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"Circle" - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians

 

Me, I'm a part of your circle of friends

And we notice you don't come around

And me, I think it all depends

On you touching ground with us

 

But I quit, I give up

Nothing's good enough for anybody else

It seems, and I quit, I give up

Nothing's good enough for anybody else

It seems

And

 

And being alone is the, is the best way to be

When I'm by myself it's the best way to be

When I'm all alone it's the best way to be

When I'm by myself

Nobody else can say goodbye

 

Everything is temporary anyway

When the streets are wet

The colors slip into the sky

But I don't know why

That means you and I are

That means you and I

 

I quit, I give up

Nothing's good enough for anybody else

It seems, and I quit, I give up

Nothing's good enough for anybody else

It seems

And

 

And being alone is the, is the best way to be

When I'm by myself it's the best way to be

When I'm all alone it's the best way to be

When I'm by myself nobody else can say

 

Me, I'm a part of your circle of friends

And we notice you don't come around

[[Yo...]]

This talked to me when I started on the pills...

 

 

Comfortably Numb — Pink Floyd

 

(not posting the link to the video cuz the images are pretty intense)

 

 

Hello,

Is there anybody in there?

Just nod if you can hear me.

Is there anyone at home?

 

Come on now

I hear you're feeling down

Well, I can ease your pain

And get you on your feet again

 

Relax

I'll need some information first

Just the basic facts

Can you show me where it hurts?

 

There is no pain, you are receding

A distant ship smoke on the horizon

You are only coming through in waves

Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying

When I was a child I had a fever

My hands felt just like two balloons

Now I've got that feeling once again

I can't explain, you would not understand

This is not how I am

I have become comfortably numb

 

I have become comfortably numb

 

O.K.

Just a little pin prick

There'll be no more aaaaaaaah!

But you may feel a little sick

 

Can you stand up?

I do believe it's working, good

That'll keep you going through the show

Come on, it's time to go.

 

There is no pain you are receding

A distant ship smoke on the horizon

You are only coming through in waves

Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying

When I was a child

I caught a fleeting glimpse

Out of the corner of my eye

I turned to look but it was gone

I cannot put my finger on it now

The child is grown

The dream is gone

I have become comfortably numb

 

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The Chameleons - On The Beach

 

 

Ides of March we're calling,

On a Sunday morning,

Not the sun that's dawning

 

Figure in the sky

Figure in the sky

 

Unsure of what I'm facing

Precious time we're wasting

I'll always be embracing

 

Figure in the sky

Figure in the sky

Figure in the sky

 

You can think he is right

You can think he is right

 

I said

I said

 

Unsure of what I am facing

Precious time we're wasting

Here I am embracing

 

Figure in the sky

Figure in the sky

Figure in the sky

Figure in the sky

Figure in the sky

 

Here on a beach

Being present too

Acquiescent too (?)

 

Here on a beach

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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"Midnight" - Coldplay

 

In the darkness before the dawn

In the swirling of this storm

When I'm rolling with the punches

And hope is gone

Leave a light, a light on

 

Millions of miles from home

In the swirling swimming on

When I'm rolling with the thunder

But bleeding from thorns

Leave a light, a light on

Leave a light, a light on

 

Leave a light, a light on

Leave a light, a light on

 

In the darkness before the dawn

In the darkness before the dawn

Leave a light, a light on

Leave a light, a light on

 

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Thanks, fellas   

You edited out the lyrics, LF?  I thought they were spot-on!

 

 

[[Lo...]]

Yes, it's an acoustic version I've never heard before, and obviously the lyrics are quite different from the original one. I'll probably have to just write them down myself.

 

I just happened to like this version better at the moment

 

Typically, Mark, who writes almost all of the lyrics has like 3 or 4 different sets of lyrics for each of their songs, so you never know what you're going to get  . The songs kept evolving over the years, and so did the lyrics....

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"Fly" - Hilary Duff

 

In a moment everything can change

Feel the wind on your shoulders

For a minute all the world can wait

Let go of your yesterday

 

Can you hear it calling

Can you feel it in your soul

Can you trust this longing

And take control

 

[CHORUS:]

Fly

Open up the part of you

That wants to hide away

You can shine

Forget about the reasons why

You can't in life

And start to try

Cause it's your time

Time to fly

 

All your worries

Leave them somewhere else

Find a dream you can follow

Reach for something when there's nothing left

And the world's feeling hollow

 

Can you hear it calling

Can you feel it in your soul

Can you trust this longing

And take control

 

[CHORUS]

 

And when you're down and feel alone

Just want to run away

Trust yourself

And don't give up

You know you better than anyone else

 

Any moment everything can change

Feel the wind on your shoulders

For a minute all the world can wait

Let go of yesterday

 

Fly

Open up the part of you

That wants to hide away

You can shine

Forget about the reasons why

You can't in life

And start to try

Cause it's your time

Time to fly

 

In a moment everything can change

 

         

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Yes, it's an acoustic version I've never heard before, and obviously the lyrics are quite different from the original one. I'll probably have to just write them down myself.

 

I just happened to like this version better at the moment

 

Aah, that's what happened, I thought I was seeing things, lol.  Cos I read them and then listened to the song afterwards, really liked it.  And then I saw my Coldplay song wasn't up and I thought I was losing my mind cos I was convinced I'd already posted it.   Oh well, tis the wee hours after all ... 

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Yes, it's an acoustic version I've never heard before, and obviously the lyrics are quite different from the original one. I'll probably have to just write them down myself.

 

I just happened to like this version better at the moment

 

Aah, that's what happened, I thought I was seeing things, lol.  Cos I read them and then listened to the song afterwards, really liked it.  And then I saw my Coldplay song wasn't up and I thought I was losing my mind cos I was convinced I'd already posted it.   Oh well, tis the wee hours after all ... 

 

You posted the Coldplay song on a game thread. 

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Yes, it's an acoustic version I've never heard before, and obviously the lyrics are quite different from the original one. I'll probably have to just write them down myself.

 

I just happened to like this version better at the moment

 

Aah, that's what happened, I thought I was seeing things, lol.  Cos I read them and then listened to the song afterwards, really liked it.  And then I saw my Coldplay song wasn't up and I thought I was losing my mind cos I was convinced I'd already posted it.   Oh well, tis the wee hours after all ... 

 

You posted the Coldplay song on a game thread. 

 

No, I didn't.  Where?!!! 

[[Yo...]]

Songs with female names, I think...

[[Yo...]]

I just saved you a lot of grief! Those game people love to criticize. 

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Aah, that's what happened, I thought I was seeing things, lol.

 

You are ok, abcd. . You didn't not see the green butterfly from a Lunesta commercial. At least the song I posted was thankfully never used in one of those commercials 

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"Not A Day Goes By" - Lonestar

 

 

Got a picture of you I carry in my heart

Close my eyes to see it when the world gets dark

Got a memory of you I carry in my soul

I wrap it close around me when the nights get cold

 

If you asked me how I'm doing I'd say just fine

But the truth is, Baby, if you could read my mind

 

[CHORUS:]

Not a day goes by that I don't think of you

After all this time you're still with me it's true

Somehow you remain locked so deep inside

Baby, baby, oh baby, not a day goes by

 

I still wait for the phone in the middle of the night

Thinking you might call me if your dreams don't turn out right

And it still amazes me that I lie here in the dark

Wishing you were next to me, with your head against my heart

 

If you asked me how I'm doing I'd say just fine

But the truth is, Baby, if you could read my mind

 

[CHORUS]

 

Minutes turn to hours and the hours to days

Seems it's been forever that I've felt this way

 

Not a day goes by that I don't think of you

After all this time you're still with me it's true

Somehow you remain locked so deep inside

Baby, baby, oh baby, not a day goes by

That I don't think of you

 

               

[[Lo...]]

I just saved you a lot of grief! Those game people love to criticize. 

 

I find it kind of odd that on 1st Coldplay album, the very first song is called "Don't Panic", while the next song is called "Shiver". These lads from UK are sending some mixed messages our way. . Apparently, Chris Martin and the co. ran out of valium after recording the first song, so they came up with the second one. "Yellow" was probably devoted to those yellow 5mg valium pills. OK, just kidding, it was a pretty good debut album

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True Colors — Cyndi Lauper

 

 

 

You with the sad eyes  :'(

Don't be discouraged

Oh I realize

It's hard to take courage 

In a world full of people

You can lose sight of it all

And the darkness inside you

Can make you feel so small

 

But I see your true colors

Shining through

I see your true colors

And that's why I love you 

So don't be afraid to let them show

Your true colors

True colors are beautiful,

Like a rainbow

 

Show me a smile then, 

Don't be unhappy, can't remember

When I last saw you laughing

 

If this world makes you crazy 

And you've taken all you can bear

You call me up

Because you know I'll be there

 

And I'll see your true colors

Shining through

I see your true colors

And that's why I love you

So don't be afraid to let them show

Your true colors

True colors are beautiful,

Like a rainbow

 

Can't remember, when I last saw you laughing 

 

If this world makes you crazy

And you've taken all you can bear

You call me up

Because you know I'll be there

 

And I'll see your true colors

Shining through

I see your true colors

And that's why I love you

So don't be afraid to let them show

Your true colors

True colors

True colors are shining through

 

I see your true colors

And that's why I love you

So don't be afraid to let them show

Your true colors

True colors are beautiful,

Like a rainbow

 

:smitten:

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Cindy Lauper - All Through The Night

https://youtu.be/fqDSNZTo8js

 

All through the night

I'll be awake and I'll be with you

All through the night

This precious time when time is new

Oh, all through the night today

Knowing that we feel the same without saying

 

We have no past we won't reach back

Keep with me forward all through the night

And once we start the meter clicks

And it goes running all through the night

Until it ends there is no end

 

All through the night

stray cat is crying so stray cat sings back

All through the night

They have forgotten what by day they lack

Oh under those white street lamps

There is a little chance they may see

 

We have no past we won't reach back

Keep with me forward all through the night

And once we start the meter clicks

And it goes running all through the night

Until it ends there is no end

 

Oh the sleep in your eyes is enough

Let me be there let me stay there awhile

 

We have no past we won't reach back

Keep with me forward all through the night

And once we start the meter clicks

And it goes running all through the night

Until it ends there is no end

Keep with me forward all through the night

And once we start the meter clicks

And it goes running all through the night

Until it ends there is no end

 

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Cindy Lauper - Who Let in the Rain

 

 

 

Things like this

Can always take a little time

I always thought

We'd be together down the line

We start to fight

And can't get over what was said

'Cause you see black and white

And I see red

 

And I wonder who let in the rain

You know without you

I'm not the same

When love gets strong

People get weak

Sometimes they lose control

And wind up in too deep

They fall like rain

Who let in the rain

 

I make the bed and cover

Where you used to sleep

I'm smoothing over promises

Made in these sheets

I envy lovers passing by

Out on the street

'Cause what they have

I couldn't keep

 

And I wonder who let in the rain

You know without you

I'm not the same

When love gets strong

People gets weak

Sometimes they lose control

And wind up in too deep

They fall like rain

Who let in the rain...

 

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Cindy Lauper - Sally's Pigeons

 

 

When I was eight I had a friend

With a pirate smile

Make believe and play pretend

We were innocent and wild

Hopped a fence and slammed the gate

Running down my alleyway

In time to watch Sally's pigeons fly

 

We loved to watch them dive and soar

Circle in the sky

Free as a bird from three to four

And never knowing why

Neighbors pulled their wash back in

Put away my Barbie and Ken

Look out overhead

While Sally's pigeons fly

 

I had a fool's confidence

That the world had no boundaries

But instincts and common sense

Come in different quantities

 

My heart began to

Skip to the beat

Of the boy next door

She had her eye across the street

On someone shy and tall

We lived our dreams

And challenged fate

In tears she told me she was late

And Sally let his pigeons out to fly...

 

On the dresser sits a frame

With a photograph

Two little girls in ponytails

Some twenty one years back

She left one night with just a nod

Was lost from some back alley job

I close my eyes and Sally's pigeons fly

She never saw those birds again

And me, I can't remember when

A pirate smile hasn't made me cry

I close my eyes

And Sally's pigeons fly...

 

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Cindy Lauper - Sally's Pigeons

 

 

 

One of my fave Cyndi songs, LF, hauntingly poignant, goosebumps. 

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Cindy Lauper - Sally's Pigeons

 

 

 

One of my fave Cyndi songs, LF, hauntingly poignant, goosebumps. 

 

Probably one of the saddest songs she ever recorded. Kind of hard to listen to, but, like you said, it's such a beautiful song, as well.

[[Yo...]]

Let's dispel the gloom...

 

[[Lo...]]

Magnetic Fields - The Book of Love

 

 

The book of love is long and boring

No one can lift the damn thing

It's full of charts and facts and figures

and instructions for dancing

but I, I love it when you read to me

and you, you can read me anything

 

The book of love has music in it

In fact that's where music comes from

Some of it is just transcendental

Some of it is just really dumb

but I, I love it when you sing to me

and you, you can sing me anything

 

The book of love is long and boring

and written very long ago

It's full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes

and things we're all too young to know

but I, I love it when you give me things

and you, you ought to give me wedding rings

I, I love it when you give me things

and you, you ought to give me wedding rings

 

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Magnetic Fields - The Book of Love

 

 

The book of love is long and boring

and written very long ago

It's full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes

and things we're all too young to know

but I, I love it when you give me things

and you, you ought to give me wedding rings

I, I love it when you give me things

and you, you ought to give me wedding rings

 

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"Homeless" - Avenue 52

 

Trapped in this box alone on the streets

Begging for someone else to love me

I'm searching for you

Are you searching for me

Cause I've been abandoned, yeah

 

Falling behind in the human race

Do you even recognize my face

I'm thinking of who and what I wanted to be

But we don't have no time to waste

I don't believe that it's too late

 

To let the walls fall down

Let your heart give in

Set your emotions free from all the pain

Say a promise that you'll never leave me homeless

Oh no, oh no

 

Looking for change cause I want a taste

Of something that's better than this place

But I'm finding out there's just no easy way

As I'm plotting my escape

I don't believe that it's too late

 

To let the walls fall down

Let your heart give in

Set your emotions free from all the pain

Say a promise that you'll never leave me

 

Home is where the heart is

So if you're homeless

Where do you go to find the heart

To get through the struggle

To get through your troubles

 

Just let your walls fall down

Let your heart give in

Set your emotions free from all the pain

Just let your walls fall down

Let your heart give in

Set your emotions free from all the pain

 

Say a promise that you'll never leave

Say a promise that you'll never leave

Say a promise that you'll never leave me homeless

Oh no, oh no