Share Songs that Motivate and Talk to You

January 1, 2019

Grant McLennan - Easy come, easy go

I've seen my friends on fire

I might have even struck the match

I love to see them burn

Now I know it's my turn

You've got to take the moon from the trees

You've got to hide it in your room

You've got to hold it till it burns

You've got to make it easy come, easy go

I've lived my life at 2 a.m

I've drunk your poison wine

Your handshake felt like a knife

Now I know it's my life

You've got to take the moon from the trees

You've got to hide it in your room

You've got to hold it till it burns

You've got to make it easy come, easy go

I've spent my time on the ship

I've lived under the micro-chip

I know it's the law of the land

Now I know where I stand

You've got to take the moon from the trees

You've got to hide it in your room

You've got to hold it till it burns

You've got to make it easy come, easy go

January 1, 2019

Real blasts from the past. Not sure if you'd know this guy:

Stunning song ...

"Six ribbons" - Jon English

Others from him I loved ...

"Hollywood Seven"

Big time memories of this song, and as a young 'un I thought this was the hottest look ever, swoon!!!

Hold Back The Night

January 1, 2019

Thanks, abcd. I'm really liking his music. Lots of Aussie songwriters are way too underrated. Wish I'd heard of him before.

Speaking of crushes, I had a huge crush on Suzanne Vega from "Left of Center" era. That song was always so special to me.

January 5, 2019

Thanks, abcd. I'm really liking his music. Lots of Aussie songwriters are way too underrated. Wish I'd heard of him before.

Speaking of crushes, I had a huge crush on Suzanne Vega from "Left of Center" era. That song was always so special to me.

Gorgeous eyes she has. Who's your current crush?

January 5, 2019

"Are You Alright" - Lucinda Williams

Are you alright

All of a sudden you went away

Are you alright

I hope you come back around someday

Are you alright

I haven't seen you in a real long time

Are you alright

Could you give me some kind of sign

Are you alright

I looked around me and you were gone

Are you alright

I feel like there must be something wrong

Are you alright

Cause it seems like you disappeared

Are you alright

Cause I been feeling a little scared

Are you alright

Are you sleeping through the night

Do you have someone to hold you tight

Do you have someone to hang out with

Do you have someone to hug and kiss you

Hug and kiss you, hug and kiss you

Are you alright

Is there something been bothering you

Are you alright

I wish you'd give me a little clue

Are you alright

Is there something you wanna say

Are you alright

Just tell me that you're okay

Are you alright

Cause you took off without a word

Are you alright

You flew away like a little bird

Are you alright

Is there anything I can do

Are you alright

Cause I need to hear from you

Are you alright

Are you sleeping through the night

Do you have someone to hold you tight

Do you have someone to hang out with

Do you have someone to hug and kiss you

Hug and kiss you, hug and kiss you

Are you alright

January 5, 2019

"The Burn" - Matchbox 20

I thought about leaving

But I couldn't even get out of bed

I'm hanging cause I couldn't get a ride out of town

Now anyone who really wanted me to be down

Come around

I thought about singing

But I couldn't remember all of the words

Breaking, but I couldn't get the pieces apart

Laughing never knowing what the joke was about

Now I'm down

And I wonder how I never got the burn

And if I'm never gonna learn

How lonely people make a life

One strain at a time

I forgot about

Everything and everyone I needed before

Trying to get a handle on a reason to shine

Picking up the pieces that are falling behind

It takes time

So I wonder how I never got the burn

And if I'm never gonna learn

How lonely people make a life

One strain at a time

And still shine

And I wonder how I never got the burn

And if I'm never gonna learn

How lonely people make a life

And all this time

I wonder how I never got the burn

And if I'm never gonna learn

How lonely people make their life

One strain at a time

And still shine

January 5, 2019

"The Road" - John John Brown

You ever feel like nothing really matters

You ever feel like you don't have a voice

Like a dream left to die

A river running dry

A heart without its beat

You ever feel something in your soul

Is alive yet impossible to find

Like a road with no sign

Hidden and divine

And it leads to the meaning of it all

Oh, the road is all I'm looking for

Yes, the road, I hope that's it's much more

Than a bunch of skin and bones

Beneath the granite stone

Yes, I hope there's a meaning to it all

All I know is that it lives deep down

Where the only sound

Is the hum of our spirits singing free

You ever feel like nothing really matters

Then moments later feel your heart

Oh, we're living and we're dying

And every day we're trying

To just know the meaning of it all

It's the silence in the glow

The whisper in the soul

It's the feeling that you know

This isn't all for show

It's the river running fresh

The motion after death

It's the spirit that is left

It's the sun that never sets

Oh, the road is all I'm looking for

Yes, the road, I hope that's it's much more

Than a bunch of skin and bones

Beneath the granite stone

Yes, I hope there's a meaning to it all

January 5, 2019

"You'll Be Okay" - Michael Schulte

https://youtu.be/iS6ywB3x0l0

Cold as you turn off the lights

And memories start floating around

You're doubting yourself

And you're tired of not being strong

It hurts to be all on your own

But you'll just have to wait

Cause time's running fast

And it calms you to know it won't last

It's easy to say it'll all be okay

But that's always the way it goes

Slow down, slow down, slow down

Slow down, slow down

You'll be okay

Torn and lost once again

You start to believe it won't end

And still you're alone

With the fear that you're forever unknown

You cannot understand

Why you're always the one that gets hurt

And life is unfair but it pulls you back in

When you're almost gone

It's easy to say it'll all be okay

But that's always the way it goes

Slow down, slow down, slow down

Slow down, slow down

You'll be okay

Oh, slow down, slow down, slow down

Oh, slow down, slow down

And you'll be okay

It's easy to say it'll all be okay

But that's always the way it goes

Slow down, slow down, slow down

Slow down, slow down

You'll be okay

You'll be okay, you'll be okay, you'll be okay

You'll be okay, you'll be okay

And you'll be okay

January 5, 2019

"You And I" - Celine Dion

High above the mountains

Far across the sea

I can hear your voice

Calling out to me

Brighter than the sun

And darker than the night

I can see your love

Shining like a light

And on and on

This earth spins like a carousel

If I could travel across the world

The secrets I would tell

[CHORUS:]

You and I

Were meant to fly

Higher than the clouds

We’ll sail across the sky

So come with me

And you will see

That we’re soaring

That we’re floating up so high

Cause you and I

Were meant to fly

Sailing like a bird

High on the wings of love

Take me higher

Than all the stars above

I’m burning, yearning

Gently turning round and round

I’m always rising up

I never want to come back down

[CHORUS]

Fly

You and I

Were meant to fly

Higher than the clouds

We’ll sail across the sky

So come with me

And you will see

That you and I

Were meant to fly

You and I were meant to fly

January 5, 2019

Thanks, abcd. I'm really liking his music. Lots of Aussie songwriters are way too underrated. Wish I'd heard of him before.

Speaking of crushes, I had a huge crush on Suzanne Vega from "Left of Center" era. That song was always so special to me.

Gorgeous eyes she has. Who's your current crush?

That would be Britta Phillips. She used to be in this lovely band called Belltower. I love her recent rendition of "Drive" by

the Cars.

Always loved "Outshine the Sun" by Belltower. Loved her vocal on that.

January 5, 2019

Britta Phillips - "One Fine Summer Morning" (Official Video)

One fine summer morning

When the dawn is softly calling

To a day that's showing promise

Of a lovely summer evening

I will take you to the forest

Where the mountain meets the ocean

We will share the fallen silence

No more speaking of devotion

And there'll be no need for a dreamer

With no footsteps there behind us

There is no one that can find us

There is nothing that combine us

But the feeling shared between us

And there'll be no need for a dream

January 5, 2019

The Posies - Flood of Sunshine

We could drown ourselves in a flood of sunshine

We could walk all night still I'd see sunshine

It's the calling of your name

All sounds combine into the same and I hear you

When it's overcast and I'm not there will you still...

When the clouds have passed and I return will you still...

Your eyes are crying and your lips are moist

Where are all my kingdoms and cathedrals ?

(To ruin)

They crumbled just like sand in front of us

Like ripples on the water your hands reached out to me

And all the things they taught us floated out to sea

We could drown ourselves in a flood of sunshine

We could walk all night still I'd see sunshine

January 5, 2019

The Posies - Any Other Way

She dropped my hand and said, "I will go no further"

I dropped my head and hid my tears with laughter

(You know that) life's never been a great mystery to me

It begins, then crawls slowly to the end

And I've no problems if you wish to join my views

Just add your name to the list of superficial friends

It (funny how these things work)

All seemed like it was too good to be true

It (funny now it's always your fault)

Was and soon it came time to play my dues

So came the day when she had had enough

She kept home and I wasn't asked to stay

She said, "you don't have to blame yourself, you know"

But I wouldn't have it any other way

I wouldn't have it any other way

Don't feed the hand that bites you

Just learn to starve

Don't fight for change in your time

Just swallow your depression

And say you're happy that it's rotten out today

And who wouldn't have it any other way

No, you wouldn't have it any other way

She left me alone, claiming we'd run out of things to fight about

I was crushed of course, but at least I've something I can write about

I guess I'm just some kind of malcontent

Who gets paid for having nothing good to say

And even though it doesn't pay the rent

You know I wouldn't have it any other way

I wouldn't have it any other way

January 8, 2019

"Carry Me Home" - The Sweeplings

Carry me home

When the light in my eyes does fade

Carry me home

When the shadow comes to take me away

Lay down my bones

Knowing I'll be in a better place

Release my soul

Carry me home

There's no sorrow down in the ground

Carry me home

Don't you weep for I am freedom bound

Lay down my bones

There is peace within the light I've found

Release my soul

Carry me home

When the light in my eyes does fade

Carry me home

When the shadow comes to take me away

Lay down my bones

Knowing I'll be in a better place

Release my soul

Carry me home

Quietly I feel your whisper settle on me

Quietly I'm carried on

Quietly I feel your whisper settle on me

Quietly you let me go

(x4)

January 8, 2019

"How Shall A Sparrow Fly"

Ryan Bingham

Oh, how shall a sparrow fly

Or have a heart to sing

If all she can do is cry

About her broken wing

Oh, how shall a sparrow fly

If weather sleeps in vain

Or keep her feathers dry

Under clouds of death and rain

Oh, how shall a sparrow fly

And find her one true love

If all she can do is lie around

And dream of white tail doves

Oh, how shall a sparrow fly

Or have a heart to sing

If all she can do is cry

About her broken wing

January 8, 2019

"I'll Move Mountains"- Roo Panes

Time will heal those broken eyes

Fashion your face from your disguise

And loving never helped that lonely heart

The world a hostile city from the start

And no-one's towing your slip stream

You're a tigress with your wild dreams, its true

And the leaden sky is drawing in

But I'll move mountains

Oh, cry my friend no more

You've seen your stars aligning I am sure

You etched all of your circles in the sand

And now your hope's horizons are at hand

A light against the darkened sky

Your truth must outshine all the lies, its true

But from the outside looking in

I say I'll move mountains

Oh there's trouble on the east flank, it is true

There's a wolf pack on your heels, it's after you

And love is not a word that the world knows

Whilst fighting for survival from its foes

And some things take a life to learn

Your innocence forced to discern it seems

But from the outside looking in

I say I'll move mountains

January 8, 2019

"Healing"

Blessid Union Of Souls

I used to pray for things that I don’t need

And trouble God with all my vanities

I used to pray for things that I shouldn’t want

I meant to say thanks but I forgot

Now I pray for healing

I pray for peace

I pray for healing

For you and me

I used to pray that all my bills got paid

And that we got safely to the gigs we played

I used to pray that we'd get MTV

So we could be where we thought we should be

Now I pray for healing

I pray for peace

I pray for healing

For you and me

I used to pray my kids would grow up happy

Now I pray that they grow up at all

But I refuse to let these fears devour me

Cause I know it won’t be long

Before we’re standing tall again

Tall again

I used to pray when things were not so fine

But now I find myself praying all the time

Now all the things that I used to pray for

Suddenly don’t mean a thing no more

Cause I pray for healing

I pray for peace

I pray for healing for you

And for you

And for you and you and you

I pray for you

So pray for me

Pray for peace

:smitten:

January 8, 2019

"You Are Not Alone" - Eagles

Say goodbye to all your pain and sorrow

Say goodbye to all those lonely nights

Say goodbye to all your blue tomorrows

Now you're standing in the light

I know sometimes you feel so helpless

Sometimes you feel like you can't win

Sometimes you feel so isolated

You'll never have to feel that way again

You are not alone

You're not alone

I never thought I'd find the road to freedom

Never thought I'd see you smile again

Never thought I'd have the chance to tell you

That I will always be your friend

You are not alone

You're not alone

January 8, 2019

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:-*

January 11, 2019

"Bird Song" - Jerry Garcia

All I know is, something like a bird within her sang

All I know, she sang a little while and then flew on

Tell me all that you know

I'll show you snow and rain

When you hear that same sweet song again

Well you know why

Anyone who sings a tune so sweet is passing by

Laugh in the sunshine, sing

Cry in the dark, fly through the night

Don't cry now

Don't you cry

Don't you cry anymore

Sleep in the stars

Don't you cry

Dry your eyes on the wind

All I know is, something like a bird within her sang

All I know, she sang a little while and then flew on

Tell me all that you know

I'll show you snow and rain

January 11, 2019

"Eclipse" - Pink Floyd

All that you touch

And all that you see

All that you taste

All you feel

And all that you love

And all that you hate

All you distrust

All you save

And all that you give

And all that you deal

And all that you buy

Beg, borrow, or steal

And all you create

And all you destroy

And all that you do

And all that you say

And all that you eat

And everyone you meet

And all that you slight

And everyone you fight

And all that is now

And all that is gone

And all that's to come

And everything under

The sun is in tune

But the sun is eclipsed

By the moon

(There is no dark side of the moon really

Matter of fact it's all dark)

January 11, 2019

"Perfect Circle" - Katie Melua

A mask is easily placed

On a betrayed and broken face

A disguise to hide the past

When you mapped out my skin

And made the memories last

Some things are never erased

And I have run when I've been chased

By recollections of you and me

Falling off our homemade castle

And even when I'm walking straight

I always end up in a perfect circle

Oh I try but I just can't wait

To break out of this perfect circle

Because giving into old temptation

Is like that common twitch

Oh the silly stupid realization

The more you scratch the more you itch

Why am I fighting, what's it for

Must let my mask drop to the floor

My scars I shouldn't hide

From the people who are on my side

Rolling up my sleeves to fight against

All the things I locked up

All the things I fenced

But it's time to let it out

So we can build a brand new castle

And even when I'm walking straight

I always end up in a perfect circle

Oh I try but I just can't wait

To break out of this perfect circle

Because giving into old temptation

Is like that common twitch

Oh the silly stupid realization

The more you scratch the more you itch

January 11, 2019

"Waterfalls" - Eurielle

Mountains rise, they kiss the skies

Tears fall down, the angels cry

Rivers flow into the sea

I'll just float as it carries me

The heavens are near

The water is clear

The heavens are near

The water is clear

The heavens are near

I'm going down waterfalls

Down waterfalls into the unknown

Down waterfalls, down waterfalls

I'll go with the flow

I'm carried away, I'm carried away

By the waves, on top of the waves

Down waterfalls, down waterfalls

I'll go with the flow

Paradise within my reach

Golden shores on a perfect beach

Ocean tides move endlessly

Pushing me forward I begin to see

The heavens are near

The water is clear

The heavens are near

The water is clear

The heavens are near

I'm going down waterfalls

Down waterfalls into the unknown