From Leonard Cohen's Going Home
He want to write a love song
An anthem of forgiving
A manual for living with defeat
A cry above the suffering
A sacrifice recovering
But that isn't what I want him to complete
I want to make him certain
That he doesn't have a burden
That he doesn't need a vision
That he only has permission
To do my instant bidding
That is to SAY the words I have told him
To repeat
Going home
Without my sorrow
Going home
Sometime tomorrow
To where it's better
Than before
Going home
Without my burden
Going home
Behind the curtain
Going home
Without the costume
That I wore
"Canto Alla Vita"
Josh Groban
Dedicated to the one who guilty or innocent
Lost in this sea
Yielded to the stream
Who didn't ever be a winner
Dedicated to the one always keeping a hope
In front of a sorrow
In the cold of a room
Dedicated to the one searching his own freedom
I sing to life
To all its beauty
To every wound of it
To every caress of it
I sing to life
To it's tragic beauty
To pain and to strife
Let all that dance through me
The rise and the fall
I lived through it all
Dedicated to the one who always made it dry
Like possessed, slipped through fingers
It was always already over
I sing to life
Reflected into your eyes
Easy and endless
Promised land for us
I sing to life
Sweet and even fierce
To this journey of ours
Which still puts us in chains
"Every breath"
Boyce avenue
The weightlessness and the lack of rest
away from you, im in over my head
Even when it's dark before the dawn
I will feel your grace and carry on
And with every breath of me, you'll be the only light I see
When I needed a place to hang my heart
You were there to wear it from the start
And with every breath of me, you'll be the only light I see
Even when it's dark before the dawn
I will feel your grace and carry on
And with every breath of me, you'll be the only light I see
The only light I see.
I can still hear the soft southern wind through the tall oak trees,
And those Williams boys, they still mean a lot to me,
old Hank and Tennessee.
I guess we're all gonna be what we're gonna be,
but what do you do with good old boys like me?
Don Williams
Good Old Boys
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwords. -- ROBERT HEINLEIN
Sometimes sitting in the dark
Wishing you were here
Turns me crazy,
But it's you who makes me lose my head.
~ Crazy for You , Adele
"...you say love is a hell you can not bear, will give me mine back & go there." -fionna apple. i went through a bad breakup and it fit how i felt perfectly.
Gym Class Heroes Ft. Neon Hitch
The chorus:
I don’t know, where you’re going
Or when you’re coming home
I left the keys under the mat to our front door
For one more chance to hold you closer
I don’t know, where you’re going
Just get your ass back home
It applies to me. My life, my girlfriend, my career. Everytime I hear it, I can see my g/f singing it to me. On the Ambulance, I never know where I am going next, when I will be getting off duty and she understands this. Although when she tells me "just get your ass back home" she usually adds "safely" to it!
"I'm sorry when I kissed you,
You only heard me whisper.
You never got to hear those violins."
Pussycat Dolls "stickwitu"
Because I know I could never love anyone more than my fiancee. I will stick with him forever.
"Strange Fruit" Billie Holiday
"Strange Fruit" Billie Holiday
So, being a music student and a music nut, not just one lyric stands out to me...my following choices all have some relation to me personally but I'm not in a position to tell.
"But you didn't have to cut me off, make out like it never happened and that we were nothing" - Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye
"When the skies are grey and all the doors are closing, and the rising pressure makes it hard to breathe, all I need is a helping hand to stop the tears from falling, I will find him will find him next to me." - Next To Me - Emeli Sande
"I can't buy your love, don't even wanna try. Sometimes the truth won't make you happy, so I'm not gonna lie. But don't ever question if my heart beats only for you, it beats only for you.
I know I'm far from perfect, nothin' like your entourage I can't grant you any wishes, I won't promise you the stars. But don't ever question if my heart beats only for you, it beats only for you." - My Kind Of Love - Emeli Sande
"I wish it were simple, but we give up easily. You're close enough to see that you're.... the other side of the world to me." - Other Side Of The World - KT Tunstall
And finally, there is an episode of West Wing which features Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms, and that setting of the song alone had me. If you can find this, watch it, it won't have the same thing for you as me, but it works.
Insert something witty here.
Oh, and then there is this:
"Music was my first love
And it will be my last
Music of the future
And music of the past
To live without my music
Would be impossible to do
In this world of troubles
My music pulls me through"
Music - John Miles
Insert something witty here.
"We're just ordinary people
We don't know which way to go
Cuz we're ordinary people
Maybe we should take it slow"
Ordinary people - John Legend
Nothing can be sadder than a glass of wine alone,
Loneliness, loneliness such a waste of time,
You don't ever have to walk alone, you see,
C'mon, take my hand, Baby won't you walk with me
Don't you feel like crying
Solomon Burke
"I'll be" Reba Mcentire
When darkness falls upon your heart and soul
I'll be the light that shines for you
When you forget how beautiful you are
I'll be there to remind you.
When you can't find your way,
I'll find my way to you.
When troubles come around,
I will come to you.
I'll be your shoulder
When you need someone to lean on.
Be your shelter.
When you need someone to see you through.
I'll be there to carry you.
I'll be there.
I'll be the rock that will be strong for you.
The one that will hold on to you.
When you feel that rain falling down.
When there's nobody else around.
I'll be.
And when you're there with no one there to hold.
I'll be the arms that reach for you.
And when you feel your faith is running low.
I'll be there to believe in you.
When all you find are lies
I'll be the truth you need
When you need someone to run to
You can run to me
I'll be your shoulder
When you need someone to lean on.
Be your shelter
When you need someone to see you through
I'll be there to carry you.
I'll be there.
I'll be the rock that will be strong for you.
The one that will hold on to you.
When you feel that rain falling down.
When there's nobody else around.
I'll be.
I'll be the sun
When your heart's filled with rain.
I'll be the one
To chase the rain away.
I'll be your shoulder
When you need someone to lean on.
Be your shelter
When you need someone to see you through
I'll be there to carry you.
I'll be there.
I'll be the rock that will be strong for you.
The one that will hold on to you.
When you feel that rain falling down.
When there's nobody else around.
I'll be.
I'll be.
"We can always look back at what we did.
All these memories of you and me baby.
But right now it's you and me forever girl.
And you know we could do better than anything that we did.
You know that you and me, we could do anything."
Dave Matthews Band = My favorite lyrics right now.
So what if it hurts me?
So what if I break down?
So what if this world just throws me off the edge
My feet run out of ground
I gotta find my place
I wanna hear my sound
Don't care about all the pain in front of me
Cause i'm just trying to be happy
leona lewis - happy xx
Someone falls to pieces
Sleeping all alone
Someone kills the pain
Spinning in the silence
She finally drifts away
Someone gets excited
In a chapel yard
Catches a bouquet
Another lays a dozen
White roses on a grave
And be yourself is all that you can do
Be Yourself-Audioslave
"You're Beautiful" James Blunt
My life is brilliant.
My love is pure.
I saw an angel.
Of that I'm sure.
She smiled at me on the subway.
She was with another man.
But I won't lose no sleep on that,
'Cause I've got a plan.
You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
I saw your face in a crowded place,
And I don't know what to do,
'Cause I'll never be with you.
Yeah, she caught my eye,
As we walked on by.
She could see from my face that I was,
Flying high, [ - video/radio edited version]
Fucking high, [ - CD version]
And I don't think that I'll see her again,
But we shared a moment that will last till the end.
You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
I saw your face in a crowded place,
And I don't know what to do,
'Cause I'll never be with you.
You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
There must be an angel with a smile on her face,
When she thought up that I should be with you.
But it's time to face the truth,
I will never be with you.
These lyrics sing to me... just cuz'
I am so guilty of being captivated by a strangers eyes....
Even when she is not alone
Bon Jovi
Bed of Roses.
Tonight i won't be alone
but that don't mean i'm not lonely
And evolving from the sea, would not be too much time for me, to walk beside you in the sun..
The Pixies, The Sad Punk
But you swear blind there is no weight in the water pail.
You say "My love, you take the cards that you're dealt.
Cause there's no guiding light arching a line to Bethlehem.
If it's dark outside you light the fire yourself."
Cause we've been through worse than this before we could talk.
The trick of it is, don't be afraid any more.
Bible belt by Dry the River
But I found a boy who I love more
Than I ever did you before
So stand beside the river I cried
And let yourself down
Look how you want me now that I don't need you
I Found a Boy- Adele
Roll On By Alabama
These five stanza's stand out most to me
Well it's Wednesday evening
Mamma's waitin' by the phone
It rings but it's not his voice
Seems the highway patrol
Has found a jackknifed rig
In a snow bank in Illinois
But the driver was missin'
And the search had been abandoned
'Cause the weather had everything strong
And they had checked all the houses
And the local motels
When they had some more news they'd call
And she told them when they found him
To tell him that she loved him
And she hung up the phone singin'
Roll on highway, roll on along
Roll on daddy till you get back home
Roll on family, roll on crew
Roll on momma like I asked you to do
And roll on eighteen-wheeler roll on
Momma and the children
Will be waiting up all night long
Thinkin' nothing but the words just comin'
With the ringin' of the telephone
Oh, but the Man upstairs was listening
When momma asked Him to bring daddy home
And when the call came in it was daddy on the other end
Askin' her if she had been singin' the song, singin'
"LONESOME DAY" - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Once I thought I knew
Everything I needed to know about you
Your sweet whisper, Your tender touch
But I didn't really know that much
Joke's on me, It's gonna be okay
If I can just get through this lonesome day
Hell's brewin' dark sun's on the rise
This storm'll blow through by and by
House is on fire, Viper's in the grass
A little revenge and this too shall pass
This too shall pass, I'm gonna pray
Right now all I got's this lonesome day
It's allright? It's allright? It's allright
Better ask questions before you shoot
Deceit and betrayals bitter fruit
It's hard to swallow, come time to pay
That taste on your tongue don't easily slip away
Let kingdom come I'm gonna find my way
Through this lonesome day
And now for something completely different....
Such shall, as mighty patterns stand
To princes yet unborn,
To honour prompt each distant land
And future times adorn.
From Handel's oratorio masterpiece Solomon written in 1748. The Levite who sings these lines is talking about the achievements of King Solomon but the words could also refer to Handel's music which is indeed a 'mighty pattern' and has delighted princes and everyone else since it was composed in the mid 18th century, adorning future times and doing honour to distant lands.
Take my hand, I'll teach you to dance.
I'll spin you around, won't let you fall down.
Would you let me lead, you can step on my feet.
Give it a try, it'll be alright.
The room's hush, hush,
And now's our moment.
Take it in feel it all and hold it.
Eyes on you, eyes on me.
We're doing this right.
Cause lovers dance when they're feeling in love.
Spotlight shining, it's all about us.
It's oh, oh, all,
About uh, uh, us.
And every heart in the room will melt,
This is a feeling I've never felt but,
It's all about us.
Suddenly, I'm feeling brave.
Don't know what's got into me,
Why I feel this way.
Can we dance, real slow?
Can I hold you, can I hold you close?
All about us - He Is We Feat. Owl City
