[jbug]

I know we already had a post about this but for the life of me I can't find it soooooooooooo here we go again.

Right now my favorite songs are country:

Tim McGraw (major butt action in his tight jeans ) Live like you were dying....which if you think about we all are just some more quickly than others here's the lyrics.







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Artist : Tim McGraw

Title : Live Like You Were Dying

Album : Live Like You Were Dying

Genre : Country





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He said I was in my early forties
with a lot of life before me
when a moment came that stopped me on a dime
and I spent most of the next days
looking at the x-rays
Talking bout the options
and talking bout sweet time
I asked him when it sank in
that this might really be the real end
how?s it hit you when you get that kinda news
man what?d you do

and he said
I went sky diving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named fumanchu
and I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter
and I gave forgiveness I?d been denying
and he said someday I hope you get the chance
to live like you were dying.

He said I was finally the husband
that most the time I wasn?t
and I became a friend a friend would like to have
and all the sudden going fishin
wasn?t such an imposition
and I went three times that year I lost my dad
well I finally read the good book
and I took a good long hard look
at what I?d do if I could do it all again

and then
I went sky diving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named fumanchu
and I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter
and I gave forgiveness I?d been denying
and he said someday I hope you get the chance
to live like you were dying.

Like tomorrow was a gift and you got eternity to think about
what?d you do with it what did you do with it
what did I do with it
what would I do with it?

Sky diving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named fumanchu
and then I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter
and I watched an eagle as it was flying
and he said someday I hope you get the chance
to live like you were dying.
To live like you were dying
To live like you were dying
To live like you were dying
To live like you were dying

I also LOVE Josh Groban here is my all time favorite song of his....Let me fall...


"Let Me Fall (From Cirque De Soleil)"

Let me fall
Let me climb
There's a moment when fear
And dreams must collide

Someone I am
Is waiting for courage
The one I want
The one I will become
Will catch me

So let me fall
If I must fall
I won't heed your warnings
I won't hear them

Let me fall
If I fall
Though the phoenix may
Or may not rise

I will dance so freely
Holding on to no one
You can hold me only
If you too will fall
Away from all these
Useless fears and chains

Someone I am
Is waiting for my courage
The one I want
The one I will become
Will catch me

So let me fall
If I must fall
I won't heed your warnings
I won't hear

Let me fall
If I fall
There's no reason
To miss this one chance
This perfect moment
Just let me fall


Janniebug

[jbug]

Ok here's another one (she says as tears stream down her face) This is sooooooooooo cool.

Josh Groban again and the song is There for me:

"There For Me"
(feat. Sarah Brightman)

[Sarah:]
There for me, every time I've been away
Will you be there for me, thinking of me everyday
Are you my destiny, words I never dared to say
Will you be there for me?
Just think of you and me, we could never tow the line
It's such a mystery just to hear you say you're mine
And while you're close to me, so close to me
Just hold me

[Josh:]
When you're feeling cold and all the city streets are grey
Walking all alone and watching how the children play
Voices in the wind and faces from the past go dancing by
They're asking why

[Sarah and Josh:]
Will you be there for me, everytime I go away
Will you be there for me, thinking of me everyday
Are you my destiny, words I never dared to say
Will you be there for me?

[Sarah:]
And while you're close to me, so close to me
Just hold me

[Josh:]
Can you really want me more than for a little while?
What are the stories hiding there behind your smile?
Wishes in a dream and figures in a world that I could share
And everywhere

[Sarah and Josh:]
Will you be there for me
Will there ever come a day when all the world can see
Things were meant to be that way
Will you be there for me?
Can you hear the people say
That you're just
There for me

[Josh:]
There for me

[Sarah:]
There for me

[kimmydawn]

jannie, i love that song. here's one of my favorite all time songs lyrics...

carole king's "tapestry"

My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue
An everlasting vision of the ever changing view
A wonderous woven magic in bits of blue and gold
A tapestry to feel and see...impossible to hold.

Once, amid the soft silver sadness in the sky
There came a man of fortune...a drifter passing by
He wore a torn and tattered cloth around his leathered hide
And a coat of many colors...yellow-green on either side.

He moved with some uncertainty as if he didn't know
Just what he was there for, or where he ought to go
Once he reached for something gold and hanging from a tree
And his hand came down empty

Soon within my tapestry along the rutted road
He sat down on a river rock and turned into a toad
It seemed that he had fallen into someone's wicked spell
And I wept to see him suffer though I didn't know him well.

As I watched in sorrow, there suddenly appeared
A figure grey and ghostly, beneath a flowing beard
In times of deepest darkness I've seen him dressed in black
Now my tapestry's unraveling. He's come to take me back
He's come to take me back.


This song means so much to me on different levels. My life is likened to the tapestry here as well, and I'm the man of furtune. To me, the man in black is depression (or illness) that's recurrent.

I wish the song would go on to say that a fairy or something comes along and lifts the curse Because in my life, I'm blessed to have times that are good...they're lasting longer and longer too. However, when I'm depressed this song touches me deeply.

thanks for the post!

[JohnShaft]

I'll toss up some lyrics from stuff I've been listening to recently. Being folk songs they're easy to sing which I do quite loudly in my house. I wonder if that's why my downstairs neighbor moved out?

Drive Dull Care Away
Joe Hickerson

Why should we of our lot complain
Or grieve at our distress?
Some think if riches they could gain
T'would be true happiness
Alas in vain is all their strife
Life's cares will not allay,

Corus:
So while we're here with our friends so dear
We'll drive dull care away.
Away, away, away away.
We will drive dull care away.
So while we're here with our friends so dear
We'll drive dull care away.

Why should the rich despise the poor?
Why should the poor repine?
While in a few short years we shall
In equal friendship bind.
They're both to blame, they're all the same
We are all made of one clay,

The only circumstance in life
That ever I could find,
To conquer care and temper strife
Was a contented mind.
With this in store we have much more
Than all things else convey,

So always make the best of life
Nor render it a curse,
But take it as you would a wife
For better or for worse.
Life at its best is but a jest,
Like a dreary winter's day,

I like to sing this song in the dead days of PA winter.

Valley Forge

We came down here with our boots on our feet
We lost them somewhere midst the snow and the sleet
Pennsylvania winter is the worse kind of cold
What's left of your body won't comfort your soul

Corus:
Oh, don't you think we should beat the drum
Or raise some kind of row
Ain't this glorious war
Fell on hard times now

Don't shake old Charlie, for he's past shaking
Takes angels on high to raise his kind of bacon
Haul out the meat wagon if you've horses to pull
We've dead enough here to fill it up full

When generals die, as I've heard that they do
Takes angels of high to pull them all through
But when privates die, you know very well
They get to go straight from Valley Forge on down to Hell

To live I'm too cold, to die I'm too young
It's a short life to be over and done
I wonder is this the last winter that I'll ever see
Well I don't care for no God who don't care for me

Artist : Trust Company
Title : Stronger
Album : True Parallels

Can you save me
Will you fail me now
It's almost over cause you've faded out, again
Will you break me
When you're holding me down
I will escape you and I'll

I'll push you closer to the ground
Cause you're the one that's going down

And I am, stronger now
Since you crawled away
You're so far away
And I am, stronger now
Since you crawled away, since you crawled away

Never gonna save me
You just shut me out
And now it's over cause I'm stepping out, again
Never gonna break me
Just try and hold me down
I will escape you and I'll

I'll push you closer to the ground
Cause you're the one that's going down

And I am, stronger now
Since you crawled away
You're so far away
And I am, stronger now
Since you crawled away, since you crawled away

You want to tear me down
You want to hold me down
You can't control me now
You cannot take me out
You cannot save me now
Because I'm stronger now

And I am, stronger now
Since you crawled away
You're so far away
And I am, stronger now
Since you crawled away, since you crawled away [repeat]

You want to tear me down
You want to hold me down
You can't control me now
You cannot take me out
You cannot save me now
Because I'm stronger now

[h0kie]

I'm a country fan too. When I was 18 and leaving for college the Dixie Chicks came out with the song, 'Wide Open Spaces'. It was the perfect song, at the perfect moment.


Who doesn't know what I'm talking about
Who's never left home, who's never struck out
To find a dream and a life of their own
A place in the clouds, a foundation of stone

Many precede and many will follow
A young girl's dream no longer hollow
It takes the shape of a place out west
But what it holds for her, she hasn't yet guessed

[Chorus:]
She needs wide open spaces
Room to make her big mistakes
She needs new faces
She knows the high stakes

She traveled this road as a child
Wide eyed and grinning, she never tired
But now she won't be coming back with the rest
If these are life's lessons, she'll take this test

[Repeat Chorus]
She knows the high stakes

As her folks drive away, her dad yells, "Check the oil!"
Mom stares out the window and says, "I'm leaving my girl"
She said, "It didn't seem like that long ago"
When she stood there and let her own folks know

[Repeat Chorus]
She knows the high stakes

P.S. My dad actually did say "Check the oil"...

[jbug]

My dad still asks me if I've checked my oil lately. Its a good thing though because most of the time I haven't and I've had to add some.

Janniebug

[ktp]

"Broken" Seether feat. Amy Lee of Evanescence

I wanted you to know I love the way you laugh
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain away
I keep your photograph and I know it serves me well
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain

'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away

You've gone away, you don't feel me here, anymore

The worst is over now and we can breathe again
I wanna hold you high, you steal my pain away
There's so much left to learn, and no one left to fight
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain

'Cause I'm broken when I'm open
And I don't feel like I am strong enough
'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away

'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away

You've gone away
You don't feel me here anymore

[Isolated_Guy]

Can't get enough of this one.

Some of the lyrics from "The Grand Illusion" by Styx -

So if you think your life is complete confusion because you never win the game.

Just remember that it's a grand illusion. And deep inside we're all the same.
...

So if you think your life is complete confusion because your neighbor's got it made.

Just remember that it's a grand illusion. And deep inside we're all the same.

[nothemama8]

A very dear friend sent me a CD of Shaina Noll
"Songs for the Inner Child" which has helped me find piece within myself, These lyric's tell how I feel about each and everyone here at PC

How Could Anyone
How could anyone ever tell you,
You were anything less than beautiful.
How could anyone ever tell you,
you were less than whole.

How could anyone fail to notice,
that your loving is a miricle.
How could anyone fail to notice,
How deeply your connected to my soul.

These are of happiness cuz I'm a member here
Angie

[JPD5366]

My current favorite song is by JoDee Messina and it is not as "sweet" as most of yours

Artist: Jo Dee Messina
Song: My Give A Damn's Busted
Album:

(1st verse)

Well you filled up my head,
With so many lies.
Twisted my heart
Til something snapped inside.
I'd like to give it one more try
but my give a damn's busted.

You can crawl back home
say you were wrong,
stand out in the yard
cry all night long.
Well go ahead and water my lawn.
My give a damn's busted.

(chorus)

I really wanna care,
I wanna feel somethin'
Let me dig a little deeper...
Nope...
Sorry...
Nothin'

(2nd verse)

You can say you've got issues.
You can say you're a victim.
It's all your parents fault,
After all you didn't pick em
Well maybe Oprah's got time to listen.
My give a damn's busted.

(*Well let me get this straight now)
Your therapist said
It was all just a phase
A product of the prozac
And your co-dependent ways
So uhh ... who's your new neighbor these days
My give a damn's busted.

(chorus)

I really wanna care,
I wanna feel somethin'
Let me dig a little deeper...
Eeh-Eeh

(3rd verse)
(*Oh you're tellin' me)
It's a desperate situation,
No tellin' what you'll do.
If I don't forgive you,
You say your life is through.
Well honey... give me somethin' I can use.
(My give a damn's busted.)

[Eva1nder]

Music is probably one of the most useful tools for keeping me alive so to pick just one song isn't really possible. This is one song I have played often right now. So I picked this one. There are quite a few from this group that are very good. If you liked "Creed" you probably will like them. In fact this is them minus Scott Strapp.

ALTER BRIDGE

"SHED MY SKIN"

I am not alone
I live with the memories regret is my home
This is my true freedom
Express all the feelings of what I've become
I watch the rising sun
I hope I find some peace today

It seems I've gone away
It seems I've lost myself
It seems really lost my way
It seems I've lost myself
It seems I've
Shed my skin

Are you ready for me
Or purge my love
Are you ready for me
A bitter sinking feeling

Awake to the fact there's no going back
To the world in which I was living
I'm searching for something but found less than nothing
I watch the rising sun
I hope I find some peace today

Are you ready for me
Or purge my love
Are you ready for me
Oh 'cause I'm dying to feel
What I have lost

Oh and what I was
All my life I've waited
Endless days have taken
Taken what made me free
Years have gone
I'm broken

Left the past unspoken
Those years
Oh they haunt me still
Shed my skin
Are you ready for me
Or purge my love
Are you ready for me
And shed my skin

[Dolfin]

It seems that a lot of us turn to music in our worst times (just check out some of my posts!)

Two songs here that are personal faves are Wide Open Spaces and Broken. I'm working on "Broken" with a new guy I met to sing as a duet, just for fun.

Dunno what more to say, just making an observation...

Jenn

[GreyGoose]

Well, it used to be "Janie's got a gun" (Aerosmith). Sorry, don't have the lyrics handy at the moment but I'll bet I listened to this song 10 times a day during my drinking days. I can't listen to it anymore because it reminds me of those sad times but I used to get drunk, pick up a mop handle (or whatever) and pretend I was some kind of rock star as I sung the dang thing. I must have looked like a real screwball back then...lol.

[vacantangel]

This is a song that I really relate to when I'm deep in the abyss with suicidal ideation.

Artist: Sarah McLachlan
Song: Full Of Grace
CD: Surfacing
Year: 1997

the winter here's cold, and bitter
it's chilled us to the bone
we haven't seen the sun for weeks
to long too far from home
I feel just like I'm sinking
and I claw for solid ground
I'm pulled down by the undertow
I never thought I could feel so low
oh darkness I feel like letting go

if all of the strength and all of the courage
come and lift me from this place
I know I could love you much better than this
full of grace
full of grace
my love

so it's better this way, I said
having seen this place before
where everything we said and did
hurts us all the more
its just that we stayed, too long
in the same old sickly skin
I'm pulled down by the undertow
I never thought I could feel so low
oh darkness I feel like letting go

if all of the strength
and all of the courage
come and lift me from this place
I know I could love you much better than this
full of grace
full of grace
my love

[vacantangel]

This is another one that I relate to while deep in the abyss.

Artist: Sarah McLachlan
Song: Angel
CD: Surfacing
Year: 1997

Angel

Spend all your time waiting
for that second chance
for a break that would make it okay
there's always one reason
to feel not good enough
and it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
oh beautiful release
memory seeps from my veins
let me be empty
and weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight

in the arms of an angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort there

so tired of the straight line
and everywhere you turn
there's vultures and thieves at your back
and the storm keeps on twisting
you keep on building the lie
that you make up for all that you lack
it don't make no difference
escaping one last time
it's easier to believe in this sweet madness oh
this glorious sadness that brings me to my knees

in the arms of an angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort there
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here

[tootercat]

Ok I'll jump in here! I have someone in my life that makes this song all so real now....do we get in trouble posting these lyrics without prior permission? I have another song too but I don't know if I have them in My Documents....
Thanks y'all.
Toots


I Knew I Loved You (Savage Garden)
Maybe it's intuition
But some things you just don't question
Like in your eyes
I see my future in an instant
And there it goes
I think I've found my best friend
I know that it might sound more than a little crazy
But I believe

I knew I loved you before I met you
I think I dreamed you into life
I knew I loved you before I met you
I have been waiting all my life

There's just no rhyme or reason
Only this sense of completion
And in your eyes
I see the missing pieces
I'm searching for
I think I've found my way home

I know that it might sound more than a little crazy
But I believe

I knew I loved you before I met you
I think I dreamed you into life
I knew I loved you before I met you
I have been waiting all my life

A thousand angels dance around you
I am complete now that I've found you

I knew I loved you before I met you
I think I dreamed you into life
I knew I loved you before I met you
I have been waiting all my life

Since there's all the Linkin Park lyrics in Creative Corner, I think I'll post some here too..

Linkin Park-Meteora
Breaking the Habit

Memories consume
Like opening the wound
I'm picking me apart again
You all assume
I'm safe here in my room
[Unless I try to start again]

I don't want to be the one
The battles always choose
'Cause inside I realize
That i'm the one confused

I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
I don't know why I instigate
And say what I don't mean
I don't know how I got this way
I know it's not alright
So I'm breaking the habit
Tonight

Clutching my cure
I tightly lock the door
I try to catch my breath again
I hurt much more
Than anytime before
I had no options left again

I'll paint it on the walls
'Cause i'm the one at fault
I'll never fight again
And this is how it ends

I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
But now I have some clarity
To show you what I mean
I don't know how I got this way
I'll never be alright
So I'm breaking the habit
Breaking the Habit
Tonight

~Talk about story of my life. I relate to that song in so many ways.~
~But yet another favorite, one way I feel most times..~

Linkin Park-Meteora
Numb

I'm tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless
Lost under the surface
I don't know what you're expecting of me
Put under the pressure
Of walking in your shoes

[Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow]
Every step that I take is another mistake to you

I've
Become so numb
I can't feel you there
Become so tired
So much more aware
I'm becoming this
All I want to do
Is be more like me
And be less like you

Can't you see that you're smothering me
Holding too tightly
Afraid to lose control
'Cause everything that you thought I would be
Has fallen apart right in front of you

[Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow]
Every step that I take is
Another mistake to you
[Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow]
And every second I waste
Is more than I can take


And I know
I may end up failing too
But I know
You were just like me
With someone disappointed in you

But that's just Linkin Park, so much more, but I'm in class and I should be writing a paper..

cool lyrics. i just got my home computer back up so can't post much today. am behind in other stuff.......xoxo pat

[ktp]

Ohhhh I love Linkin Park.

Thanks for bringing them over here

Kimberly.

P.S. Welcome back Pat..hope you get to start posting soon!

For Miss _zh..................

Dear landlord,
Please don't put a price on my soul.
My burden is heavy,
My dreams are beyond control.
When that steamboat whistle blows,
I'm gonna give you all I got to give,
And I do hope you receive it well,
Dependin' on the way you feel that you live.

Dear landlord,
Please heed these words that I speak.
I know you've suffered much,
But in this you are not so unique.
All of us, at times, we might work too hard
To have it too fast and too much,
And anyone can fill his life up
With things he can see but he just cannot touch.

Dear landlord,
Please don't dismiss my case.
I'm not about to argue,
I'm not about to move to no other place.
Now, each of us has his own special gift
And you know this was meant to be true,
And if you don't underestimate me,
I won't underestimate you.

tears m'dear...........tears.

Thank you for this. You have no idea how that touched me. Printed out and up on fridge now.

xoxo and sending you blessings and wishes for speedy resolutions to current woes. You're a powerhouse of a chick and not to be toyed with. Rosie "we can do it" the Riveter isn't your avatar fer nothin'!!

Thanks for the boost today luv. ((Pat)) Lampshade head dog sends her kisses.

In a Blink 182 mood..

Stay Together For The Kids
Its hard to wake up
When the shades have been pulled shut
This house is haunted
It's so pathetic
It makes no sense at all
I'm ripe with things to say
the words rot and fall away
If a stupid poem could fix this home, I'd read it every day

So here's your holiday
hope you enjoy it this time
you gave it all away
It was mine
So when your dead and gone
Will you remember this night
Twenty years now lost
It's not right

The anger hurts my ears
Been running strong for seven years
Rather then fix the problem
They never solve them
It makes no sense at all
I see them everyday
We get along so why can't they?
If this is what he wants
And its what she wants
Then whys there so much pain?

So here's your holiday
Hope you enjoy it this time
You gave it all away
It was mine
So when your dead and gone
Will you remember this night
Twenty years now lost
It's not right

So here's your holiday
Hope you enjoy it this time
You gave it all away
It was mine
So when your dead and gone
Will you remember this night
Twenty years now lost
It's not right

Adam's Song~ My song, the greatest Blink 182 song of all time

I never thought I'd die alone
I laughed the loudest, who'd have known?
I traced the cord back to the wall
No wonder it was never plugged in at all

I took my time, I hurried up
The choice was mine, I didn't think enough
I'm too depressed to go on
You'll be sorry when I'm gone

I never conquered, rarely came
16 just held such better days
Days when I still felt alive
We couldn't wait to get outside

The world was wide, too late to try
The tour was over, we'd survived
I couldn't wait 'til I got home
To pass the time in my room alone

I never thought I'd die alone
Another six months, I'll be unknown
Give all my things to all my friends
You'll never step foot in my room again

You'll close it off, board it up
Remember the time that I spilled the cup
Of apple juice in the hall
Please tell mom this is not her fault

I never conquered, rarely came
16 just held such better days
Days when I still felt alive
We couldn't wait to get outside

The world was wide, too late to try
The tour was over, we'd survived
I couldn't wait 'til I got home
To pass the time in my room alone

I never conquered, rarely came
Tomorrow holds such better days
Days when I can still feel alive
When I can't wait to get outside

The world is wide, the time goes by
The tour is over, I've survived
I can't wait 'til I get home
To pass the time in my room alone

But I could stop, or just go on for ever..muwahahaha

can't bobby turn a phrase like no other. i was perusing his lyric page when i found that. i was so happy to find it and post it for you.......xoxoxo pattynearlynormalnow

[neri]

Eh, sorry guys, but these are my favs

Apulanta, Jäätyneiden kaupunki

Ei se anna minun nukkua
Ei se anna rauhoittuu
Ei se anna minun hukkua
Kun helpompaa ois vain alle vaipuu
Jäätyneiden kaupunki
Ahdas mutta silti autiomaa
Eksyneiden tuomari
Ei armo kestä yhtä suudelmaa

Ei se tahdo nuolla mun haavojani
Ei se tahdo päätä silittää
Hieroo syyllisyyden mun kasvoilleni
Ei se tahdo päästää synneistä

Jäätyneiden kaupunki
Ahdas mutta silti autiomaa
Eksyneiden tuomari
Ei armo kestä yhtä suudelmaa

Tee se loitsu uudelleen
Ja kiedo kahleeseen
Lukitse paikalleen
Ei jää voi meitä viilentää
Haudasta herättää, mut jättää
Hämärään

Jäätyneiden kaupunki
Ahdas mutta silti autiomaa
Eksyneiden tuomari
Ei armo kestä yhtä suudelmaa

And, of course

HIM, The Path

There is no turning back from this unending path of mine
serpentine and back it stands before my eyes
to hell and back it will lead me once more
it's all I have as I stumble in and out of grace

I walk through the gardens of dying light
and cross all the rivers deep and dark as the night
searching for a reason why time passes by

With every step I take the less I know myself
every vow I break on my way towards your heart
countless times I've prayed for forgiveness
but Gods just laugh at my face
and this path remains
leading me into solitude's arms

I see through the darkness my way back home
the journey seems endless but I'll carry on
the shadows will rise and they will fall
and our night drowns in gold

Amidst all the tears there's a smile
that all angels greet with an envious song
one look into stranger's eyes
and I know where I belong

I walk through the gardens of dying light
and cross all the rivers deep and dark as the night
searching for a reason why time would've passed us by

I see through the darkness my way back home
the journey seems endless but I'll carry on
the shadows will rise and they will fall
and our night drowns in dawn

The shadows they rise and they fall

And the Night drowns in dawn

The shadows they will rise and they will Fall

And the night drowns in dawn...