I love lyrics. They seem to steal the words right out of my mouth and go "THIS is what you were trying to say!"
I'm going to post a few lyrics that speak to me, and I would like it if some others would do the same.
Now run along my little nightmare
You cannot stay here its far too bright for you
If they attack you just lay there
Play dead dear
It's your only hope of pulling through
Seconds may seem like a lifetime of dream
Recurring dream that can't come true
And they'll pin it all on you
After all you've been put through
Sadie G. She's crazy see thats what the white coats say
Now Susan A. you're losing every opportunity to put us all away.
Now run along my little nightmare
Your job is done here.
You've scared them all to death
If they revive just sit there
Just smile dear
Make them thankful for every breath.
Sadie - Alkaline Trio
I'm a Charlie Manson...supporter? I don't know what else to call it.
She'll tell you she's an orphan
After you meet her family
She Talks to Angels - The Black Crowes
Its me. Very me.
Honestly - I had a bunch more typed up then I lost the blog....So I'll add mine alone with the rest of you later. Please play along :)
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No pun intended, but I'll 'play' along. These remind me of my childhood and why I am in the field of study that I am. Too many hurting children out there and a lot of parents have no idea the impact their actions have on their children.
No music to go with, but here go'es:
Partial Lyrics from "Wonderful"
by: Everclear
Close my eyes when I go to bed
And I dream of angels who make me smile
I feel better when I hear them say
Everything will be wonderful someday
Promises mean everything when you’re little
And the worlds so big
I just don’t understand how
You can smile with all those tears in your eyes
Tell me everything is wonderful now
Please don’t tell me everything is wonderful now
I go to school and I run and play
I tell the kids that it’s all okay
I laugh aloud so my friends won’t know
When the bell rings I just don’t wanna go home
Go to my room and I close my eyes
I make believe that I have a new life
I don’t believe you when you say
Everything will be wonderful someday
Promises mean everything when you’re little
And the world is so big
I just don’t understand how
You can smile with all those tears in your eyes
When you tell me everything is wonderful now
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"Truths Are The Roots To Trust"
i too am a huge music lover.
and music is a very central part of my life, so here goes.
Just a small town girl
Living in a lonely world
She took the midnight train going anywhere
Just a city boy
Born and raised in South Detroit
He took the midnight train going anywhere
A singer in a smoky room
A smell of wine and cheap perfume
For a smile they can share the night
It goes on and on and on and on
{Refrain}
Strangers, waiting, up and down the boulevard
Their shadows searching in the night
Streetlight people, living just to find emotion
Hiding somewhere in the night
Working hard to get my fill
Everybody wants a thrill
Paying anything to roll the dice
Just one more time
Some will win, some will lose
Some were born to sing the blues
Oh the movie never ends
It goes on and on and on and on
{Refrain}
Don't stop believing
Hold on to that feeling
Streetlight people
Don't Stop Believing by Journey
Glad to hear there's an 'old school' lover out there! I absolutely love Journey!
Many of Billy Joel's lyrics are well worth listening to as well.
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"Truths Are The Roots To Trust"
oh yes.
im an old school junkie coming from many ex boyfriends
as well as both my parents having broad tastes in music
and my older siblings.
yes yes yes haha
This one would've described me perfectly approx. 2 years, 7 months ago, if I had known it at the time.
Hands touch, eyes meet,
sudden silence
suddenly hearts leap in a giddy whirl
he could be that boy
but I'm not that girl
Don't dream too far
don't loose sight of who you are
don't remember that brush of joy
he could be that boy
I'm not that girl
Every so often we long to steal
to a land of what might have been
but that doesn't soften the ache we feel
when reality sets back in
blithe smile
lithe limb
she wins some
she wins him
Gold hair with a gentle curl
that's the girl he chose
and Heaven knows
I'm not that girl
~partial lyrics of "I'm not that girl" from the Broadway musical Wicked, as sung originally by Idina Menzel.
Quite fitting, considering the outcome at the end of the play.
~C
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Bruce Springsteen is the best lyricist out there, in my opinion. Even better than Dylan. "Thunder Road" is eternal.
THUNDER ROAD
1975
The screen door slams
Mary's dress sways
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
I'm pulling out of here to win
I'm gonna have to find that song.
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"So stuff that in your pipe and smoke it!"
If you haven't heard it yet, I think buying "Born To Run" would be a really memorable experience in your life. It's one of those rare albums that you can own for twenty years but seems brand new and beautiful every time you play it.
"You live, You learn
You love, You learn
You cry, You learn
You lose, You learn
You bleed, You learn
You scream, You learn"
- Alanis Morisette, Jagged Little Pill
"Here is the money that I owe you
Yes, you can pay the bills
I will give you more when I get paid again
I hate those people who love to tell you money is the root of all that kills
They have never been poor
They have never had the joy of a welfare Christmas"
-Everclear, I Will Buy You A New Life
"Here comes the rain again
Falling from the stars
Drentched in my pain again
Becoming who we are
As my memory rests
It never forgets what I lost
Wake me up when September ends
Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last."
-Green Day, When September Ends
(My birthday is in September, so I can read a lot into this.)
"Keep holdin' on when my brain's ticking like a bomb"
-Korn, Coming Undone
(Oh comeon, who hasn't felt like this?)
"I was talking not two days ago
To a certain bartender I'm lucky to know
And I asked Henry, my bartending friend
If I should bother dating unfamous men
And Henry said,
'You're lucky to even know me
You're lucky to be alive
You're lucky to be drinkin' here for free
'Cuz I'm a sucker for your lucky, pretty eyes'"
-Liz Phair, Polyester Bride
"So stuff that in your pipe and smoke it!"
I had to leave the house of fashion
and go forth naked from its doors
'cause women should be allies
and not competitors
I had to leave the house of god
because the cross replaced the wheel
and the goddesses were all out in the garden
with the plants that nurture and heal
I had to leave the house of privilege
spend Christmas homeless and feeling bad
to learn privilege is a headache
that you don't know that you don't have
I had to leave the house of television
to start noticing the clouds
it's amazing the stuff you see when
you finally shed that shroud
I had leave the house of conformity
in order to make art
I had to be more and less true
to learn to tell the two apart
I had to leave the house of fear
just about as soon as I could crawl
ignore my face on a wanted poster
stuck to the post office wall
I had leave the house of self-importance
to doodle my first tattoo
to realize a tattoo is no more permanent
than I am, and who
ever said that life is suffering
I think they had their finger on the pulse of joy
and the power of transcendence
made its grace a practice we can employ
Denken. Nicht lesen.
What's the name of that song/who sang it?
ETA- Nevermind I just relised it was in the subject...dur...
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"So stuff that in your pipe and smoke it!"