost exactly duplicated one of my favorite images in the Return To Innocence video. Seeing that picture on Facebook induced me to watch the video again, which you can do, too, by clicking the link (and then suffering through an advertisement first).

If you are not familiar with Return To Innocence (Enigma, The Cross of Changes, 1994), I recommend it.

I was introduced to the video by my son, and the music and the lyrics have stuck with me. It is the images in the video, though, that have made the greatest impression. The video essentially revisits, with profound affection, the lives of a married couple. It is time recaptured; the broken bread restored. And I love the part with the lipstick! It's a powerful way, I think, to say "gracias a la vida."

Return To Innocence

That's not the beginning of the end
That's the return to yourself
The return to innocence
Love - Devotion
Feeling - Emotion
Love - Devotion
Feeling - Emotion
Don't be afraid to be weak
Don't be too proud to be strong
Just look into your heart my friend
That will be the return to yourself
The return to innocence
If you want, then start to laugh
If you must, then start to cry
Be yourself don't hide
Just believe in destiny
Don't care what people say
Just follow your own way
Don't give up and use the chance
To return to innocence
That's not the beginning of the end
That's the return to yourself
The return to innocence
Don't care what people say
Follow just your own way Follow just your own way
Don't give up, don't give up
To return, to return to innocence.
If you want then laugh
If you must then cry
Be yourself don't hide
Just believe in destiny.