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"Twist The Knife"

Neko Case

 

Tenderly

Tenderly

Please take my breath from me

Into the fountains

And up from the ground

 

Tearfully

Joyfully

Burn what is left of me

I don't want these burdens

That hangs on me down

 

You be my guest

And I'll let you stay

Leave me the check

I'll pay with the rest of my life

Twist the knife

 

Carefully

Quietly

You took what's young from me

I didn't deserve it

I gave it away

 

Cowardly

Thoughtlessly

You walk away from me

And I'll tear my heart out

To save you the day

 

And you'll be my guest

And I'll let you stay

Leave me the check

I'll pay with the rest of my life

Twist the knife

 

Tenderly

Tenderly

Please take my breath from me

Into the fountain

And up from the ground

 

 

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"Little Bird" - Annie Lennox

 

I look up to the little bird

That glides across the sky

It sings the clearest melody

It makes me want to cry

It makes me want to sit right down

And cry, cry, cry, yeah

 

I walk along the city streets

So dark with rage and fear

And I, I wish that I could be that bird

And fly away from here

I wish I had the wings

To fly away from here, yeah

 

[CHORUS:]

But my, my I feel so low

My, my, where do I go

My, my, what do I know

My, my, we reap what we sow

They always said that you knew best

But this little bird's fallen out of that nest

Now I've got a feeling that it might have been blessed

So I've just got to put these wings to test

 

For I am just a troubled soul

Who's weighted

Weighted to the ground

Give me the strength to carry on

Till I can lay my burden down

Give me the strength

To lay this burden down, down, down, yeah

Give me the strength to lay it down

 

[CHORUS]

 

I feel so low

My, my, where do I go

My, my, what do I know

My, my, we reap what we sow

 

My, my

My, my

My, my

My, my

 

 

 

 

 

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"Hold Your Head Up High"

Darlingside

 

How it rambles around the moon

A let-go-of balloon

Nothing is forever

Everything is soon

 

And my father as he stands

A perfect cartoon man

Heavy-sighed and open-eyed

I heard him speak

 

Hold your head up high

Hold your head up high

 

Rise it up, it's fine terrain

A time will come again

And misery's no rest

For weary gentlemen

 

See that humankind is you

Like all the rest, down to

The scratches on the album

That you're singing to

 

Hold your head up high

Hold your head up high

 

Through the light

And through the shadow

I won't wait it out

Wait it out

 

Hold your head up high

Hold your head up high

Hold your head up high

 

Biting clovers in the lawn

A solitary fawn

Underground the new life

Thunders up and on

 

 

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"Carry Through" - Armon Jay

 

 

Standing underneath

The neon lights

You're walking alone

In the streets tonight

 

Your hands are cold

And your heart is tired

From asking why

In the pain inside

 

You don't know how

To make sense of it all

The phone call came

Like a wrecking ball

 

Where can you go

And where can you run

When you feel like a burden

To almost everyone

 

But it's alright

It's alright

It's alright tonight

And it's alright

It's alright

Cause everybody

Needs somebody sometimes

 

Take my hand

Let me walk with you

Let me hold your heart

If it's broken in two

So come on, love

There's nothing we have to do

But walk with each other

And we'll carry through

 

Cause there is hope

Inside the fall

Redemption's running

Underneath it all

 

And the clouds will break

And the kingdom comes

When we learn to stop

And weep with anyone

 

Cause its alright

It's alright

It's alright tonight

Yeah, it's alright

It's alright

Cause everybody

Needs somebody sometimes

 

So take my hand

Let me walk with you

Let me hold your heart

If its broken in two

So come on, love

There's nothing we have to do

But walk with each other

And we'll carry through

 

It's one life that we're giving

It's too short not to share it

So come on in rushing

This is where life is waiting

Life is waiting

 

So take my hand

Let me walk with you

Let me hold your heart

If its broken in two

So come on, love

There's nothing we have to do

But walk with each other

And we'll carry through

 

Walk with each other

And we'll carry through

Walk with each other

And carry through

 

Walk with each other

And carry through

Walk with each other

And carry through

 

Walk with each other

And carry through

 

 

                                 

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Under Pressure - Queen w/ David Bowie

 

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Under Pressure - Queen w/ David Bowie

 

 

 

:thumbsup:   Great collaboration!

 

 

 

 

 

Well, well, look who it is!   A reminder of good (?) times .  How the heck are you, Can do? 

 

 

 

 

 

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"I'm So Afraid - Fleetwood Mac

 

I've been alone

All the years

So many ways to count the tears

 

I never change

I never will

I'm so afraid the way I feel

 

Days when the rain and the sun are gone

Black as night

Agony's torn at my heart too long

So afraid

Slip and I fall and I die

 

I've been alone

Always down

No one cared to stay around

 

I never change

I never will

I'm so afraid the way I feel

 

Days when the rain and the sun are gone

Black as night

Agony's torn at my heart too long

So afraid

Slip and I fall and I die

 

How I feel

Days when the rain and the sun are gone

Black as night

Agony's torn at my heart too long

So afraid

Slip and I fall and I die

 

:'(

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"Something To Believe"

Mark Lanegan & Isobel Campbell

 

There's a mockingbird singing in a tree

Outside my window looking down on me

Give me a reason, something to believe

Another season I will sit and grieve

 

That bad old sun forever shining on

The world keeps turning though my hope is gone

I close my eyes and when the day is done

I hang my head and dream about no one

 

Show me direction and I'm good to go

I'm trying so hard, always fall so low

And when I fall there'll be another star

I'm chasing my tail, always running

 

Oh, it is so hard

With the answers I find

Weary of heart

Weary soul

Weak of mind

Oh, it is so hard

 

Now you heard my song, will you turn and go

Give me a reason and I'll say it's so

If you stand by me, I could never leave

You'd be the reason, something to believe

 

Something to believe

Something to believe

Something to believe

 

:(

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"Free Little Bird" - Lisa Loeb

 

I'm as free a little bird as I can be

I'm as free a little bird as I can be

I'm gonna build my nest in a big oak tree

Where no one can ever bother me

 

If I was a little fish

I'd never bite a hook or a line

No, I'd swim way out to the middle of the sea

And leave all you big fish behind

 

If I was a mole in the ground

If I was a mole in the ground

If I was a mole in the ground

I would root that mountain down

If I was a mole in the ground

 

I'm as free a little bird as I can be

I'm as free a little bird as I can be

Gonna build my nest in a big oak tree

Where no one can ever bother me

 

Take me home, little birdy, take me home

Take me home by the light of the moon

With the moon shining bright

And the stars are getting light

Take me home, little birdy, take me home

 

I'm as free a little bird as I can be

I'm as free a little bird as I can be

Gonna build my nest in a big oak tree

Where no one can ever bother me

 

 

 

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"My Wish"

Rascal Flatts

 

I hope the days come easy and the moments pass slow

And each road leads you where you want to go

And if you’re faced with the choice and you have to choose

I hope you choose the one that means the most to you

 

And if one door opens to another door closed

I hope you keep on walking till you find the window

If it’s cold outside, show the world the warmth of your smile

But more than anything, more than anything

 

[CHORUS:]

My wish for you

Is that this life becomes all that you want it to

Your dreams stay big, your worries stay small

You never need to carry more than you can hold

And while you’re out there getting where you’re getting to

I hope you know somebody loves you

And wants the same things too

Yeah, this is my wish

 

I hope you never look back but you never forget

All the ones who love you in the place you left

I hope you always forgive and you never regret

And you help somebody every chance you get

 

Oh, you find God’s grace in every mistake

And always give more than you take

But more than anything

Yeah, more than anything

 

My wish for you

Is that this life becomes all that you want it to

Your dreams stay big, your worries stay small

You never need to carry more than you can hold

And while you’re out there getting where you’re getting to

I hope you know somebody loves you

And wants the same things too

Yeah, this is my wish

(x2)

 

This is my wish

I hope you know somebody loves you

May all your dreams stay big

 

 

                                 

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"Older" - Bonnie Tyler

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I've been high and low

Up and down and broken

I've got too far lost

I couldn't find my way

 

And this big old world

I've been around

A hundred times or more

But I always come back again

 

[CHORUS:]

Because you light up the dark

Just by being who you are

And I haven't changed

No, I still feel the same

Cause a love like this

Doesn't get colder

It just gets older

We just got older

 

I have given up

Got back up

Been better

 

I've had sleepless nights

With you by my side

Been to hell and back

You know that

 

And heaven knows I've tried

But I always knew deep inside

 

[CHORUS]

 

How many times have I told you

I'd do it all again exactly the same

Walk through this world

With your hand on my shoulder

Again and again and again

 

Because you light up the dark

Just by being who you are

And I haven't changed

No, I still feel the same

Cause a love like this

Doesn't get colder

It just gets older

We just got older

 

 

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Just a happy tune. 

 

Lookin' Out My Back Door - Creedence Clearwater Revival

 

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The Wanderer - Johnny Cash & U2

 

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Only The Strongest Will Survive - Hurricane #1

Especially as the lead singer Alex Lowe, himself, developed bowel cancer (2013) & kidney failure.  He has not only survived, but reformed the band w/new members & toured last year.  This, years after song was written by Andy Bell (of Ride, Oasis & Beady Eye). 

 

Only The Strongest Will Survive

Hurricane #1

 

Produced by Andrew Bell & Stephen Harris

Album Only the Strongest Will Survive

 

Well my life is worth nothing to some

While to others I am number one

And it can be so hard to know

When to try, when to give up and go

Now this feeling is reeling me in

I can feel it like it was my skin

In my head I repeat a new rule

Pain is easy, pleasure is cruel

I tell you

Only the strongest will survive

These days you've got to kill yourself just to stay alive

Well there's only one life and you know

It won't take you where you want to go

Yesterday was a walk in the park

But tomorrow is a step in the dark

And my life is worthing to some

But to you I hope I am number one

In my head I repeat a new rule

Pain is easy, pleasure is cruel

I tell you

Only the strongest will survive

These days you've got to kill yourself just to stay alive

Everybody's talking like they want to see the party begin

I'll be in the alley, get a taxi, cos I'm staying in

Only the strongest will survive...

I'm strong enough to get you through

Are you strong enough to help me to?

Only the strongest will survive...

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The Wanderer - Johnny Cash & U2

 

 

Really nice, thanks, Shook!!!

 

 

 

Only The Strongest Will Survive - Hurricane #1

Especially as the lead singer Alex Lowe, himself, developed bowel cancer (2013) & kidney failure.  He has not only survived, but reformed the band w/new members & toured last year.  This, years after song was written by Andy Bell (of Ride, Oasis & Beady Eye). 

 

Only The Strongest Will Survive

Hurricane #1

 

Produced by Andrew Bell & Stephen Harris

Album Only the Strongest Will Survive

 

Heya, Cuz, welcome!  Great song, really powerful.  And interesting backstory, wow, he beat both bowel cancer *and* kidney failure, good for him. 

 

"These days you've got to kill yourself just to stay alive"  Uh huh, that speaks ...  :'(

 

Thanks for sharing, Cuz, hope you're hanging in okay.

 

 

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"Shallow Waters" - Just Jinjer

 

I'm leaving tomorrow

And I don't know why

There's something

That's not right with my soul

I have no goal

I have no goal

 

I'm leaving shallow waters

I'm leaving all my dreams of you

I can't go on

I want to run away

I think I'll go today

 

Tomorrow it won't help me at all

It won't help me at all

There's something that I told you

And you don't know that it's true

Oh, that it's true now

 

I'm leaving shallow waters

I'm leaving all my dreams of you

I can't go on

I want to run away

 

I'm leaving shallow waters

All my dreams of you

I can't go on

I want to run away

Run away

I think I'll go today

 

Cause you know

Tomorrow, it won't help me at all

It won't help me at all

 

Shallow waters

All my dreams of you

I can't go on

I'm leaving shallow waters

 

 

:'(

 

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"Undun" - ​The Guess Who

 

She's come undone

She didn't know what she was headed for

And when I found what she was headed for

It was too late

 

She's come undone

She found a mountain that was far too high

And when she found out she couldn't fly

It was too late

 

It's too late

She's gone too far

She's lost the sun

 

She's come undone

She wanted truth but all she got was lies

Came the time to realize

And it was too late

 

She's come undone

She didn't know what she was headed for

And when I found what she was headed for

Mama, it was too late

 

It's too late

She's gone too far

She's lost the sun

She's come undone

 

Too many mountains and not enough stairs to climb

Too many churches and not enough truth

Too many people and not enough eyes to see

Too many lives to lead and not enough time

 

It's too late

She's gone too far

She's lost the sun

She's come undone

 

It's too late

She's gone too far

She's lost the sun

 

She's come undone

She didn't know what she was headed for

And when I found what she was headed for

It was too late

 

She's come undone

She found a mountain that was far too high

And when she found out she couldn't fly

Mama, it was too late

 

It's too late

She's gone too far

She's lost the sun

She's come undone

 

:(

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"Nightingale" - Demi Lovato

 

I can't sleep tonight

Wide awake and so confused

Everything's in line

But I am bruised

 

I need a voice to echo

I need a light to take me home

I kinda need a hero

Is it you

 

I never see the forest for the trees

I could really use your melody

Baby, I'm a little blind

I think it's time for you to find me

 

Can you be my nightingale

Sing to me

I know you're there

You could be my sanity

Bring me peace

Sing me to sleep

Say you'll be my nightingale

 

Somebody speak to me

Cause I'm feeling like Hell

Need you to answer me

I'm overwhelmed

 

I need a voice to echo

I need a light to take me home

I need a star to follow

I don't know

 

I never see the forest for the trees

I could really use your melody

Baby, I'm a little blind

I think it's time for you to find me

 

Can you be my nightingale

Sing to me

I know you're there

You could be my sanity

Bring me peace

Sing me to sleep

Say you'll be my nightingale

 

I don't know what I'd do without you

Your words are like a whisper cutting through

As long as you are with me here tonight

I'm good

 

Can you be my nightingale

Feels so close

I know you're there

 

Oh, nightingale

Sing to me

I know you're there

Cause, my baby, you're my sanity

You bring me peace

Sing me to sleep

Say you'll be my nightingale

 

 

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"Better Days" - Radical Face

 

I know right now it feels like hell

And nothing's going all that well

When it's always raining in your head

And it's hard to see beyond your bed

Just remind yourself

 

It's probably gonna take some time

But there are better days to find

Yeah, it's probably gonna take some time

But there are better days to find

 

When you're always drifting out to sea

Cause the ground won't stay beneath your feet

And your head is pouring gasoline

On the person you prefer to be

Try to remind yourself

 

That it's probably gonna take some time

But there are better days to find

Yeah, it's probably gonna take some time

But there are better days to find

 

 

                     

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"Till I Can Gain Control Again"

 

Emmylou Harris
https://youtu.be/uBey3bQM-ro

         

Blue Rodeo
https://youtu.be/TSLeHViCtbs

         

Alison Krauss
https://youtu.be/e5kV69gElWo

 

 

Just like the sun over the mountain top

You know I'll always come again

You know I love to spend my morning time

Like sunlight dancing on your skin

 

I've never gone so wrong as for telling lies to you

And what you've seen is what I've been

And there is nothing I could hide from you

You see me better than I can

 

Out on the road that lies before me now

There are some turns where I will spin

I only hope that you can hold me now

Till I can gain control again

 

Like a lighthouse you must stand alone

Landmark the sailor's journeys end

No matter what seas I have been sailing on

I'll always roll this way again

 

Out on the road that lies before me now

There are some turns where I will spin

I only hope that you can hold me now

Till I can gain control again

 

Till I can gain control again

 

 

                                       

[[Sa...]]

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From 1985, this is "Scatterlings Of Africa", performed by Savuka and led by the late, great South African icon, Johnny Clegg.

 

Rest in peace, Johnny Clegg (June 7, 1953 – July 16, 2019).