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"The Story" - Brandi Carlile

 

 

All of these lines across my face

Tell you the story of who I am

So many stories of where I've been

And how I got to where I am

 

But these stories don't mean anything

When you've got no one to tell them to

It's true

I was made for you

 

I climbed across the mountaintops

Swam all across the ocean blue

I crossed all the lines and I broke all the rules

And, Baby, I broke them all for you

 

Oh, because even when I was flat broke

You made me feel like a million bucks

You do

And I was made for you

 

You see the smile that's on my mouth

It's hiding the words that don't come out

And all of my friends who think that I'm blessed

They don't know my head is a mess

 

No, they don't know who I really am

And they don't know what I've been through

Like you do

And I was made for you

 

And all of these lines across my face

Tell you the story of who I am

So many stories of where I've been

And how I got to where I am

 

Oh, but these stories don't mean anything

When you've got no one to tell them to

It's true

I was made for you

 

Oh, yeah, well, it's true

That I was made for you

 

 

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Gorgeous MBB 

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Yep, LOVE that song.  Two more versions but didn't add them because, IMO, they can't touch the original.  Here:

 

Sara Ramirez

 

And your favorite 

 

Dolly Parton

 

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Bruce Springsteen - The River (The River Tour, Tempe 1980)

 

 

I come from down in the valley

where mister when you're young

They bring you up to do like your daddy done

Me and Mary we met in high school

when she was just seventeen

We'd ride out of this valley down to where the fields were green

 

We'd go down to the river

And into the river we'd dive

Oh down to the river we'd ride

 

Then I got Mary pregnant

and man that was all she wrote

And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat

We went down to the courthouse

and the judge put it all to rest

No wedding day smiles no walk down the aisle

No flowers no wedding dress

 

That night we went down to the river

And into the river we'd dive

Oh down to the river we did ride

 

I got a job working construction for the Johnstown Company

But lately there ain't been much work on account of the economy

Now all them things that seemed so important

Well mister they vanished right into the air

Now I just act like I don't remember

Mary acts like she don't care

 

But I remember us riding in my brother's car

Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir

At night on them banks I'd lie awake

And pull her close just to feel each breath she'd take

Now those memories come back to haunt me

they haunt me like a curse

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true

Or is it something worse

that sends me down to the river

though I know the river is dry

That sends me down to the river tonight

Down to the river

my baby and I

Oh down to the river we ride

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Bruce Springsteen - The River (The River Tour, Tempe 1980)

 

 

 

One of my faves from The Boss!

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Bruce Springsteen - The River (The River Tour, Tempe 1980)

 

 

 

One of my faves from The Boss!

 

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Suzanne Vega - Bad Wisdom

 

https://youtu.be/0F_kLbtnWWM

 

Mother the doctor knows something is wrong

Cause my body has strange information

He's looked in my eyes and knows I'm not a child

But he doesn't dare ask the right question

 

Mother my friends are no longer my friends

And the games we once played have no meaning

I've gone serious and shy and they can't figure why

So they've left me to my own daydreaming

 

What price to pay

For bad wisdom

What price to pay

For bad wisdom

Too young to know

Too much too soon

Bad wisdom

Bad wisdom

 

Mother you've taught me the laws are so fine

If I'm good that I will be protected

I've fallen through the crack and there's no getting back

And I'll never trust whoever gets elected

 

Mother your eyes have gone suddenly cold

And it wasn't what I was expecting

Once I did think that I'd find comfort there

And instead you've gone hard and suspecting

 

What price to pay

For bad wisdom

What price to pay

For bad wisdom

Too young to know

Too much too soon

Bad wisdom

Bad wisdom

 

Mother I'm cut at the root like a weed

Cause there's no one to hear my small story

Just like a woman who walks in the street

I will pay for my life with my body

 

What price to pay

For bad wisdom

What price to pay

For bad wisdom

Too young to know

Too much too soon

Bad wisdom

Bad wisdom

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Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker (Audio)

 

 

If you are the dealer

I'm out of the game

If you are the healer

It means I'm broken and lame

If thine is the glory then

Mine must be the shame

You want it darker

We kill the flame

 

[Verse 2: Leonard Cohen]

Magnified, sanctified

Be thy holy name

Vilified, crucified

In the human frame

A million candles burning

For the help that never came

You want it darker

 

[Chorus: Leonard Cohen]

Hineni, hineni

I'm ready, my Lord

 

[Verse 3: Leonard Cohen]

There's a lover in the story

But the story's still the same

There's a lullaby for suffering

And a paradox to blame

But it's written in the scriptures

And it's not some idle claim

You want it darker

We kill the flame

 

[Verse 4: Leonard Cohen]

They're lining up the prisoners

And the guards are taking aim

I struggled with some demons

They were middle-class and tame

I didn't know I had permission

To murder and to maim

You want it darker

 

[Chorus: Leonard Cohen]

Hineni, hineni

I'm ready, my Lord

 

[Verse 5: Leonard Cohen]

Magnified, sanctified

Be thy holy name

Vilified, crucified

In the human frame

A million candles burning

For the love that never came

You want it darker

We kill the flame

 

[Verse 6: Leonard Cohen]

If you are the dealer

Let me out of the game

If you are the healer

I'm broken and lame

If thine is the glory

Mine must be the shame

You want it darker

 

[Chorus: Leonard Cohen]

Hineni, hineni

Hineni, hineni

I'm ready, my Lord

 

[Outro: Cantor Gideon Zelermyer]

Hineni

Hineni, hineni

Hineni

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"Place to Be" - Nick Drake

 

When I was young, younger than before

I never saw the truth hanging from the door

And now I'm older, see it face to face

And now I'm older, gotta get up, clean the place

 

And I was green, greener than the hill

Where flowers grew and the sun shone still

Now I'm darker than the deepest sea

Just hand me down, give me a place to be

 

And I was strong, strong in the sun

I thought I'd see when day was done

Now I'm weaker than the palest blue

Oh so weak in this need for you

 

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"Most of Us are Sad" - Eagles

 

Most of us are sad

No one lets it show

I've been shadows of myself

How was I to know

 

Tell me, scarlet sun

What will time allow

We have brought our children here

Who can save them now

 

Weeping woman, try to smile

Like the coming dawn

Most of us are sad, it's true

Still we must go on

 

Love was here today

Oh the sun was bright

I will sing you faraway

Love is here tonight

 

Most of us are sad

No one lets it show

I've been shadows of myself

How was I to know

 

:'(

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"Hole In My Pocket" - Ruthie Foster

 

I'm living on the outside

And I'm looking in

I'm feeling like a window

Sometimes I break just like a window

 

Love is just a liquid

And it's fluid like a river

I've been reaching for this ocean

And I break before I see the waves

 

[CHORUS:]

So why don't you

Show me ways to save my soul

Show me ways to save my soul

I got a hole in my pocket

Where it all slips away

(x2)

 

Where's my head been

Since this needle took a spin

Sleeping on my thoughts

When I had my life in place

 

I'm living on the outside

And I'm looking in

I can't get it together

Oh, you gotta show me

You gotta show me

 

[CHORUS]

 

Oh, I got a hole in my pocket

I got a hole in my pocket

I got a hole in my pocket

Where it all slips away

(x2)

 

Oh, there's less and less

Inside of me

Oh, a little bit less

And a little bit less each day

 

Oh, wrap me up and hide me

Oh, you know

There's gotta be something left

Something I can save

 

Oh, why don't you

Show me ways to save my soul

Show me ways to save my soul

I got a hole in my pocket

Where it all slips away

(x2)

 

Oh, I got a hole in my pocket

I got a hole in my pocket

I got a got hole in my pocket

Where it all slips away

(x2)

 

I got a hole in my pocket where it all slips away

I got a hole in my pocket

Where it all slips away

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"Fly Away" - Bird Passengers

 

This one's for us

It's time to live it up

There's time enough

This time we hit the top

 

Too many mornings

Too cold to be apart

We're making something

But we don't need a lot

 

[CHORUS:]

Fly away, fly away

To your little island

In your paradise waters

Fly away to a place we are alone

Color it all our own

 

It's worth the cost

The world we've never been

When we get lost

And never leave again

 

Round every corner

Another sea to cross

I feel it coming

And we're coming up

 

[CHORUS]

 

Don't look back or complicate it

Sink into the sun

Feel your body liberated

I think our time has come

 

Fly away, fly away

To your little island

In your paradise waters

Fly away to a place we are alone

Color it all our own

 

Don't look back or complicate it

Sink into the sun

Feel your body liberated

I think our time has come

Color it all our own

 

Fly away

fly away

fly away

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"Dust to Dust" - The Civil Wars

 

 

It's not your eyes

It's not what you say

It's not your laughter

That gives you away

You're just lonely

You've been lonely too long

 

All your acting

Your thin disguise

All your perfectly delivered lines

They don't fool me

You've been lonely too long

 

Let me in the walls you've built around

We can light a match and burn them down

Let me hold your hand and dance

Round and round the flames in front of us

Dust to dust

 

You've held your head up

You've fought the fight

You bear the scars

You've done your time

Listen to me

You've been lonely too long

 

Let me in the walls you've built around

We can light a match and burn them down

Let me hold your hand and dance

Round and round the flames in front of us

Dust to dust

 

You're like a mirror reflecting me

Takes one to know one

So take it from me

You've been lonely

You've been lonely too long

We've been lonely

We've been lonely too long

 

 

             

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Neil Halstead - Martha's Mantra for The Pain

 

 

Martha takes the Greyhounds

She says she lost her mantra way down South

But all that repetition just got her down, got her down

 

Now she says she won't do drugs

Because she found something to love

She cured herself of everything

There's nothing left but hair and skin

 

The only thing I asked her

Was did she have a plaster

For my pain, oh for the pain

 

She closed her eyes and took my hand

She said 'God might have a plan for me'

 

But making love in Martha's room

I felt like I could see through her to him

 

But heaven is the place that's open

When all the bars in town are closed

Heaven is the place, I never find

 

The only thing I told her

Was that God would have no answer

For my pain, oh for the pain, oh for the pain

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Monster Movie - 4th and Pine

 

 

Last night something happened

Down on 4th and Pine

Involving Betsy Kline

She said goodbye to all her friends

And left a little note

This is what she wrote

 

Shadow, shadow that's all I seem to be

I am a shadow, shadow of who i used to be now

Sorrow, sorrow that's all I bring to you

I am your sorrow, sorrow that's all I bring you

 

Wake up another day

People talking but never much to say

I said I'm too tired I'll walk away

I think I'll disappear I know I can

 

Shadow, shadow that's all I seem to be

I am a shadow, shadow of who i used to be now

Sorrow, sorrow that's all I bring to you

I am your sorrow, sorrow that's all I bring you

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Lush - When I Die

 

https://youtu.be/h_el_-Tbe0Q

 

If you walked in now

I wouldn't start I wouldn't frown

And if you just appeared

I wouldn't cry or think it weird

'Cause you are still around

You're in the air, you're in the ground

And you can't go away

I am afraid you're here to stay

Friends don't understand

They close the door, they raise their hands

She says she heard your voice

Of course she does, she has no choice

I was hours ahead

When they removed you from your bed

They drank all the while

Until you said goodbye

Why are we sitting here in ourselves?

Why are we sitting here in ourselves?

Why are we sitting here in ourselves?

I don't look up, I don't look down

I look ahead and make no sound

My love was there,

I only stare

Healthy in my dreams

Is what you are, is what is seems

What does it all mean?

You're only hiding behind a screen

Curse the English day

For what it forces us to say

Banish all the pain

'Cause when I die, die

I'll see you again.

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Dirty On Purpose - Cheat Death

 

 

Old Sasha was there already

With his bag of tricks

You're a sweet small shivering body

With nothing left

And I begged him to steal just one more life

From the nine God gave you

He said the miracles were through

 

The cabin shook and listed

When you screamed

I found some whiskey in the kitchen

And poured it in your tea

I tried to calm you

I kissed your neck and I cooled your forehead

And the telephone went dead

 

Oh my God and oh my Dear

The shades are drawn

Well I guess our time is here

We were never as lucky as we'd like

Oh my God and oh my Love

The doctor's gone, well I guess our time is up

Break the fever and cheat death one more time

 

The trees were as still as iceberges

And green with Spring

My knuckles popped and chattered

Like wind-up teeth

With my nerves as tight as tension wires

And searchlights in the mist

I bit my lip, I bit yours in it

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The Meeting Places - Freeze our Stares

 

 

You want to string me around

But you lead me nowhere

You want to see me drown

Claw the surface for air

But you're not there

You steal the dreams from my sleep

And leave the darkness to bear

What more do you need to keep

What more can't I share

It's not fair

 

You turn your eyes from mine

Glance if you dare

In the wintertime

The cold will freeze our stares

We won't care

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Neil Halstead - Martha's Mantra for The Pain

 

 

 

Gorgeous. 

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The Meeting Places - Blur the lines

 

 

You're always on my mind

When I have the time

Will we ever know

How far this could go

And when and where

You take everything

With a grain of salt you bring

As far as I can see

There is no reason we should stay this way

 

You always blur the line

Of what you love and what you're tortured by

And I don't think there's more that I can do for you

 

As tired eyes will close

The pain inside will show

We're spinning wheels in place

It's an awful waste of time, yours and mine

You always blur the line

Of what you love and what you're tortured by

And I don't think there's more that I can do for you

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Mojave 3 - You're Beautiful

 

https://youtu.be/iW-VWO_c0TE

 

Velvet eyes are a part of me

Sunset smiles and secret tears

Time my life to a fallen leaf

Watch the spring in all its plumage

 

Beautiful like the stars at night

Twist and turn before the dawn

Beautiful like the moon at night

Ducks and dives into the sea

 

Curtains drawn you'll miss the light

Your dawning spell will be broken

Vanished days are hard to find

Half life dreams will not be worth much

 

Beautiful like the stars at night

Twist and turn before the dawn

Beautiful like the moon at night

Ducks and dives into the sea

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One Of Those Sometimes Is Now - Kitchens Of Distinction

 

 

[Verse 1]

No sliver of moon

The dark hurts my eyes

Dream-chimed awake, solemnized

 

Counting the breaths

That threaten the calm

Cos you're not here and it's too late to call

 

[Refrain]

Cruel scenes of how bad I've been

Pulled low, oh how could I know?

Fogs, voices, tears

 

[Verse 2]

Sometimes I lie shaken awake

Blistered with crazy thoughts of you

And a hundred ways to lose

Sometimes sense is too remote

Dark stars threaten to conspire

They scare like your eyes

One of those sometimes is now

 

[Verse 3]

Waiting for safety

In the solace of the sun

When the fevers of love are driven home

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The Chameleons - The Healer

 

 

Here comes the sun

Calling out to everyone

Here comes the sun

Falling down on everyone

Here comes the moon

Shadows come to swallow me soon

Here comes the moon

Shadows come to swallow me soon

 

Ah

It's all right

You're not the only one

Ah

It's all right

You're not the only one

 

There go my fears

Flowing on a river of tears

There go my fears

Flowing on a river of tears

Here comes the pain

Ooh

Here comes the pain

The hurting again and again and again and again and again

 

Ah

It's all right

You're not the only one

Ah

It's all right

You're not the only one

 

So I got to thinking

Perhaps I should think about staying

For a moment or two

I'm feeling shaky but I'll be OK

I don't know what to say

I don't know what to do

Please

You can take this pain away

Please

I can't take this pain away

 

It's all right

How many can make you cry?

It's all right

How many can make you cry?

It's all right

How many can make you cry?

It's all right

Ooh

 

Here comes the rain

Here comes the rain

Flushing all the filth down the drain

Here comes the sun

Falling down on everyone

Here comes the sun

Calling out to everyone

 

Ah

It's all right

You're not the only one

It's all right

All right, ah-ha

All right, ah-ha

 

For how many? how many?

How many? How many?

Da-da, da-da

Da-da, da-da

For how many, how many?

How many? How many?

Da-da, da-da

Da-da, da-da

For how many, how many?

How many? How many?

Da-da, da-da

Da-da, da-da

For how many, how many?

How many? How many? Oh

Da-da, da-da

Da-da, da-da

For how many, how many?

How many? How many? How many?

Da-da, da-da

Da-da, da-da

Da-da, da-da

Da-da, da-da

 

Won't you call out to me?

Call out for me, sister

Oh, won't you call out to me?

Call to me, sister

Oh, won't you call out to me?

Ah, call to me, sister

Won't you call out to me?

Call to me, sister

Save me, sister

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” Take It All Away”

Red

 

 

"Take It All Away"

 

You've stripped me down, the layers fall like rain

It's over now, just innocence and instinct still remain

You watched me while I slowly disappeared

I reached for you to save me; you were frozen in your fear

 

Take it all away

 

Circling the pain inside my soul

I reached inside your silence to steal what you won't show

I tried to find the answers in my fears

But what was found is lost again as soon as it appeared

 

Take it all away

 

I'm breaking; I can't do this on my own

Can you hear me screaming out, am I all alone?

 

You take away

 

 

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”A Thousand Thieves”

Trixie Whitley

 

 

 

“ A Thousand Thieves”

 

I never

Longed for no where

No group of a

Thousand Thieves

Take away the

Obvious

Or the soul

Where I plant my seed

But each time

I close my eyes

I find myself

Declined by the judgment of another day

Sitting in

The silence, in the melody of the dark

He knows that

Sound is, the harbor of my heart

It only grows

Stronger, It only grows stronger

It only grows

Stronger, It only grows stronger

Wake up, to

The soundtrack, of this chapter in our lives

Understand

The paylist, skeems, within the scenery of time

Since the day

I was born

Tryng to make

It, to the river while waltzing through the storm

No group of

A thousand thieves

Shake the rumor

My heart release

It only grows

Stronger, It only grows stronger

It only grows

Stronger, It only grows stronger

It only grows

Stronger, It only grows stronger

I only grow

Stronger, I only grow stronger