This could get tricky

[BTFLCHLD]

On any particular day, night, week, month, year, decade, all-time (you get it) post a song with lyrics that is meaningful to you (e.g. not necessarily every song you hear.) Here is the tricky part, if the song has already been posted within this thread :sorry: come back another time with a different selection. Please provide a little or all lyrics included to capture the essence of the song...and maybe even a bit of you.

Let's build a massive collection :thumbsup:

If you'd like to participate, please do.

On EDIT: Let's try not to insert comment posts...just the song. If you are intrigued by someone's post, send them a PM as I will bet they would like that. This may keep the thread clean during the tricky parts. If I were to insert a comment, on this edit, it would be 'Thanks Brandon for participating!'

Civil War
by Guns and Roses
"What we've got here is failure to communicate.
Some men you just can't reach...
So, you get what we had here last week,
which is the way he wants it! Well, he gets it!
N' I don't like it any more than you men."


Look at your young men fighting
Look at your women crying
Look at your young men dying
The way they've always done before

Look at the hate we're breeding
Look at the fear we're feeding
Look at the lives we're leading
The way we've always done before

My hands are tied
The billions shift from side to side
And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
For the love of God and our human rights
And all these things are swept aside
By bloody hands time can't deny
And are washed away by your genocide
And history hides the lies of our civil wars

D'you wear a black armband
When they shot the man
Who said "Peace could last forever"
And in my first memories
They shot Kennedy
I went numb when I learned to see
So I never fell for Vietnam
We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all
That you can't trust freedom
When it's not in your hands
When everybody's fightin'
For their promised land

And
I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war

Look at the shoes your filling
Look at the blood we're spilling
Look at the world we're killing
The way we've always done before
Look in the doubt we've wallowed
Look at the leaders we've followed
Look at the lies we've swallowed
And I don't want to hear no more

My hands are tied
For all I've seen has changed my mind
But still the wars go on as the years go by
With no love of God or human rights
'Cause all these dreams are swept aside
By bloody hands of the hypnotized
Who carry the cross of homicide
And history bears the scars of our civil wars

"WE PRACTICE SELECTIVE ANNIHILATION OF
MAYORS AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
FOR EXAMPLE TO CREATE A VACUUM
THEN WE FILL THAT VACUUM
AS POPULAR WAR ADVANCES
PEACE IS CLOSER"

I don't need one more war

[Brwn_eyes0511]

Why It Matters
by Sara Groves

Sit with me and tell me once again
Of the story that's been told us
Of the power that will hold us
Of the beauty, of the beauty
Why it matters

Speak to me until I understand
Why our thinking and creating
Why our efforts of narrating
About the beauty, of the beauty
And why it matters

Like the statue in the park
Of this war torn town
And it's protest of the darkness
And the chaos all around
With its beauty, how it matters
How it matters

Show me the love that never fails
The compassion and attention
Midst confusion and dissention
Like small ramparts for the soul
How it matters

Like a single cup of water
How it matters

[CelticGypsy]

Children of the World
The Bee Gees

We are children of the world - watching every day go by
Changes my life, changes your life - keeps us all anticipating
We are searchers of the truth, every man's a boy deep down
Gotta say it how you mean it - there ain't no easy way

Like a bird in the wind, like a tree in the storm
Like the breath of a child from the moment he's born
To the very last day when the curtains are drawn
We are children of the world - asking every question why
From arrival to survival - just to make it worth the waiting
We are faces in the night - watching every day go by
Changes my life, changes your life - there ain't no easy way

In the back of your mind there is always a mark
There's a wandering solo alone in the dark
You can keep it forever or tear it apart

We are children of the world - watching every day go by
Changing my life, changing your life - keeps us all anticipating

We are children of the world - watching every day go by
Like a bird in the wind, like a tree in the storm
Like the breath of a child from the moment he's born
Till the very last day when the curtains are drawn
We are children of the world - watching every day go by
Changes my life, changes your life - keeps us all anticipating

We are children of the world - watching every day go by
Changes my life, changes your life - keeps us all anticipating

:angel:

[Rickypt]

He Stopped Loving Her Today
George Jones

He said "I'll love you till I die",
she told him "You'll forget in time"
As the years went slowly by,
she still preyed upon his mind

He kept her picture on his wall,
went half-crazy now and then
He still loved her through it all,
hoping she'd come back again

Kept some letters by his bed
dated nineteen sixty-two
He had underlined in red
every single "I love you"

I went to see him just today,
oh but I didn't see no tears
All dressed up to go away, first time
I'd seen him smile in years

He stopped loving her today
They placed a wreath upon his door
And soon they'll carry him away
He stopped loving her today

(Spoken)
You know,
she came to see him one last time.
Aww, 'n' we all wondered if she would.
And it kept runnin' through my mind
"this time he's over her for good."

He stopped loving her today
They placed a wreath upon his door
And soon they'll carry him away
He stopped loving her today

:( :xoxo:

[JazmenFlowers]

Lullaby For Myself
Barbra Streisand

Self-contained and self-content
No promises to keep
I've got things so together
That I just can't fall asleep
Walked the night and drank the moon
Got home at half past four
And I knew that no one marked my time
As I unlocked my door

It's really lovely to discover
That you like to be alone
Not to owe your man an answer
When he gets you on the phone
Not to share a pair of pork chops
When you crave champagne and cheese
And your aim becomes to please yourself
And not to aim to please

Oh they sold me when they told me
Two can live as cheap as one
But I'm learning twice your earning
Doesn't mean it's twice the fun
If you spend each dime and all your time
On someone else's schemes

I'm not needy but I'm greedy
And I live my deepest dreams
Take an hour in the shower
Use the water while it's hot in the tub
A hand to scrub my back
Is all I haven't got

Self-aware with self-esteem
Is selfishness a crime
I take the day for quite a ride
And I take my own sweet time
Time to spare and time to share
And grateful I would be
If just one damn man
Would share the need
To be alone with me

[Enchanted_Stevi]

"New Attitude"
Patti LaBelle

I'm feelin' good from my head to my shoes
Know where I'm goin' and I know what to do
I tidied up my point of view
I got a new attitude
Runnin' hot, runnin' cold
I was runnin' into overload
It was extreme, ex-ex-ex-ex-ex-extreme
It took it so high, so low
So low, there was nowhere to go
Like a dream
Somehow the wires uncrossed, the tables were turned
Never knew I had such a lesson to learn
I'm feelin' good from my head to my shoes
Know where I'm goin' and I know what to do
I tidied up my point of view
I got a new attitude
I'm in control, my worries are few
'Cause I've got love like I never knew
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
I got a new attitude
I'm wearing a new dress (New), new hair (New)
Brand new ideas, as a matter of fact I've changed for good
It must have been the cool night, new moon, new slight change
???More than to figure??? but I feel like I should, yes
Somehow the wires uncrossed, the tables were turned
Never knew I had such a lesson to learn
I'm feelin' good from my head to my shoes
Know where I'm goin' and I know what to do
I tidied up my point of view
I got a new attitude
I'm in control, my worries are few
'Cause I've got love like I never knew
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
I got a new attitude
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh...ooh...
Somehow the wires uncrossed, the tables were turned
Never knew I had such a lesson to learn
I'm feelin' good from my head to my shoes
Know where I'm goin' and I know what to do
I tidied up my point of view
I got a new attitude
I'm in control, my worries are few
'Cause I've got love like I never knew
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
I got a new attitude
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
I got a new attitude
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
I got a new attitude
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
I got a new attitude
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (Mmm)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (Mmm, mmm)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
I got a new attitude
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (From my head to my shoes)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (I got a new)
I got a new attitude (I got a new)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (New attitude)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (Everything about has changed)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (Baby)
I got a new attitude (I got a new)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (I got a new)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (Feelin', feelin')
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (I feel it, I got a new attitude)
I got a new attitude
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (Oh...ooh...)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
I got a new attitude (I got a new)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (Attitude)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (Said I got a new)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (New attitude)
I got a new attitude
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

[Richard B]

How Does A Duck Know?
Crash Test Dummies

How does a duck know what direction south is?
And how to tell his wife from all the other ducks?
You can cut a chicken's head off
and it will keep on running and twitching

When everything seems planned out
when everything seems nicely planned out
well the human race will come and smack your face

How come all my body parts so nicely fit together?
All my organs doing their jobs, no help from me!
A person pulls a spider's leg out
To watch it keep on moving and twitching.

When everything seems planned out
when everything seems nicely planned out
well the human race will come and smack your face

Satan lives here: on grain and earth, rain and air.

How come I just smoke and smoke and smoke and curse every butt I spit out?
All night long I grind my teeth and I wake up when I cough
You can put me in and iron lung
and I will keep on breathing and twitching.

When everything seems planned out
when everything seems nicely planned out
well the human race will come and smack your face
You might be dead, but you keep your head.

[The Tower]

"For The Roses" by Joni Mitchell


I heard it in the wind last night
It sounded like applause...
Did you get a round resounding for you
Way up here
It seems like many dim years ago
Since I heard that face to face..
Or seen you face to face
Though tonight I can feel you here

I get these notes
On butterflies and lilac sprays
From girls who just have to tell me
They saw you somewhere...

In some office sits a poet
And he trembles as he sings
And he asks some guy
To circulate his soul around...
On your mark red ribbon runner
The caressing rev of motors
Finely tuned like fancy women-
In thirties evening gowns

Up the charts-
Off to the airport
Your name's in the news
Everything's first class
The lights go down
And it's just you up there...
Getting them to feel like that...

Remember the days when you used to sit
And make up your tunes for love
And pour your simple sorrow
To the soundhole and your knee...
And now you're seen
On giant screens
And at parties for the press
And for people who have slices of you
From the company

They toss around your latest golden egg
Speculation well who's to know
If the next one in the nest
Will glitter for them so...

I guess I seem ungrateful
With my teeth sunk in the hand
That brings me things
I really can't give up just yet
Now I sit up here the critic!
And they introduce some band
But they seem so much confetti
Looking at them on my TV set...

Oh the power and the glory-
Just when you're getting a taste for worship
They start bringing out the hammers....
And the boards.....
And the nails.....

I heard it in the wind last night
It sounded like applause
Chilly now- end of summer
No more shiny hot nights
It was just the arbutus rustling
And the bumping of the logs
And the moon swept down black water-

Like an empty spotlight

[catinthedark]

Goodbye - Patty Griffin

Occured to me the other day
You've been gone now a couple years
well, I guess it takes while
For someone to really disappear
And I remember where I was
When the word came about you
It was a day much like today
the sky was bright, and wide, and blue

And I wonder where you are
And if the pain ends when you die
And I wonder if there was
Some better way to say goodbye

Today my heart is big and sore
it's tryin' to push right through my skin
I won't see you anymore
I guess that's finally sinkin' in
'Cause you can't make somebody see
By the simple words you say
All their beauty from within
Sometimes they just look away

But I wonder where you are
And if the pain ends when you die
And I wonder if there was
Some better way to say goodbye
search

[Brad]

The Smiths - How Soon is Now?

I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular

You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does

I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Oh, of nothing in particular

You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does

Oh ...
Oh ...

There’s a club, if you’d like to go
You could meet somebody who really loves you
So you go, and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home, and you cry
And you want to die

When you say it’s gonna happen now
Well, when exactly do you mean?
See, I’ve already waited too long
And all my hope is gone

Oh ...
Oh ...

You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does

[dissention]

Magic (Asadoya Yunta) - Blondie

I'm hot as a fire, burning bright
I feel as empty as air
There is no sense of balance
In the howling wind that calls to me
I can feel it everywhere, but it's invisible to me

Distractions and spirit find me floating in a magnetic sea
The nights are phosphorescent
And the days are beautiful and bright
Until whispering mist - it comes falling down on me

Oh, there's fire burning
Looking for the magic
In the night time, all this
Brings the magic back to me

I'm looking for the magic in the places I remember it to be
It's in the night time alleys
Winding through my deepest memory

And just one simple thought brings the magic back to me
I'm looking for the magic in the places I remember it to be
And just one simple thought brings the magic back to me

[face of glass]

The Boy From... (Esteban Ria Nido/Mary Rodgers)

Tall and tender, like an Apollo,
He goes walking by, and I have to follow him,
The boy from Tacarembo La Tumbe Del Fuego Santa Malipas Zatatecas La Junta Del

Sol Y Cruz.
When we meet, I feel I'm on fire
And I'm breathless every time I enquire,
"How are things in Tacarembo La Tumbe Del Fuego Santa Malipas Zatatecas La

Junta Del Sol Y Cruz?"

Why, when I speak, does he vanish?
Why is he acting so clannish?
I wish I understood Spanish.
When I tell him I think he's the end,
He giggles a lot with his friend.

Tall and slender, moves like a dancer,
But I never seem to get any answer,
From the boy from Tacarembo La Tumbe Del Fuego Santa Malipas Zatatecas La Junta

Del Sol Y Cruz.

Why are his trousers vermilion?
Why does he claim he's Castilian?
Why do his friends call him "Lillian?"
And I hear at the end of the week,
He's leaving to start a boutique.

Though I smile, I'm only pretending,
'Cause I know today's the last I'll be spending,
With the boy from Tacarembo La Tumbe Del Fuego Santa Malipas Zatatecas La Junta

Del Sol Y Cruz.
Tomorrow he sails.
He's moving to Wales.
To live in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobullllandysiliogogogoch.

[Wild_Heart03]

Why - Annie Lennox

How many times, do I have to try
To tell you, that I'm sorry
For the the things I've done?

But when I start to try to tell you
That's when you have to tell me
Hey, this kind of trouble's
Only just begun

I tell myself too many times
Why don't you ever learn to
Keep your big mouth shut?
That's why it hurts so bad, to hear the words
That keep on falling from your mouth
Falling from your mouth.... falling from your mouth...

Tell me, why?
Why?

I may be mad, I may be blind
I may be viciously unkind
But I can still read what you're thinking
And I've heard it said too many times
That you'd be better off
Besides, why can't you see
This boat is sinking, this boat is sinking

Let's go down to the water's edge
And we can cast away those doubts
Some things are better left unsaid
But they still turn me inside out
Turning inside out.... turning inside out....

Tell me, why?
Why?

This is the book I never read
These are the words I never said
This is the path I'll never tread
These are the dreams I'll dream instead
This is the joy that's seldom spread
These are the tears, the tears we shed
This is the fear, this is the dread
These are the contents of my head
And these are the years that we have spent
And this is what they represent
This is how I feel.... do you know I feel?
'Cause I don't think you know how I feel
I don't think you know how I feel...

[jannieC]

Tesla- Gettin Better

all that rain
outside my window
but I'll live on I know
its gettin' better every day
soon the sun will shine
through my window
when its gonna come
you know i really, couldnt say
but i know, its gettin better
every day

ahh its gettin better now
every day
yeah yeah yea yea
im a hard workin man doin all that i can
tryin to make ends meat
just a makin my way through this jungle today
its gettin the best of me
but i know its gettin better
and a change is gonna come my way
yes i know its gettin better
better every day
ah ha yea
been a changin the scene
if ya know what i mean
good things are comin my way
now im livin my life and im doin it right
sun shinin every day

i can feel it gettin better
and a change is gonna come my way
yes i feel it gettin better
better every day

now its only gettin better
and a change has finally come my way
yes its only so much better
aaaah gettin better every day
aaah yea yea yea gettin better
oaaah every day
i feel it
gettin better
its gettin better
im gettin better
im gettin better

[bikerchic]

Roll Me Away
Words and music by Bob Seger

Took a look down a westbound road,
Right away I made my choice
Headed out to my big two-wheeler,
I was tired of my own voice
Took a bead on the northern plains
And just rolled that power on

Twelve hours out of Mackinaw City
Stopped in a bar to have a brew
Met a girl and we had a few drinks
And I told her what I’d decided to do
She looked out the window a long long moment
Then she looked into my eyes
She didn’t have to say a thing,
I knew what she was thinkin’

Roll, roll me away,
Won’t you roll me away tonight
I too am lost, I feel double-crossed
And I’m sick of what’s wrong and what’s right
We never even said a word,
We just walked out and got on that bike
And we rolled
And we rolled clean out of sight

We rolled across the high plains
Deep into the mountains
Felt so good to me
Finally feelin’ free

Somewhere along a high road
The air began to turn cold
She said she missed her home
I headed on alone

Stood alone on a mountain top,
Starin’ out at the great divide
I could go east, I could go west,
It was all up to me to decide
Just then I saw a young hawk flyin’
And my soul began to rise
And pretty soon
My heart was singin’

Roll, roll me away,
I’m gonna roll me away tonight
Gotta keep rollin, gotta keep ridin’,
Keep searchin’ till I find what’s right
And as the sunset faded
I spoke to the faintest first starlight
And I said next time
Next time
We’ll get it right

[BTFLCHLD]

Ten Years Gone
Led Zeppelin

Then as it was, then again it will be
An' though the course may change sometimes
Rivers always reach the sea
Blind stars of fortune, each have several rays
On the wings of maybe, down in birds of prey
Kind of makes me feel sometimes, didn't have to grow
But as the eagle leaves the nest, it's got so far to go

Changes fill my time, baby, that's alright with me
In the midst I think of you, and how it used to be

Did you ever really need somebody, And really need 'em bad
Did you ever really want somebody, The best love you ever had
Do you ever remember me, baby, did it feel so good
'Cause it was just the first time, And you knew you would

Through the eyes an' I sparkle, Senses growing keen
Taste your love along the way, See your feathers preen
Kind of makes makes me feel sometimes, Didn't have to grow
We are eagles of one nest, The nest is in our soul

Vixen in my dreams, with great surprise to me
Never thought I'd see your face the way it used to be
Oh darlin', oh darlin'

I'm never gonna leave you. I never gonna leave
Holdin' on, ten years gone
Ten years gone, holdin' on, ten years gone

[priestofnothing]

Minneapolis
Lucinda Williams

I've been waiting for you to come back
Since you left Minneapolis
Snow covers the streetlamps and the windowsills
The buildings and the brittle crooked trees
Dead leaves of December
Thin skinned and splintered
Never gotten used to this bitter winter

I've been wasted, angry and sad
Since you left Minneapolis
I wish my thoughts were pure like the driven snow
Like the heavens and the spring's virgin buds
But they strangle me with their sin
Fill me up with poison
Black clouds have covered up the sun again

I can always trace it back
To that night in Minneapolis
Here on the seventh floor in a room I can't call my own
Deadbolt on the door, do not disturb sign
Shaking and trembling
On the clean white linen
Slivers of starlight dance across the ceiling

A dozen yellow roses
All that's left in Minneapolis
I wish I'd never seen your face or heard your voice
You're a bad pain in my gut
I wanna spit you out
Open up this wound again
Let my blood flow red and thin
Into the glistening
Into the whiteness
Into the melting snow of Minneapolis

[MoonChilde]

Enya (Armantine)
If I could be where you are..

Where are you this moment?
Only in my dreams
You're missing ,but you're always
a heart beat away from me
I'm lost now,without you
I don;t know where you are
I keep watching ,I keep hoping
but time keeps us apart.

Is there a way I can find you
Is there a sign I should know
Is there a road I could follow
To bring you back home?

Winter lies before me
Now you're so far away
In the darkness of my dreaming
the light of you will stay
If I could be close beside you
If I could be where you are
If I could reach out and touch you
And bring you back home.
Is there a way I can find you
Is there a sign I should know
Is there a road I can follow
To bring you back home to me..

[Richard B]

Violently Happy
Björk

since i met you
this small town hasn´t got room
for my big feelings

violently happy
´cause i love you

violently happy
but you´re not here

violently happy
come calm me down
before i get into trouble

i tip-toe down to the shore
stand by the ocean
make it roar at me
and i roar back

violently happy
´cause i love you

violently happy
but you´re not here

violently happy
overemotional

violently happy
i´ll get into trouble
real soon
if you don´t get here
baby

violently happy
´cause i love you

violently happy
i´m aiming to high

violently happy
it will get me into trouble

violently happy
i´m driving my car
too fast
with ecstatic music on

violently happy
i´m getting too drunk

violently happy
i´m daring people
to jump off roofs with me

only you
can calm me down
i´m aiming to high

soothe me

[Serendipity]

Anything For You - Gloria Estefan

Anything for you
Though you're not here
Since you said we're through
It seems like years
Time keeps draggin on and on
And forever's been and gone
Still I can't figure what went wrong

I'd still do anything for you
I'll play your game
You hurt me through and through
But you can have your way

I can pretend each time I see you
That I don't care and I don't need you
And though you'll never see me cryin'
You know inside I feel like dying
And I'd do anything for you
In spite of it all
I've learned so much from you
You made me strong
But don't you ever think that I don't love you
That for one minute I forgot you
But sometimes things don't work out right
And you just have to say goodbye

I hope you find somone to please you
Somone who'll care and never leave you
But if that someone ever hurts you
You just might need a friend to turn to

And I'd do anything for you
I'll give you up
If that's what I should do
To make you happy

I can pretend each time I see you
That I don't care and I don't need you
And though inside I feel like dying
You know you'll never see me crying

Don't you ever think that I don't love you
That for one minute I forgot you
But sometimes things don't work out right
And you just have to say goodbye

[Serrart]

Waters of March by Antonio Carlos Jobim (the original brazilian version is way better though)
A stick, a stone,
It's the end of the road,
It's the rest of a stump,
It's a little alone

It's a sliver of glass,
It is life, it's the sun,
It is night, it is death,
It's a trap, it's a gun

The oak when it blooms,
A fox in the brush,
A knot in the wood,
The song of a thrush

The wood of the wind,
A cliff, a fall,
A scratch, a lump,
It is nothing at all

It's the wind blowing free,
It's the end of the slope,
It's a beam, it's a void,
It's a hunch, it's a hope

And the river bank talks
of the waters of March,
It's the end of the strain,
The joy in your heart

The foot, the ground,
The flesh and the bone,
The beat of the road,
A slingshot's stone

A fish, a flash,
A silvery glow,
A fight, a bet,
The range of a bow

The bed of the well,
The end of the line,
The dismay in the face,
It's a loss, it's a find

A spear, a spike,
A point, a nail,
A drip, a drop,
The end of the tale

A truckload of bricks
in the soft morning light,
The shot of a gun
in the dead of the night

A mile, a must,
A thrust, a bump,
It's a girl, it's a rhyme,
It's a cold, it's the mumps

The plan of the house,
The body in bed,
And the car that got stuck,
It's the mud, it's the mud

Afloat, adrift,
A flight, a wing,
A hawk, a quail,
The promise of spring

And the riverbank talks
of the waters of March,
It's the promise of life
It's the joy in your heart

A stick, a stone,
It's the end of the road
It's the rest of a stump,
It's a little alone

A snake, a stick,
It is John, it is Joe,
It's a thorn in your hand
and a cut in your toe

A point, a grain,
A bee, a bite,
A blink, a buzzard,
A sudden stroke of night

A pin, a needle,
A sting, a pain,
A snail, a riddle,
A wasp, a stain

A pass in the mountains,
A horse and a mule,
In the distance the shelves
rode three shadows of blue

And the riverbank talks
of the waters of March,
It's the promise of life
in your heart, in your heart

(and so on...)

Romy

[The Tower]

Happy, the End by The Innocence Mission (Karen Peris)

"In this story...
We sit down on Luna Bridge...
And catch snow in our cupped hands
And music is.....

Coming from the houses or it sings
Inside me, I begin to mend...

Oh happy... oh happy....
The end, the end, the end....

In this painting...
The whole world is navy blue....
I run home from the mailbox in all...
The dim of five o'clock to see you...

Cars and trees go by me,
You are in the yard
And in my arms again....

Oh happy... oh happy....
The end, the end, the end...
Happy, oh happy...
The end......."

[ragandbone]

Night Comes In
by Richard Thompson

Night comes in
Like some cool river
How can there be
Be another day
Take my hand
O real companion
And we’ll dance
We’ll dance ‘till we fade away

O the songs
Pour down like silver
They can only
Only break my heart
Drink the wine
The wine of lovers
Lovers tired of being apart

Dancing ‘till my feet don’t touch the ground
I lose my mind and dance forever
Lose my mind and dance forever
Turn my world around
Turn my world around

O this night
Is like no other
And this room
Is ringing in my ears
And these friends
Will never leave me
And these tears
Are like no other tears

Dancing ‘till my feet don’t touch the ground
I lose my mind and dance forever
Lose my mind and dance forever
Turn my world around
Turn my world around

Well I may find
That street tomorrow
Leave the shadow
Of my lonely room
See my one
My one and only
Heart and soul
I’m coming soon

[dissention]

My Antonia by Emmylou Harris

He said "Oh my love. Oh my Antonia
You with the dark eyes and palest of skin
Tonight I am going from Santa Maria
Wait for me till I'm in your arms once again"

She held me, she kissed me, begged me not to leave her
To cross on the mountain my fortune to win
But a letter now tells me she died of a fever
I'll never see her in this world again

You are my sorrow, you are my splendor
You are my shelter through storm and through strife
You are the one I will always remember
All off the days of my life

I curse the ambition that took me far from her
For a treasure not ever so fine or so fair
As the flash of her smile or the touch of her fingers
The fire in her heart and the smell of her hair

She left me a note that cried "Do not weep for me
Behold you are with me as sure as the stars
That rise in the evening to shine down upon me
Behold I am with you wherever you are"

I can still hear him, he calls to me only
What once was begotten shall come to no end
But the road is so long and the nights are so lonely
My soul just to hold him in this world again

You are my sorrow, you are my splendor
You are my shelter through storm and through strife
You are the one I will always remember
All of the days of my life

Oh my love, Oh my Antonia
You with the dark eyes and palest of skin
How could I know that night in Santa Maria
I'd never see you in this world again

[JazmenFlowers]

one of my favorite songs and for sure my favorite by Kate Bush

Cloudbusting - Kate Bush (Hounds of Love album)

I still dream of Orgonon.
I wake up crying.
You're making rain,
And you're just in reach,
When you and sleep escape me.

You're like my yo-yo
That glowed in the dark.
What made it special
Made it dangerous,
So I bury it
And forget.

But every time it rains,
You're here in my head,
Like the sun coming out--
Ooh, I just know that something good is going to happen.
And I don't know when,
But just saying it could even make it happen.

On top of the world,
Looking over the edge,
You could see them coming.
You looked too small
In their big, black car,
To be a threat to the men in power.

I hid my yo-yo
In the garden.
I can't hide you
From the government.
Oh, God, Daddy--
I won't forget,

'Cause every time it rains,
You're here in my head,
Like the sun coming out--
Ooh, I just know that something good is going to happen.
And I don't know when,
But just saying it could even make it happen.

The sun's coming out.
Your son's coming out.

[Brwn_eyes0511]

Never Make Me Cry - Christine McVie

Go and do what you want
I know that you have the need
You know that I'll wait, as long as it takes
So go and do what you want
You'll never make me
You'll never make me
You'll never make me cry

I may not mean everything
But I'm happy to have your love
So don't worry baby, I'll be alright
And I'll never make you
I'll never make you
I'll never make you cry.

[Wild_Heart03]

Catalyst - Anna Nalick

L.A. lights
Never shine quite as bright as in the movies
Still wanna go
Cause something here
In the way that we're constantly moving
Reminds you of home

So you're taking these pills
For to fill up your soul
And you're drinking them down with cheap alcohol
And I'd be inclined to be yours for the taking
And part of this terrible mess that you're making
But me... I'm the catalyst

When you say love
Is a simple chemical reaction
Can't say I agree
'Cause my chemicals, yeah
Left me a beautiful disaster
Still love's all I see

So I'm taking these pills for to fill up my soul
And I'm drinking them down with cheap alcohol
And you'd be inclined to be mine for the taking
And part of this terrible mess that I'm making
But you... you're the catalyst

You'll be the vein, you'll be the pain, you'll be the scar
You'll be the road rolling below the wheels of a car
And all of your thoughts on God...
Don't know if I'm strong enough, no
You'll be the vein, you'll be the pain, you'll be the catalyst

These L.A. lights
They don't shine quite as bright as back in 'Frisco
Do you wanna though....
Still wanna go?

[markolas]

"Trouble Child"

by Joni Mitchell

Up in a sterilized room
Where they let you be lazy
Knowing your attitude's all wrong
And you got to change
And that's not easy
Dragon shining with all values known
Dazzling you, keeping you from your own
Where is the lion in you to defy him
When you're this weak and this spacey

So what are you gonna do about it
You can't live life and you can't leave it
Advice and religion, you can't take it
You can't seem to believe it
The peacock is afraid to parade
You're under the thumb of the maid
You really can't give love in this condition
Still, you know how you need it

They open and close you
Then they talk like they know you
They don't know you
They're friends and they're foes, too
Trouble child
Breaking like the waves at Malibu

So why does it come as such a shock
To know you really have no one
Only a river of changing faces
Looking for an ocean
They trickle through your leaky plans
Another dream over the dam
And you're lying in some room
Feeling like your right to be human
Is going over, too

Well some are gonna knock you
And some will try and clock you
You know, it's really hard to talk sense to you
Trouble child
Breaking like the waves at Malibu

[markolas]

I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
(performed by Billie Holiday)

I need your love so badly
I love you, oh so madly
But I don't stand a ghost of a chance
With you

I thought at last I found you
But other loves surround you
And I don't stand a ghost of a chance
With you

If you'd surrender
Just for a tender kiss or two
You might discover
That I'm the lover meant for you
And I'll be true

But what's the good of scheming
I know I must be dreaming
For I don't stand a ghost of a chance
With you

[BTFLCHLD]

What It Takes
Tyler/Perry/D.Child

Oh... yeah

There goes my old girlfriend
There's a-nother diamond ring
And of all those late night promises
I guess they don't mean a thing

So baby what's the story
Did'cha a find another man
Is it easy to sleep in the bed that we made
When you don't look back I guess
The feelings start to fade away

I used to feel your fire
But now it's cold inside
And you're back on the street
Like you didn't miss a beat yeah

Tell me what it takes to let you go
Tell me how the pain's supposed to go
Tell me how it is that you can sleep
In the night without thinkin' you lost
Everything that was good in your life
To the toss of the dice
Tell me what it takes to let you go
Yeah

Girl before I met you I was F.I.N.E. fine
But your love made me a prisoner
Yeah my heart's been doin' time
You spent me up like money
A then ya hung me out to dry
It was easy to keep all your lies in disguise
'Cause you had me in deep
With the devil in your eyes

Tell me what it takes to let you go... oooh
Tell me how the pain's supposed to go
Tell me how it is that you can sleep
In the night without thinkin' you lost
Everything that was good in your life
To the toss of the dice
Tell me what it takes to let you go

Tell me that'chor happy that'chor on your own
Yeah yeah yeah
Tell me that it's better when you're all alone
Tell me that your body doesn't miss my touch
Tell me that my lovin' didn't mean that much
Tell me you ain't dying
When you're cryin' for me

Tell me what it takes to let you go... oooh
Tell me how the pain's supposed to go... yeah
And tell me how it is that you can sleep
In the night without thinkin' you lost
Everything that was good in your life
To the toss of the dice
Tell me who's to blame for thinkin' twice... no no no no
'Cause I don't wanna burn in paradise
Oooh... I don't I don't no I don't wanna burn in paradise
Let it go let it go...
I don't wanna burn....

[BTFLCHLD]

Patience
Guns N' Roses

One, two, one, two, three, four
(whistle)

Shed a tear 'cause I'm missing you
I'm still alright to smile
Girl, I think about you every day now
Was a time when I wasn't sure
But you set my mind at ease
There is no doubt you're in my heart now
Said, "woman, take it slow and it'll work itself out fine
All we need is just a little patience"
Said, "sugar, make it slow and we'll come together fine
All we need is just a little patience"
Patience, mm... yeah

I sit here on the stairs 'cause I'd rather be alone
If I can't have you right now, I'll wait, dear
Sometimes I get so tense, but I can't speed up the time
But you know, love, there's one more thing to consider
Said, "woman, take it slow and things will be just fine
You and I'll just use a little patience"
Said, "sugar, take the time 'cause the lights are shining bright
You and I've got what it takes to make it
We won't fake it, oh, I'll never break it
'Cause I can't take it"

(whistle)

(Little patience, mm, yeah, mm, yeah)
(Need a little patience, yeah...)
(Just a little patience, yeah...)
(Some more patience, yeah...)

I've been walking the streets at night
Just tryin' to get it right (need some patience, yeah...)
It's hard to see with so many around
You know, I don't like being stuck in the crowd (could use some patience, yeah...)
And the streets don't change but, baby, the names
I ain't got time for the game (gotta have some patience, yeah...)
'Cause I need you yeah, yeah, but I need you, ooh... (all it takes is patience, yeah...)
I need you, ooh... (just a little patience, ooh...)
I need you, ooh... (is all you need)
This time...

[priestofnothing]

Morning Song To Sally
Jerry Jeff Walker

As the morning light stretched in across my bed
I thought of you
Remembering your laughing eyes and all we said
I love you too
As all my thoughts of you pass 'fore my face a thousand times
The way they race my heart... I cannot say it all in lines

How the short time together lasts so long
Makes me strong
As two weeks came and went then you and I were gone
Living on
For it seems our love was destined
to be caught in other nets
But the love we held so brief
I'd chance again without regret

Yes, standing by the road has been my song before
Much too long
But now somehow I'm forced to
see me there once more
And that's the song
For my waking thoughts of you are
but extensions of the dream
Without you here beside me
I'll never know all that they mean

As the morning light stretched in across my bed
I thought of you
Remembering your laughing eyes and all we said
I love you too
As all my thoughts of you pass 'fore my face a thousand times
The way they race my heart... I cannot say it all in lines

[Moony]

"Learning to Fly" - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Well I started out down a dirty road
Started out all alone
And the sun went down as I crossed the hill
And the town lit up, the world got still

I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings
Coming down is the hardest thing

Well the good ol' days may not return
And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn

I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings
Coming down is the hardest thing

Well some say life will beat you down
Break your heart, steal your crown
So I've started out for God knows where
I guess I'll know when I get there

I'm learning to fly, around the clouds
But what goes up must come down

I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings
Coming down is the hardest thing

[Moony]

"Time" by Tom Waits

Well the smart money's on harlow and the moon is in the street
And the shadow boys are breaking all the laws
And you're east of east saint louis and the wind is making speeches
And the rain sounds like a round of applause
And napoleon is weeping in a carnival saloon
His invisible fiancee's in the mirror
And the band is going home, it's raining hammers, it's raining nails
And it's true there's nothing left for him down here

And it's time time time, and it's time time time
And it's time time time that you love
And it's time time time

And they all pretend they're orphans and their memory's like a train
You can see it getting smaller as it pulls away
And the things you can't remember tell the things you can't forget
That history puts a saint in every dream

Well she said she'd stick around until the bandages came off
But these mama's boys just don't know when to quit
And mathilda asks the sailors "are those dreams or are those prayers?"
So close your eyes, son, and this won't hurt a bit

Oh it's time time time, and it's time time time
And it's time time time that you love
And it's time time time

Well things are pretty lousy for a calendar girl
The boys just dive right off the cars and splash into the street
And when they're on a roll she pulls a razor from her boot
And a thousand pigeons fall around her feet
So put a candle in the window and a kiss upon his lips
As the dish outside the window fills with rain
Just like a stranger with the weeds in your heart
And pay the fiddler off 'til i come back again

Oh it's time time time, and it's time time time
And it's time time time that you love
And it's time time time
And it's time time time, and it's time time time
And it's time time time that you love
And it's time time time

[eclipse]

one of my favorite songs and for sure my favorite by Kate Bush

Cloudbusting - Kate Bush (Hounds of Love album)

I still dream of Orgonon.
I wake up crying.
You're making rain,
And you're just in reach,
When you and sleep escape me.

You're like my yo-yo
That glowed in the dark.
What made it special
Made it dangerous,
So I bury it
And forget.

But every time it rains,
You're here in my head,
Like the sun coming out--
Ooh, I just know that something good is going to happen.
And I don't know when,
But just saying it could even make it happen.

On top of the world,
Looking over the edge,
You could see them coming.
You looked too small
In their big, black car,
To be a threat to the men in power.

I hid my yo-yo
In the garden.
I can't hide you
From the government.
Oh, God, Daddy--
I won't forget,

'Cause every time it rains,
You're here in my head,
Like the sun coming out--
Ooh, I just know that something good is going to happen.
And I don't know when,
But just saying it could even make it happen.

The sun's coming out.
Your son's coming out.

Just HAVE to say Jason...This is my favorite Kate song also...I am so glad that you "get it"...you know being so much younger, and sweeter ....and all in all , you know ..."gayer":eek: and stuff..Hey,
...I am so happy that you love this song-; like a 47 year old hetero female can.... :cool:
hugs always,
~eclipse~~

[The Tower]

"Notebook" -by The Innocence Mission (Karen Peris)

I showed him my notebook
The underside of my soul released
In scribbles on pages
He smiled and held my hand...

I knew that he would see
For he dreams of touching beauty, too
There has to be more than... the work day....

He's painting houses...
He's painting houses for awhile
Then home to his canvas
Coming to life....

I write in my notebook
With feeling that takes me by surprise
And thoughts that I don't know... I have

They're hidden by useless facts that I've
Compiled at the office where I work
Where there is no time for feeling... anything....

You see, I just work there
To finance my real life that begins
With scribbles on pages
And thoughts of "how" and "when".... yeah....

Museums on Sundays
Whenever we can we both go
And stay there for hours
Feeding... our spirits....

Beauty is still free
Beauty is not exclusive
Beauty is ours to... touch and to know
To touch and know....

Don't you think there's more?
I really have to know
Don't you think there's more to life?
Don't you think there's more to life?

[dissention]

Another beautiful Emmylou Harris song:

Hour of Gold

I have seen your soul turn black
And then retreat
To that dark place where no one else may follow
I waited here for your returning
To roll your cigarette
And wash your bloodied feet

You have heard the silent running
Of my dreams
Broke me from the grip of grief and fever
With the sound of your voice speaking my name
And a kiss
That I will feel forever

In the hour of gold, the hour of lead
We did forge our wedding bed
On a hard and holy road
We lay down our head
In tha hour of gold, the hour of lead

I have watched you riding on
The wall of death
And when it finally breaks you and you fall
I will tear this dress of muslin that you gave me
To bind the fatal wound
And catch your last sweet breath

In the hour of gold, the hour of lead
We did forge our wedding bed
On a hard and holy road
We lay down our head
In the hour of gold, the hour of lead

But the world will be my witness
When they excavate my heart
And find the image of your face
Imprinted there like some Shroud of Turin
That neither time nor tundra could erase

In the hour of gold, the hour of lead
We did forge our wedding bed
On a hard and holy road
We lay down our head
In the hour of gold, the hour of lead

[Moony]

"Rain" by Patty Griffin

It's hard to listen to a hard hard heart
Beating close to mine
Pounding up against the stone and steel
Walls that I won't climb
Sometimes a hurt is so deep deep deep
You think that you're gonna drown
Sometimes all I can do is weep weep weep
With all this rain falling down

Strange how hard it rains now
Rows and rows of big dark clouds
When I'm holding on underneath this shroud
Rain

Its hard to know when to give up the fight
Two things you want will just never be right
Its never rained like it has tonight before
Now I don't wanna beg you baby
For something maybe you could never give
I'm not looking for the rest of your life
I just want another chance to live

Strange how hard it rains now
Rows and rows of big dark clouds
When I'm holding on underneath this shroud
Rain

Strange how hard it rains now
Rows and rows of big dark clouds
When I'm still alive underneath this shroud
Rain Rain Rain

[SomeKindaMother]

Little God
by Patty Griffin

Good morning little god
I see you've come for me again
With a noose between your teeth
You are not my friend
Pouring little cups of tea
Humming a little tune
You sit across from me
And fill my little room
Little god

Smoke is in the air
From your little cigarettte
You tell me to throw the fight
Go and place your little bet
Shake, little god
Shake your little fists
All the strippers think you're odd
But you leave the biggest tips
Little god

Where oh where did I leave myself today
On the bed, on the chair
Did I send myself away
On a sleepy afternoon
Will I be returning soon

Laugh your little laugh
Stomp your little feet
They sulk behind your back,
All the people that you meet
They say time is running out
And you don't know what to do
And I hear them talk about
Another place but not with you
Little god
Little god
Little god
Little god
Little god

[BTFLCHLD]

Forgotten
Linkin Park

From the top to the bottom
Bottom to top I stop
At the core I’ve forgotten
In the middle of my thoughts
Taken far from my safety
The picture is there
The memory won’t escape me
But why should I care

There’s a place so dark you can’t see the end
Skies cock back and shock that which can’t defend
The rain then sends dripping an acidic question
Forcefully, the power of suggestion
Then with the eyes shut looking thought the rust and rot
And dust a small spot of light floods the floor
And pours over the rusted world of pretend
The eyes ease open and its dark again

Moving all around screaming of the ups and downs
Pollution manifested in perpetual sound
The wheels go round and the sunset creeps behind
Street lamps, chain-link and concrete
A little piece of paper with a picture drawn floats
On down the street till the wind is gone
The memory now is like the picture was then
When the paper’s crumpled up it can’t be perfect again

Now you got me caught in the act
You bring the thought back
I’m telling you that
I see it right through you

In the memory you’ll find me
Eyes burning up
The darkness holding me tightly
Until the sun rises up

[SomeKindaMother]

The Middle
by: Jimmy Eat World


Hey, don't write yourself off yet
It's only in your head you feel left out
and looked down on.
Just try your best,
Try everything you can.
And don't you worry what they tell themselves
When you're away.

It just takes some time
Little girl, you're in the middle of the ride.
Everything, everything will be just fine,
Everything, everything will be alright, alright.

Hey, you know they're all the same.
You know you're doing better on your own,
so don't buy in.
Live right now and
just be yourself.
It doesn't matter if it's good enough
For someone else.

It just takes some time
Little girl, you're in the middle of the ride.
Everything, everything will be just fine,
Everything, everything will be alright, alright.

[Richard B]

Naked
BoDeans

Baby, ask me anything that you want
And I'll look you in the eye now
There can be no surprises
If we mean what we say
I've been around the block
And I've done some things
That I ain't so very proud of
Darlin' help me leave this cloud of
Rolling lonely behind

Naked
I'll stand naked
If you stand naked with me
I'll stand naked with you

In the morning when I look in the mirror
I look twice at what I'm seeing
If those eyes are really me then
Lord, have mercy on my soul
I'm walking forward but I'm walking alone
And I need some understanding
Here, we all need some understanding
And I want you to know

My hands are shaking as I reach for the touch
And all I want to do is hold you
And I want to lose control
You are so easy to crave
The time has come for us to lay it all down
There can be no more denying
If I can't have you I'm dying
A little more every day

Naked
(Take me out from the shadow)
I'll stand naked
(Lead me down to the waters)
If you'll stand naked with me
(Drown my soul in a sea of love)
I'll stand naked with you
(Don't leave me haunted, 'cause)
Naked
(I believe in the searching)
I'll stand naked
(And I'll find my way through the darkness)
If you'll stand naked with me
(There are doors ahead if we see clear)
I'll stand naked with you
(They're falling open)

[Wild_Heart03]

Coming Around Again - Carly Simon

Baby sneezes
Mommy pleases
Daddy breezes in
So good on paper
So romantic
But so bewildering

I know nothing stays the same
But if you're willing to play the game
It's coming around again
So don't mind if I fall apart
There's more room in a broken heart

You pay the grocer
Fix the toaster
Kiss the host Good-bye
Then you break a window
burn the Soufflé
Scream a lullaby

I know nothing stays the same
But if you're willing to play the game
It's coming around again
So don't mind if I fall apart
There's more room in a broken heart

And I believe in love
But what else can I do
I'm so in love with you

I know nothing stays the same
But if you're willing to play the game
It's coming around again

I know nothing stays the same
But if you're willing to play the game
It's coming around again
So don't mind if I fall apart
There's more room in a broken heart

[SomeKindaMother]

Time of Your Life
by Green Day

Another turning point
A fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist
directs you where to go.
So make the best of this test
and don't ask why.
It's not a question
but a lesson learned in time.
It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

So take the photographs
and still frames in your mind.
Hang it on a shelf
In good health and good time.
Tattoos of memories
and dead skin on trial.
For what it's worth,
it was worth all the while.
It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

[markolas]

People's Parties
by Joni Mitchell

All the people at this party
They've got a lot of style
They've got stamps of many countries
They've got passport smiles

Some are friendly
Some are cutting
Some are watching it from the wings
Some are standing in the center
Giving to get something

Photo beauty gets attention
Then her eye paint's running down
She's got a rose in her teeth
And a lamp shade crown

One minute she's so happy
Then she's crying on someone's knee
Saying laughing and crying
You know it's the same release

I told you when I met you I was crazy
Cry for us all, beauty
Cry for Eddie in the corner, thinking he's nobody
And Jack behind his joker
And stone cold Grace behind her fan
And me in my frightened silence
Thinking I don't understand

I feel like I'm sleeping
Can you wake me?
You seem to have a broader sensibility
I'm just living on nerves and feelings
With a weak and a lazy mind
And coming to people's parties
Fumbling deaf, dumb, and blind

I wish I had more sense of humor
Keeping the sadness at bay
Throwing the lightness on these things
Laughing it all away

[SomeKindaMother]

If I Were You
by Kasey Chambers

If I was good
I'd tell everyone I know
If I was free
I wouldn't be so keen to go

If I was wrong
I would take it like a man
If I was smart
I would get out while I can

If I was broken
I would probably let it be
If I was dying
I wouldn't go out quietly

If I was lost
Well my heart would feel the same
If I was honest
I would probably be ashamed

But if I were you
I would notice me
If I were you
I would wait for me
If I were you
I would easily hold me and say
It's all gonna be OK

If I was rich
I would spend it on my own
If I was dignified
I'd only smoke at home

If I was dark
I would only dress in black
If I was chosen
I would gladly give it back

It's not for you to judge
From all this kind of stuff
I'm only half of what you see

[BTFLCHLD]

Under The Same Sun
Scorpions

I saw the morning
It was shattered by a gun
Heard a scream, saw him fall, no one cried
I saw a mother
She was praying for her son
Bring him back, let him live, don’t let him die

Do you ever ask yourself
Is there a heaven in the sky
Why can’t we get it right

’cause we all live under the same sun
We all walk under the same moon
Then why, why can’t we live as one

I saw the evening
Fading shadows one by one
We watch the lamb, lay down to the sacrifice
I saw the children
The children of the sun
How they wept, how they bled, how they died

Do you ever ask yourself
Is there a heaven in the sky
Why can’t we stop the fight

’cause we all live under the same sun
We all walk under the same moon
Then why, why can’t we live as one

Sometimes I think I’m going mad
We’re loosing all we had and no one seems to care
But in my heart it doesn’t change
We’ve got to rearrange and bring our world some love

And does it really matter
If there’s a heaven up above
We sure could use some love

’cause we all live under the same sun
We all walk under the same moon
Then why, why can’t we live as one

[Brwn_eyes0511]

Le Temps (There is a Time)

(Written by: Charles Aznavour)

Laisse-moi guider tes pas dans l'existence
Laisse-moi la chance de me faire aimer
Viens comme une enfant au creux de mon épaule
Laisse-moi le rôle de te faire oublier
Le temps qui va
Le temps qui sommeille
Le temps sans joie
Le temps des merveilles
Le temps d'une jour
Temps d'une seconde
Le temps qui court
Et celui qui gronde

Le temps, le temps
Le temps et rien d'autre
Le tien, le mien
Celui qu'on veut nôtre

Le temps passé
Celui qui va naître
Le temps d'aimer
Et de disparaître
Le temps des pleurs
Le temps de la chance
Le temps qui meurt
Le temps des vacances

Le temps glorieux
Le temps d'avant-guerre
Le temps des jeux
Le temps des affaires
Le temps joyeux
Le temps des mensonges
Le temps frileux
Et le temps des songes

Le temps des crues
Le temps des folies
Le temps perdu
Le temps de la vie
Le temps qui vient
Jamais ne s'arrête
Et je sais bien
Que la vie est faite

Du temps des uns
Et du temps des autres
Le tien, le mien
Peut devenir nôtre

Le temps, le temps, le temps

[The Tower]

Dust 'n Bones by GNR (Izzy Stradlin)

He lost his mind today
He left it out back on the highway
On "65"

She loved him yesterday
Yesterday's over I said okay
That's all right

Time moves on, that's the way
We live and hope to see the next day
That's all right

Sometimes these things they are so easy
Sometimes these things they are so cold
Sometimes these things just seem to rip you right in two....
Oh, no, man don't let 'em get to you!!!

She loved him yesterday
He laid her sister she said, "O.K."
And that's all right

Buried her things today
Way back out deep behind the driveway
And that's all right

Sometimes these women are so easy
Sometimes these women are so cold
Sometimes these women seem to rip you right in two
Only if you let 'em get to you

Ya get out on your own
And you take all that you own
And you forget about your home
And you're just ****ing gone!!!

There's no logic here today
Do as you got to, go your own way
I said that's right

Time's short your life's your own
And in the end we are just...
Dust and bones...

[SomeKindaMother]

Every Little Bit
by Patty Griffin


It's funny how a morning turns a love to shame
Disguised and disfigured and you thought I tasted like rain
There`s nothing here but a shadow nothin' here
Now you know
Now you know
Now you know
Now you know
There's nothin' here but the shadow
and now you know

I spit, I spit in the eye
I tear, I tear out my heart
and I scatter the bits
I stay unseen by the light
I stay untold by the truth
I'm sold by a lie
By this I am able in all of my travels
To make these memories quit
But tonight I clearly recall every little bit

I can chew like a cannibal
I can yell like a cat
I even had you believing that I
really really like it like that
But there was never a moment
Not a moment
Now you know
Now you know
Now you know
Now you know
You ever got within a hundred
million miles of my soul

I spit, I spit in the eye
I tear, I tear out my heart
And I scatter the bits
I stay unseen by the light
I stay untold by the truth
I'm sold by a lie
By this I am able in all of my travels
To make these memories quit
But tonight I clearly recall every little bit

You left open the window till the morning
And the winter walked in
Reality fired her wooden bullet
Splintered under our skin
They say I'm walking on freedom
This is freedom
Now I know
Now I know
Now I know
Now I know
I still don't blame you for leaving, baby
It's cold living with ghosts

I spit, I spit in the eye
I tear, I tear out my heart
and I scatter the bits
I stay unseen by the light
I stay untold by the truth
I'm sold by a lie
By this I am able in all of my travels
To make these memories quit
But tonight I clearly recall every little bit

[Richard B]

SIXTY-MINUTE MAN
Billy Ward and His Dominoes
(Marks/Ward)
- on Rhino's "Risque Rhythm: Nasty 50s R&B"


Sixty-minute man, sixty-minute man

Look a here girls I'm telling you now
They call me "Lovin' Dan"
I rock 'em, roll 'em all night long
I'm a sixty-minute man

If you don't believe I'm all that I say
Come up and take my hand
When I let you go you'll cry "Oh yes,"
"He's a sixty-minute man"

There'll be 15 minutes of kissing
Then you'll holler "please don't stop"
There'll be 15 minutes of teasing
And 15 minutes of squeezing
And 15 minutes of blowing my top

If your man ain't treating you right
Come up and see ol' Dan
I rock 'em, roll 'em all night long
I'm a sixty-minute man

Sixty-minute man
They call me Lovin' Dan
I rock 'em, roll 'em all night long
I'm a sixty-minute man

Sixty-minute man
They call me Lovin' Dan
I rock 'em, roll 'em all night long
I'm a sixty-minute man

There'll be 15 minutes of kissing
Then you'll holler "please don't stop"
There'll be 15 minutes of teasing
And 15 minutes of squeezing
And 15 minutes of blowing my top

If your man ain't treating you right
Come up and see ol' Dan
I rock 'em, roll 'em all night long
I'm a sixty-minute man, oh yeah
SIXTY-MINUTE MAN

[BTFLCHLD]

Soul
Matchbox20 (Cook, Doucette & Thomas)

Hang out my window
And over your head
Stare at your feelings
To see where they end

You're waiting here
For someone else to break you
From the inside
You've been so composed
But we all know there's

Always something
Tearing you apart

It's always so much longer than
You counted on

It hits you so much harder
Than you thought

But you don't worry
You don't worry
Cuz you got soul

You're so heavy
You're so misunderstood

And I spent all my wishes
Wishin' times were good
When I still could

Wait around here
For someone else to take me
Past the good side

You've been here so long now
We all know there's
Always something tearin' you apart

It's always so much longer
Than you counted on

It hits you so much harder
Than you thought

But you don't worry
You don't worry
Cuz darlin' you've got so much soul

Darlin' you've got so much soul

Well there's always something tearin' you apart

It's always so much longer
Than you counted on

It hits you so much harder
Than you thought
Than you ever thought it would

But you don't worry
You don't worry
You don't worry
You don't worry
You don't worry
You don't worry
You've got soul

[SomeKindaMother]

Paint It Black
by The Rolling Stones

I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colors anymore I want them to turn black
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes

I see a line of cars and they're all painted black
With flowers and my love, both never to come back
I see people turn their heads and quickly look away
Like a newborn baby it just happens ev'ryday

I look inside myself and see my heart is black
I see my red door and it has been painted black
Maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts
It's not easy facing up when your whole world is black

No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue
I could not forsee this thing happening to you
If I look hard enough into the setting sun
My love will laugh with me before the morning comes

I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colors anymore I want them to turn black
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes

Hmm, hmm, hmm...

I wanna see it painted black, painted black
Black as night, black as coal
I wanna see the sun, blotted out from the sky
I wanna see it painted, painted, painted, painted black
Yeah

[BTFLCHLD]

mind games
john lennon

We're playing those mind games together
Pushing the barriers planting seeds
Playing the mind guerrilla
Chanting the Mantra peace on earth
We all been playing those mind games forever
Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil
Doing the mind guerrilla
Some call it magic the search for the grail

Love is the answer and you know that for sure
Love is a flower you got to let it grow

So keep on playing those mind games together
Faith in the future out of the now
You just can't beat on those mind guerrillas
Absolute elsewhere in the stones of your mind
Yeah we're playing those mind games together
Projecting our images in space and in time

Yes is the answer and you know that for sure
Yes is surrender you got to let it go

So keep on playing those mind games together
Doing the ritual dance in the sun
Millions of mind guerrillas
Putting their soul power to the karmic wheel
Keep on playing those mind games together
Raising the spirit of peace and love
(I want you to make love, not war
I know you've heard it before)

[JazmenFlowers]

taxi ride - tori amos

Lily is dancing
on the table
We've all been
Pushed
Too far
I guess on days
like this
you know who your
friends are
Just another Dead Fag
to you, that's all
Just another Light missing
on a long taxi ride
taxi ride

And I'm down to
Your last cigarette and
this "We are one" crap
as you're invading
This thing you call
Love - she smiles
way too much but
I'm glad you're
on my side, sure
I'm glad you're on
my side still

You think you deserve
a trust fund
Just because you
Want one
Sure you talk the talk when you need to
I fear
the whole world is
starting to
Believe you
Just another Dead Fag
to you, that's all
Just another Light missing
in a long taxi line
taxi line

And I'm down to
Your last cigarette and
this "We are one" crap
as you're invading
This thing you call
Love - she smiles
way too much but
I'm glad you're
on my side, sure
I'm glad you're on
my side still

Lily is dancing
on the
table
We've all been pushed
Too far today
Even a glamorous
Bitch can be in
need
this is where you know
the Honey
from the
Killer Bees
and I'm glad you're on
my side
sure
I'm glad you're on
my side
sure
I'm glad you're on
my side still

Got a long taxi ride
Got a long taxi ride

[BTFLCHLD]

Thunder Road
Bruce Springsteen

The screen door slams
Mary's dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch
As the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again
Don't run back inside
darling you know just what I'm here for
So you're scared and you're thinking
That maybe we ain't that young anymore
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright
Oh and that's alright with me

You can hide `neath your covers
And study your pain
Make crosses from your lovers
Throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain
For a savior to rise from these streets
Well now I'm no hero
That's understood
All the redemption I can offer, girl
Is beneath this dirty hood
With a chance to make it good somehow
Hey what else can we do now
Except roll down the window
And let the wind blow back your hair
Well the night's busting open
These two lanes will take us anywhere
We got one last chance to make it real
To trade in these wings on some wheels
Climb in back
Heaven's waiting on down the tracks
Oh oh come take my hand
Riding out tonight to case the promised land
Oh oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road
oh Thunder Road
Lying out there like a killer in the sun
Hey I know it's late we can make it if we run
Oh Thunder Road, sit tight take hold
Thunder Road

Well I got this guitar
And I learned how to make it talk
And my car's out back
If you're ready to take that long walk
From your front porch to my front seat
The door's open but the ride it ain't free
And I know you're lonely
For words that I ain't spoken
But tonight we'll be free
All the promises'll be broken
There were ghosts in the eyes
Of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road
In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets

They scream your name at night in the street
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn
You hear their engines roaring on
But when you get to the porch they're gone
On the wind, so Mary climb in
It's a town full of losers
And I'm pulling out of here to win

[SomeKindaMother]

dedicated to all the lost ledgies.....

"Nullarbor Song"
by Kasey Chambers

When the fire burns out here
It's brighter than the city lights
Warmer than a heart of gold
And dingo's howl just to break the silence
The sun comes up just to break the cold
Last night I woke
With the stars looking back at me
Swallowing the sky
I felt no anger, I felt no shame
I felt no reason to cry

If I'm not here in the morning
I'll cry a river of tears
But I'll learn to live in a new town
But my heart is staying here

When it's quiet out here
A hundred miles away
You can hear the train on the line
The whistle blows just to break the silence
I wave just to break the time
I close my eyes
I think of runnin' water
I think of runnin' away
But the fires burnt to ashes
And it's darker than before
But I can see as clear as day

If I'm not here in the morning
I'll cry a river of tears
But I'll learn to live in a new town
But my heart is staying here

[BTFLCHLD]

I Remember You
Skid Row
[Bolan, Snake]

Woke up to the sound of pouring rain
The wind would whisper and I'd think of you
And all the tears you cried, that called my name
And when you needed me I came through

I paint a picture of the days gone by
When love went blind and you would make me see
I'd stare a lifetime into your eyes
So that I knew you were there for me
Time after time you were there for me

Remember yesterday - walking hand in hand
Love letters in the sand - I remember you
Through the sleepless nights and every endless day
I'd wanna hear you say - I remember you

We spend the summer with the top rolled down
Wished ever after would be like this
You said I love you babe, without a sound
I said I'd give my life for just one kiss
I'd live for your smile and die for your kiss

We've had our share of hard times
But that's the price we paid
And through it all we kept the promise that we made
I swear you'll never be lonely

Woke up to the sound of pouring rain
Washed away a dream of you
But nothing else could ever take you away
'Cause you'll always be my dream come true
Oh my darling, I love you

Remember yesterday - walking hand in hand
Love letters in the sand - I remember you
Through the sleepless nights and every endless day
I'd wanna hear you say - I remember you

[Brwn_eyes0511]

Amy Grant - Cry A River

Who knew love would come walking thru' my door
Turn a light on somewhere down inside
And give me a feeling i'd never had before
It was a long wait
It was just the wrong time

But i hope you'll hold me now
Somewhere within
And when you think about
What might have been

Cry a river
Flood the sea
Cry a river over me
Take the bitter
With the sweet
And cry a river over me

How can you argue with a feeling in your bones
'bout what is and what isn't meant to be
Some things you live with
But you never let it show
Like the pain i felt
The day i watched you leave

But i hope you'll think of me
When tender winds blow
Sit on the shores of love
And just let it go

[SomeKindaMother]

:xoxo: :xoxo: You kids are awesome!

Nobody's Crying
by Patty Griffin

Well he jumps in the taxi, headed for the sky
He's off to slay some demon dragonfly
And he looked at me, that long last time
Turned away again and I waved goodbye
In an envelope, inside his coat
Is a chain I wore, around my throat
Along with, a note I wrote
Said "I love you but, I don't even know why"

But darling, I wish you well
On your way to the wishing well
Swinging off of those gates of hell
But I can tell how hard you're trying
Just have that secret hope
sometimes all we do is cope
Somewhere on the steepest slope
There's an endless rope
and nobody's crying.

The long night turns into a couple long years
Of me walking around and round this trail of tears
With the very loud voices of my own tears
ringing and ringing in my ears
It says that love is long gone
Every move I make is all wrong
Says you never gave a damn for me
For anything, to anyone

But darling, I wish you well
On your way to the wishing well
Swinging off of those gates of hell
But I can tell how hard you're trying
I just had this secret hope
Though sometimes all we'd do is cope
That somewhere on the steepest slope
there's an endless rope
And nobody's crying.

May you dream you are dreaming, in a warm soft bed
May the voices inside you that fill you with dread
Sound like thousands of angels instead
Tonight where you might be laying your head

I wish you well
On your way to the wishing well
Swinging off of those gates of hell
But I can tell how hard you're trying
I still have this secret hope
Though sometimes all I do is cope
That somewhere on the steepest slope
there's an endless rope
And nobody' crying.

[irishgrl]

Cure - Apart

He waits for her to understand
But she won't understand at all
She waits all night for him to call
But he won't call anymore
He waits to hear her say
"Forgive"
But she justs drops her pearl-black eyes
And prays to hear him say
"I love you"
But he tells no more lies

He waits for her to sympathize
But she won't sympathize at all
She waits all night to feel his kiss
But always wakes alone
He waits to hear her say
"Forget"
But she just hangs her head in pain
And prays to hear him say
"No more
I'll never leave again"

How did we get this far apart?
We used to be so close together
How did we get this far apart?
I thought this love would last for ever

He waits for her to understand
But she won't understand at all
She waits all night for him to call
But he won't call
He waits to hear her say
"Forgive"
But she just drops her pearl black eyes
And prays to hear him say
"I love you"
But he tells no more lies

How did we get this far apart?
We used to be so close together
How did we get this far apart?
I thought this love would last for ever

[irishgrl]

Cure - Trust

There is no-one left in the world
That I can hold onto
There is really no-one left at all
There is only you
And if you leave me now
You leave all that we were
Undone
There is really no-one left
You are the only one

And still the hardest part for you
To put your trust in me
I love you more than I can say
Why won't you just believe?

[SomeKindaMother]

Goodbye Baby
Fleetwood Mac

Don't take me to the tower
And take my child away
It was I who was
The hourglass
And the sands of time like
Shattering glass went past me
Like a tunnel to the sea

And I who went to sleep as two
Woke up as one now only you remain
You'll close your eyes and travel back
To the time when the light went fading fast
And the words you'll never, never forget, oh no
As you slipped away

Goodbye baby
I hope your heart's not broken
Don't forget me
Yes I was outspoken
You were with me all the time
I'll be with you one day

And I who went to sleep in tears
Woke up in tears, for all of the years
And I who never, never said goodbye
As I slipped away

Goodbye baby
I hope your heart's not broken
Don't forget me
Yes I was outspoken
You were with me all the time
I'll be with you one day

Goodbye baby
I hope your heart's not broken
Don't forget me
Yes I was outspoken
You were with me all the time
I'll be with you one day

Yes, I'll be with you one day

[Richard B]

Carnival
Natalie Merchant

I've walked these streets
A virtual stage
It seemed to me
Make up on their faces
Actors took their
Places next to me

I've walked these streets
In a carnival
Of sights to see
All the cheap thrill seekers
The vendors and the dealers
They crowded around me

Have I been blind
Have I been lost
Inside my self and
My own mind
Hypnotized
Mesmerized
By what my eyes have seen?

I've walked these streets
In a spectacle of wealth and poverty
In the diamond markets
The scarlet welcome carpet
That they just rolled out for me

I've walked these streets
In the mad house asylum
They can be
Where a wild eyed misfit prophet
On a traffic island stopped
And he raved of saving me

Have I been blind
Have I been lost
Inside my self and
My own mind
Hypnotized
Mesmerized
By what my eyes have seen?

Have I been wrong
Have I been wise
To shut my eyes
And play along
Hypnotized
Paralyzed
By what my eyes have found
By what my eyes have seen
What they have seen?

Have I been blind
Have I been lost
Inside my self and
My own mind
Hypnotized
Mesmerized
By what my eyes have found
In that great street carnival
In that carnival?

[TheBlueLamp]

Don't Ask Me Why

Eurythmics

Miracle of miracles
Look what the night dragged in -
It's a pocket full of misery
And trouble on the wind
You spoiled the best years
Of your life
You took them all in vain
Now you think that you're forgiven
But you can't be born again

And you say
Why?
You say why?
You say why?
Don't ask me why -

I don't love you anymore
I don't think I ever did
And if you ever had
Any kind of love for me
You kept it all so well hid...

Promises sweet promises
You kept them from your mind
Like all the lost forgotten things
You never seemed to find
Like all the disappointments
You displayed upon your shelf
Now you've got no-one to turn to
You've got no-one but yourself

And you say
Why?

I don't love you anymore...

[Richard B]

Raining Again
Moby

Never know but nothing less
Couldn't see that I have guessed
Couldn't see, couldn't stay away

I never even stopped to dream and
That Id see anything and
The world is coming out so cold

Oh, and it's raining again
Loud on your car like, bullets on tin
Oh, and its raining again
Open the door and pulling me in

Nothing here but nothing less
Cold heart is stuck in this
Couldn't say the kindest words we knew

Everything I tried to say but
no one listens anyway
I had to give up everything that I knew

Oh, and it's raining again
Loud on your car like, bullets on tin
Oh, and its raining again
Open the door and pulling me in

Oh, and it's raining
Raining again
Oh, and it's raining
Raining again

Nothing here but nothing less
Everything we both regret
Couldn't say the kindest words we knew
Cause it was winter time and
We wanted some more time and
We watched the girls try something knew

We didn't even stopped to see that
That it was breaking me and
the world is coming out so cold
What you want you couldn't get, you
Couldn't wait for something less, you
had to give up everything you knew

Oh, and it's raining again
Loud on your car like, bullets on tin
Oh, and its raining again
Open the door and pulling me in
[2x]

Sadness like water raining down
Raining down, raining down, raining down
[5x]

Oh, and it's raining
Raining again
Oh, and it's raining
Raining again

[irishgrl]

I Wanna Know What Love Is......


I gotta take a little time
A little time to think things over
I better read between the lines
In case I need it when I’m older

Now this mountain I must climb
Feels like a world upon my shoulders
I through the clouds I see love shine
It keeps me warm as life grows colder

In my life there’s been heartache and pain
I don’t know if I can face it again
Can’t stop now, I’ve traveled so far
To change this lonely life

I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me

I’m gonna take a little time
A little time to look around me
I’ve got nowhere left to hide
It looks like love has finally found me

In my life there’s been heartache and pain
I don’t know if I can face it again
I can’t stop now, I’ve traveled so far
To change this lonely life

I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me

I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
And I wanna feel, I want to feel what love is
And I know, I know you can show me

Let’s talk about love
I wanna know what love is, the love that you feel inside
I want you to show me, and I’m feeling so much love
I wanna feel what love is, no, you just cannot hide
I know you can show me, yeah

I wanna know what love is, let’s talk about love
I want you to show me, I wanna feel it too
I wanna feel what love is, I want to feel it too
And I know and I know, I know you can show me
Show me love is real, yeah
I wanna know what love is...

[irishgrl]

Bryan Adams RUN TO YOU....
She says her love for me could never die
But that’d change if she ever found out about you and i

Oh - but her love is cold
It wouldn’t hurt her if she didn’t know, ’cause...

When it gets too much
I need to feel your touch

I’m gonna run to you
I’m gonna run to you
Cause when the feelin’s right I’m gonna run all night
I’m gonna run to you
She’s got a heart of gold she’d never let me down
But you’re the one that always turns me on
You keep me comin’ ’round

I know her love is true
But it’s so damn easy makin’ love to you

I got my mind made up
I need to feel your touch

I’m gonna run to you
Ya - I’m gonna run to you
Cause when the feelin’s right I’m gonna stay all night

I’m gonna run to you
Ya - I’m gonna run to you
Oh when the feelin’s right I’m gonna run all night
I’m gonna run to you

[irishgrl]

Artist/Band: Brooks And Dunn
Lyrics for Song: If You See Him/If You See Her
Lyrics for Album: Greatest Hits Collection 2

HER:
If you see him
Tell him I wish him well
How am I doing?
Well, sometimes it's hard to tell
I still miss him more than ever
But please dont say a word
If you see him
If you see him

HIM:
If you see her
Tell her I'm doing fine
And if you want to
Say that I think of her from time to time
Ask her if she ever wonders
Where we both went wrong
If you see her
If you see her

Oh I, I still want her

HER:
I still need him so

BOTH:
I dont know why we let each other go


HIM:
If you see her
Tell her the lights still on for her

HER:
Nothing's changed
Deep down the fire still burns for him

BOTH:
And even if it takes forever say I'll still be here

HER:
If you see him

HIM:
If you see her

HER: If you see him

HIM: If you see her

to my mind, the best MARS/VENUS song ever written.

[Janet]

**** This song makes me cry. Makes me think of my dad who used to play this when I was little. There was only a short time when life was like this before it went to hell.

CROSBY, STILLS and NASH
I'll light the fire, while you place the flowers
In the vase that you bought today.
Staring at the fire for hours and hours,
While I listen to you play your love songs
All night long for me, only for me.

Our house, is a very, very, very fine house.
With two cats in the yard,
Life used to be so hard,
Now everything is easy 'cause of you.

Come to me now, and rest your head for just five minutes,
Everything is done.
Such a cozy room, the windows are illuminated
By the evening sunshine through them,
Fiery gems for you, only for you.

Our house, is a very, very, very fine house.
With two cats in the yard,
Life used to be so hard,
Now everything is easy 'cause of you.

[Janet]

*** I have posted this before. This reminds me too of my dad, who died of a drug overdose. This song kills me.

I caught you knockin'
at my cellar door
I love you, baby,
can I have some more
Ooh, ooh, the damage done.
I hit the city and
I lost my band
I watched the needle
take another man
Gone, gone, the damage done.
I sing the song
because I love the man
I know that some
of you don't understand
Milk-blood
to keep from running out.
I've seen the needle
and the damage done
A little part of it in everyone
But every junkie's
like a settin' sun.

[Janet]

Words and music: fiona apple
I’m gonna make a mistake-
I’m gonna do it on purpose
I’m gonna waste my time
Cuz i’ full as a tick
And i’ scratching at the surface
And what I find is mine
And when the day is done, and I look back
And the fact is I had fun, fumbling around
All the advice I shunned, and I ran
Where they told me not to run, but I sure
Had fun, so
I’m gonna **** it up again
I’m gonna do another detour
Unpave my path
And if you wanna make sense
Whatcha looking at me for
I’m no good at math
And when I find my way back,
The fact is I just may stay, or I may not
I’ve acquired quite a taste
For a well-made mistake
I wanna mistake why can’t I make a mistake?
I’m always doing what I think I should
Almost always doing everybody good
Why
Do I wanna do right, of course but
Do I really wanna feel I’m forced to
Answer you, hell no
I’ve acquired quite a taste
For a well-made mistake, I wanna
Make a mistake, why can’t I make a mistake
I’m always doing what I think I should
Almost always doing everybody good
Why

[ragandbone]

My Life

My life, it don't count for nothing.
When I look at this world, I feel so small.
My life, it's only a season:
A passing September that no one will recall.

But I gave joy to my mother.
And I made my lover smile.
And I can give comfort to my friends when they're hurting.
And I can make it seem better for a while.

My life, it's half the way travelled,
And still I have not found my way out of this night.
An' my life, it's tangled in wishes,
And so many things that just never turned out right.

But I gave joy to my mother.
And I made my lover smile.
And I can give comfort to my friends when they're hurting.
And I can make it seem better,
I can make it seem better,
I can make it seem better for a while.

Oh, oh oh.
Oh oh.

[Janet]

When I was a teen and this came out...this song hit me so hard. These ominous lyrics always intrigued me...in a dark way.
U2-Love is Blindness

Love is blindness
I don’t want to see
Won’t you wrap the night
Around me
Take my heart
Love is blindness

In a parked car
In a crowded street
You see your love
Made complete
Thread is ripping
The knot is slipping
Love is blindness

Love is clockworks
And cold steel
Fingers to numb to feel
Squeeze the handle
Blow out the candle
Love is blindness

Love is blindness
I don’t want to see
Won’t you wrap the night
Around me
Oh my love
Blindness

A little death
Without mourning
No call
And no warning
Baby...a dangerous idea
That almost makes sense

Love is drowning
In a deep well
All the secrets
And no one to tell
Take the money
Honey
Blindness

Love is blindness
I don’t want to see
Won’t you wrap the night
Around me
Oh my love
Blindness.

[Richard B]

Bittersweet Symphony
The Verve

Cos' it's a bittersweet symphony this life...
Trying to make ends meet, you're a slave to the money then you die.
I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down...
You know the one that takes you to the places where all the veins meet, yeah.
No change, I can't change, I can't change, I can't change,
but I'm here in my mold , I am here in my mold.
But I'm a million different people from one day to the next.
I can't change my mold, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

Well, I never pray,
But tonight I'm on my knees, yeah.
I need to hear some sounds that recognize the pain in me, yeah.
I let the melody shine, let it cleanse my mind , I feel free now.
But the airwaves are clean and there's nobody singing to me now.

No change, I can't change, I can't change, I can't change,
but I'm here in my mold , I am here in my mold.
And I'm a million different people from one day to the next
I can't change my mold, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

(Well have you ever been down?)
(I can't change, I can't change...)
(Ooooohhhhh...)

Cos' it's a bittersweet symphony this life.
Trying to make ends meet, trying to find some money then you die.
I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down...
You know the one that takes you to the places where all the veins meet, yeah.
You know I can't change, I can't change, I can't change,
but I'm here in my mold, I am here in my mold.
And I'm a million different people from one day to the next.
I can't change my mold, no,no,no,no,no,no,no
I can't change my mold, no,no,no,no,no,no,no
I can't change my mold, no,no,no,no,no,no,no

(It justs sex and violence melody and silence)
(It justs sex and violence melody and silence)
(I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down)
(It justs sex and violence melody and silence)
(I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down)
(Been down)
(Ever been down)
(Ever been down)(Lalalalalalaaaaaaaa...)
(Ever been down)
(Ever been down)
(Have you ever been down?)
(Have you ever been down?)
(Have you ever been down?)

[cliffdweller]

Into The Mystic
By: Van Morrison

We were born before the wind
Also younger than the sun
Ere the bonnie boat was won as we sailed into the mystic
Hark, now hear the sailors cry
Smell the sea and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic

And when that fog horn blows I will be coming home
And when that fog horn blows I want to hear it
I don’t have to fear it
I want to rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
Then magnificently we will float into the mystic
And when that fog horn blows you know I will be coming home
And when thst fog horn whistle blows I got to hear it
I don’t have to fear it
I want to rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
And together we will float into the mystic
Come on girl...

[madformac]

"Leaving Beirut" by Roger Waters

So we left Beirut, Willa and I
He headed East to Baghdad and the rest of it
I set out North
I walked the five or six miles to the last of the street lamps
And hunkered in the curb side dusk
Holding out my thumb
In no great hope at the ramshackle procession of home bound traffic
Success!
An ancient Mercedes 'dolmus '
The ubiquitous, Arab, shared taxi drew up
I turned out my pockets and shrugged at the driver
" J'ai pas de l'argent "
" Venez! " A soft voice from the back seat
The driver lent wearily across and pushed open the back door
I stooped to look inside at the two men there
One besuited, bespectacled, moustached, irritated, distant, late
The other, the one who had spoken,
Frail, fifty five-ish, bald, sallow, in a short sleeved pale blue cotton shirt
With one biro in the breast pocket
A clerk maybe, slightly sunken in the seat
"Venez!" He said again, and smiled
"Mais j'ai pas de l'argent"
"Oui, Oui, d'accord, Venez!"

Are these the people that we should bomb
Are we so sure they mean us harm
Is this our pleasure, punishment or crime
Is this a mountain that we really want to climb
The road is hard, hard and long
Put down that two by four
This man would never turn you from his door
Oh George! Oh George!
That Texas education must have ****ed you up when you were very small

He beckoned with a small arthritic motion of his hand
Fingers together like a child waving goodbye
The driver put my old Hofner guitar in the boot with my rucksack
And off we went
" Vous etes Francais, monsieur? "
" Non, Anglais "
" Ah! Anglais "
" Est-ce que vous parlais Anglais, Monsieur? "
"Non, je regrette"
And so on
In small talk between strangers, his French alien but correct
Mine halting but eager to please
A lift, after all, is a lift
Late moustache left us brusquely
And some miles later the dolmus slowed at a crossroads lit by a single lightbulb
Swung through a U-turn and stopped in a cloud of dust
I opened the door and got out
But my benefactor made no move to follow
The driver dumped my guitar and rucksack at my feet
And waving away my thanks returned to the boot
Only to reappear with a pair of alloy crutches
Which he leaned against the rear wing of the Mercedes.
He reached into the car and lifted my companion out
Only one leg, the second trouser leg neatly pinned beneath a vacant hip
" Monsieur, si vous voulez, ca sera un honneur pour nous
Si vous venez avec moi a la maison pour manger avec ma femme "

When I was 17 my mother, bless her heart, fulfilled my summer dream
She handed me the keys to the car
We motored down to Paris, fuelled with Dexedrine and booze
Got bust in Antibes by the cops
And fleeced in Naples by the wops
But everyone was kind to us, we were the English dudes
Our dads had helped them win the war
When we all knew what we were fighting for
But now an Englishman abroad is just a US stooge
The bulldog is a poodle snapping round the scoundrel's last refuge

"Ma femme", thank God! Monopod but not queer
The taxi drove off leaving us in the dim light of the swinging bulb
No building in sight
What the hell
"Merci monsieur"
"Bon, Venez!"
His faced creased in pleasure, he set off in front of me
Swinging his leg between the crutches with agonising care
Up the dusty side road into the darkness
After half an hour we'd gone maybe half a mile
When on the right I made out the low profile of a building
He called out in Arabic to announce our arrival
And after some scuffling inside a lamp was lit
And the changing angle of light in the wide crack under the door
Signalled the approach of someone within
The door creaked open and there, holding a biblical looking oil lamp
Stood a squat, moustached woman, stooped smiling up at us
She stood aside to let us in and as she turned
I saw the reason for her stoop
She carried on her back a shocking hump
I nodded and smiled back at her in greeting, fighting for control
The gentleness between the one-legged man and his monstrous wife
Almost too much for me

Is gentleness too much for us
Should gentleness be filed along with empathy
We feel for someone else's child
Every time a smart bomb does its sums and gets it wrong
Someone else's child dies and equities in defence rise
America, America, please hear us when we call
You got hip-hop, be-bop, hustle and bustle
You got Atticus Finch
You got Jane Russell
You got freedom of speech
You got great beaches, wildernesses and malls
Don't let the might, the Christian right, **** it all up
For you and the rest of the world

They talked excitedly
She went to take his crutches in routine of care
He chiding, gestured
We have a guest
She embarrassed by her faux pas
Took my things and laid them gently in the corner
"Du the?"
We sat on meagre cushions in one corner of the single room
The floor was earth packed hard and by one wall a raised platform
Some six foot by four covered by a simple sheet, the bed
The hunchback busied herself with small copper pots over an open hearth
And brought us tea, hot and sweet
And so to dinner
Flat, unleavened bread, + thin
Cooked in an iron skillet over the open hearth
Then folded and dipped into the soft insides of female sea urchins
My hostess did not eat, I ate her dinner
She would hear of nothing else, I was their guest
And then she retired behind a curtain
And left the men to sit drinking thimbles full of Arak
Carefully poured from a small bottle with a faded label
Soon she reappeared, radiant
Carrying in her arms their pride and joy, their child.
I'd never seen a squint like that
So severe that as one eye looked out the other disappeared behind its nose

Not in my name, Tony, you great war leader you
Terror is still terror, whosoever gets to frame the rules
History's not written by the vanquished or the damned
Now we are Genghis Khan, Lucretia Borghia, Son of Sam
In 1961 they took this child into their home
I wonder what became of them
In the cauldron that was Lebanon
If I could find them now, could I make amends?
How does the story end?

And so to bed, me that is, not them
Of course they slept on the floor behind a curtain
Whilst I lay awake all night on their earthen bed
Then came the dawn and then their quiet stirrings
Careful not to wake the guest
I yawned in great pretence
And took the proffered bowl of water heated up and washed
And sipped my coffee in its tiny cup
And then with much "merci-ing" and bowing and shaking of hands
We left the woman to her chores
And we men made our way back to the crossroads
The painful slowness of our progress accentuated by the brilliant morning light
The dolmus duly reappeared
My host gave me one crutch and leaning on the other
Shook my hand and smiled
"Merci, monsieur," I said
" De rien "
" And merci a votre femme, elle est tres gentille "
Giving up his other crutch
He allowed himself to be folded into the back seat again
"Bon voyage, monsieur," he said
And half bowed as the taxi headed south towards the city
I turned North, my guitar over my shoulder
And the first hot gust of wind
Quickly dried the salt tears from my young cheeks.

[Brwn_eyes0511]

Bob Dylan - If Not For You

If not for you,
Babe, I couldn't find the door,
Couldn't even see the floor,
I'd be sad and blue,
If not for you.

If not for you,
Babe, I'd lay awake all night,
Wait for the mornin' light
To shine in through,
But it would not be new,
If not for you.

If not for you
My sky would fall,
Rain would gather too.
Without your love I'd be nowhere at all,
I'd be lost if not for you,
And you know it's true.

If not for you
My sky would fall,
Rain would gather too.
Without your love I'd be nowhere at all,
Oh! What would I do
If not for you.

If not for you,
Winter would have no spring,
Couldn't hear the robin sing,
I just wouldn't have a clue,
Anyway it wouldn't ring true,
If not for you.

[bretonbanquet]

Jeremy Spencer & The Children
"Beauty For Ashes" (Jeremy Spencer/David Senek)


My heart beats so fast whenever I'm with you
And when I look into your eyes
This must be the last night I'll spend with you
Forgive me for making you cry

I used to think I was really something
I really thought I was so cool
Thinking that you were the only one
That ever needed this love
But oh, how I need you

Beauty for ashes, joy for sorrow
The sweetest of songs must come from this pain
We’ll see as the night passes
Our love only grows when
It's given to be returned again.

[BTFLCHLD]

dont cry
GNR

Talk to me softly
There's something in your eyes
Don't hang your head in sorrow
And please don't cry
I know how you feel inside I've
I've been there before
Somethin's changin' inside you baby
And don't you know

Don't you cry tonight
I still love you
Don't you cry tonight
Don't you cry tonight
There's a heaven above you baby
And don't you cry tonight

Give me a whisper
And give me a sigh
Give me a kiss before you tell me goodbye
Don't you take it so hard now
And please don't take it so bad
I'll still be thinking of you
And the times we had ... baby

And don't you cry tonight
Don't you cry tomight
Don't you cry tonight
There's a heaven above you baby
And don't you cry tonight

And please remember that I never lied
And please remember
How I felt inside now honey
You gotta make it your own way
But you'll be alright now sugar
You'll feel better tomorrow
Come the morning light now baby

And don't you cry tonight
An don't you cry tonight
An don't you cry tonight
There's a heaven above you baby
And don't you cry
Don't you ever cry
Don't you cry tonight
Baby maybe someday
Don't you cry
Don't you ever cry
Don't you cry
Tonight

[BTFLCHLD]

sweet child'omine...gnr
She's got a smile that it seems to me
Reminds me of childhood memories
Where everything
Was as fresh as the bright blue sky
Now and then when I see her face
She takes me away to that special place
And if I stared too long
I'd probably break down and cry

Sweet child o' mine
Sweet love of mine

She's got eyes of the bluest skies
As if they thought of rain
I hate to look into those eyes
And see an ounce of pain
Her hair reminds me
Of a warm safe place
Where as a child I'd hide
And pray for the thunder
And the rain
To quietly pass me by

Sweet child o' mine
Sweet love of mine

Where do we go
Where do we go now
Where do we go
Sweet child o' mine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjrbrbngSXY
if anyone has the vid w/slash help me out w/it.

[Richard B]

Honey Don't Think
Grant Lee Buffalo


It's the luck of the draw
How you wound up with me
You don't know how at all
But I beg you to stay
Crawl around on this earth
While the world's still small

Honey don't think
About it too long now
Honey don't think
You're liable to figure me out

Something wrong in my stars
Could you look at my chart
Help me healing these scars
Could you learn to read minds
In the case of mine
Do you read in the dark

Honey don't think
About it too long now
Honey don't think
You're liable to figure me out
You don't wanna figure me out
You don't wanna figure me out
Don't wanna lose

Honey don't think
About it too long now
Honey don't think
You're liable to figure me out

Honey don't think
About it too long now (about it too long now)
Honey don't think
You're liable to figure me out

Honey don't think
About it too long

[David]

What's the theme of this thread? Just post a song?

[BTFLCHLD]

What's the theme of this thread? Just post a song?

hi david...

this is the initial post:

On any particular day, night, week, month, year, decade, all-time (you get it) post a song with lyrics that is meaningful to you (e.g. not necessarily every song you hear.) Here is the tricky part, if the song has already been posted within this thread come back another time with a different selection. Please provide a little or all lyrics included to capture the essence of the song...and maybe even a bit of you.

Let's build a massive collection

If you'd like to participate, please do.

On EDIT: Let's try not to insert comment posts...just the song. If you are intrigued by someone's post, send them a PM as I will bet they would like that. This may keep the thread clean during the tricky parts. If I were to insert a comment, on this edit, it would be 'Thanks Brandon for participating!'

[DrummerDeanna]

Laughing Wild - Julianna Raye

If not for you
what bewildered eyes I'd see through
You once wiped away the tears
of confusion I now sing through
While remembering those years
Do you see me as a child
Running free and laughing wild
oh laughing wile

Look inside
to recall the life I come from
Hold a mirror to your face
to reveal the life I go to
Lines of time we can't retrace
May I see you as a child
Running free and laughing wild
oh laughing wild

Hold me, lauhging like a child
amdist the sorrows of the world
See me, running like a child
among the ruins
Among the ruins

Hide my eyes
from the lonely world we live in
Hold a candle to each face
To reveal the light within them
You have raised me in this place
Now I see life as a child
Running free and laughing wild
oh laughing wild

[irishgrl]

Simon & Garfunkel — “The Dangling Conversation�
It’s a still life water color,
Of a now late afternoon,
As the sun shines through the curtained lace
And shadows wash the room.
And we sit and drink our coffee
Couched in our indifference,
Like shells upon the shore
You can hear the ocean roar
In the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs,
Are the borders of our lives.

And you read your emily dickinson,
And I my robert frost,
And we note our place with bookmarkers
That measure what we’ve lost.
Like a poem poorly written
We are verses out of rhythm,
Couplets out of rhyme,
In syncopated time
Lost in the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs,
Are the borders of our lives.

Yes, we speak of things that matter,
With words that must be said,
Can analysis be worthwhile?
Is the theater really dead?
And how the room is softly faded
And I only kiss your shadow,
I cannot feel your hand,
You’re a stranger now unto me
Lost in the dangling conversation.
And the superficial sighs,
In the borders of our lives.

[irishgrl]

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

"Fools", said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls"
And whispered in the sounds of silence

[David]

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silenceI remember a long time ago when the radio was playing a Stevie Nicks interview. This was back like around 1980. And right before Stevie's interview, which I was sitting there with my tape deck ready to capture, they were playing a Paul Simon show, & the narrator said that there were two versions of Sound of Silence recorded: one electric & one acoustic. They used the electric one in "The Graduate." Paul Simon said, "I prefer the electric one."

[David]

hi david...

this is the initial post:

Oh, ****. Okay, thanks. Sorry for infusing inapposite comments above. Here's my song:

The Morning Fog

The light
Begin to bleed,
Begin to breathe,
Begin to speak.
Do you know what?
I love you better now.

I am falling
Like a stone,
Like a storm,
Being born again
Into the sweet morning fog.
Do you know what?
I love you better now.

I'm falling,
And I'd love to hold you know.
I'll kiss the ground.
I'll tell my mother,
I'll tell my father,
I'll tell my loved one,
I'll tell my brothers
How much I love them.

[irishgrl]

Richard Cory (from Sounds of Silence 1966)

They say that Richard Cory owns one half of this whole town,
With political connections to spread his wealth around.
Born into society, a banker's only child,
He had everything a man could want: power, grace, and style.

But I work in his factory
And I curse the life I'm living
And I curse my poverty
And I wish that I could be,
Oh, I wish that I could be,
Oh, I wish that I could be
Richard Cory.

The papers print his picture almost everywhere he goes:
Richard Cory at the opera, Richard Cory at a show.
And the rumor of his parties and the orgies on his yacht!
Oh, he surely must be happy with everything he's got.

But I work in his factory
And I curse the life I'm living
And I curse my poverty
And I wish that I could be,
Oh, I wish that I could be,
Oh, I wish that I could be
Richard Cory.

He freely gave to charity, he had the common touch,
And they were grateful for his patronage and thanked him very much,
So my mind was filled with wonder when the evening headlines read:
"Richard Cory went home last night and put a bullet through his head."

But I work in his factory
And I curse the life I'm living
And I curse my poverty
And I wish that I could be,
Oh, I wish that I could be,
Oh, I wish that I could be
Richard Cory.

[irishgrl]

Pat Benatar, Love is a Battlefield.

We are young, heartache to heartache we stand
No promises, no demands
Love Is A Battlefield
We are strong, no one can tell us we're wrong
Searchin' our hearts for so long, both of us knowing
Love Is A Battlefield


You're beggin' me to go, you're makin' me stay
Why do you hurt me so bad?
It would help me to know
Do I stand in your way, or am I the best thing you've had?
Believe me, believe me, I can't tell you why
But I'm trapped by your love, and I'm chained to your side


We are young, heartache to heartache we stand
No promises, no demands
Love Is A Battlefield


We are strong, no one can tell us we're wrong
Searchin' our hearts for so long, both of us knowing
Love Is A Battlefield


We're losing control
Will you turn me away or touch me deep inside?
And before this gets old, will it still feel the same?
There's no way this will die
But if we get much closer, I could lose control
And if your heart surrenders, you'll need me to hold


We are young, heartache to heartache we stand
No promises, no demands
Love Is A Battlefield


We are strong, no one can tell us we're wrong
Searchin' our hearts for so long, both of us knowing
Love Is A Battlefield


We are young, heartache to heartache we stand
No promises, no demands
Love Is A Battlefield


We are strong, no one can tell us we're wrong
Searchin' our hearts for so long, both of us knowing
Love Is A Battlefield

[irishgrl]

Dust in the Wind, KansasDust in Wind Lyrics from Kansas


I close my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment's gone
All my dreams, pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind.
Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do, crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind

[Now] Don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away, and all your money won't another minute buy.

Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind
Dust in the wind, everything is dust in the wind.

[irishgrl]

Peter Frampton
Do You Feel Like We Do

DO YOU FEEL LIKE WE DO?
Frampton/Wills/Gallagher/Siomos 1971
Almo Music Corp
Nuages Artists Music, LTD.
EMI U Catalog Inc. (ASCAP)


Woke up this morning with a wine glass in my hand
Whose wine, what wine, where the hell did I dine?
Must have been a dream I don’t believe where I’ve been
Come on - lets do it again
Do you, you feel like I do?
Do you, you feel like I do?
My friend got busted just the other day
They said don’t walk, don’t walk, don’t walk away
He drove into a taxi bent the boot hit the back
Had to play some music otherwise he’d crack
Do you, you feel like I do?
Do you, you feel like I do?

~~guitar solo~~

Do you, you feel like I do?
Do you, you feel like I do?
Champagne for breakfast and a sherman in my hand
***** top, ***** tails - never fails
Must have been a dream I don’t believe where I’ve been
Come on - lets do it again
Do you, you feel like I do?
Do you, you feel like I do?

[estranged4life]

"Coma" Guns N'Roses from "Use Your Illusion I" (Slash/Rose)

Hey you caught me in a coma
And I don't think I wanna
Ever come back to this...world again
Kinda like it in a coma
'Cause no one's ever gonna
Oh, make me come back to this...
world again
Now I feel as if I'm floating away
I can't feel all the pressure
And I like it this way
But my body's callin'
My body's callin'
Won't ya come back to this...
world again
Suspended deep in a sea of black
I've got the light at the end
I've got the bones on the mast
Well I've gone sailin',
I've gone sailin'
I could leave so easily
While friends are calling back to me
I said they're
They're leaving it all up to me
When all I needed was clarity
And someone to tell me
What the f**k is going on
Goddamn it!

Slippin' farther an farther away
It's a miracle how long we can stay
In a world our minds created
In a world that's full of ****

Help me
Help me
Help me
Help me
Bastard

Please understand me
I'm climbin' through the wreackage
Of all my twisted dreams
But this cheap investigation just
Can't stifle all my screams
And I'm waitin' at the crossroads
Waiting for you
Waiting for you
Where are you

No one's gonna bother me anymore
No one's gonna mess with my head no more
I can't understand what all the fightin's for
But it's so nice here down off the shore
I wish you could see this
'Cause there's nothing to see
It's peaceful here and it's fine with me
Not like the world where I used to live
I never really wanted to live

Zap him again
Zap the son of a bitch again

Ya live your life like it's a coma
So won't you tell me why we'd wanna
With all the reasons you give it's
It's kinda hard to believe
But who am I to tell you that I've
Seen any reason why you should stay
Maybe we'd be better off
Without you anyway
You got a one way ticket
On your last chance ride
Gotta one way ticket
To your suicide
Gotta one way ticket
An there's no way out alive
An all this crass communication
That has left you in the cold
Isn't much for consolation
When you feel so weak and old
But is home is where the heart is
Then there's stories to be told
No you don't need a doctor
No one else can heal your soul

Got your mind in submission
Got your life on the line
But nobody pulled the trigger
They just stepped aside
They be down by the water
While you watch 'em waving goodbye
They be callin' in the morning
They be hangin' on the phone
They be waiting for an answer
When you know nobody's home
And when the bell's stopped ringing
It was nobody's fault but your own
There were always ample warnings
There were always subtle signs
And you would have seen it comin'
But we gave you too much time
And when you said
That no one's listening
Why'd your best friend drop a dime
Sometimes we get so tired of waiting
For a way to spend our time
An "It's so easy" to be social
"It's so easy" to be cool
Yeah it's easy to be hungry
When you ain't got **** to lose
And I wish that I could help you
With what you hope to find
But I'm still out here waiting
Watching reruns of my life
When you reach the point of breaking
Know it's gonna take some time
To heal the broken memories
That another man would need
Just to survive"

[estranged4life]

need I say more???

"Estranged" Guns N'Roses from "Use Your Illusion II" (Rose)

When you're talkin' to yourself
And nobody's home
You can fool yourself
You came in this world alone
(Alone)

So nobody ever told you baby
How it was gonna be
So what'll happen to you baby
Guess we'll have to wait and see
One, two

Old at heart but I'm only 28
And I'm much too young
To let love break my heart
Young at heart but it's getting much too late
To find ourselves so far apart

I don't know how you're s'posed
To find me lately
An what more could tou ask from me
How could you say that I never needed you
When you took everything
Said you took everything from me

Young at heart an it gets so hard to wait
When no one I know can seem to help me now
Old at heart but I musn't hesitate
If I'm to find my own way out

Still talkin' to myself
and nobody's home
(Alone)

So nobody ever told us baby
How it was gonna be
So what'll happen to us baby
Guess we'll have to wait and see

When I find out all the reasons
Maybe I'll find another way
Find another day
With all the changing seasons of my life
Maybe I'll get it right next time
An now that you've been broken down
Got your head out of the clouds
You're back down on the ground
And you don't talk so loud
An you don't walk so proud
Any more, and what for

Well I jumped into the river
Too many times to make it home
I'm out here on my own, an drifting all alone
If it doesn't show give it time
To read between the lines
'Cause I see the storm getting closer
And the waves they get so high
Seems everything We've ever known's here
Why must it drift away and die

I'll never find anyone to replace you
Guess I'll have to make it thru, this time- Oh this time
Without you

I knew the storm was getting closer
And all my friends said I was high
But everything we've ever known's here
I never wanted it to die"

[Richard B]

Good Things
BoDeans


Sunlight fall down on the fields
Sunlight fall down over me
Work all day, be all that I can be
Say I can say words only simple
Say I can say words only clear
But, oh, I can feel your heart is beating near

Haunted love is all that I feel, when you're passing by
Haunted love is all that I see, it's there in your eyes

And I say
No, no, no, don't pass me over
No, no, no, don't pass me by
See I can see good things for you and I
Yeah, good things for you

Give I can give love and attention
Give I can give all time away
Only to one heart I can give today
Be I can be man full of color
Be I can be man black or white
But only to one heart I can be tonight

Haunted love is all that I feel, when you're passing by
Haunted love is all that I see, it's there in your eyes

And I say
No, no, no, don't pass me over
No, no, no, don't pass me by
See I can see good things for you and I
Yeah, good things for you

[cliffdweller]

Soundgarden: Drawing Flies


Sitting here like uninvited company
Wallowing in my own obscenities
I share a cigarette with negativity
Sitting here like wet ashes
With x’s in my eyes and drawing flies
Bathed in perspiration drowned my enemies
Used my inspiration for a guillotine
I fire a loaded mental cannon to the page
Leaning on the pedestal that holds my self denial
Firing the pistol that shoots my holy pride
Sitting here like wet ashes with x’s in
My eyes, and drawing flies
Hey what you yellin’
About, conditions, permission, mirrored self affliction
Hey what you yellin’ about sadist’s
Co-addiction, perfect analogies
Hey what you yellin’ about conditions
Permission mirrored self affliction
Leaning on the pedestal that holds my self denial
Firing the pistol that shoots my holy pride
Sitting here like wet ashes with x’s in my eyes
And drawing flies

[chiliD]

In this approximately infinite universe,
I know a girl who’s in constant hell.
No love or pill could keep her cool,
’cause there’s a thousand holes in her heart.

And the wind of the past blows through her heart,
Reminding her of the people she killed.
Wind of now blows off her cool,
Telling her there’s something she’s missed.

You know the town of sapporo, she says,
Where the men talk rough and never sing.
Two bottles of loneliness
Patching the holes in her dream.

In this approximately infinite universe,
I know a girl who’s raising constant hell.
No love or bottle could fix her good,
’cause there’s a thousand holes in her head.

And the wind of the future blows through her head,
Saying there’s no point of return.
The wind of the universe blows off her soul,
Telling her there’s nowhere to go.

I wanna sleep, wanna sleep, she says,
And take her fix to bed.
Two bottles of loneliness
Patching the holes in her dream.

---Approximately Infinite Universe, Yoko Ono

[David]

This beautiful poem, translated from the German, is currently much in my thoughts.

Song of Offering
Matthisson

The flames shine softly,
Mildly glowing as through the oak grove's darkness flowing,
And wafts of incense wander,
Wafs of incense wander.
O, turn a gracious ear to me,
A gracious ear to me,
Accept my sacrifice to Thee,
O Highest!
O Highest on Thee I ponder.

O turn a gracious ear to me,
A gracious ear to me,
Accept my sacrifice to Thee,
O Highest,
O Highest on Thee I ponder.

Take my sacrifice to Thee,
O Thou Highest

Be ever Freedom's shield & blade,
Your Spirit gently let pervade
The earth, the air, fire & water,
The earth, the air, fire & water.

O grant me in my youth & age,
In youth & in old age,
Upon the father's hearth,
O sage,
The beauty, the beauty life may offer.

[BTFLCHLD]

Bright Lights...Rob Thomas

She got out of town
On a railway New York bound
Took all except my name
Another alien on Broadway
There's some things in this world
You just can't change
Somethings you can't see
Until it gets too late
Baby, baby, baby
When all your love is gone
Who will save me
From all I'm up against out in this world
Maybe, maybe, maybe
You'll find something
That's enough to keep you
But if the bright lights don't receive you
You should turn yourself around
And come on home

I got a hole in me now
yeah,I got a scar I can talk about
She keeps a picture of me
In her apartment in the city
Some things in this world
Man, they don't make sense
Some things you don't need
Until they leave you
And they're things that you miss

Baby, baby, baby
When all your love is gone
Who will save me
From all I'm up against out in this world
Maybe, maybe, maybe
You'll find something
That's enough to keep you
But if the bright lights don't receive you
You should turn yourself around
And come on home

Let that city take you in, come on home
Let that city spit you out, come on home
Let that city take you down, yeah
God's sake turn around :]

Baby, baby, baby
When all your love is gone
Who will save me
From all I'm up against in this world
Maybe, maybe, maybe
You'll find something
That's enough to keep you
But if the bright lights don't receive you
You should turn yourself around
And come on home
Come on home
Baby, baby, baby
Come on home
Yeah, come on home
Yeah, come on home

[mylittledemon]

I wrote this about my dying father:



--INGLESIDE AVENUE--

I knew you loved me then
in the moment when You said
son I have nowhere to go
my familiars now unknown
And it was the first time in my life
We stood together but I felt alone

It was Christmastime
and we only wanted to forget
But instead you kept us together
knowing we had nothing left

And I will recall if only in my dreams
How we changed each others lives
along that Tennessee street
And you may not believe me
but God knows its true
I am not the same since I left you there
on Ingleside Avenue

And now I feel like Im going home
But not to the one Ive known

They got to play mother and father
While we played sons and daughters
Never knowing we'd one day get back
the love we had to let go
when the sign in front of the house said sold

And I will hold steadfast
Embracing but not living in the past
Making the most of our memories so they last
Until I see you again
Until I see you again

And I will recall if only in my dreams
How we changed each others lives
along that Tennessee street
And you may not believe me
but God knows its true
I am not the same since I left you there
on Ingleside Avenue

[BTFLCHLD]

--INGLESIDE AVENUE--
a beautiful tribute brandon
very very special :xoxo:

[skcin]

That was gorgeous, Mylittledemon. :angel:

Long Ride Home
Patty Griffin

Long black limousine
Shiniest car I've ever seen
The back seat is nice and clean
She rides as quiet as a dream
Someone dug a hole six long feet in the ground
I said goodbye to you and I threw my roses down
Ain't nothing left at all in the end of being proud
With me riding in this car, and you flying through them clouds

I've had some time to think about yit
And watch the sun sink like a stone
I've had some time to think about you
On the long ride home

One day I took your tiny hand
Put your finger in the wedding band
Your daddy gave a piece of land
We made ourselves the best of plans
Forty years go by with someone laying in your bed
Forty years of things you say you wish you'd never said
How hard would it have been to say some kinder words instead
I wonder as I stare up at the sky turning red

I've had some time to think about it
And watch the sun sink like a stone
I've had some time to think about you
On the long ride home

Headlights searching down the driveway
The house is dark as it can be
I go inside and all is silent
And seems as empty as the inside of me

I've had some time to think about it
And watch the sun sink like a stone
I've had some time to think about you
On the long, on the long
Oh the long, on the long
On the long ride home

©2002 Patty Griffin, 1000 Kisses
Almo Music Corp/One Big Love Music (ASCAP)

[JazmenFlowers]

And I will recall if only in my dreams
How we changed each others lives
along that Tennessee street
And you may not believe me
but God knows its true
I am not the same since I left you there
on Ingleside Avenue
my favorite part. very nice and touching.

[xdreamsunwindx]

"Kid"
The Pretenders

Kid, what changed your mood?
You’ve gone all sad, so I feel sad too
I think I know some things we never outgrow
You think it’s wrong
I can tell you do
How can I explain
When you don’t want me to?

Kid, my only kid
You look so small, you’ve gone so quiet
I know you know what I’m about
I won’t deny it
But you forgive though you don’t understand
You’ve turned your head
You’ve dropped my hand

All my sorrow, all my blues
All my sorrow

Shut the light, go away
Full of grace, you cover your face

Kid, gracious kid
Your eyes are blue, but you won’t cry
I know angry tears are too dear
You won’t let them go

This song can be related to so many situations. I love it for that.

[estranged4life]

that makes me feel good, though it is sung entirely in Latin by those darn Germans in the band Helloween:

"Lavdate Dominvm"-Helloween, from the album "Better Than Raw"-Music & lyrics by Michael Weikath

Hallelvja, homines
Gavdete de domino
Qui donat vita omnes, qvod amat nos!

Hellelvja, mi devs
Tv vivis omnipotens
Tv es semper benignvs, tv amas nos!

Pater noster in caelis
Totvm orbem terrae regnat
Et vincit diabovm timorem
Et omnivm hominvm

O lavdate dominvm
Praedicate devm
Amate creatorem
Qui creavit mvndvm
Oh, lavdate dominvm!

Ecce et te vvlt
Jesvs liberare
Dvcere per vitam tvvs amicvs
Gavde tv!

Amici, dimittite
Mente malam pravamqve!
Anima accipite salvam fidem!

Jesvs chrisvs in crvce
De vita decessit dolens
Sed de morte resvrrexit lvx mvndi nova

O lavdate dominvm
Filivm jesvs christvm
Omina redenptoren
Et spiritvm sanctvm!
Oh, lavdate dominvm!

[mylittledemon]

that makes me feel good, though it is sung entirely in Latin by those darn Germans in the band Helloween!

My friend eric is good friends with the drummer from Helloween

[xdreamsunwindx]

The Damned - "Smash it Up"

We've been crying now for much too long
And now we're gonna dance to a different song
I'm gonna scream and shout til my dying breath
I'm gonna smash it up til theres nothing left

Oooh ooh smash it up, smash it up, smash it up
Oooh ooh smash it up, smash it up, smash it up

People call me villain oh its such a shame
Maybe its my clothes must be to blame
I don't even care if I look a mess
Don't wanna be a sucker like all the rest

Oooh ooh smash it up, smash it up, smash it up
Oooh ooh smash it up, smash it up, smash it up

Smash it up
Smash it up
Smash it up
Smash it up
Smash it up

Smash it up, you can keep your krishna burgers
Smash it up, and your Glastonbury hippies
Smash it up, you can stick your frothy lager
Smash it up, and your blow wave hairstyles

And everybody's smashing things down
I said everybody's smashing things down yeah

[David]

This song says many things.

Talk of the Town
The Pretenders

Such a drag to want something sometime
One thing leads to another I know
Was a time wanted you for mine
Nobody knew
You arrived like a day
And passed like a cloud
I made a wish, I said it out loud
Out loud in a crowd
Everybody heard
’twas the talk of the town

It’s not my place to know what you feel
I’d like to know but why should i?
Who were you then, who are you now?
Common labourer by night, by day highbrow
Back in my room I wonder, then i
Sit on the bed, look at the sky
Up in the sky
Clouds rearrange
Like the talk of the town

Maybe tomorrow, maybe someday
Maybe tomorrow, maybe someday
You’ve changed your place in this world
You’ve changed your place in this world

Oh but it’s hard to live by the rules
I never could and still never do
The rules and such never bothered you
You call the shots and they follow
I watch you still from a distance then go
Back to my room, you never know
I want you, I want you but now
Who’s the talk of the town?

[markolas]

Good to Me As I Am to You
by Aretha Franklin

If you had a dollar
And I had a dime
I wonder could I borrow yours
As easy as you could mine

Because when you need my love
And I give time after time
And turn around to find me no returns
Then, my friend, you've used my dime

If there's water in the pitcher
And we both need a drink
To stay alive, my darling
I need less water than you think

My love, my love
These things I swear I say are true
And all I'm really saying is
Be as good to me as I am to you

Listen to this
Some people want
But they don't want to give
They can do all of the wrong in the world
And got the nerve to not understand the meaning of let live

Starting today
Tomorrow, and forevermore
If you can't find it your heart to do for me
Then, baby just don't darken my front door

Baby
I want you to be as good to me as I am to you

Baby
I don't think that's asking you too much to do

Listen
Don't you walk around here
Feeling like you can treat me any old way
Using my love, my time, and my heart
Day after day

Baby
Be as good to me as I am to you

[markolas]

Wild Things Run Fast
by Joni Mitchell

He came
She smiled
She thought she had him tamed
But he was just as wild
Eating from her hand at last
Wild things run fast

In the dark
He could see
The trap that was lying in her sweet company
Eating from her hand at last
Wild things run fast

Winter beat the pines about
He heard the heater cutting in and out
While she dreamed away

In the night
It snowed
Fast tracks in the powder white
Leading out to the road
Winding from her tender grasp
Wild things run fast

What makes you run
Wild thing
I thought you loved me

[markolas]

Talk to Me
by Joni Mitchell

There was a moon and a street lamp
I didn't know I drank such a lot
Until I pissed a tequila anaconda the full length of the parking lot

Oh, I talk too loose
Again I talk too open and free
I pay a high price for my open talking like you do for your silent mystery

Come and talk to me
Please, talk to me
Talk to me, talk to me
Mister Mystery

We could talk about Martha
We could talk about landscapes
I'm not above gossip but I'll sit on a secret
Where honor is at stake

Or we could talk about power
About Jesus and Hitler
And Howard Hughes
Or Charlie Chaplin's movies
Or Bergman's nordic blues

Please, just talk to me
Any old thing you choose
Just come and talk to me
Mister Mystery, talk to me

You could talk like a fool
I'd listen
You could talk like a sage
Anyway, the best of my mind
All goes down on the strings and the page
That mind picks up all these pictures
It still gets my feet up to dance
Even though it's covered with keyloids
From the slings and arrows of outrageous romance
I stole that from Willie the Shake
You know
Neither a borrower nor a lender be
Romeo, Romeo
Talk to me

Is your silence that golden?
Are you comfortable in it?
Is it the key to your freedom or is it the bars on your prison?
Are you gagged by your ribbons?
Are you really exclusive or just miserly?
You spend every sentence as if it was marked currency
Come and spend some on me
Shut me up and talk to me
I'm always talking
Chicken squawking
Please talk to me

[wondergirl9847]

When Alice has an answer it's a common rationality
She measures her phrases, tipping the scales of reality
But does she know that it's cold to sing songs to a troubled heart
Tho' her aim is sincere she's missing the mark

Chorus:
She paints her world in yellow and green, covering over the greys
'Cause life's demands are hard to understand
So Alice stays lost in her wonderland

I said - Alice look around you, people are falling to pieces
Yea, even the faithful, the ones who still believe in Jesus
But that doesn't mean they've fallen from grace
But in her landscape, their heartache is so out of place

CHORUS

So can we talk of shoes and of ships?
Can we talk of cabbages and kings?
And of learning to live with the mystery of things

CHORUS

So Alice stays lost in her Wonderland

[wondergirl9847]

Gone away, the days of wish and wondering
Far away, like a vision in my mind
The child has grown and left me here alone
Looking back to what was left behind

Lullabyes and pennies in a wishing well
Sad goodbyes to friends of make believe
A love so pure, a treasure
Now buried in the sea of me

Refrain:
Milton lost his paradise, Dorothy lost her way
Vincent lost his sanity, Thomas lost his faith
Hoover lost the second time, Sigmund lost his friend
Me, I lost my innocence and I want it back again

A tug-of-war is going on inside of me
A calloused heart that wants to make a change
While time prevails fighting tooth and nail
Keeping me set in my ways

Marco found the orient, Gepetto found his boy
Lincoln found a unity that Lee could not destroy
Lindy found the other side, Gershwin found the stage
Me, I found a stubborness that seems to grow with age

As I dream of where I'll go, may I learn from where I've gone
And take the memories that I hold into tomorrow

REFRAIN
...me I lost my innocence, and I want it back again
I had it once before and I want it back again

[wondergirl9847]

Sometimes the hardest people to say I love you to
Are the ones you love the most, I don't know why this is so
Maybe it's the years, the pride, the tears, the fear
The pain, I don't know, I don't know

When I was nurtured in your nest, you held my hand
For that I owe you so much, and those memories are mine
And I never want to lose them, but now these tender wings are dry
But I'll never learn to fly if you don't let me use them

Chorus:
Let me go, let me live or die a fool's death
Let me laugh, let me cry, let me learn the hard way
Let me grow, let me go

I am standing at the crossroads, looking on my life
So many choices to make but I have to choose
So hold me in your dreams, hold me in your thoughts
Hold me in your prayers and hold me in your heart and

CHORUS
...Let me grow, let me go

Sometimes the hardest people to say I love you to
Are the ones you love the most, I don't know why this is so
Maybe it's the years, the pride, the tears, the fear
The pain, I don't know, I don't know

When I was nurtured in your nest, you held my hand
For that I owe you so much, and those memories are mine
And I never want to lose them, but now these tender wings are dry
But I'll never learn to fly if you don't let me use them

Chorus:
Let me go, let me live or die a fool's death
Let me laugh, let me cry, let me learn the hard way
Let me grow, let me go

I am standing at the crossroads, looking on my life
So many choices to make but I have to choose
So hold me in your dreams, hold me in your thoughts
Hold me in your prayers and hold me in your heart and

CHORUS
...Let me grow, let me go

This one most of all...

[BTFLCHLD]

Dear Mr. President...PINK

Dear Mr. President
Come take a walk with me
Let's pretend we're just two people and
You're not better than me
I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly

What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street
Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep
What do you feel when you look in the mirror
Are you proud

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye
How do you walk with your head held high
Can you even look me in the eye
And tell me why

Dear Mr. President
Were you a lonely boy
Are you a lonely boy
Are you a lonely boy
How can you say
No child is left behind
We're not dumb and we're not blind
They're all sitting in your cells
While you pay the road to hell

What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away
And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay
I can only imagine what the first lady has to say
You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye
How do you walk with your head held high
Can you even look me in the eye

Let me tell you bout hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way
Let me tell you bout hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
Let me tell you bout hard work
Building a bed out of a cardboard box
Let me tell you bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
You don't know nothing bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
Oh

How do you sleep at night
How do you walk with your head held high
Dear Mr. President
You'd never take a walk with me
Would you

edit: mp3 http://download.yousendit.com/FA3D157C0C417151

[cliffdweller]

Megadeth: Peace Sells, But Who's Buying?

What do you mean, "i don't believe in god"?
I talk to him every day.
What do you mean, "i don't support your system"?
I go to court when i have to.
What do you mean, "i can't get to work on time"?
I got nothing better to do
And, what do you mean, "i don't pay my bills"?
Why do you think i'm broke? huh?

Chorus
If there's a new way,
I'll be the first in line.
But, it better work this time.

What do you mean, "i hurt your feelings"?
I didn't know you had any feelings.
What do you mean, "i ain't kind"?
I'm just not your kind.
What do you mean, "i couldn't be president, of the united states of
america"?
Tell me something, it's still "we the people", right?

Chorus (repeat)

If there's a new way i'll be the first in line, but, it better work this time. can
you put a price on peace?
Peace,
Peace sells...,
Peace,
Peace sells...,
Peace sells...,but who's buying?
Peace sells...,but who's buying?
Peace sells...,but who's buying?
Peace sells...,but who's buying?
No, peace sells...

[Wild_Heart03]

Top Of The World - Dixie Chicks
(originally by Patty Griffin)

I wished I was smarter
I wished I was stronger
I wished I loved Jesus
The way my wife does
I wish it had been easier
Instead of any longer
I wished I could have stood where you would have been proud
But that won't happen now
That won't happen now

There's a whole lot of singing that's never gonna be heard
Disappearing everyday without so much as a word somehow
Think I broke the wings off that little song bird
She's never gonna fly to the top of the world right now
Top of the world

I don't have to answer any of these questions
Don't have no God to teach me no lessons
I come home in the eveing
Sit in my chair
One night they called me for supper
But I never got up
I stayed right there in my chair

There's a whole lot of singing that's never gonna be heard
Disappearing everyday without so much as a word somehow
Think I broke the wings off that little song bird
She's never gonna fly to the top of the world right now
Top of the world

I wished I'd a known you
Wished I'd a shown you
All of the things I was on the inside
I'd pretend to be sleeping
When you come in in the morning
To whisper good-bye
Go to work in the rain
I don't know why
Don't know why

'Cause everone's singing
We just wanna be heard
Disappearing everyday without so much as a word somehow
Wanna grab a hold of that little song bird
Take her for a ride to the top of the world right now

To the top of the world
To the top of the world
To the top of the world
To the top of the world
To the top of the world
To the top of the world
To the top of the world
To the top of the world

[xdreamsunwindx]

13th Floor Elevators...

You're gonna wake up wonderin',
Find yourself all alone,
But what's gonna stop me, baby?
I'm not comin' home.

[snowman]

There are places I'll remember
all my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places had their moments
With lovers and friends I can still recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares to you
And these mem'ries lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new

Tho' I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often think about them
In my life I'll love you more
In my life I'll love you more.

[BTFLCHLD]

dead horse
(rose)


Sick of this life
Not that you'd care
I'm not the only one with
whom these feelings I share


Nobody understands, quite why we're here
We're searchin' for answers
That never appear


But maybe if I looked real hard I'd
I'd see your tryin' too
To understand this life,
That we're all goin' through
(Then when she said she was gonna like
wreck my car...I didn't know what to do)


Sometimes I feel like I'm beatin' a dead horse
An I don't know why you'd be bringin' me down
I'd like to think that our love's
worth a tad more
It may sound funny but you'd think by now
I'd be smilin'
I guess some things never change
Never change


I met an old cowboy
I saw the look in his eyes
Somethin' tells me he's been here before
'Cause experience makes you wise
I was only a small child
When the thought first came to me
That I'm a son of a gun and the gun of a son
That brought back the devil in me


Sometimes I feel like I'm beatin' a dead horse
An I don't know why you'd be bringin' me down
I'd like to think that our love's
worth a tad more
It may sound funny but you'd think by now
I'd be smilin'
I guess some things never change
Never change


I ain't quite what you'd call an old soul
Still wet behind the ears
I been around this track a couple o' times
But now the dust is startin' to clear
Oh yeah!!!


Sometimes I feel like I'm beatin' a dead horse
An I don't know why you'd be bringin' me down
I'd like to think that our love's
worth a tad more
It may sound funny but you'd think by now
I'd be smilin'
Ooh yeah, I'd be smilin'
No way I'd be smilin'
Ooh smilin'


Sick of this life
Not that you'd care
I'm not the only one
With whom these feelings I share

[BTFLCHLD]

garden of eden
(Slash / Rose)


It's a critical solution
And the east coast got the blues
It's a mass of confusion
Like the lies they sell to you


You got a glass jawed toothache
Of a mental disease
An they be runnin' round back
See 'em line up on their knees
'Cause the kiss ass sycophants
Throwin' penance at your feet


When they got nowhere to go
Watch 'em come in off the streets
While they're bangin' out front
Inside their slammin' to the cruch
Go on an throw me to the lions
And the whole damn screamin' bunch
'Cause the pissed-off rip-offs
'R' everywhere you turn
Tell me how a generation's
Ever s'posed to learn
This fire is burnin'
and it's out of control
It's not a problem you can stop
It's rock n' roll


I read it on a wall
It went straight to my head
It said "Dance to the tension
of a world on edge"
We got racial violence
And who'll cast the first stone
And sex is used anyway it can be
Sometimes when I look out
It's hard to see the day
It's a feelin' you can have it
It's not mine to take away


Lost in the garden of Eden
Said we're lost in the garden of Eden
And there's no one's gonna believe this
But we're lost in the garden of Eden
This fire is burnin' and it's out of control
It's not a problem you can stop
It's rock n' roll
Suck on that


Looking through this point of view
There's no way I'm gonna fit in
Don't ya tell me what my eyes see
Don't ya tell me who to believe in
I ain't superstitious
But I know when somethin's wrong
I've been draggin' my heels
With a bitch called hope
Let the undercurrent drag me along


Lost in the garden of Eden
Said we're lost in the garden of Eden
And there's no one's gonna believe this
But we're lost in the garden of Eden



Most organized religions make
A mockery of humanity
Our governments are dangerous
And out of control
The garden of Eden is just another graveyard
Said if they had someone to buy it
Said I'm sure they'd sell my soul


This fire is burnin' and it's out of control
It's not a problem you can stop
It's rock n' roll
Lost in the garden of Eden
(An we ain't talkin' about no
poison apple or some missin' rib ya hear)
Said we're lost in the garden of Eden
Said there's no one's gonna believe this
Said we're lost in the garden of Eden
This fire is burnin' and it's out of control
It's not a problem you can stop
It's rock n' roll

[BTFLCHLD]

estranged
(rose)


When you're talkin to yourself
And nobody's home
You can fool yourself
You came in this world alone
(Alone)

So nobody ever told you baby
How it was gonna be
So what'll happen to you baby
Guess we'll have to wait and see
One, two

Old at heart but I'm only 28
And I'm much too young
To let love break my heart
Young at heart but it's getting much too late
To find ourselves so far apart


I don't know how you're s'posed
To find me lately
An what more could you ask from me
How could you say that I never needed you
When you took everything
Said you took everything from me


Young at heart an it gets so hard to wait
When no one I know can seem to help me now
Old at heart but I musn't hesitate
If I'm to find my own way out


Still talkin' to myself and nobody's home
(Alone)


So nobody ever told us baby
How it was gonna be
So what'll happen to us baby
Guess we'll have to wait and see


When I find out all the reasons
Maybe I'll find another way
Find another day
With all the changing seasons of my life
Maybe I'll get it right next time
An now that you've been broken down
Got your head out of the clouds
You're back down on the ground
And you don't talk so loud
An you don't walk so proud
Any more, and what for


Well I jumped into the river too many times
to make it home
I'm out here on my own, an drifting all alone
If it doesn't show give it time
To read between the lines
'Cause I see the storm getting closer
And the waves they get so high
Seems everything We've ever known's here
Why must it drift away and die


I'll never find anyone to replace you
Guess I'll have to make it thru, this time
Oh this time
Without you


I knew the storm was getting closer
And all my friends said I was high
But everything we've ever known's here
I never wanted it to die

[BTFLCHLD]

the garden
(Arkeen / James / Rose)


You know you're all alone
Your friends they aren't at home
Everybody's gone to the garden
As you look into the trees
You can look but you don't see
The flowers seem to tease you at the garden
Everybody's there, but you don't seem to care
What's it with you man, and this garden


Turned into my worst phobia,
A crazy man's utopia
If you're lost no one can show ya,
But it sure was glad to know ya
Only poor boys take a chance,
On the garden's song and dance,
Feel her flowers as they wrap around,
But only smart boys do without


You can find it all inside
No need to wrestle with your pride
No you ain't losin' your mind
You're just in the garden
They can lead you to yourself
Or you can throw it on the shelf
But you know you can look inside
For the garden


I wasn't really scared
Lost my virginity there,
To a gypsy with blond hair
But now no one seems to care
Like a mouse inside a maze
Wandering round 4 daze
With a smile upon my face,
I never wanna leave this place
Only poor boys take a chance,
On the garden's song and dance,
Feel her flowers as they wrap around,
But only smart boys do without
Turned into my worst phobia,
A crazy man's utopia
If you're lost no one can show ya,
But it sure was glad to know ya
Bye bye
So long, bye bye
It's glad to know ya
Bye bye
Bye bye
Aw...so long

[BTFLCHLD]

lets pretend
(flett/fletcher)

Just pretend, I'm holding you
And whispering things soft and low
And think of me, how it's gonna be,
Just pretend I didn't go
When I walked away, I heard you say
If you need me, you know what to do
I knew it then, I'd be back again
Just pretend I'm right there with you

And I'll come flying to you, oh yes
All the crying is true
Oh, I will hold you and love you again
But until then, well just pretend

Oh, it's funny but I can't recall the things
We said or why you're crying
But now I know it was wrong to go
I belong here by your side

[BTFLCHLD]

she gathers rain...collective soul

Today she dresses
For the change she’s facing now
And the storm that’s raging
A safe haven she has found
She doesn’t care
What the prohpets say anymore
For the love she had
She has no more
So she gathers rain
She gathers rain
To rinse away all her guilt and pain
She gathers rain
She gathers rain
To wash and cleanse and make her whole again

Her imagination
Has started stretching wide
And her new conviction
No longer will she hide
She’s not branded
When prophets speak words of fire
The same love she gives
She requires
So she gathers rain
She gathers rain
To rinse away all her guilt and pain
She gathers rain
She gathers rain
To wash and cleanse and make her whole again

[JazmenFlowers]

Top Of The World - Dixie Chicks
(originally by Patty Griffin)
I love this song about as much as I don't like Dixie Chicks.

[BTFLCHLD]

White Rabbit

One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you, don't do anything at all;
Go ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall.
And if you go chasing rabbits, and you know you're going to fall;
Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar has given you the call;
To call Alice, when she was just small.
When the men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go;
And you've just had some kind of mushroom, and your mind is moving low;
Go ask Alice, I think she'll know.
When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead;
And the white knight is talking backwards;
And the red queen's off with her head;
Remember what the dormouse said,
Feed your head, feed your head

[Brwn_eyes0511]

Liz Phair - H.W.C

Give it to me, don't give it away
Don't think about what the others say
My skin's getting clear and my hair's so bright
All you do is f*ck me every day and night

You're my secret beauty routine
Na na na na, what my body has seen!
I am looking good and I'm feeling nice
Baby, you're the best magazine advice

Give me your hot, white come
Give me your hot, white come

I'm gonna pull you back down between the sheets
Everything is fresher when the day is sweet
In the morning light, when you're already on the phone...

Face it one of these days, without you I'm just another Dorian Gray
It's the fountain of youth, it's the meaning of life
So hot, so sweet, so whet my appetite!

Give me your hot, white come
Give me your hot, white come

Face it one of these days, without you I'm just another Dorian Gray
It's the fountain of youth, it's the meaning of life
Baby, you're the best magazine advice

Give me your hot, white come
Give me your hot, white come

[elie]

Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen

[This is a song I am never tired of hearing (along with most L.Cohen songs). And it's always in my head lately. I particularly like the John Cale version which goes like this]:


I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Your faith was strong, but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Baby I've been here before, I know this room
I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you
I've seen your flag on the Marble Arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah

There was a time you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
I remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Maybe there's a God above, all I ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who out drew you
And it's not a cry you can hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah

[face of glass]

Waters of March by Antonio Carlos Jobim (the original brazilian version is way better though)
You can say that again. I only understand about 25 % of it anyway, but here goes:

�guas de Março (A. C. Jobim, 1971)

É pau, é pedra,
é o fim do caminho
É um resto de toco,
é um pouco sozinho

É um caco de vidro,
é a vida, é o sol
É a noite, é a morte,
é um laço, é o anzol

É peroba do campo,
é o nó da madeira
Caingá, candeia,
é o Matita Pereira

É madeira de vento,
tombo da ribanceira
É o mistério profundo,
é o queira ou não queira

É o vento ventando,
é o fim da ladeira
É a viga, é o vão,
festa da cumeeira

É a chuva chovendo,
é conversa ribeira
Das águas de março,
é o fim da canseira

É o pé, é o chão,
é a marcha estradeira
Passarinho na mão,
pedra de atiradeira

É uma ave no céu,
é uma ave no chão
É um regato, é uma fonte,
é um pedaço de pão

É o fundo do poço,
é o fim do caminho
No rosto o desgosto,
é um pouco sozinho

É um estrepe, é um prego,
é uma conta, é um conto
É uma ponta, é um ponto,
é um pingo pingando

É um peixe, é um gesto,
é uma prata brilhando
É a luz da manhã,
é o tijolo chegando

É a lenha, é o dia,
é o fim da picada
É a garrafa de cana,
o estilhaço na estrada

É o projeto da casa,
é o corpo na cama
É o carro enguiçado,
é a lama, é a lama

É um passo, é uma ponte,
é um sapo, é uma rã
É um resto de mato,
na luz da manhã

São as águas de março
fechando o verão
É a promessa de vida
no teu coração

É uma cobra, é um pau,
é João, é José
É um espinho na mão,
é um corte no pé

É um passo, é uma ponte,
é um sapo, é uma rã
É um belo horizonte,
é uma febre terçã

São as águas de março
fechando o verão
É a promessa de vida
no teu coração

[face of glass]

And the song that's actually on my mind now:

Luiza (A. C. Jobim, 1981)

Rua,
Espada nua
Boia no céu imensa e amarela
Tão redonda a lua
Como flutua
Vem navegando o azul do firmamento
E no silêncio lento
Um trovador, cheio de estrelas
Escuta agora a canção que eu fiz
Pra te esquecer Luiza
Eu sou apenas um pobre amador
Apaixonado
Um aprendiz do teu amor
Acorda amor
Que eu sei que embaixo desta neve mora um coração

Vem cá, Luiza
Me dá tua mão
O teu desejo é sempre o meu desejo
Vem, me exorciza
Dá-me tua boca
E a rosa louca
Vem me dar um beijo
E um raio de sol
Nos teus cabelos
Como um brilhante que partindo a luz
Explode em sete cores
Revelando então os sete mil amores
Que eu guardei somente pra te dar Luiza
Luiza
Luiza

[xdreamsunwindx]

The Pretenders - "Jealous Dogs"

Those jealous dogs, always on the alert
Tattle tale rights
They’ll take your back and leave your shirt
Like that jealous bitch
Always wanting more
The courts have made her rich
And the click of high heels down the corridor
Jealous, jealous, jealous dogs

Those jealous dogs, detectives every one
Don’t be a sucker all your life
She’s gonna have you hung
Evidence, evidence, evidence
Suspicion invites treachery
Oh you really got taken
Bringing home the bacon
Jealous, jealous, jealous dogs

Those jealous dogs, they get worse and worse
Everytime you turn around
They’re sniffin’ at your purse
Who do they think we are?
What do they think we do?
It’s hard to get in the mood
When you’re treated like some kind of dog food
Jealous, jealous, jealous dogs

[Merf]

The Good Life - Two Years This Month

It's been two years this month,
since the last time we spoke,
and it's starting to seem,
that the only thing everlasting
is this vow of silence.

Well, I guess that's the vow that we took,
but not at first.
At first I was screaming,
those songs you heard,
Two years ago on that night we last spoke.

[stargazer99]

Neil Young - Let's Impeach The President

Let's impeach the president for lying
And leading our country into war
Abusing all the power that we gave him
And shipping all our money out the door

He's the man who hired all the criminals
The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors
And bend the facts to fit with their new stories
Of why we have to send our men to war

Let's impeach the president for spying
On citizens inside their own homes
Breaking every law in the country
By tapping our computers and telephones

What if Al Qaeda blew up the levees
Would New Orleans have been safer that way
Sheltered by our government¹s protection
Or was someone just not home that day?

Let's impeach the president
For hijacking our religion and using it to get elected
Dividing our country into colors
And still leaving black people neglected

Thank god he¹s racking down on steroids
Since he sold his old baseball team
There's lot of people looking at big trouble
But of course the president is clean

Thank God

[priestofnothing]

Ruins - Melissa Etheridge

Don't try to call
There are some bridges that burn
Beyond recognition beyond repair
Don't say you've changed
There are some forces that turn
Beyond recollection beyond my stare
When I feel the cold in the dark
I know you're there

Long ago I was a woman in pain
A woman in need I ran to you
Long ago I did not understand
You were making me bleed I ran to you
When I feel the cold in the dark
I know what you do

I will crawl through my past
Over stones blood and glass
In the ruins
Reaching under the fence
As I try to make sense
In the ruins

I know your heart has held its own fear
It's perfectly clear
What they did to you
In my heart it's the screaming I hear
I won't let them come near
Since my love knew you
When I feel the cold in the dark
I remember you

I will crawl through my past
Over stones blood and glass
In the ruins
Reaching under the fence
As I try to make sense
In the ruins

Night after night
I am carving it out
I will carry it down to the waterside
Night after night
I am hearing the sound
Of wings that come beating
I will not hide
When I feel the cold in the dark
I will know why

I will crawl through my past
Over stones blood and glass
In the ruins
Reaching under the fence
As I try to make sense
In the ruins

But if I am to heal
I must first learn to feel
In the ruins
I will crawl
I will crawl
I will crawl



PS - This song is from around 1995 but I just realized the "Over stones blood and glass" line reminds me very much of "I run through the grass, I run over stones....show me the way back to the sea" :-)

[cliffdweller]

Ashes To Ashes
Artist: Faith No More


I want them to know it's me
It's on my head
I'll point the finger at me
It's on my head
Give it all to you
Then I'll be closer
Smiling with the mouth of the ocean
And I'll wave to you with the arms of the mountain
I'll see you
I will let you shout no more
It's on my head
I'll pick you up from the floor
It's on my head
I'll let you even the score It's on my head
Give it all to you
Then I'll be closer
Smiling with the mouth of the ocean
And I'll wave to you with the arms of the mountain
I'll see you
Give the same to me then I'll be closer, closer
Give the same to me then I'll be closer, closer
Smiling with the mouth of the ocean
And I'll wave to you with the arms of the mountain
Give the same to me then I'll be closer

[BTFLCHLD]

Mother
John Lennon

Mother, you had me, but I never had you
I wanted you, you didn't want me
So I, I just got to tell you
Goodbye, goodbye

Father, you left me, but I never left you
I needed you, you didn't need me
So I, I just got to tell you
Goodbye, goodbye

Children, don't do what I have done
I couldn't walk and I tried to run
So I, I just got to tell you
Goodbye, goodbye

Mama don't go
Daddy come home

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[JazmenFlowers]

Mother
John Lennon

Mother, you had me, but I never had you
I wanted you, you didn't want me
So I, I just got to tell you
Goodbye, goodbye

Father, you left me, but I never left you
I needed you, you didn't need me
So I, I just got to tell you
Goodbye, goodbye

Children, don't do what I have done
I couldn't walk and I tried to run
So I, I just got to tell you
Goodbye, goodbye

Mama don't go
Daddy come home

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omg, Barbra Streisand's version of this will BLOW YOU AWAY. it is amazing and always brings me to tears.

[BTFLCHLD]

The Cure
Pictures of You

I've been looking so long at these pictures of you
that I almost believe that they're real
I've been living so long with my pictures of you
that I almost believe that the pictures are
all I can feel
remembering
you standing quiet in the rain
as I ran to your heart to be near
and we kissed as the sky fell in
holding you close
how I always held close in your fear
remembering
you running soft through the night
you were bigger and brighter and whiter than snow
and screamed at the make-believe
screamed at the sky
and you finally found all your courage
to let it all go
remembering
you fallen into my arms
crying for the death of your heart
you were stone white
so delicate
lost in the cold
you were always so lost in the dark
remembering
you how you used to be
slow drowned
you were angels
so much more than everything
hold for the last time then slip away quietly
open my eyes
but I never see anything
if only I'd thought of the right words
I could have held on to your heart
if only I'd thought of the right words
I wouldn't be breaking apart
all my pictures of you
looking so long at these pictures of you
but I never hold on to your heart
looking so long for the words to be true
but always just breaking apart
my pictures of you
there was nothing in the world
that I ever wanted more
than to feel you deep in my heart
there was nothing in the world
that I ever wanted more
than to never feel the breaking apart
all my pictures of you

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[xdreamsunwindx]

The High School Sweethearts - Not Coming Back

The years slip by you forget the why
The picture fades, you keep the frame
All I know is feelings change
But people stay the same

And it felt so good sittin' on your hood
But that was yesterday and far away
Sippin' on a drink,
I had some time to think about yesterday
And far away
I hope that you're not coming back
I hope that you're not coming back

What's left undone is much more fun,
Pass by I'll close my eyes
The right would never measure up to what I'll fantasize

And it felt so good sittin' on your hood
But that was yesterday and far away
Sippin' on a drink,
I had some time to think about yesterday
And far away
Now I know that you're not coming back
Now I know that you're not coming back

[Brwn_eyes0511]

Shania Twain - It Only Hurts When I'm Breathing

Hope life's been good to you
since you've been gone
I'm doin' fine now--I've finally moved on
It's not so bad--I'm not that sad

I'm not surprised just how well I survived
I'm over the worst, and I feel so alive
I can't complain--I'm free again

And it only hurts when I'm breathing
My heart only breaks when it's beating
My dreams only die when I'm dreaming
So, I hold my breath--to forget

Don't think I'm lyin' 'round cryin' at night
There's no need to worry, I'm really all right
I've never looked back--as a matter of fact

And it only hurts when I'm breathing
My heart only breaks when it's beating
My dreams only die when I'm dreaming
So, I hold my breath--to forget

...

It only hurts when I breathe

[Für Elise]

omg, Barbra Streisand's version of this will BLOW YOU AWAY. it is amazing and always brings me to tears.I didn't know she had covered this one. To be honest, I don't think I like the idea of that. It feels like it's such a personal message from one individual to his parents that nobody can replicate it with the feeling that came when he sung it. The album version really brings this out, more than the single.

[BTFLCHLD]

Otis Redding
These Arms Of Mine

These arms of mine
They are lonely, lonely and feeling blue
These arms of mine
They are yearning, yearning from wanting you

And if you would let them hold you
Oh, how grateful I will be
These arms of mine
They are burning, burning from wanting you
These arms of mine
They are wanting, wanting to hold you

And if you would let them hold you
Oh, how grateful I will be
Come on, come on baby
Just be my little woman, just be my lover, oh
I need me somebody, somebody to treat me right, oh
I need your woman's loving arms to hold me tight
And I...I...I need...I need your...I need your tender lips


you always keep your love
just out of my reach :(

[priestofnothing]

Thousand Year Prayer
Michael Timmins


Here we all are at the end of "the century of beauty lost".
We greedily ate what you gave us, the rest we tossed.
We've trapped all your rivers, paved every pass,
pulled at your sky till we caused it to rip.
But you've got Jimi Hendrix so lets call it an even split.

I've met a girl who has turned my whole world upside down.
The stars I once stretched for, now litter the ground.
I am cursed by too little, or is it too much belief,
in the strength of another man's words.
But I've got a girl, thank you Lord.

Here we all are at the start of another thousand years.
All those love stories, yet to be told.
Ours is this river asleep at our feet,
blessed by this wet autumn day.
Here we all are……

http://www.veoh.com/videoDetails.html?v=e969434g4bMwq5

[JazmenFlowers]

I didn't know she had covered this one. To be honest, I don't think I like the idea of that. It feels like it's such a personal message from one individual to his parents that nobody can replicate it with the feeling that came when he sung it. The album version really brings this out, more than the single.
well that's fine...no problem.

but I will tell you that Barbra's father died when she was like 13 months old and her mother remarried a man that physically abused her (she's now partially deaf in one ear b/c of him) and her mother refused to give her affection or attention and instead gave it all to her younger half-sister, so it is personal in a way for her too.

take that as you may.

[priestofnothing]

The Cure
Pictures of You

I've been looking so long at these pictures of you
that I almost believe that they're real
I've been living so long with my pictures of you
that I almost believe that the pictures are
all I can feel
remembering
you standing quiet in the rain
as I ran to your heart to be near
and we kissed as the sky fell in
holding you close
how I always held close in your fear
remembering
you running soft through the night
you were bigger and brighter and whiter than snow
and screamed at the make-believe
screamed at the sky
and you finally found all your courage
to let it all go
remembering
you fallen into my arms
crying for the death of your heart
you were stone white
so delicate
lost in the cold
you were always so lost in the dark
remembering
you how you used to be
slow drowned
you were angels
so much more than everything
hold for the last time then slip away quietly
open my eyes
but I never see anything
if only I'd thought of the right words
I could have held on to your heart
if only I'd thought of the right words
I wouldn't be breaking apart
all my pictures of you
looking so long at these pictures of you
but I never hold on to your heart
looking so long for the words to be true
but always just breaking apart
my pictures of you
there was nothing in the world
that I ever wanted more
than to feel you deep in my heart
there was nothing in the world
that I ever wanted more
than to never feel the breaking apart
all my pictures of you

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Excellent choice!
http://www.veoh.com/videoDetails.html?v=e86075GzwQkhgT


I love, love, love this album! Disintegration by The Cure. Every single track is awesome, and I can only say that about very, very few albums. This is one of my "stranded on a desert island" albums - if I had to pick only a few to have.

I listen to this album a lot in headphones, because you just have to play it loud - to get lost in all the layers upon layers upon layers of instruments on these beautiful songs with very thought provoking lyrics (just like the layers in Sara). I've spent countless nights laying on the floor in the dark with a couple candles lit, a glass of wine and this album blaring in the ears, it just takes me away to another world -totally.

My favorite on the album is probably

"The Same Deep Water As You"
http://www.veoh.com/videoDetails.html?v=e125228CsTpAeYn
kiss me goodbye
pushing out before i sleep
can't you see i try
swimming the same deep water as you is hard
the shallow drowned lose less than we
you breathe
the strangest twist upon your lips
and we shall be together...
we shall be together...

kiss me goodbye
bow your head and join with me
your face pushed deep
reflections meet
the strangest twist upon your lips
and disappear
the ripples clear
and laughing
break against your feet
and laughing
break the mirror sweet
so we shall be together...

kiss me goodbye
pushing out before i sleep
it's lower now and slower now
the strangest twist upon your lips
but i don't see
and i don't feel
but tightly hold up silently
my hands before my fading eyes
and in my eyes
you're smiling
the very last thing before i go...
the very last thing before i go...
the very last thing before i go...

i will kiss you, i will kiss you
i will kiss you forever on nights like this
i will kiss you, i will kiss you
and we shall be together...

[BTFLCHLD]

Carouselambra
(Jones/Page/Plant)

Sisters of the way-side bide their time in quiet peace,
Await their place within the ring of calm;
Still stand to turn in seconds of release,
Await the call they know may never come.
In times of lightness, no intruder dared upon
To jeopardize the course, upset the run;
And all was joy and hands were raised toward the sun
As love in the halls of plenty overrun.

Still in their bliss unchallenged mighty feast,
Unending dances shadowed on the day.
Within their walls, their daunting formless keep,
Preserved their joy and kept their doubts at bay.
Faceless legions stood in readiness to weep,
Just turn a coin, bring order to the fray;
And everything is soon no sooner thought than deed,
But no one seemed to question in anyway.

How keen the storied hunter's eye prevails upon the land
To seek the unsuspecting and the weak;
And powerless the fabled sat, too smug to lift a hand
Toward the foe that threatened from the deep.
Who cares to dry the cheeks of those who saddened stand
Adrift upon a sea of futile speech?
And to fall to fate and make the 'status plan'
Where was your word, where did you go?
Where was your helping, where was your bow? Bow.
Dull is the armour, cold is the day.
Hard was the journey, dark was the way. Way.
I heard the word; I couldn't stay. Oh.
I couldn't stand it another day, another day,
Another day, another day.

Touched by the timely coming,
Roused from the keeper's sleep,
Release the grip, throw down the key.

Held now within the knowing,
Rest now within the peace.
Take of the fruit, but guard the seed.

They had to stay!

Held now within the knowing,
Rest now within the beat.
Take of the fruit, but guard the seed...

[priestofnothing]

Rake
Townes Van Zandt

I used to wake and run with the moon
I lived like a rake and a young man
I courted my lovers with flowers and wounds
my laughter the devil would frighten

The sun she would come and beat me back down
but every cruel day had its nightfall
I'd welcome the stars with wine and guitars
full of fire and forgetful

My body was sharp and the dark air clean
and outraged my joyful companion
whisperin' women how sweet did they seem
kneelin' for me to command them

And time was like water but I was the sea
I'd have never noticed it passin'
except for the turnin' of night into day
and the turnin' of day into cursin'

You look at me now, and don't think I don't know
what all your eyes are a sayin'
Does he want us to believe these ravings and lies
they're just tricks that his brains been a playin'?

A lover of women he can't hardly stand
he trembles he's bent and he's broken
I've fallen it's true but I say unto you
hold your tongues until after I've spoken

I was takin' my pride in the pleasures I'd known
I laughed and thought I'd be forgiven
but my laughter turned 'round eyes blazing and
said my friend, we're holdin' a wedding

I buried my face but it spoke once again
the night to the day we're a bindin'
and now the dark air is like fire on my skin
and even the moonlight is blinding

http://www.veoh.com/videoDetails.html?v=e104375Y2aHx67s

[estranged4life]

"Disappear"-Dream Theater
Lyrics by James Labrie
Music by John Myung, John Petrucci, Mike Portnoy, Jordan Ruddess

Why, tell me the reasons why
Try, still I don't understand
Will I ever feel this again
Blue sky, I'll meet you in the end
Free them, free the memories of you
Free me, and rest ‘til I'm with you

A day like today
My whole world has been changed
Nothing you say
Will help ease my pain

Turn, I'll turn this slowly round
Burn, burn to feel alive again
She, she'd want me to move on
See me, this place I still belong
Give chase, to find more than I have found
And face, this time now on my own

Days disappear
And my world keeps changing
I feel you here
And it keeps me sane

So I'm moving on
I'll never forget as you lay there and watched me
Accepting the end
I knew you were scared
You were strong I was trying
I gave you my hand
I said it's okay letting go time to leave here
And I'll carry on
The best that I can without you here beside me
Let Him come and take you home"

[BTFLCHLD]

Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me
Jim Weatherly

I've had my share of life's ups and downs
But fate's been kind, the downs have been few
I guess you could say that I've been lucky
And I guess you could say it's all because of you.

If anyone should ever write my life story
For whatever reason there might be
You'd be there between each line of pain and glory
'Cause you're the best thing that ever happened to me
You're the best thing that ever happened to me.

Lord there have been times when times were hard
But always somehow I made it through
'Cause for ev'ry moment I've spent hurting
There was a moment spent loving you.

If anyone should ever write my life story
For whatever reason there might be
You'd be there between each line of pain and glory
'Cause you're the best thing that ever happened to me
You're the best thing that ever happened to me. :nod:

[estranged4life]

"Sacrificed Sons"
Music by Dream Theater
Lyrics by James Labrie

"Walls are closing
Anxiously
Channel surfing
Frantically

Burning City
Smoke and fire
Plane's we're certain
Faith inspired

No clues
A complete suprise
Who'll be
Coming home tonight

Heads all turning
Towards the sky
Towers crumble
Heroes die

Who would wish this on
On our people
And proclaim
That His will be done
Scriptures they heed have misled them
All praise their Sacrificed sons
All praise their Sacrificed sons

Teach them
What to think and feel
Your ways
So enlightening

Words they preach
I can't relate
If God's true Love
Are acts of Hate

Who would wish this on
On our people
And proclaim
That His will be done
Scriptures they heed have misled them
All praise their Sacrificed sons
All praise their Sacrificed sons

God on High
Our mistake
Will mankind be extinct?
There's no time to waste
Who serves the truth
For Heavens' sake"

[carrie721]

Melissa Etheridge - Tuesday Morning

10:03 on a Tuesday morning
In the fall of an American dream
Man is doing what he knows is right
On Flight 93

Loved his mom and he loved his dad
Loved his home and he loved his man
But on that bloody Tuesday morning
He died an American

Now you cannot change this
And you can't erase this
You can't pretend this is not the truth

Even though he could not marry
Or teach our children in your schools
Because who he wants to love
Is breaking your God's rules

He stood up on a Tuesday morning
In the terror he was brave
And he made his choice, and without a doubt
A hundred lives he must have saved

Now you cannot change this
And you can't erase this
You can't pretend this is not the truth

And the things you might take for granted
Your inalienable rights
Some might choose to deny him
Even though he gave his life

Can you live with yourself in the land of the free
If they make him less of a hero than the other three
Well it might begin to change here
In a field in Pennsylvania

Now you cannot change this
And you can't erase this
You can't pretend this is not the truth

Stand up America
Hear the bell now as it tolls
Wake up America
It's Tuesday morning
C'mon, let's roll

[BTFLCHLD]

Zoe's Song
Vayden


Go to sleep little one don't be scared of the dark,

Remember what mommy's taught to you from the very start,

And even in the worst of times,

I need you to keep this in your mind,



There's an angel in your life,

There's an angel in your room,

There's an angel by your side,

Helping to see you through,

Just have a little faith,

It'll all fall into place,

And you'll make it through the day..



Saturday morning the phone rings with the worst of news,

I fall to my to my knees for the mountains of pain you're going through,

I make my way over to show my love, and painfully ask How're you holding up

He said...



There's an Angel in my life,

There's an Angel in my room,

There's an Angel by my side,

Helping to see me through,

And I'm lucky enough to say,

That I've seen my angels face,

I'm going to make him proud he came.



If there's an Angel in your life,

If there's an Angel next to you,

If there's an Angel in your heart,

Helping to see you through,

If you're lucky enough to know,

That you can take your Angel home,

If you're lucky enough to say,

That you've seen your angels face,

Don't let it go away.

[priestofnothing]

'Cause Cheap Is how I Feel
Michael Timmins (Cowboy Junkies)

It's the kind of night that's so cold when you spit
it freezes before it hits the ground.
And when a bum asks you for a quarter you give a dollar
if he's out tonight he must be truly down.

And I'm searching all the windows for a last minute present
to prove to you what I said was real,
for something small and frail and plastic baby
cause cheap is how I feel.

Half moon in the sky tonight, bright enough
to come up with an answer
to the question why is it that every time I see you
my love grows a little stronger.

But your memory leaves my stomach churning
feeling like a lie about to be revealed,
but I'll horde all this to myself
cause cheap is how I feel.

It's not the smell in here that gets to me its the lights
I hate the shadows that they cast,
and the sound of clinking bottles is the one small thing
I'll always drag with me from my past.

I think I'll find a pair of eyes tonight
to fall into and maybe strike a deal
Your body for my soul, fair swap
cause cheap is how I feel

[UnwindedDreams]

Trouble-Lindsey Buckingham

I really should be saying goodnight
I really shouldn't stay anymore
It's been so long since I held ya
I've forgotten what love is for

I should run on the double
I think I'm in trouble
I think I'm in trouble

So come to me darlin and hold me
Let your honey keep you warm
Been so long since I held ya
I've forgotten what love is for

I should run on the double
I think I'm in trouble

[TwistedGypsy]

What a great thread.

Bob Dylan
"To Ramona"

Ramona, come closer
Shut softly your watery eyes
The pangs of your sadness
Will pass as your senses will rise
The flowers of the city
Though breathlike, get deathlike at times
And there's no use in tryin'
To deal with the dyin'
Though I cannot explain that in lines.

Your cracked country lips
I still wish to kiss
As to be by the strength of you skin
Your magnetic movements
Still capture the minutes I'm in
But it grieves my heart, love
To see you tryin' to be a part of
A world that just don't existv It's all just a dream, babe
A vacuum, a scheme, babe
That sucks you into feelin' like this.

I can see that your head
Has been twisted and fed
With worthless foam from the mouth
I can tell you are torn
Between stayin' and returnin'
Back to the South
You've been fooled into thinking
That the finishin' end is at hand
Yet there's no one to beat you
No one to defeat you
'Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad

I've heard you say many times
That you're better 'n no one
And no one is better 'n you
If you really believe that
You know you have
Nothing to win and nothing to lose
From fixtures and forces and friends
Your sorrow does stem
That hype you and type you
Making you feel
That you gotta be just like them.

I'd forever talk to you
But soon my words
They would turn into a meaningless ring
For deep in my heart
I know there is no help I can bring
Everything passes
Everything changes
Just do what you think you should do
And someday, maybe
Who knows, baby
I'll come and be cryin' to you.


This song to me a utter perfection, period.

[TwistedGypsy]

Coldplay
"Green Eyes"

Green Eyes

Honey you are a rock
Upon which I stand
And I come here to talk
I hope you understand

That green eyes
Yeah the spotlight shines upon you
And how could anybody deny you

I came here with a load
And it feels so much lighter
Now I met you
And honey you should know
That I could never go on without you
Green Eyes

Honey you are the sea
Upon which I flow
And I came here to talk
I think you should know

That green eyes,
You're the one that I wanted to find
And anyone who tried to deny you
Must be out of their mind

Because I came here with a load
And it feels so much lighter
Since I met you
And honey you should know
That I could never go on without you

Green Eyes
Green Eyes
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh

Honey you are a rock
Upon which I stand

[carrie721]

Just A Little Lovin' - Dusty Springfield

Just a little lovin'
Early in the mornin'
Beats a cup of coffee
For starting off the day

Just a little lovin'
When the world is yawnin'
Makes you feel wake up feeling
Good things are coming your way

This old world
Wouldn't be half as bad
It wouldn't be half as sad
If each and everybody in it had, yeah

Just a little lovin'
Early in the mornin'
That little extra somethin'
To kinda see them through

Nothing turns the day on
Really gets it dawnin'
Like a little bit of lovin'
From some lovin' someone like you

This old world
Wouldn't be half as bad
It wouldn't be half as sad
If each and everybody in it had

Just a little lovin'
Early in the mornin'
(Just a little lovin')
(When the world is yawnin')
Just a little bit of lovin' ah
Oh, in the morning
Nothing turns the day on
Really gets it dawnin'
Make a little bit of lovin'
It's so good, it's so good

[estranged4life]

Guns N' Roses-"Madagascar"

"I won't be told anymore
That I've been brought down in this storm
And left so far out from the shore
That I can't find my way back, my way anymore

No I won't be told anymore
That I've been brought back in this storm
And left so far out from the shore
That I can't find my way back, my way anymore

No, I..
No, I...

Forgive that they teared down my soul
Bless them that they might grow old
A dream that's forgotten may know
That it's never too late

So many times that I've seen life before me
I searched and found the way to choose to the end
I found a way, to know, why it had to be
Mired in denial and saw all the rain

If we ever find it true
Love will have its way to choose
Three more to tame
We can be ever

I won't be told anymore
That I've been brought down in this storm
And left so far out from the shore
And I can't find my way back, my way anymore

No I won't be told anymore
That I've been brought back in this storm
And left so far out from the shore
That I can't find my way back, my way anymore"

[TwistedGypsy]

Bob Dylan
"Lay Lady Lay"


Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Whatever colors you have in your mind
I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man awhile
Until the break of day, let me see you make him smile
His clothes are dirty but his hands are clean
And you're the best thing that he's ever seen

Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man awhile
Why wait any longer for the world to begin
You can have your cake and eat it too
Why wait any longer for the one you love
When he's standing in front of you

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead
I long to see you in the morning light
I long to reach for you in the night
Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead

[BTFLCHLD]

World I Know
Collective Soul

Has our conscience shown?
Has the sweet breeze blown?
Has all the kindness gone?
Hope still lingers on.
I drink myself of newfound pity
sitting alone in New York City
and I dont know why.

Are we listening to hyms of offering?
Have we eyes to see that love is gathering?
All the words that I've been reading
have now started the act of bleeding into one.

So I walk up on high
and I step to the edge
to see my world below.
And I laugh at myself
as the years roll down.
Cause it's the world I know.
It's the world I know.


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[DrummerDeanna]

^^

That's one of my favorite songs of all-time. I love Collective Soul.

[BTFLCHLD]

Shine
Collective Soul

Give me a word
Give me a sign
Show me where to go
Tell me what will I find
Lay me on the ground
Fly me in the sky
Show me where to go
Tell me what will I find
Oh Heaven let your light shine down

Love is in the water
Love is in the air
Show me where to go
Tell me will love be there
Teach me how to speak
Teach me how to share
Teach me where to go
Tell me will love be there
Oh, Heaven let your light shine down

Give me a word
Give me a sign
Show me where to look
Tell me what will I find
Lay me on the ground
Fly me in the sky
Show me where to look
Tell me what will I find
Oh Heaven let your light shine down

I've got to let it shine
I've got to let it shine
Heaven let this light shine on me
I say Hey, Hey
Heaven let this light shine on me
(Shine)
Shine on me, Hey-hey, yeah-he-hey
(Shine)
Can't buy this shine

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[estranged4life]

"Everything Under the Sun"-Extreme

I. Rise n' Shine

"Dawn wakes the silence,
Of a fainted lullaby
Day breaks the eyelid,
From a song sung in my eye

Night rests in peace,
As the sun mourns the sky
Alls accounted for sheep,
Over a horizons I

Rise, rise n shine
A new day is coming
Rise, rise in time
For everything under the sun

And when you see,
A south wind blow
Forecasting, you will know,
A hot day, will be on the way
(foolish one)
You analyze,
The earth and the sky
I ask you why,
You cant analyze the signs,
Of the present time

I had a dream,
Not unlike the one from old
Of a man king,
Whose head was made of gold
Stand castles of sand
Weather the sundials rise n fall
Chasing wind through your hands,
til water runs dry the well

Dream, Daniel, dream
For whats yet to come
See, Daniel, see
For everything under the sun

And in the west,
A cloud appears
For shadows of
A coming shower near,
Oh, so near
(hypocrites)
You analyze,
The earth and the sky
I ask you why,
You cant analyze the signs,
Of the present time

Vanity,
Yes, all is vanity
Vanity,
Yes, alls futility

For one that dies,
Anothers born
Where laughters heard,
Comforters mourn
Theres a time for
Everything

A song for love,
Even abhor
An olive branch,
Or winters war
Theres a time for
Everything, under the sun"


II. Am I Ever Gonna Change-

"I'm tired of being me,
And I dont like what I see,
I'm not who I appear to be
So I start off every day,
Down on my knees I will pray,
For a change in any way
But as the day goes by,
I live through another lie,
If its any wonder why

Am I ever gonna change
Will I always stay the same
If I say one thing,
Then I do the other
Its the same old song,
That goes on forever
Am I ever gonna change
I'm the only one to blame
When I think I'm right,
I wind up wrong
Its a futile fight,
Gone on too long

Please tell me if its true,
Am I too old to start anew,
Cause thats what I want to do
But time and time again,
When I think I can,
I fall short in the end
So why do I even try,
Will it matter when I die,
Can anyone hear my cry?

Am I ever gonna change
Take it day by day
My will is weak
And my flesh too strong
This peace I seek
Till thy kingdom comes"


III. Who Cares?

"Tell me, Jesus,
Are you angry?
One more sheep has,
Just gone astray
A hardening of hearts,
Turning to stone
Wandering off,
So far from home

So many children,
Losing time
Walk in darkness,
Looking for a sign
Chasing their rainbows,
The future looks so bright
Slowly were losing,
Sight of the light

Who cares?
Who cares?
Who cares?
Tell me who cares?
Who cares?

All alone,
Out in the cold
Can't look back,
Am I growing old
I chose a path,
Is this my fate
Am I finding out,
The truth too late

Chorus

Here I am,
A naked man
Nothing to hide
With empty hands
Remember me,
I am the one
Who lost his way,
Your prodigal son

Who cares?
Who cares?
Who cares?
Tell me who cares?
Who cares?

Am I ever gonna change
Will I always stay the same
Say one thing
Then I do the other
Same old song
Goes on forever
Rise, rise n shine
A new day is coming
Yes it is!"

[priestofnothing]

Bad Boys Get Spanked
Chrissie Hynde - The Pretenders

You're not supposed to do that
You know you're not allowed to
But you seem to get some kind of kick
Out of doing what you're not allowed to
You deliberately defy the rules
'cause the law's upheld by fools
**** on that
Bad boys get spanked


You can look but don't touch
But no you can't resist
Don't you ever think about the consequence
Guys like you never do
That's the kind of stuff boys are made out of
That's the kind of stuff girls are made out of


Bad boys get spanked
Bad boys get spanked


You don't listen do you asshole
Don't be a punk all your life
Someone's gonna sort you out
They'll try to make a man out of you
Say yes sir, say no sir
Say yes ma'am, say no m'am
**** on that
Bad boys get spanked
Bad boys get spanked


Get spanked, get spanked
Come here, get spanked
Bad boys get spanked
Come here, get spanked

http://www.veoh.com/videoDetails.html?v=e123133T8qcFdjq
the album version is a little more intense, but this live performance is fun too.

[BTFLCHLD]

;)
More
Norman Newell

More than the greatest love the world has known
This is the love I'll give to you alone
More than the simple words I try to say
I only live to love you more each day
More than you'll ever know
My arms long to hold you so
My life will be in your keeping
Waking, sleeping, laughing, weeping
Longer than always is a long, long time
But far beyond forever you'll be mine
I know I never lived before
And my heart is very sure
No one else could love you more

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[markolas]

It Ain't Me, Babe
-Bob Dylan-

Go 'way from my window,
Leave at your own chosen speed.
I'm not the one you want, babe,
I'm not the one you need.
You say you're lookin' for someone
Never weak but always strong,
To protect you an' defend you
Whether you are right or wrong,
Someone to open each and every door,
But it ain't me, babe,
No, no, no, it ain't me, babe,
It ain't me you're lookin' for, babe.

Go lightly from the ledge, babe,
Go lightly on the ground.
I'm not the one you want, babe,
I will only let you down.
You say you're lookin' for someone
Who will promise never to part,
Someone to close his eyes for you,
Someone to close his heart,
Someone who will die for you an' more,
But it ain't me, babe,
No, no, no, it ain't me, babe,
It ain't me you're lookin' for, babe.

Go melt back into the night, babe,
Everything inside is made of stone.
There's nothing in here moving
An' anyway I'm not alone.
You say you're looking for someone
Who'll pick you up each time you fall,
To gather flowers constantly
An' to come each time you call,
A lover for your life an' nothing more,
But it ain't me, babe,
No, no, no, it ain't me, babe,
It ain't me you're lookin' for, babe.

[elie]

^ [I know we 're not supposed to write comments, but I just love this song Markolas! Lately I 've been enjoying a very good version from the "Walk the Line" OST, featuring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon!]

Anyway, here's mine (one of my favorite songs):

IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND - Gordon Lightfoot

If you could read my mind love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie
bout a ghost from a wishin well
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
You know that ghost is me
And I will never be set free
As long as Im a ghost that you cant see
If I could read your mind love
What a tale your thoughts could tell
Just like a paperback novel
The kind that drugstores sell
When you reach the part where the heartaches come
The hero would be me
But heroes often fail
And you wont read that book again
Because the endings just too hard to take

Id walk away like a movie star
Who gets burned in a three way script
Enter number two
A movie queen to play the scene
Of bringing all the good things out in me
But for now love, lets be real
* I never thought I could act this way *
And Ive got to say that I just dont get it
I dont know where we went wrong
But the feelins gone
And I just cant get it back

If you could read my mind love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie
bout a ghost from a wishin well
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
But stories always end
And if you read between the lines
Youll know that Im just tryin to understand
The feelins that you lack
I never thought I could feel this way
And Ive got to say that I just to get it
I dont know where we went wrong
But the feelins gone
And I just cant get it back

[priestofnothing]

Five Room Love Story A beautiful sweet heartbreaking song inspired by this heartfelt story:
http://www.cowboyjunkies.com/albums/rarities/article.html

Five Room Love Story
Michael Timmins (Cowboy Junkies)


I met her in a church on a Sunday evening
not late on a Saturday night.
She sang Ave Maria a little flat and out of tune
but that's what drew me to her so that's alright.
As she placed a nickel in the basket that I held before her
I asked her to be my wife.

There's one cardboard heart for every time you said I love you,
a painted star for every secret that we shared,
the dried lima beans and small plastic birds
because you cared.

I hear them talk and I watch them swap their old black and whites.
Bitter and beaten they talk of life's cheatin' like old boxers comparing scars.
All I remember is a smile at the top of every working morning
and a shoulder always willing and able
and all those nights that we'd spend just sitting
and talking around our kitchen table.

Five rooms made stronger by the breaking and the healing
of the two hearts they protected within
and now one heart left aching, pasting and painting
these walls with memories of all that has been.

[estranged4life]

that lyrically seems accurate for this day & age:

"Witch Hunt (Part III of Fear)" by Rush (From the album "Moving Pictures"/Lyrics by N.Peart)

The night is black
Without a moon.
The air is thick and still.
The vigilantes gather on
The lonely torchlit hill.

Features distorted in the flickering light,
The faces are twisted and grotesque.
Silent and stern in the sweltering night,
The mob moves like demons possesed.
Quiet in conscience, calm in their right,
Confident their ways are best.

The righteous rise
With burning eyes
Of hatred and ill-will.
Madmen fed on fear and lies
To beat and burn and kill.

They say there are strangers who threaten us,
In our immigrants and infidels.
They say there is strangeness too dangerous
In our theaters and bookstore shelves.
That those who know what's best for us
Must rise and save us from ourselves.

Quick to judge,
Quick to anger,
Slow to understand
Ignorance and prejudice
And fear walk hand in hand..."

[BTFLCHLD]

:sorry: I probably posted this already...
This thread is very tricky indeed!


The Rain Song
Led Zeppelin

This is the springtime of my loving - the second season I am to know
You are the sunlight in my growing - so little warmth I've felt before.
It isn't hard to feel me glowing - I watched the fire that grew so low.

It is the summer of my smiles - flee from me Keepers of the Gloom.
Speak to me only with your eyes. It is to you I give this tune.
Ain't so hard to recognize - These things are clear to all from time to time.

Talk Talk - I've felt the coldness of my winter
I never thought it would ever go. I cursed the gloom that set upon us...
But I know that I love you so

These are the seasons of emotion and like the winds they rise and fall
This is the wonder of devotion - I see the torch we all must hold.
This is the mystery of the quotient - Upon us all a little rain must fall

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[carrie721]

The Pearl

Emmylou Harris

O the dragons are gonna fly tonight
They're circling low and inside tonight
It's another round in the losing fight
Out along the great divide tonight

We are aging soldiers in an ancient war
Seeking out some half remembered shore
We drink our fill and still we thirst for more
Asking if there's no heaven what is this hunger for?

Our path is worn our feet are poorly shod
We lift up our prayer against the odds
And fear the silence is the voice of God

And we cry Allelujah Allelujah
We cry Allelujah

Sorrow is constant and the joys are brief
The seasons come and bring no sweet relief
Time is a brutal but a careless theif
Who takes our lot but leaves behind the grief

It is the heart that kills us in the end
Just one more old broken bone that cannot mend
As it was now and ever shall be amen

And we cry Allelujah Allelujah
We cry Allelujah

So there'll be no guiding light for you and me
We are not sailors lost out on the sea
We were always headed toward eternity
Hoping for a glimpse of Gaililee

Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled
Down through the long loneliness of the world
Until we behold the pain become the pearl

Cryin´ Allelujah Allelujah
We cry Allelujah

And we cry Allelujah Allelujah
We cry Allelujah

[BTFLCHLD]

Under The Skin
Lindsey Buckingham

I hear your heart
as you pass through
I know the pain that you feel
I'll shepherd you

Under the skin everything shows
Under the skin
Anything goes for the asking
Under the skin

I know it's hard being so hard to find
Your passion swallows you whole
deaf dumb and blind

Under the skin everything grows
Under the skin
Anything goes for the asking
Under the skin

When the shadows fall
on the one-way wall
and you feel so small
where do you belong

When your soul falls out
and your filled with doubt
and the silhouettes shout
where do you belong

Lay your head down
no one will see
Cry me a river of new dreams
float yourself free

Under the skin everything shows
Under the skin
Anything goes for the asking
Under the skin

Under the skin everything grows
Under the skin
Anything goes
Long live The Queen
Under the skin

[xdreamsunwindx]

Lucinda Williams - Drunken Angel

Sun came up it was another day
And the sun went down you were blown away
Why'd you let go of your guitar
Why'd you ever let it go that far
Drunken Angel

Could've held on to that long smooth neck
Let your hand remember every fret
Fingers touching each shiny string
But you let go of everything
Drunken Angel

Drunken Angel
You're on the other side
Drunken Angel
You're on the other side

Followers would cling to you
Hang around just to meet you
Some threw roses at your feet
And watch you pass out on the street
Drunken Angel

Feed you and pay off all your debts
Kiss your brow taste your sweat
Write about your soul your guts
Criticize you and wish you luck
Drunken Angel

Drunken Angel
You're on the other side
Drunken Angel
You're on the other side

Some kind of savior singing the blues
A derelict in your duct tape shoes
Your orphan clothes and your long dark hair
Looking like you didn't care

Druken Angel
Blood spilled out from the hole in your heart
Over the strings of your guitar
The worn down places in the wood
That once made you feel so good
Druken Angel
Drunken Angel
You're on the other side

[priestofnothing]

Lucinda Williams - Drunken Angel


Lucinda Rocks!

My new addition:

Bea's Song (River Song Trilogy Part II)
Michael Timmins - Cowboy Junkies

Dedicated to my good friend Patrick

Speed River at my feet running low and flat
I'm sitting here burning daylight,
thinking about the past
and that distance out there
where the earth meets the sky.
The slightest move and this river mud
pulls me further down.
John's at my side, but he's sitting on firmer ground.

John says I look at the moon and the stars
these days more often than I look into his eyes
and I can't disagree so I don't say nothing.
I just stare on past his face at Venus rising,
like a shining speck of hope hanging over the horizon.

With each passing year that I sit here
that horizon seems to inch just that much nearer
and all that appears on it seems as clear as spit.
But if there's one thing in my life
that these years have taught
it's that you can always see it coming
but you can never stop it.

Speed River at my feet running low and flat
I'm sitting here burning daylight,
thinking about the past
and that distance out there
where the earth meets the sky.
The slightest move and this river mud
pulls me further down
John's at my side,
but he's not noticing that I'm drowning.
The slightest move and this river mud
pulls me further down.
John's at my side,
but he's not noticing that I'm drowning.


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[BTFLCHLD]

Lindsey showcased this song to perfection in LA. Thank the heavens I now have the mp3. :angel:

red rover
lindsey buckingham

Why do you come around so very much
You know it just brings you down it’s just something you can touch

You don’t belong here I guess you never did
Whisper murder in your ear you just keep it so well hid

Anyone at all could see what was missing
Could see you were dying though no one was crying
And the lips you were kissing night after night
All were bathed in blue all bathed in white
Red rover red rover red rover
We’ve come we’ve come we’ve come we’ve come to take you over

One of the quiet ones one of the few
Now fall down onto your knees show us all what you can do
We came around here to see if you were well
And there’s nothing for you to fear in heaven or in hell

Anyone at all could see what was missing
Could see you were dying though no one was crying
And the lips you were kissing night after night
All were bathed in blue all bathed in white
Red rover red rover red rover
We’ve come we’ve come we’ve come we’ve come to take you over

[joshywashy377]

The Other End Of The Telescope; 'Til Tuesday (Aimee Mann w/ Elvis Costello) If there are any other 'Til Tuesday fans out there, I'd love to hear from you. A very underrated band.

Shall we agree that just this once
I'm gonna change my life
until it's just as tiny or
important as you like
and in time, we won't even recall that we spoke
Words that turned out to be as big as smoke
like smoke, disappears in the air
there's always something smouldering somewhere

I know it don't make a difference to you
but oh, it sure made a difference to me
You'll see me off in the distance, I hope
at the other end
at the other end of the telescope

There was a time not long ago
I dreamt that the world was flat
and all the colours bled away
and that was that
And in time, I could only believe in one thing
the sky was just phosphourus stars hung on strings
and you swore that they'd always be mine
when you can pull them down anytime

I know it don't make a difference to you
but oh, it sure made a difference to me
You'll see me off in the distance, I hope
at the other end
at the other end of the telescope

There, there baby now, don't say a word
lie down baby, your vision is blurred
Your head is so sore from all of that thinking
I don't want to hurt you now
but I think you're shrinking (I think you're skrinking)

You're half-naked ambition and
you're half out of your wits
and though your wristwatch always works
your necktie never fits
Now its so hard to pick the receiver up
and when I call, I never noticed you could be so small
the answer was under your nose
but the question never arose

I know it don't make a difference to you
but oh, it sure made a difference to me
When you find me here at the end of my rope
when the head and heart of it finally elope
You can see us off in the distance, I hope
at the other end
at the other end of the telescope

[Phoenix]

The Other End Of The Telescope; 'Til Tuesday (Aimee Mann w/ Elvis Costello) If there are any other 'Til Tuesday fans out there, I'd love to hear from you. A very underrated band.

Shall we agree that just this once
I'm gonna change my life
until it's just as tiny or
important as you like
and in time, we won't even recall that we spoke
Words that turned out to be as big as smoke
like smoke, disappears in the air
there's always something smouldering somewhere

I know it don't make a difference to you
but oh, it sure made a difference to me
You'll see me off in the distance, I hope
at the other end
at the other end of the telescope

There was a time not long ago
I dreamt that the world was flat
and all the colours bled away
and that was that
And in time, I could only believe in one thing
the sky was just phosphourus stars hung on strings
and you swore that they'd always be mine
when you can pull them down anytime

I know it don't make a difference to you
but oh, it sure made a difference to me
You'll see me off in the distance, I hope
at the other end
at the other end of the telescope

There, there baby now, don't say a word
lie down baby, your vision is blurred
Your head is so sore from all of that thinking
I don't want to hurt you now
but I think you're shrinking (I think you're skrinking)

You're half-naked ambition and
you're half out of your wits
and though your wristwatch always works
your necktie never fits
Now its so hard to pick the receiver up
and when I call, I never noticed you could be so small
the answer was under your nose
but the question never arose

I know it don't make a difference to you
but oh, it sure made a difference to me
When you find me here at the end of my rope
when the head and heart of it finally elope
You can see us off in the distance, I hope
at the other end
at the other end of the telescope

Itll teusday was good. :wavey: Amie mann is still cool. I love that song she did on the magnolia soundtrack

[joshywashy377]

Gotta love Aimee. I really think she should get more credit, shes an amazing singer and songwriter and one of the most original i know of. I love Til Tuesdays sound, especially on the album "everything's different now"

[markolas]

Why D'Ya Do It?
by Marianne Faithfull

When I stole a twig from our little nest
And gave it to a bird with nothing in her beak
I had my balls and my brains put into a vice
And twisted around for a whole ****ing week

Why d'ya do it?, she said
Why d'ya let that trash
Get ahold of your cock
And get stoned on my hash?

Why d'ya do it?, she said
Why d'ya let her suck your cock?
Oh, do me a favor
Don't put me in the dark

Why d'ya do it?, she said
They're mine, all your jewels
You just tied me to the mast
Of the ship of fools

Why d'ya do it?, she said
When you know it makes me sore
'Cause she had cobwebs up her fanny
And I believe in giving to the poor

Why d'ya do it?, she said
Why d'ya spit on my snatch?
Are we out of love now?
Is this just a bad patch?

Why d'ya do it?, she said
Why d'ya do what you did?
You drove my ego
To a really bad skid

Why d'ya do it?, she said
Ain't nothing to laugh
You just tore all our kisses
Right in half

Why d'ya do it?, she said
Why d'ya do what you did?
Betray my little oyster
For such a low bid

Why d'ya do it?, she screamed
After all we've said
Every time I see your dick
I see her **** in my bed

The whole room was swirling
Her lips were still curling

Oh, big gray mother
I love you forever
With your barbed-wire pussy
And your good and bad weather

[JazmenFlowers]

Lover's Spit - Broken Social Scene

All these people drinking lover's spit
They sit around and clean their face with it
And they listen to teeth to learn how to quit
tied to a night they never met

You know it's time
that we grow old and do some ****
I like it all that way

All these people drinking lover's spit
Swallowing words while giving head
They listen to teeth to learn how to quit
tied to a night they never met

You know it's time
that we grow old and do some ****
I like it all that way

[BTFLCHLD]

Achilles Last Stand
(Page/Plant)

It was an April morning when they told us we should go
As I turn to you, you smiled at me
How could we say no?

With all the fun to have, to live the dreams we always had
Oh, the songs to sing, when we at last return again

Sending off a glancing kiss, to those who claim they know
Below the streets that steam and hiss,
The devil's in his hole

Oh to sail away, To sandy lands and other days
Oh to touch the dream, Hides inside and never seen.

Into the sun the south the north, at last the birds have flown
The shackles of commitment fell, In pieces on the ground

Oh to ride the wind, To tread the air above the din
Oh to laugh aloud, Dancing as we fought the crowd

To seek the man whose pointing hand, The giant step unfolds
With guidance from the curving path, That churns up into stone

If one bell should ring, in celebration for a king
So fast the heart should beat, As proud the head with heavy feet.

Days went by when you and I, bathed in eternal summers glow
As far away and distant, Our mutual child did grow

Oh the sweet refrain, Soothes the soul and calms the pain
Oh Albion remains, sleeping now to rise again

Wandering & wandering, What place to rest the search
The mighty arms of Atlas, Hold the heavens from the earth

The mighty arms of Atlas, Hold the heavens from the earth
From the earth...

I know the way, know the way, know the way, know the way
I know the way, know the way, know the way, know the way

Oh the mighty arms of Atlas, Hold the heavens from the earth.

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[BTFLCHLD]

Flying Down Juniper
Lindsey Buckingham

Fathers and mothers all those years ago
Did you ever did you ever know
My sisters and my brothers all dead and gone
Did you know that wishing don't make it so
All the children flying down Juniper
All going where children go
All the children flying down Juniper
Let us go

And did you ever wonder about the places we would go
And did you realize we felt your woe
All the children flying down Juniper
All going where children go
All the children flying down Juniper
Let us go

If we forgive ourselves we might be whole
But you know wishing wishing won't make it so
All the children flying fown Juniper
All going where children go
All the children flying down Juniper
Let us go
Let us go

[BTFLCHLD]

Someone's Gotta Change Your Mind
Lindsey Buckingham

Little children
Out in the rain
Slippin' and slidin'
Covered in pain
Bodies broken
Soaked to the bone
Little children
Going on home

I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
Someone oughta make 'em feel fine
And so, and so, and so, and so, and so, and so
Someone's gotta change, change your mind

Flying down Juniper
Freeway of lines
Long gone
Kiss it goodbye
Mother and father
Covered in snow
Little children
Going on home

I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
Someone oughta make 'em feel fine
And so, and so, and so, and so, and so, and so
Someone's gotta change, change your mind
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
Someone oughta make 'em feel fine
And so, and so, and so, and so, and so, and so
Someone's gotta change, change your mind
Mind...
Mind...

Nothing to prove
Your blood is mine
I have no children
Just some design
Woven mystery
It fills up this womb
No little children
Left to go home

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[goldustsongbird]

Why D'Ya Do It?
by Marianne Faithfull

When I stole a twig from our little nest
And gave it to a bird with nothing in her beak
I had my balls and my brains put into a vice
And twisted around for a whole ****ing week

Why d'ya do it?, she said
Why d'ya let that trash
Get ahold of your cock
And get stoned on my hash?

Why d'ya do it?, she said
Why d'ya let her suck your cock?
Oh, do me a favor
Don't put me in the dark

Why d'ya do it?, she said
They're mine, all your jewels
You just tied me to the mast
Of the ship of fools

Why d'ya do it?, she said
When you know it makes me sore
'Cause she had cobwebs up her fanny
And I believe in giving to the poor

Why d'ya do it?, she said
Why d'ya spit on my snatch?
Are we out of love now?
Is this just a bad patch?

Why d'ya do it?, she said
Why d'ya do what you did?
You drove my ego
To a really bad skid

Why d'ya do it?, she said
Ain't nothing to laugh
You just tore all our kisses
Right in half

Why d'ya do it?, she said
Why d'ya do what you did?
Betray my little oyster
For such a low bid

Why d'ya do it?, she screamed
After all we've said
Every time I see your dick
I see her **** in my bed

The whole room was swirling
Her lips were still curling

Oh, big gray mother
I love you forever
With your barbed-wire pussy
And your good and bad weather

this song sounds so awesome on Blazing Away. Especially the part I bolded.
Except, I always thought she said "for such a low bitch", not bid. I've been singing bitch for years! :shocked:

[xdreamsunwindx]

When I looked out my window
Many sights to see
And when I looded in my window
So many different people to be
That is strange, so strange
You got to pick out every stitch
Must be the season of the witch

[BTFLCHLD]

Gel
Collective Soul

Color me any color
Speak to me in tongues and share
Tell me how you'd love to hate me
Tell me how you'd love to care
Well I just want to shake us up
Let's mingle
And make it well
Come together now
Yeah let's gel
Clothe me in any fashion
Glitter to so mundane
Tell me how you'd love to change me
Tell me I can stay the same
I just want to shake us up
Let's mingle
And make it well
Come together now
Yeah let's gel
Well let's bungle
And live to tell
How we came together
Yeah how we gelled

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[priestofnothing]

The Adultress
Chrissie Hynde - The Pretenders

I'm the Adultress
But I didn't want to be
But I'm convenient
And I make good tea
I stand accused
Of the worst crime in history
That's my mystery
I'm the adultress

I go to the park
With a bag of crumbs for the birds
That's where we meet
Without words
He takes my hand
And stares into the woods
There's nothing to understand
It's understood
I'm the adultress

Look at the fool
Made up to go out
She's desperate and lonely
And she's putting it about
Look at the spinster
Coming down off the shelf
She's in love
And she hates herself

Don't try to stop me
Don't get in my way
It's too late
I've made my play
Cause misery loves company
I'll be in the bar
That's where you'll find me

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[xdreamsunwindx]

Rilo Kiley - A Man/Me/Then Jim (well, part of it)

A woman calls my house once a week; she's always selling things
Some charity, a phone plan, a subscription to a magazine
And as I turned her down, I always do, there was something trembling in her voice
I said
Hey, what troubles you?
She said
I'm surprised you noticed
Well, my husband, he's leaving, and I can't convince him to stay
And he'll take our daughter with him, she wants to go with him anyway
I'm sorry I'm hard to live with, living is the problem for me
I'm selling people things they don't want when I don't know what you need

He said the slow fade of love
And its mist might choke you
It's my gradual descent
Into a life I never meant
It's the slow fade of love

[priestofnothing]

China
Tori Amos

China all the way to New York
I can feel the distance getting close
You're right next to me
But I need an airplane
I can feel the distance as you breathe
Sometimes I think you want me to touch you
How can I when you build the great wall around you
In your eyes I saw the future together
But you just look away in the distance

China decorates our table
Funny how the cracks don't seem to show
Pour the wine dear
You say we'll take a holiday
But we never can agree on where to go

Sometimes I think you want me to touch you
How can I when you build the great wall around you
In your eyes I saw the future together
But you just look away in the distance

China all the way to New York
Maybe you got lost in Mexico
You're right next to me
I think that you can hear me
Funny how the distance
Learns to grow

Sometimes I think you want me to touch you
How can I when you build the great wall around you
In your eyes I saw the future
Together you just look away in the distance

I can feel the distance
I can feel the distance
I can feel the distance getting close

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[estranged4life]

"Ghost Love Score"-Nightwish

"We used to swim the same moonlight waters
Oceans away from the wakeful day

- My fall will be for you -
My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
If you be the one to cut me
I'll bleed forever

Scent of the sea before the waking of the world
Brings me to thee
Into the blue memory

- My fall will be for you -
My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
If you be the one to cut me
I'll bleed forever

A siren from the deep came to me
Sang my name my longing
Still I write my songs about that dream of mine
Worth everything I may ever be

The Child will be born again
That siren carried him to me
First of them true loves
Singing on the shoulders of an angel
Without care for love 'n loss

Bring me home or leave me be
My love in the dark heart of the night
I have lost the path before me
The one behind will lead me

Take me
Cure me
Kill me
Bring me home
Every way
Every day
Just another loop in the hangman's noose

Take me, cure me, kill me, bring me home
Every way, every day
I keep on watching us sleep

Relive the old sin of Adam and Eve
Of you and me
Forgive the adoring beast

Redeem me into childhood
Show me myself without the shell
Like the advent of May
I'll be there when you say
Time to never hold our love

- My fall will be for you -
My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
If you be the one to cut me
I'll bleed forever"

[xdreamsunwindx]

The Paybacks - "Bring It Back"

I didn't ask for it
I didn't beg for it
I didn't come up here for this
It's an old story
All in glory, sealed with a kiss

And I just can't believe that this is happening to me
Bring it back, bring it back, bring it back
How can you believe in something you can't even see?
Every time that I fall, it's the first time
Please, bring it back

Oh, temper, temper
Like a broken record I'm caught in the grooves
It's dyin' hard out in the yard
I can't even move

Everything I see looks so much different to me
Bring it back, bring it back, bring it back
How can it be over when you won't let it begin
Every time that I fall, it's the first time
Please, bring it back

And I just can't believe that this is happening to me
Bring it back, bring it back, bring it back
How can you believe in something you can't even see?
Every time that I fall, it's the first time
Every time that I fall, it's the first time
Every time that I fall, it's the worst time...

[BTFLCHLD]

Try For The Sun
Donovan Leitch
(Lindsey Buckingham's version) :cool:

We huddled in the derelict building
The gypsy girl and I
We made our beds together
With the rain and tears in our eyes
And who will be the one
To say it was no good what we done
I dare anyone dare anyone to say we were too young
We were only trying for the sun

Mirror mirror in the sky
Won't you look what's happening here below
No one knows what's going on
Can you give us a sign where to go
And who will be the one
To say it was no good what we done
I dare anyone dare anyone to say we were too young
We were only trying for the sun
Who will be the one
To say it was no good what we done
I dare anyone dare anyone to say we were too young
We were only trying for the sun
We were only trying for the sun
We were only trying for the sun

[BTFLCHLD]

Tolerance
Michael Franti

A child is born and a mama's torn about the life that it's bound to live. A sun and moon and a modest home is all they are askin' the lord to give. Politics and big events never seem to notice the little guy, so make a plan or simply hold a hand but don't ever be a passerby. Tolerance or violence? And the whole world goes to war. Is one enough or is one too many before we say...no more? Could you ever love a pot of gold or could you ever love another lonely soul? Could you ever find a love that was oceans wide? Could you ever find love in another strangers eyes? Give a little tolerance, oh tolerance...we need you more and more.

Lend a hand or hold a friend that's in need of life support. Draw a picture...share a whisper...anyway you can to rise above. And when the end is near who is going to volunteer to be the last one to die for love?

[carrie721]

Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks

You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain

You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins

How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead

[BTFLCHLD]

Transparent
In Flames

Consume all the obscene
Persuade the most hideous and ugly
Under every pile and stone
A rebirth, for you to find

Freedom is to be able
To go in any direction
So take the uncertain path

One foot in the open
Ten feet ahead
Build your own ladder
And don't lie to yourself

Secrets left above the grave
(It's not for one to keep)
You're all so self destructive
Spend more time with the broken
(see what became of their mistake)
You know you're lost when transparent

Be at one with the wind
Even if it's a struggle
Make this your priority

Open all your senses
To new impressions
Act like all that was has vanished

[BlackWidow]

Try For The Sun
Donovan Leitch
(Lindsey Buckingham's version) :cool:

We huddled in the derelict building
The gypsy girl and I
We made our beds together
With the rain and tears in our eyes
And who will be the one
To say it was no good what we done
I dare anyone dare anyone to say we were too young
We were only trying for the sun

Mirror mirror in the sky
Won't you look what's happening here below
No one knows what's going on
Can you give us a sign where to go
And who will be the one
To say it was no good what we done
I dare anyone dare anyone to say we were too young
We were only trying for the sun
Who will be the one
To say it was no good what we done
I dare anyone dare anyone to say we were too young
We were only trying for the sun
We were only trying for the sun
We were only trying for the sun

about..Stevie??

[The Tower]

"Love's Recovery" by Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls


During the time of which I speak...
It was hard to turn the other cheek
To the blows of insecurity...

Feeding the cancer of my intellect
The blood of love soon neglected
Lay dying in the strength of its impurity...

Meanwhile our friends we thought were so together...
They've all gone and left each other... in search of fairer weather
And we sit here in our storm and drink a toast-
To the slim chance of love's recovery...

There I am in younger days, star gazing-
Painting picture perfect maps-
Of how my life and love would be....

Not counting the unmarked paths of misdirection-
My compass, faith in love's perfection
I missed ten million miles of road I should have seen

Meanwhile our friends we thought were so together...
Left each other one by one in search of fairer weather
And we sit here in our storm and drink a toast
To the slim chance of love's recovery.....

Rain soaked and voice choked like silent screaming in a dream
I search for our absolute distinction
Not content to bow and bend
To the whims of culture- that swoop like vultures

Eating us away!! Eating us away.....
Eating us away to our extinction....

Oh how I wish I were a trinity, so if I lost a part of me
I'd still have two of the same to live...

But nobody gets a lifetime rehearsal, as specks of dust we're universal
To let this love survive would be the greatest gift we could give....

So, tell all the friends who think they're so together
That these are ghosts and mirages-
All these thoughts of fairer weather

Though it's storming out- I feel safe within the arms....
Of love's discovery....

[Beachwood Mac]

in memory of mom...

Further And Further Away
By Cheryl Wheeler

I can see the place where I came from
I can hear those sounds right now
I can find the paths I used to run
And believe I still know how

Then I shake my head, clearing my vision
I keep those scenes at bay
And I can see the place where I came from
Slipping further and further away

And I can feel the way I used to feel
When the world was small and green
And you sang a song of soft appeal
And I curled into my dream

Then I shake my head, clearing my vision
I keep those scenes at bay
And I can feel the way I used to feel
Slipping further and further away

Time keeps moving faster and faster
I'm not losing track
I'm afraid that something's forgotten
So I keep looking back

I can hear the songs you used to sing
I can swear I won't let go
You were strong and you knew everything
That was all I had to know

Then I shake my head, clearing my vision
I keep those scenes at bay
And I can hear the songs you used to sing
Slipping further and further away

[Richard B]

Stars N' Stripes

Steel mill streets overrun
The ghost of cars in the yard
Sunflower speaks of a one
Of a one
Engines purr up above
The L train roars like our love
Like our love

I can hide in you
In your chestnut hair
I confide in you
Whisper in your ear
When the earth is ripe
All the worms wake up
In their stars and stripes
And their swastikas
There's a cure in sight
Set your soul at ease
For the red and white
And the blue disease

Got you on the Handycam fits in my hand
Got you on the Handycam
Got you on the Handycam fits in my hand
Sits in my hand, see my green light
I got you on the Handycam fits in my hand
Got you on the Handycam
Got you on the Handycam fits in my hand
Sits in my hand, see my green light

Down in my soul
Moon River flows
All my trials
All my trials
Will halt

[priestofnothing]

I know you all know this one....

but it's got that "attitude" that I have about someone right now.

You're So Vain
Carly Simon


You walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht
Your hat strategically dipped below one eye
Your scarf it was apricot
You had one eye in the mirror as you watched yourself gavotte
And all the girls dreamed that they'd be your partner
They'd be your partner, and....

You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you
You're so vain, I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't you?

You had me several years ago when I was still quite naive
Well you said that we made such a pretty pair
and that you would never leave

But you gave away the things you loved and one of them was me
I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee, clouds in my coffee and....

You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you.....

Well I hear you went up to Saratoga and your horse naturally won
Then you flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun
Well, you're where you should be all of the time
And when you're not you're with
Some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend
Wife of a close friend, and....

You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you.....

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[Sugar]

Exactly Where I'm At
Ween

Let's begin
With the past in front
And all the things
You really don't care about now
It'd be exactly where I'm at

And to think
You got a grip
Look at yourself
Your lips are like two flaps of fat
They go front and back and flappity flappity flap

I'm all staged
It's all an act
I'm really scared that I may fall back on the abstract
It'd be exactly where I'm at

If you're to be
The roaming eye
Pry it open and let me tell you why it sees
The harsh realities

[gretchen]

Out Of Sight Out Of Mind
Level 42

I remember your goodbye
and the late December sky
seems so long ago
you were standing on the quay
and you blew a kiss to me
I was sad to go
the ship began to pull away
then I heard a stranger say
it's sad to see true lovers part
'cause sometimes lovers feel a change of heart
out of sight and out of mind
well the stranger's words came true
and the prophecy went through
I knew it would change my world
'cause when I called your home
a whispered conversation
I overheard
I asked you what was going on
you said that I'd been gone too long
and the rain that fell in West Berlin
was nothing like the rain that fell within
out of sight and out of mind
oh, Regine
here am I
so far away
out of sight, out of mind
love has gone
but I will shine
day after day
I will take what love I find
so I made some other plans
took my life in these two hands
and I know I won't turn around
though I often see your face
when I'm in a crowded place
it doesn't get me down
I met a girl with smiling eyes
full of love and worldly wise
she told me she knows what to do
to help me put the memories of you
out of sight and out of mind
Chorus

[gretchen]

Eyes Waterfalling
Level 42

Let me out to play
Let me find a way - to be
Let me feel the sun
Life has just begun for me
Eyes waterfalling, a world full of tears
Eyes waterfalling, but nobody hears
Laughter all around
It's lonely looking down - from here
Fuel my shallow pride
And teach me how to hide my fear
Eyes waterfalling, a world full of tears
Eyes waterfalling, but nobody hears
They've got control of my life
I can't break away
They've shaped my destiny
No use the boy in me
I go to join my friend
He'll bring me joy again
Eyes waterfalling, a world full of tears
Eyes waterfalling, but nobody hears
I lost control in the night
And drifted away
Eyes waterfalling, a world full of tears
Eyes waterfalling, but nobody hears

[gretchen]

Lasso The Moon
Level 42

She carries the water from the well in the morning
while the sand burns her feet the sun only stares
and the loneliness lingers with slow grasping fingers
as the afternoon withers the flowers in her hair
Then night fills the sky as she sits on the hillside
and memories drift by like clouds past the stars
recalling romances and all the bright chances
but none of them lasted. they passed through her heart
And she says -
where is a man who can build a good fire
with a passion as wide as the sky at high noon
a man whose hand is strong as his longing
where is the man who can lasso the moon
She falls asleep and her dreams are her blanket
and she shares with the moon the secret she knows
as the dawn leaves its tears to wash the dry valley
the tears of a woman can wash a man's soul
And she says -
where is a man who can build a good fire
with a passion as wide as the sky at high noon
a man whose hand is strong as his longing
where is the man who can lasso the moon
And she says -
where is a man who can build a good fire
with a passion as wide as the sky at high noon
a man whose hand is strong as his longing
where is the man who can lasso the moon
and I say -
I am a man who can build a good fire
and my passion's as wide as the sky at high noon
come take my hand, it's as strong as your longing
just say the word and I'll lasso the moon

[gretchen]

A Kinder Eye
Level 42

In his widowed years of longing, in his windowed room of light
he lay the oil upon the canvas, brought sweet memory to life
his speckled beard a brush of colour, his spotted hands both grace and speed
I was the boy who came with evening, to sweep his floors and bring his tea
To the world he was the Master, his landscapes filled the gallery halls
but now he painted only portraits, unframed upon his private walls
subjects sitting-walking-laughing in playful flight or soft refrain
a thousand forms and colours, but every face the same
Across the page (across the ages) the moving hand of history bleeds
... for a kinder eye to see us, not as we are, but as we dream
A winter's night when I arrived there, he looked so tired and near the end
and as I cleaned his bench and brushes, I wished out loud to be like him
he said that art was only longing, trying to do what can't be done
and though he'd signed a thousand paintings, still he'd never finished one
As I finished up my sweeping, in his sleep he spoke her name
I looked again at all the portraits, each and every face the same
not as she was in pain or sorrow, but in timeless beauty seen
as she served his noble dream
Across the page (across the ages) the moving hand of history bleeds
... for a kinder eye to see us, not as we are, but as we dream

[ELIUD]

(I swear there are angels singing background on this song)


ANTHEM (http://h1.ripway.com/eliudcabrera/05Anthem.mp3) by Leonard Cohen


The birds they sang
at the break of day
Start again
I heard them say
Don't dwell on what
has passed away
or what is yet to be.

Ah the wars they will
be fought again
The holy dove
She will be caught again
bought and sold
and bought again
the dove is never free.

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.

We asked for signs
the signs were sent:
the birth betrayed
the marriage spent
Yeah the widowhood
of every government --
signs for all to see.

I can't run no more
with that lawless crowd
while the killers in high places
say their prayers out loud.
But they've summoned, they've summoned up
a thundercloud
and they're going to hear from me.

Ring the bells that still can ring ...

You can add up the parts
but you won't have the sum
You can strike up the march,
there is no drum
Every heart, every heart
to love will come
but like a refugee.

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
That's how the light gets in.
That's how the light gets in.

[Richard B]

Spring Released
Grant Lee Phillips

Shangrila
Out on the West side
In the blinding night
Oh why
Where they swing their arms
Out by the roadside
Like a baby doll
Oh why

Damn, this floor is thumpin’
Spring released and
My little girlfriend’s hanging light
I feel the blood rush
Pumpin’, haulin’

Late July
Fire in the dance hall
Honey where am I
Stuck to the wall
Out on the rim of space
Up by the bandstand
Don’t I know my place
Always

Damn, this floor is thumpin’
Spring released and
My little girlfriend’s hanging light
I feel the blood rush
Pumpin’, haulin’
My little girlfriend
She’s a-hanging light

Pale eyes
Don’t show your weakness
On the town tonight
Oh why
Pale heart
Don’t cut your wrist up
Can’t ya can’t decide
Oh why would ya

Damn, this floor is thumpin’
Spring released and
My little girlfriend’s hanging light

[priestofnothing]

Bohemian Like You
The Dandy Warhols


You got a great car
Yeah what's wrong with it today
I used to have one too
Maybe I'll come and have a look
I really love your hairdo yeah
I'm glad you like mine too
See where looking pretty cool
Will get ya

So what do you do?
Oh yeah I wait tables too
No I havent heard your band
'Cos you guys are pretty new
But if you dig on vegan food
Well, come over to my work
I'll have 'em cook you something
That you'll really love

'Cos I like you
Yeah I like you
And I'm feeling so bohemian like you
Yeah I like you
Yeah I like you
And I feel

Wait
Who's that guy just hangin' at your pad
He's lookin' kinda bummed
You broke up that's too bad
I guess it's fair if he always pays the rent
And he doesn't get bent about
Sleeping on the couch when I'm there

'Cos I like you
Yeah I like you
And I'm feeling so bohemian like you
Yeah I like you
Yeah I like you
And I feel

I'm getting wise and I'm feeling so bohemian like you
It's you that I want so please
Just a casual casual easy thing
Is it, it is for me
And I like you
Yeah I like you
I like you
I like you
I like you
I like you
I like you
I like you
And I feel


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[Richard B]

Raise The Spirit
Grant Lee Phillips
Strangelet

Nothin’ gonna’ break heart your today
Nothin’ gonna’ steal your light away
Even when the skies are turnin’ grey
Ah, you’re gonna’ welcome in the rain

Come on, Come on
Ah let me hear it
Come on, Come on
I’ll raise the spirit

Nothin’ gonna chain you once your free
Haven’t gotta live in misery, no
Even when ya tried out every key
Still another door worth opening, yea

Come on, Come on
Ah let me hear it
Come on, Come on
I’ll raise the spirit

Music in your heart
Comin’ on in waves, love
Thunder in your head is rollin’ away

Nothin’ gonna twist your arm again
Nothin’ gonna’ sway you like the wind, oh
Never gonna’ get under your skin
Nothin’ gonna twist your arm again, no

Come on, Come on
Ah let me hear it
Come on, Come on
I’ll raise the spirit

Come on, Come on
Ah let me hear it
Come on, Come on
I’ll raise the spirit


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[priestofnothing]

Breathe Me
Sia

Help, I have done it again
I have been here many times before
Hurt myself again today
And, the worst part is there's no-one else to blame

Be my friend
Hold me, wrap me up
UNFOLD me
I am small
and needy
Warm me up
And breathe me

Ouch I have lost myself again
Lost myself and I am nowhere else to be found,
Yeah I think that I might break
Lost myself again and I feel unsafe

Be my friend
Hold me, wrap me up
UNFOLD me
I am small
and needy
Warm me up
And breathe me

Be my friend
Hold me, wrap me up
UNFOLD me
I am small
and needy
Warm me up
And breathe me
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[BTFLCHLD]

Big Log
Robert Plant

My love is in league with the freeway
Its passion will rise as the cities fly by
And the tailights dissolve in the coming of night
And the questions of thousands take flight

My love is miles in awaiting
The eyes that just stare and the glance at the clock
In the secret that burns and the pain that won't stop
And it's fuelled with the years

Leading me on
Leading me down the road
Driving me on
Driving me down the road

My love is exceeding, and women
Red eyed and fevered with the hum of the miles
Distance and longing and my thoughts do collide
Should I rest for a while and decide

Your love is cradled in knowing
Eyes in the mirror still expecting their prey
Sensing too well when the journey is done
There is no turning back, No
There is no turning back, On the run

My love is in league
With the freeway
Oh, with the freeway
And the coming of night time
My love
My love
Is in league with the freeway

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[priestofnothing]

Speaking Confidentially
Michael Timmins - Cowboy Junkies


Speaking confidentially
the fire that burnt inside of me
has turned to ash the tortured tree
that grows beside the anguished sea.
Speaking confidentially.

Speaking metaphorically
the earth I trust beneath my feet
is moving now ever so slightly
I shift my feet but feel no relief.
Speaking metaphorically.

Speaking hypothetically
if the air you breathed was so unique
would you use it up to idly speak
or horde it for a rainy week.
Speaking hypothetically.

Speaking kind of cryptically
the sea that raged beside the tree
burning bright for all to see
it just might mean the most to me.
Speaking kind of cryptically.

[Richard B]

You're Such A Good Looking Woman
Joe Dolan


When God created a woman for me
he must have been in a beautiful mood
to show the world what a woman could be
when he created a woman like you.
He made the sunshine right out of your eyes
he made the moonglow all over your hair
he put a soft summer breath in your sighs
so you could breath summer into the air.

Up there in heaven I bet they are mad
I bet somebody will want to know why
the most incredible angel they had
was found to be quite unable to fly
D'you know what they had forgotten to do
up there where they make all those heavenly things
they made an angel as Lovely as you
but they'd forgotten to fit you with wings.

R E F R A I N :

Oh me oh my you make me sigh
you're such a good looking woman
when people stop and people stare
you know it fills my heart with pride
you watch their eyes they're so surprised
they think you've fallen out of heaven
and if you listen to what they're talking about

who's walking about with an angel at his side.

[BTFLCHLD]

River Deep Mountain High
(Spector/Barry/Greenwich)

When I was a little girl I had a rag doll
The only doll I've ever owned
Now I love you just the way I loved that rag doll
But only now my love has grown
And it gets stronger in every way
And it gets deeper let me say
And it gets higher day by day

Do I love you my oh my
River deep, mountain high
If I lost you would I cry
Oh how I love you baby, baby, baby, baby

When you were a young boy did you have a puppy
That always followed you around
Well I'm gonna be as faithful as that puppy
No I'll never let you down
Cause it goes on like a river flows
And it gets bigger baby and heaven knows
And it gets sweeter baby as it grows

Do I love you my oh my
River deep, mountain high
If I lost you would I cry
Oh how I love you baby, baby, baby, baby

I love you baby like a flower loves the spring
And I love you baby like a robin loves to sing
And I love you baby like a schoolboy loves his bag
And I love you baby river deep mountain high

Do I love you my oh my
River deep, mountain high
If I lost you would I cry
Oh how I love you baby, baby, baby, baby :xoxo:

[#1LiddyBuckFan]

More Than This
(Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music version)

I could feel at the time
There was no way of knowing
Fallen leaves in the night
Who can say where they're blowing
As free as the wind
And hopefully learning
Why the sea on the tide
Has no way of turning

More than this - there is nothing
More than this - tell me one thing
More than this - there is nothing

It was fun for a while
There was no way of knowing
Like a dream in the night
Who can say where we're going
No care in the world
Maybe I'm learning
Why the sea on the tide
Has no way of turning

More than this - there is nothing
More than this - tell me one thing
More than this - there is nothing

[BTFLCHLD]

Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Bob Dylan

It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It don't matter, anyhow
An' it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don't know by now
When your rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window and I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm trav'lin' on
Don't think twice, it's all right

It ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
That light I never knowed
An' it ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
I'm on the dark side of the road
Still I wish there was somethin' you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
We never did too much talkin' anyway
So don't think twice, it's all right

It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal
Like you never did before
It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal
I can't hear you any more
I'm a-thinkin' and a-wond'rin' all the way down the road
I once loved a woman, a child I'm told
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
But don't think twice, it's all right

I'm walkin' down that long, lonesome road, babe
Where I'm bound, I can't tell
But goodbye's too good a word, gal
So I'll just say fare thee well
I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's all right

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[priestofnothing]

I Don't Know Why
Shawn Colvin

I don't know why
The sky is so blue
And I don't know why
I'm so in love with you
But if there were no music
Then I would not get through
I don't know why
I know these things, but I do


I don't know why
But somewhere dreams come true
And I don't know where
But there will be a place for you
And every time you look that way
I would lay down my life for you
I don't know why
I know these things, but I do


I don't know why
But some are going to make you cry
And I don't know how
But I will get you by, I will try
They're not trying to cause you pain
They're just afraid of loving you
I don't know why
I know these things, but I do


I don't know why
The trees grow so tall
And I don't know why
I don't know anything at all
But if there were no music
Then I would not get through
I don't know why
I know these things, but I do
I don't know why
I know these things, but I do


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[Sorceress]

The Pearl
Emmylou Harris

O the dragons are gonna fly tonight
They're circling low and inside tonight
It's another round in the losing fight
Out along the great divide tonight

We are aging soldiers in an ancient war
Seeking out some half remembered shore
We drink our fill and still we thirst for more
Asking if there's no heaven what is this hunger for?

Our path is worn our feet are poorly shod
We lift up our prayer against the odds
And fear the silence is the voice of God

And we cry Allelujah Allelujah
We cry Allelujah

Sorrow is constant and the joys are brief
The seasons come and bring no sweet relief
Time is a brutal but a careless theif
Who takes our lot but leaves behind the grief

It is the heart that kills us in the end
Just one more old broken bone that cannot mend
As it was now and ever shall be amen

And we cry Allelujah Allelujah
We cry Allelujah

So there'll be no guiding light for you and me
We are not sailors lost out on the sea
We were always headed toward eternity
Hoping for a glimpse of Gaililee

Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled
Down through the long loneliness of the world
Until we behold the pain become the pearl

Cryin´ Allelujah Allelujah
We cry Allelujah

And we cry Allelujah Allelujah
We cry Allelujah

[BTFLCHLD]

By Your Side
Sade

you think I'd leave your side baby
you know me better than that
you think I'd leave you down when you're down on your knees
I wouldn't do that
I'll tell you you're right when you want
if only you could see into me

oh when you're cold
I'll be there
hold you tight to me

when you're on the outside baby and you can’t get in
I will show you you're so much better than you know
when you're lost and you're alone and you cant get back again
I will find you darling I will bring you home

and if you want to cry
I am here to dry your eyes
in no time
you'll be fine

you think I'd leave your side baby
you know me better than that
you think I’d leave you down when you're down on your knees
I wouldn't do that
I'll tell you you're right when you want
if only you could see into me

oh when you're cold
I'll be there
hold you tight to me
when you're low
I'll be there
by your side baby

oh when you're cold
I'll be there
hold you tight to me
oh when you're low
I'll be there
by your side baby

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[priestofnothing]

Isn't It A Pity
George Harrison


Isn't it a pity
Now, isn't it a shame
How we break each other's hearts
And cause each other pain
How we take each other's love
Without thinking anymore
Forgetting to give back
Isn't it a pity

Some things take so long
But how do I explain
When not too many people
Can see we're all the same
And because of all their tears
Their eyes can't hope to see
The beauty that surrounds them
Isn't it a pity

Isn't it a pity
Isn't is a shame
How we break each other's hearts
And cause each other pain
How we take each other's love
Without thinking anymore
Forgetting to give back
Isn't it a pity

Forgetting to give back
Isn't it a pity
Forgetting to give back
Now, isn't it a pity

[Richard B]

Mockingbirds
Grant Lee Buffalo

Devastation at last, finally we meet
After all of these years, out here on the street
I had a feeling you would make yourself known
You came along just to claim your place on the throne
And I have been overthrown
Overthrown

And I thought if I towed the right lines
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine

Devastation, my door was left open wide
You brought me into your heart then you swallowed my pride
I had a feeling you were hiding your thoughts
I made a note to myself that I nearly forgot
Now I am overwrought
I'm overwrought

And I thought if I towed the right lines
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
I thought if I towed the right lines
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine

One day this ground will break
And open up for me I hope it will,
I hope it will

Salutations at last, down on my knees
I heard the bugle this morn, blast reveille
Woke from a dream where I was in a terrible realm
All my sails were ablaze, I was chained to the helm
And now I am overwhelmed
I'm overwhelmed

And I thought if I towed the right lines
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine
I thought if I towed the right lines
But these mockingbirds won't let me shine

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[estranged4life]

"Stupid Boy" - Keith Urban

"Well, she was precious like a flower
She grew wild, wild but innocent
A perfect prayer in a desperate hour
She was everything beautiful and different

Stupid boy, you can't fence that in
Stupid boy, it's like holding back the wind
She let her heart and soul right in your hands
And you stole her every dream and you crushed her plans
She never even knew she had a choice and that's what happens
When the only voice she hears is telling her she can't
Stupid boy, stupid boy
Oh

So what made you think you could take a life
And just push it push it around
I guess you build yourself up so high
You had to take her and break her down

She let her heart and soul right in your hands
And you stole her every dream and you crushed her plans
She never even knew she had a choice and that's what happens
When the only voice she hears is telling her she can't
You stupid boy

Oh, you always had to be right but now you've lost
The only thing that ever made you feel alive
Yeah, yeah

Well, she let her heart and soul right in your hands
And you stole her every dream and you crushed her plans
Yes, ya did
She never even knew she had a choice and that's what happens
When the only voice she hears is telling her she can't
You stupid boy, oh, I'm the same old
Same old stupid boy

It took awhile for her to figure out she could run
But when she did, she was long gone
Long gone, long gone
Ah, she's gone

Nobody's ever gonna love me like she loved me
And she loved me, she loved me
God please, just let her know
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
Baby, yeah, I'm down on my knees
She's never coming back to me"

[priestofnothing]

Fear of Ghosts
The Cure

Like a feeling that I'm down
Down inside my heart
Like I'm looking out through
Splitting blood red
Windows in my heart

From higher up than heaven
And harder down than stone
Shake the fear that's always clawing
Pulls me clawing down alone

As I'm spitting, splitting blood red
Breaking windows in my heart
And the past is taunting
This fear of ghosts
Is forcing me apart

And the further I get
from the things that I care about
The less I care about
How much further away I get...

And the further I get
from the things that I care about
The less I care about
How much further away I get...

I am lost again
With everything gone
And more alone
Than I have ever been

I expect you to understand
To feel it too
But i know that even if you will
You cannot ever help me

Nor can I
Ever help you
Ever help you
Ever help you

[priestofnothing]

Violet - Hole

And the sky was made of amethyst
And all the stars look just like little fish
You should learn when to go
You should learn how to say no

Might last a day, yeah
Mine is forever
Might last a day, yeah
Well mine is forever

When they get what they want they never want it again
When they get what they want they never want it again

Go on, take everything, take everything I want you to
Go on, take everything, take everything I want you to

And the sky was all violet
I want it again, but more violent, more violent
Hey, Im the one with no soul
One above and one below

Go on, take everything take everything I want you to
Go on, take everything take everything I want you to

I told you from the start just how this would end
When I get what I want I never want it again

Go on, take everything take everything I want you to
Go on, take everything, take everything I want you to
Go on, take everything, take everything I want you to
Go on, take everything, take everything I want you to
Go on take everything take everything take everything take everything

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[BTFLCHLD]

Every night that goes between
I feel a little less
As you slowly go away from me
This is only another test

Every night you do not come
Your softness fades away
Did I ever really care that much
Is there anything left to say

Every hour of fear I spend
My body tries to cry
Living through each empty night
A deadly call inside

I haven't felt this way I feel
Since many a year ago
But in those years and the lifetimes past
I did not deal with the road

And I did not deal with you I know
Tho the love has always been
So I search to find an answer there
So I can truly win

So I try to say
Goodbye my friend
I'd like to leave you with something warm
But never have I been a blue calm sea
I have always been a storm

We were frail
She said
"Everynight he will break your heart"
I should have known from the first
I'd be the broken hearted
But I loved you from the start
Save us...
And not all the prayers in the world, could save us

[Chrislit18]

Every night that goes between
I feel a little less
As you slowly go away from me
This is only another test

Every night you do not come
Your softness fades away
Did I ever really care that much
Is there anything left to say

Every hour of fear I spend
My body tries to cry
Living through each empty night
A deadly call inside

I haven't felt this way I feel
Since many a year ago
But in those years and the lifetimes past
I did not deal with the road

And I did not deal with you I know
Tho the love has always been
So I search to find an answer there
So I can truly win

So I try to say
Goodbye my friend
I'd like to leave you with something warm
But never have I been a blue calm sea
I have always been a storm

We were frail
She said
"Everynight he will break your heart"
I should have known from the first
I'd be the broken hearted
But I loved you from the start
Save us...
And not all the prayers in the world, could save us
aww..hon as soon as i read your post the song came on.
Im sorry youve been feeling down lately.

heres a song ive been 'getting' lately
____________________________________________________
TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART (Bonnie Tyler )

Turnaround, every now and then I get a
little bit lonely and you're never coming around
Turnaround, Every now and then I get a
little bit tired of listening to the sound of my tears
Turnaround, Every now and then I get a
little bit nervous that the best of all the years have gone by
Turnaround, Every now and then I get a
little bit terrified and then I see the look in your eyes
Turnaround bright eyes, Every now and
then I fall apart
Turnaround bright eyes, Every now and
then I fall apart

Turnaround, Every now and then I get a
little bit restless and I dream of something wild
Turnaround, Every now and then I get a
little bit helpless and I'm lying like a child in your arms
Turnaround, Every now and then I get a
little bit angry and I know I've got to get out and cry
Turnaround, Every now and then I get a
little bit terrified but then I see the look in your eyes
Turnaround bright eyes, Every now and
then I fall apart
Turnaround bright eyes, Every now and
then I fall apart

And I need you now tonight
And I need you more than ever
And if you'll only hold me tight
We'll be holding on forever
And we'll only be making it right
Cause we'll never be wrong together
We can take it to the end of the line
Your love is like a shadow on me all of the time
I don't know what to do and I'm always in the dark
We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks
I really need you tonight
Forever's gonna start tonight
Forever's gonna start tonight

Once upon a time I was falling in love
But now I'm only falling apart
There's nothing I can do
A total eclipse of the heart
Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark
Nothing I can say
A total eclipse of the heart

Turnaround bright eyes
Turnaround bright eyes
Turnaround, every now and then I know
you'll never be the boy you always you wanted to be
Turnaround, every now and then I know
you'll always be the only boy who wanted me the way that I am
Turnaround, every now and then I know
there's no one in the universe as magical and wonderous as you
Turnaround, every now and then I know
there's nothing any better and there's nothing I just wouldn't do
Turnaround bright eyes, Every now and
then I fall apart
Turnaround bright eyes, Every now and
then I fall apart

And I need you now tonight
And I need you more than ever
And if you'll only hold me tight
We'll be holding on forever
And we'll only be making it right
Cause we'll never be wrong together
We can take it to the end of the line
Your love is like a shadow on me all of the time
I don't know what to do and I'm always in the dark
We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks
I really need you tonight
Forever's gonna start tonight
Forever's gonna start tonight

Once upon a time I was falling in love
But now I'm only falling apart
There's nothing I can do
A total eclipse of the heart
Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark
Nothing I can say
A total eclipse of the heart

[Sarah]

The Murmurs - You Suck

no one hurt my fragile little mind right now
it's tangled up, and don't you know...
the pussycat in me is curling up right now
but i'll bloom
...from the inside out

but right now there's dust on my guitar, you ****
and it's all. your. fault.
you paralyzed my mind, and for that
YOU SUCK!!
oh hooooaahhhhohhhh...

freedom's on my list today
and i'm feeling PISSED
but my timeless thoughts and ageless mind
won't let you get away (let you get awaaaay)
and your guilty little connnnscience
...won't either

but right now there's dust on my guitar, you ****
and it's all. your. fault.
you paralyzed my mind, and for that
YOU SUCK!!!
oh hoooo oh hooooo.

we all take risks, we all fall hard
but you?
you went too far.
and I'm to PLUSH for your pathetic digs
and you're the only one you'll scar

but right now there's dust on my guitar, you ****
and it's all. your. fault.
you paralyzed my mind and for that
YOU SUCK!!!
oh hooooaahhhhohhhh...

[BTFLCHLD]

The Rain
Forever In Motion

Time carries us away
from all the places we have come to love;
just wishing we could stay.
But maybe that's not the point.
What makes this all so god damn beautiful
is knowing that its bound to fade in time.
If you listen you can hear the wind talking to the trees,
like words of quiet angels, or so I'd like to believe.
I don't know where I am going.
I don't know where I want to be.
But as long as I have a soundtrack
I'll make it there breathing.
And so it comes, the heavy rain...
The storm we've all been waiting for
to wet our hearts and make sense of this pain,
from standing still for far too long
(from holding out and holding on to all the things
you know will only hold you back in the end)
..like you're just holding out for something better
to steal you from these tired days that you don't want.
What are you hoping for?
Miracles happen all the time, so where is yours?
The rain, it never lies.
Writing its secrets on the window pane.
You lose your focus in the subtleties of its poetic grace.
There's just something about its sadness that makes
you feel okay.
Do you remember that rainy afternoon
when we cried in each other's arms?
When we knew we'd found perfection
but somewhere deep inside,
knew it had come too soon for us to hang on,
or try to make it last.
We can't forget these moments baby,
but our lives are NOW.
Don't lose yours in the past.
Once we find ourselves I swear I'll find you again someday.
But the western wind is calling me
I heard the angels say my name.
My loner heart is aching, so I'll be leaving soon
to start this lonesome journey
when the leaves dance for the moon.

[estranged4life]

"Day Eleven: Love" - Ayreon


Day Eleven: Love

[Me] Friday night, I had a few
There she was, out of the blue
Thunderstruck, nailed to the floor
I couldn’t move, couldn’t talk…anymore

[Love] Of all these guys it’s you she desires
Secretly her heart is on fire
Waiting for you to ask her to dance
Go ahead, make your move…now’s your chance

[Passion] Do it right, do it right, we ain’t got all night
Do it now, do it now, I think you know how

[Pride] Let it out, let it out, now don’t mess about
Let her in, let her in, let the party begin!

[Me] There I was, nervous and shy
Struck with awe as I caught her eye
I mustered up courage and walked her way
Figuring out what to do…what to say

[Love] Her heart sings as she sees you come near
The music fades, the crowd disappears
She weeps in silence as you pass her by
And she’s wondering why…oh why

(Chorus – Passion and Pride)

[Agony] Remember your father, well you’re just like him
Nothing but violence and fury within
Remember your mother, so lonely and sad
This will be her fate if you treat her as bad

[Fear] You’re afraid she might turn you down
All your hopes dashed to the ground
Nobody loved you, nobody will
Why should you even try…but still…

[Me] Friday night, I had a few
[Wife] There was no need to talk
[Me] There she was, out of the blue
[Wife] We just started to walk
[Me] Hand in hand, we took the floor
[Wife] And we danced, and we danced, and we danced
[Me] I could move, I could talk…even more…

(Chorus – Passion and Pride)

(Agony)

[Mad4stevie]

"Perfect"

Alanis

Sometimes is never quite enough
If you're flawless, then you'll win my love
Don't forget to win first place
Don't forget to keep that smile on your face

Be a good boy
Try a little harder
You've got to measure up
And make me prouder

How long before you screw it up
How many times do I have to tell you to hurry up
With everything I do for you
The least you can do is keep quiet

Be a good girl
You've gotta try a little harder
That simply wasn't good enough
To make us proud

I'll live through you
I'll make you what I never was
If you're the best, then maybe so am I
Compared to him compared to her
I'm doing this for your own damn good
You'll make up for what I blew
What's the problem...why are you crying

Be a good boy
Push a little farther now
That wasn't fast enough
To make us happy
We'll love you just the way you are
If you're perfect

[Mad4stevie]

"Sorry To Myself"

For hearing all my doubts so selectively and
For continuing my numbing love endlessly.
For helping you and myself: not even considering
For beating myself up and over functioning.

To whom do I owe the biggest apology?
No one's been crueler than I've been to me.

For letting you decide if I indeed was desirable
For myself love being so embarrassingly conditional.
And for denying myself to somehow make us compatible
And for trying to fit a rectangle into a hole.

And
To whom do I owe the biggest apology?
No one's been crueler than I've been to me.

I'm sorry to myself.
My apologies begin here before everybody else.
I'm sorry to myself.
For treating me worse than I would anybody else.

For blaming myself for your unhappiness
And for my impatience when I was perfect where I was.
Ignoring all the signs that I was not ready,
And expecting myself to be where you wanted me to be.

To whom do I owe the first apology?
No one's been crueler than I've been to me.

And
I'm sorry to myself.
My apologies begin here before everybody else.
I'm sorry to myself.
For treating me worse than I would anybody else.

Well, I wonder which crime is the biggest ?
Forgetting you or forgetting myself...
Had I heeded the wisdom of the latter,
I would've naturally loved the former.

For ignoring you: my highest voices.
For smiling when my strife was all too obvious.
For being so disassociated from my body,
And for not letting go when it would've been the kindest thing.

To whom do I owe the biggest apology?
No one's been crueler than I've been to me.

And
I'm sorry to myself.
My apologies begin here before everybody else
I'm sorry to myself.
For treating me worse than I would anybody else.
I'm sorry to myself.
My apologies begin here before everybody else
I'm sorry to myself.
For treating me worse than I would anybody else

[Stew_Matthews]

Know Who You Are
(written by Roger Hodgson)
(appears on the Supertramp album - Famous Last Words)

Know who you are
There's a world wants to know you
Know where to go
There's a world wants to touch you
Feel all you can
Let your heart speak and guide you
Don't be afraid
Of the love deep inside you

Bring it out for everyone
When you smile we can see the sun
Bring it out for all to hear
Because you've so much to give
And there's so much to know
But if you wait for your moment
Well, it may never show

Know who you are
There's a new song inside you
Weep if you can
Let the tears fall behind you

Bring it out for everyone
When you smile we can see the sun
Sing it out for all to hear
Because you've so much to say
And you've so much to do
And everyone's waiting
Yes, it's all up to you

Know who you are
There's a world deep inside you
Trust if you can
There's a friend there to guide you

[Phoenix]

this thread is interesting, and could go on for days.:]

[Richard B]

Forever (Live & Die)
OMD

I never wanted another
Come over to me and discover
How I want to be near you
And you need to be far away
You always seem to make me feel at home
Hey you

People like
I never know, I never know, I never know why
You make me wanna cry
I never know, I never know, I never know why
Forever live and die

I look at all of the people
Doing it over and over
You never get any older
I wish that you could be here
I look at you and I
Make the same mistakes
Hey you

People like
I never know, I never know, I never know why
You make me wanna cry
I never know, I never know, I never know why
Forever Live and Die

I never know, I never know, I never know why
You make me wanna cry
I never know, I never know, I never know why
Forever Live and Die

Repeat to fade

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[Villavic]

When are you gonna come down
When are you going to land
I should have stayed on the farm
I should have listened to my old man

You know you can't hold me forever
I didn't sign up with you
I'm not a present for your friends to open
This boy's too young to be singing the blues

So goodbye yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plough

Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny back toad
Oh I've finally decided my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road

What do you think you'll do then
I bet that'll shoot down your plane
It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics
To set you on your feet again

Maybe you'll get a replacement
There's plenty like me to be found
Mongrels who ain't got a penny
Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground

[BTFLCHLD]

The Rain Song
Led Zeppelin

This is the springtime of my loving-
the second season I am to know
You are the sunlight in my growing-
so little warmth I felt before.
It isn't hard to feel me glowing-
I watched the fire that grew so low.
It is the summer of my smiles-
flee from me Keepers of the Gloom.
Speak to me only with your eyes
it is to you I give this tune.
It isn't hard to recognise-
these things are clear to all from
time to time.

Talk Talk-
I felt the coldness of my winter
I never thought it would ever go
I cursed the gloom that set upon us
but I know that I love you so
but I know that I love you so.

These are the seasons of emotion
And like the winds they rise and fall
This is the wonder of devotion-
I see the torch we all must hold.
This is the mystery of the quotient-
Upon us all a little rain
must fall.

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[LngPrmsdRd]

"Fountain of Sorrow" - Jackson Browne
The entire song is...strangely dead-on for the situation, but the bolded parts are the ones that hit home the most.

Looking through some photographs I found inside a drawer
I was taken by a photograph of you
There were one or two I know that you would have liked a little more
But they didn't show your spirit quite as true

You were turning 'round to see who was behind you
And I took your childish laughter by surprise
And at the moment that my camera happened to find you
There was just a trace of sorrow in your eyes

Now the things that I remember seem so distant so small
Though it hasn't really been that long a time
What I was seeing wasn't what was happening at all
Although for a while our path did seem to climb

But when you see through love's illusions there lies the danger
And your perfect lover just looks like a perfect fool
So you go running off in search of a perfect stranger
While the loneliness seems to spring from your life
Like a fountain from a pool

Fountain of sorrow, fountain of light
You've known that hollow sound of your own steps in flight
You've had to hide sometimes, but now you're all right
And it's good to see your smiling face tonight

Now for you and me it may not be that hard to reach our dreams
But that magic feeling never seems to last
And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it seems
It would be easier sometimes to change the past

I'm just one or two years and a couple of changes behind you
In my lessons at love's pain and heartache school
Where if you feel too free and you need something to remind you
There's this loneliness springing up from your life
Like a fountain from a pool

Fountain of sorrow, fountain of light
You've known that hollow sound of your own steps in flight
You've had to hide sometimes but now you're all right
And it's good to see your smiling face tonight

Fountain of sorrow, fountain of light
You've known that hollow sound of your own steps in flight
You've had to struggle, youve had to fight
To keep understanding and compassion in sight
You could be laughing at me, you've got the right
But you go on smiling so clear and so bright

[BTFLCHLD]

Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine
Bob Dylan

You say you love me
And you're thinkin' of me,
But you know you could be wrong.
You say you told me
That you wanna hold me,
But you know you're not that strong.
I just can't do what I done before,
I just can't beg you any more.
I'm gonna let you pass
And I'll go last.
Then time will tell just who fell
And who's been left behind,
When you go your way and I go mine.

You say you disturb me
And you don't deserve me,
But you know sometimes you lie.
You say you're shakin'
And you're always achin',
But you know how hard you try.
Sometimes it gets so hard to care,
It can't be this way ev'rywhere.
And I'm gonna let you pass,
Yes, and I'll go last.
Then time will tell just who fell
And who's been left behind,
When you go your way and I go mine.

The judge, he holds a grudge,
He's gonna call on you.
But he's badly built
And he walks on stilts,
Watch out he don't fall on you.

You say you're sorry
For tellin' stories
That you know I believe are true.
You say ya got some
Other kinda lover
And yes, I believe you do.
You say my kisses are not like his,
But this time I'm not gonna tell you why that is.
I'm just gonna let you pass,
Yes, and I'll go last.
Then time will tell who fell
And who's been left behind,
When you go your way and I go mine.

;) Ronson Re-Mix:

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[Richard B]

Coming In From The Cold
Bob Marley

In this life, in this life, in this life,
In this, oh sweet life:
We're (we're coming in from the cold);
We're coming in (coming in), coming in (coming in),
coming in (coming in), coming in (coming in),
Coming in from the cold.

It's you - it's you - it's you I'm talkin' to -
Well, you (it's you) - you (it's you) - you I'm talking to now.
Why do you look so sad and forsaken?
When one door is closed, don't you know other is open?

Would you let the system make you kill your brotherman?
No, no, no, no, no, no! No, Dread, no!
Would you make the system make you kill your brotherman?
(No, Dread, no!)
Would you make the system get on top of your head again?
(No, Dread, no!)
Well, the biggest man you ever did see was - was just a baby.

In this life (in this life),
In this (in this life, oh sweet life):
Coming in from the cold;
We're coming in (coming in), coming in-a (coming in),
coming in (coming in), ooh! (coming in)
Coming in from the cold!

It's life (it's life), it's life (it's life), it's life (it's life):
it's - wa - well! - coming in from the cold!
We're coming in (coming in), coming in (coming in) -
ooh (coming in), hey! (coming in),
Coming in from the cold!

It's you - you - you I'm talking -
Well, yes, you, bilyabong! (it's you);
ew! - you I'm talking to now.
We-e-ell, why do you look so - look so - look so sad -
look so sad and forsaken?
Don't you know: When one door is closed - when one door is closed,
many more is open?

We-e-e-ell, would you let the system get on top of your head again?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Dread, no!
Would you let the system make you kill your brotherman?
No, Dread, no!
We-e-e-ell, would you make the system get on top of your head again?
(No, Dread, no!) No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
Well, the biggest - biggest man you ever - ever
Did-a see was-a - was-a once a baby.

In this life, in this life, in this life,
In this, oh, sweet life,
We're (coming in from the cold) from the cold!
We're coming in (coming in), coming in (coming in),
coming in (coming in), wo-o! Yea-ea-eah!
Coming in from the cold

We're coming in-a, coming in-a, coming in-a, coming in-a!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yea-ea-ea-eah!
Coming in from the cold
Coming in (coming in), coming in (coming in) -
(coming in) (coming in)
(coming in) from the - from the cold! - [fadeout]

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[estranged4life]

"Wasted Time" - Skid Row

You and I together in our lives
Sacred ties would never fray
Then why can´t I let myself tell lies
And watch you die every day

I think back to the times
When dreams were what mattered
Tough talking youth naivete

You said you never let me down
But the horse stampedes and rages
In the name of desperation

Is it all just wasted time
Can you look at yourself
When you think of what
You left behind

Is it all just wasted time
Can you live with yourself
When you think of what
You left behind

Paranoid delusions they haunt you
Where´s my friend I used to know
He´s all alone
He´s buried deep within a carcass
Searching for a soul

Can you feel me inside your heart
As it´s bleeding
Why can´t you belive you
can´t be loved

I hear you scream in agony
And the horse stampedes and rages
In the name of desperation

Is it all just wasted time
Can you look at yourself
When you think of what
You left behind

Is it all just wasted time
Can you live with yourself
When you think of what
You left behind

You said you never let me down
But the horse stampedes and rages
In the name of desperation

Is it all just wasted time
Can you look at yourself
When you think of what
You left behind

Is it all just wasted time
Can you live with yourself
When you think of what
You left behind

The sun will rise again
The earth will turn to sand
Creation´s colors seem to fade to grey
And you´ll see the sickly hands of time
Will write your final rhyme
And end a memory

I never thought you´d let it get
this far, boy

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[Ghost_Tracker]

"Wheel in the Sky" by Journey.


"Winter is here again oh lord,
Haven’t been home in a year or more
I hope she holds on a little longer


Sent a letter on a long summer day
Made of silver, not of clay
I’ve been runnin’ down this dusty road


Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin’
I don’t know where I’ll be tomorrow
Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin’


I’ve been trying to make it home
Got to make it before too long
I can’t take this very much longer
I’m stranded in the sleet and rain
Don’t think I’m ever gonna make it home again
The mornin’ sun is risin’
It’s kissing the day


Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin’
I don’t know where I’ll be tomorrow
Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin’

Ooooo, oooo, oooo - - - my, my-my-my-my
(your on your own!) -
For tomorrow . . .

Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin’
I don’t know where I’ll be tomorrow
Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin’."

[estranged4life]

"Aftermath" - Strapping Young Lad

"Give us a reason for coming of war
Fighting for Jesus through prices of oil
See how your demons are forming a wall
Burning and beating and raping them all

Reaching for something when nothing else matters
Buddha to Krishna through Jesus and Allah
See how your demons are forming a wall
Burning and beating and raping them all

Far from here. We'll light away
So unclear. We'll find the way
To war. We ride"

[estranged4life]

"Mama Don't You Cry" - Steelheart

I fight the tears since you've been gone
And I stand in fear, can I make it on my own
Without your love to guide me thru my life
It's so cold at night without you here
And those gentle arms that held me close and dear
Oh we're all the same, we all live and die

You'll always be in my heart, oh Mama don't you cry
You'll always live in my dreams, oh Mama don't you cry

Every night when I close my eyes
I see a light and shadows of your face
It's always there like an angel over me
So many frozen years hangin' on my wall
A thousand words, I can hear them call
Oh I tried so hard but I could never say goodbye

You'll always be in my heart, oh Mama don't you cry
You'll always live in my dreams, oh Mama don't you cry

No one can kiss away the pain like you
No one like Mama, no one like you
(Solo)

You'll always be in my heart, oh Mama don't you cry
You'll always live in my dreams, oh Mama don't you cry

(You'll always be in my heart, oh Mama don't you cry - don't you cry)
(You'll always live in my dreams) in my dreams (Oh Mama don't you cry)
Oh Mama don't you cry


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[gretchen]

HIS CIRCLE AND HER'S MEET
Peter Murphy


As if afloat
As if afraid
The spirits meet
Waited for an age
It was a lesson sent

Abstract and numbed
Abstract and bleaked
Patience lent
His test of patience lent

Horizontal yet erect
Yearning lying in wait
Oneness floats about
Unity served on his plate

Circling round about
The lover he will meet
Dripping mellow stains of long
M M M M Melting in her heat

The lover he must meet
Circling round about
Dripping mellow stains of long
Melting in her heat

Without a blink
Without a sigh
His circle and hers meet
Synchronised split
Split seconds beat

She killed his past
With her kiss
All past was but a lie
She killed his head
She killed his mouth
And opened up the sky

She killed his past
With her kiss
All past was but a lie
She killed his head
She killed his mouth
The he-she joining
The moment now
Would be the only sound
No front no back
No present tense
No milk from no holy cow

She killed his past
With her kiss
All past was but a lie
She killed his head
She killed his mouth
And opened up the sky

[GoS]

Cast Away Dreams
-Lindsey Buckingham

Holy Light
Visionary Sight
There's been a change in plans
Goin' away
No I cannot stay
I hope you'll understand

I won't be home tonight
I'll just slip out of sight
Lay down my visionary eyes
Dancin' on my cast away dreams
Keep yourself out of sight
Farewell to the wighes that died
Look for me in the morning light
Dancin' on my cast away dreams

Magic woman
All our dreams are done
I have no faith today
Sun will rise
In your newborn eyes
Just let me slip away

I won't be home tonight
I'll just step out of sight
Lay down my visionary eyes
Dancin' on my cast away dreams
Keep yourself out of sight
Farewell to the wishes that died
Look for me in the morning light
Dancin' on my cast away dreams

It would do no good
To drown in the sea
Where no one remembers their names
And nothin', no nothin', is free

Hearts will break
The choices we must make
So sleep and dream of me

I won't be home tonight
I'll just step out of sight
Lay down my visionary eyes
Dancin' on my cast away dreams
Keep yourself out of sight
Farewell to the wishes that died
Look for me in the morning light
Dancin' on my cast away dreams

[BTFLCHLD]

another suicide...this time friend of a friend.
dig deeper with a loved one; find the hidden behind the smile.
and if hurting, always remember someone somewhere loves you...reach, even when it's hard to believe.


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AMAZING
I kept the right ones out
And let the wrong ones in
Had an angel of mercy to see me through all my sins
There were times in my life
When I was goin' insane
Tryin' to walk through
The pain
When I lost my grip
And I hit the floor
Yeah,I thought I could leave but couldn't get out the door
I was so sick and tired
Of livin' a lie
I was wishin that I
Would die

[Chorus]
It's Amazing
With the blink of an eye you finally see the light
It's Amazing
When the moment arrives that you know you'll be alright
It's Amazing
And I'm sayin' a prayer for the desperate hearts tonight

That one last shot's a Permanent Vacation
And how high can you fly with broken wings?
Life's a journey not a destination
And I just can't tell just what tomorrow brings

You have to learn to crawl
Before you learn to walk
But I just couldn't listen to all that righteous talk, oh yeah
I was out on the street,
Just tryin' to survive
Scratchin' to stay
Alive
[Chorus]

Desperate hearts, desperate hearts

[Silver Springs]

"I believe this is Heaven to no one else but me and I'll defend it as long as I can be left here to linger"

I've always been a child of my own imagination, and this lyrics has always spoken books to me.

Sarah McLachlan - Elsewhere

I love the time and in between
The calm inside me
In the space where I can breathe
I believe there is a
Distance I have wandered
To touch upon the years of
Reaching out and reaching in
Holding out holding in

I believe
This is heaven to no one else but me
And I’ll defend it as long as I can be
Left here to linger in silence
If I choose to
Would you try to understand

I know this love is passing time
Passing through like liquid
I am drunk in my desire...
But I love the way you smile at me
I love the way your hands reach out and hold me near...
I believe...

I believe
This is heaven to no one else but me
And I’ll defend it as long as
I can be left here to linger in silence
If I choose to
Would you try to understand

Oh the quiet child awaits the day when she can break free
The mold that clings like desperation
Mother can’t you see I’ve got
To live my life the way I feel is right for me
Might not be right for you but it’s right for me...
I believe...

I believe
This is heaven to no one else but me
And I’ll defend it as long as
I can be left here to linger in silence
If I choose to
Would you try to understand it

I would like to linger here in silence
If I choose to
Would you understand it
Would you try to understand...

[caroline79]

My sister and I have loved Hanson since we were little. People laugh at that, but they have come a long way since their "Mmmbop" days :)


"Great Divide" - Hanson

The earth is shaking under siege
And every breath will meet it's fate
Still we hunger for a moment of freedom
Even though the hour is late

I find hope and it gives me rest
I find hope in a beating chest
I find hope in what eyes don't see
I find hope in your hate for me
Have no fear when the waters rise
We can conquer this great divide

When every eye is on the fortune
It can only breed contempt
They say blood is thicker than oceans
Still we box our brothers in

I find hope and it gives me rest
I find hope in a beating chest
I find hope in what eyes don't see
I find hope in your hate for me
Have no fear when the waters rise
We can conquer this great divide

Whoa, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo
Whoa, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo
Whoa, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo
And we're gone
And we're gone
And we're holding on
And we're holding on
And we're holding on

I find hope and it gives me rest
I find hope in a beating chest
I find hope in what eyes don't see
I find hope in your hate for me
Have no fear
Have no fear when the waters rise
We can conquer this great divide

Whoa, ooo, ooo, ooo
Whoa, ooo, ooo, ooo
Whoa, ooo, ooo, ooo