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[[Sh...]]

Fight Song :  Rachel Platten

 

 

Like a small boat

On the ocean

Sending big waves

Into motion

Like how a single word

Can make a heart open

I might only have one match

But I can make an explosion

 

And all those things I didn't say

Wrecking balls inside my brain

I will scream them loud tonight

Can you hear my voice this time?

 

This is my fight song

Take back my life song

Prove I'm alright song

My power's turned on

Starting right now I'll be strong

I'll play my fight song

And I don't really care if nobody else believes

'Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me

 

Losing friends and I'm chasing sleep

Everybody's worried about me

In too deep

Say I'm in too deep (in too deep)

And it's been two years I miss my home

But there's a fire burning in my bones

Still believe

Yeah, I still believe

 

And all those things I didn't say

Wrecking balls inside my brain

I will scream them loud tonight

Can you hear my voice this time?

 

This is my fight song

Take back my life song

Prove I'm alright song

My power's turned on

Starting right now I'll be strong

I'll play my fight song

And I don't really care if nobody else believes

'Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me

 

A lot of fight left in me

 

Like a small boat

On the ocean

Sending big waves

Into motion

Like how a single word

Can make a heart open

I might only have one match

But I can make an explosion

 

This is my fight song

Take back my life song

Prove I'm alright song

My power's turned on

Starting right now I'll be strong (I'll be strong)

I'll play my fight song

And I don't really care if nobody else believes

'Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me

 

Know I've still got a lot of fight left in me

 

 

 

 

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Good song. RIP Scott Weiland. 

 

Snowy, so nice to see you again!  I hope you're doing well, my friend, and staying out of trouble. 

 

 

 

Fight Song :  Rachel Platten

 

 

Shake, thank you.  Stay strong and always keep fighting!   

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"After the Storm" - Mumford & Sons

 

And after the storm

I run and run as the rains come

And I look up, I look up

On my knees and out of luck

I look up

 

Night has always pushed up day

You must know life to see decay

But I won't rot, I won't rot

Not this mind and not this heart

I won't rot

 

And I took you by the hand

And we stood tall

And remembered our own land

What we live for

 

And there will come a time you'll see

With no more tears

And love will not break your heart

But dismiss your fears

Get over your Hell and see

What you find there

With grace in your heart

And flowers in your hair

 

And now I cling to what I knew

I saw exactly what was true

But oh no more

That's why I hold

That's why I hold with all I have

That's why I hold

 

And I won't die alone

And be left there

Well I guess I'll just go home

Oh God knows where.

Because death is just so full

And man so small

Well I'm scared of what's behind

And what's before

 

And there will come a time you'll see

With no more tears

And love will not break your heart

But dismiss your fears

Get over your Hell and see

What you find there

With grace in your heart

And flowers in your hair

 

And there will come a time you'll see

With no more tears

And love will not break your heart

But dismiss your fears

Get over your Hell and see

What you find there

With grace in your heart

And flowers in your hair

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"You're Not Alone" - Chicago

 

I see you there

A silhouette in the moonlight

Looks like you've given up on love

You used to be the face in the spotlight

Now loneliness fits you like a glove

You walk around in your cloak of darkness

Too blind to see the light

Your wings are broken

Now your spirit can't take flight

 

You're not alone, you're not alone

While your heart's still young and free

You're not alone, pick up the phone

And talk to me, baby, you will see

You're not alone

 

Pools of sorrow, tears of joy

There's a broken-up girl

For every broken-down boy

But you don't wanna hear it

You like the rhythm of the blues

Wanna be a sad story on the late-night news

I don't mean to burst your bubble

But the world's got troubles worse than you

And everybody else out here gets lonely too

 

You're not alone, you're not alone

I've been waiting patiently

You're not alone, pick up the phone

And talk to me, baby, you will see

 

Although your heart is in pieces

You can't find a reason to try

You're not alone

While I'm still standing by

 

You're not alone, you're not alone

While your heart's still young and free

You're not alone, pick up the phone

And talk to me, baby, you will see

You're not alone

 

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"Where Did All The Good Times Go" - The Indieannas

 

I felt a shiver going

Down my spine

But did I really feel it

At the time

 

I took one look at you

And I felt fine

But didn't realize

That you were mine

 

Where did all the good times go

Looked so high, I felt so low

 

You walked in my direction

Passed me by

But now those days have ended

Those good times

 

Where did all the good times go

Looked so high, I felt so low, low

Where did all the good times go

Looked so high, I felt so low, low

So low, so low, so low

 

Where did all the good times go

Looked so high, I felt so low

Low

 

[[sn...]]

Snowy, so nice to see you again!  I hope you're doing well, my friend, and staying out of trouble. 

   

 

Thanks ABCD.  Nice to see you too.  I hope the same for you. 

 

P.S. You can't get in trouble for baking cakes...can you? 

 

Snowy 

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Snowy, so nice to see you again!  I hope you're doing well, my friend, and staying out of trouble. 

   

 

Thanks ABCD.  Nice to see you too.  I hope the same for you. 

 

P.S. You can't get in trouble for baking cakes...can you? 

 

Snowy 

 

Hmmm, wouldn't put it past either one of us. 

PS - I miss Flutie, hope she's hanging in okay. 

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"Wise Up" - Aimee Mann

 

It's not what you thought

When you first began it

You got what you want

You can hardly stand it though

By now you know

It's not going to stop

It's not going to stop

It's not going to stop

Till you wise up

 

You're sure there's a cure

And you have finally found it

You think one drink

Will shrink you

Till you're underground

And living down

But it's not going to stop

It's not going to stop

It's not going to stop

Till you wise up

 

Prepare a list for what you need

Before you sign away the deed

Cause it's not going to stop

It's not going to stop

It's not going to stop

Till you wise up

 

No, it's not going to stop

Till you wise up

No, it's not going to stop

So just give up

[[sn...]]

Snowy, so nice to see you again!  I hope you're doing well, my friend, and staying out of trouble. 

   

 

Thanks ABCD.  Nice to see you too.  I hope the same for you. 

 

P.S. You can't get in trouble for baking cakes...can you? 

 

Snowy 

 

Hmmm, wouldn't put it past either one of us. 

PS - I miss Flutie, hope she's hanging in okay. 

Me too. 

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"Boat On The River" - Styx

Take me back to my boat on the river

I need to go down

I need to come down

Take me back to my boat on the river

And I won't cry out any more

 

Time stands still as I gaze in her waters

She eases me down

Touching me gently with the waters

That flow past my boat on the river

So I don't cry out anymore

 

Oh the river is wide

The river it touches my life

Like the waves on the sand

And all roads lead to Tranquillity Base

Where the frown on my face disappears

Take me down to my boat on the river

And I won't cry out anymore

 

Oh the river is deep

The river it touches my life

Like the waves on the sand

And all roads lead to Tranquillity Base

Where the frown on my face disappears

 

Take me down to my boat on the river

I need to go down

Won't you let me go down

Take me back to my boat on the river

And I won't cry out anymore

And I won't cry out anymore

And I won't cry out anymore

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"Iris" - Goo Goo Dolls

 

And I'd give up forever to touch you

Cause I know that you feel me somehow

You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be

And I don't wanna go home right now

 

And all I can taste is this moment

And all I can breathe is your life

When sooner or later it's over

I just don't wanna miss you tonight

 

And I don't want the world to see me

Cause I don't think that they'd understand

When everything's made to be broken

I just want you to know who I am

 

And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming

Or the moment of truth in your lies

When everything feels like the movies

Yeah, you bleed just to know you're alive

 

And I don't want the world to see me

Cause I don't think that they'd understand

When everything's made to be broken

I just want you to know who I am

 

I just want you to know who I am

I just want you to know who I am

I just want you to know who I am

[[ho...]]

Oh I used to sing this one like it was my personal anthem....love it...love The GooGoo Dolls

Makes me wonder if he went down the benzo rabbit hole too....

[[Sa...]]

I see lots of great great tunes here...I wonder how many myself, Hope. Such tragedies, you wonder ...Of course I was excited about the Pearl Jam tune  but I was sighing at the mention of Scott Weiland....this is a nod to him.

 

Where the River Goes

 

Stone Temple Pilots

 

 

Yeah, I could hide in the calm of the eye of the storm

And never blow away

Well, I'm a young man with a knife to my back

Some things never seem to change

 

Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide

Sing the song or keep it inside

Bought the farm, but the farmer done died

Sing that song, sing that song inside

 

I wish I could live in the dream

that I fly on the tarred & freathered wings

Well, I'm losing a game of reality

dice where the dealer never ever pays

 

Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide

Sing the song or keep it inside

Bought the farm, but the farmer done died

Sing that song, sing that song inside

 

I wanna be as big as a mountain

I wanna fly as high as the sun

I wanna know what the rent's like in heaven

I wanna know where the river goes

 

Yeah, I could hide in the calm of the eye of the storm

And never blow away

Well, I'm a young man with a knife to my back

Some things never seen to change

 

Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide

Sing the song or keep it inside

Bought the farm, but the farmer done died

Sing that song, sing that song inside

 

I wanna be as big as a mountain

I wanna fly as high as the sun

I wanna know what the rent's like in heaven

I wanna know where the river goes

 

If I was stronger

I could be a mountain range

If night was longer

Could I escape the day?

If I was stronger

I could be a mountain range

If night was longer

Could I escape the day?

 

Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide

Sing the song or keep it inside

Bought the farm, but the farmer done died

Sing that song, sing that song inside

 

I wanna be as big as a mountain

I wanna fly as high as the sun

I wanna know what the rent's like in heaven

I wanna know where the river...

I wanna be as big as a mountain

I wanna fly as high as the sun

I wanna know what the rent's like in heaven

I wanna know where the river goes

Where the river goes

Where the river goes

Where the river, yeah

Where the river

Where the river

Where the river

Where the river

Where the river goes

Where the river goes

 

Ahem, checked the link this time 

what can I say...I ruined a potentially beautiful post,  oh well,  considering my google searches it could've been far far more damaging, wouldn't you say MB  >

 

❤️

 

[[Sa...]]

Back Against The Wall

 

Cage The Elephant

 

 

Tonight I'll have a look

And try to find my face again

Buried beneath this house

My spirit screams and dies again

 

Out back

A monster wears a cloak of Persian leather

Behind the TV screen

I've fallen to my knees

 

I said you got me where you want me again

And I can't turn away

I'm hangin' by a thread and I'm feelin' like a fool

I'm stuck here in between

The shadows of my yesterday

I want to get away

I need to get away

 

Blanket of silence

Makes me want to sink my teeth in deep

Burn all the evidence

Of fabricated disbelief

 

Pull back the curtains

Took a look into your eyes

My tongue has now become

A platform for your lies

 

I said you got me where you want me again

And I can't turn away

I'm hangin' by a thread and I'm feelin' like a fool

I'm stuck here in between

The shadows of my yesterday

I want to get away

I need to get away

 

Now you know

Yeah you got my back against the wall

Oh god

I ain't got no other place to hide

Chained down

Like a sitting duck just waiting for the fall

You know

Yeah you got my back against the wall

 

Deep in the jungle

Camouflaged by all the fallen leaves

A hand holds up the sky

While shamefully I make my plea

 

The altar's callin'

But my legs won't seem to stand

Guess I'm a coward

Scared to face the man I am

 

I said you got me where you want me again

And I can't turn away

I'm hanging by a thread and I'm feeling like a fool

I'm stuck here in between

The shadows of my yesterday

I want to get away

I need to get away

 

Now you know

Yeah you got my back against the wall

Oh god

I ain't got no other place to hide

Chained down

Like a sitting duck just waiting for the fall

You know

Yeah you got my back against the wall

 

Now, you know, yeah you got my back against the wall,

Oh God, I ain’t got no other place to hide,

Chained down, like a sitting duck just waiting for the fall,

You know, yeah you got my back against the wall.

 

[[Sa...]]

Her Diamonds

 

Rob Thomas

 

 

Oh what the hell she said

I just can't win for losing

And she lays back down

Man there's so many times

I don't know what I'm doing

Like I don't know now

 

By the light of the moon

She rubs her eyes

Says it's funny how the night

Can make you blind

I can just imagine

And I don't know what I'm supposed to do

But if she feels bad then i do too

So I let her be

 

And she says oh

I can't take no more

Her tears like diamonds on the floor

And her diamonds bring me down

Cause I can't help her now

She's down in it

She tried her best but now she can't win it

Hard to see them on the ground

Her diamonds falling down

 

She sits down and stares into the distance

And it takes all night

And i know i could break her concentration

But it don't feel right

 

By the light of the moon

She rubs her eyes

Sits down on the bed and starts to cry

And there's something less about her

And I don't know what I'm supposed to do

So I sit down and I cry too

And don't let her see

 

And she says oh

I can't take no more

Her tears like diamonds on the floor

And her diamonds bring me down

Cause I can't help her now

She's down in it

She tried her best but now she can't win it

Hard to see them on the ground

Her diamonds falling down

 

She shuts out the night

Tries to close her eyes

If she can find daylight

She'll be alright

She'll be alright

Just not tonight

 

And she says oh

I can't take no more

Her tears like diamonds on the floor

And her diamonds bring me down

Cause I can't help her now

She's down in it

She tried her best but now she can't win it

Hard to see them on the ground

Her diamonds falling down

 

 

 

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Ahem, checked the link this time 

what can I say...I ruined a potentially beautiful post,  oh well,  considering my google searches it could've been far far more damaging, wouldn't you say MB  >

 

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I snorted!

 

 

 

Her Diamonds

 

Rob Thomas

 

 

 

:'(    :'(    :'(

 

 

 

 

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"Someday" - Rob Thomas

 

You can go

You can start all over again

You can try to find a way to make another day go by

You can hide

Hold all your feelings inside

You can try to carry on when all you want to do is cry

 

[Chorus:]

And maybe someday

We'll figure all this out

Try to put an end to all our doubt

Try to find a way to make things better now

Then maybe someday we'll live our lives out loud

We'll be better off somehow

Someday

 

Now wait

And try to find another mistake

If you throw it all away then maybe you can change your mind

You can run

And when everything is over and done

You can shine a little light on everything around you

Man it's good to be someone

 

[Chorus]

 

And I don't want to wait

I just want to know

I just want to hear you tell me so

Give it to me straight

Tell it to me slow

 

Cause maybe someday

We'll figure all this out

We'll put an end to all our doubt

Try to find a way to just feel better now

Then maybe someday we'll live our lives out loud

We'll be better off somehow

Someday

 

Cause sometimes we don't really notice

Just how good it can get

So maybe we should start all over

Start all over again

 

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"When It Rains" - Paramore

 

And when it rains

On this side of town it touches everything

Just say it again and mean it

We don't miss a thing

You made yourself a bed

At the bottom of the blackest hole

And convinced yourself that

It's not the reason you don't see the sun anymore

 

And oh, how could you do it

Oh I never saw it coming

No, oh, I need the ending

So why can't you stay

Just long enough to explain

 

And when it rains

Will you always find an escape

Just running away

From all of the ones who love you

From everything

You made yourself a bed

At the bottom of the blackest hole

And you'll sleep 'til May

And you'll say that you don't want to see the sun anymore

 

And oh, how could you do it

Oh I never saw it coming

No, oh, I need the ending

So why can't you stay

Just long enough to explain

 

Take your time

Take my time

 

Take these chances to turn it around

Take these chances, we'll make it somehow

And take these chances to turn it around

Just turn it around

 

No, how could you do it

Oh I never saw it coming

No, oh I need an ending

So why can't you stay

Just long enough to explain

 

You can take your time

Take my time

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"Why Worry"

 

Dire Straits

https://youtu.be/7no9Ak2uSrQ

 

Art Garfunkel

 

Baby, I see this world has made you sad

Some people can be bad

The things they do

The things they say

But Baby, I'll wipe away those bitter tears

I'll chase away those restless fears

That turn your blue skies into grey

 

Why worry

There should be laughter after pain

There should be sunshine after rain

These things have always been the same

So why worry now

Why worry now

 

Baby, when I get down I turn to you

And you make sense of what I do

I know it isn't hard to say

But Baby, just when this world

Seems mean and cold

Our love comes shining red and gold

And all the rest is by the way

Why worry

There should be laughter after pain

There should be sunshine after rain

These things have always been the same

So why worry now

Why worry now

 

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Victoria Williams - Crazy Mary, later covered by Pearl Jam

 

 

 

She lived on a curve in the road, in an old tar paper shack

On the south side of the town, on the wrong side of the tracks

Sometimes on the way into town we'd say

"Mother, can we stop, give her a ride?"

Oh, sometimes we did but her hands flew from her side

Wild eyed, crazy Mary

 

Down along the road, past the Parson's place

The old blue car we used to race

A little country store with a sign tacked to the side

It said, "No L O I T E R I N G allowed"

Underneath that sign congregated quite a crowd

 

Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around

Oh, take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around, pass it around

Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it a, pass it a, oh pass it around

 

One night the thunder cracked, Mercy backed outside her windowsill

 

Dreamed I was flyin' high above the trees, over the hills

Looked down into the house of Mary, yeah

A bare bulb was blown, newspaper-covered walls

And Mary rising up above it all, all, oh yeah yeah yeah oh

 

Next morning on the way into town

We saw some skid marks and followed them around

Over the curve through the fields into the house of Mary

That what you fear the most could meet you halfway

That what you fear the most could meet you halfway

 

Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around

Oh, take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around, oh pass it around

Take a bottle drink it down, pass it a, pass it a, pass it around, around

Pass it a, oh, pass it a, ah, pass it a, around, around, pass it a

[[Lo...]]

Smashing Pumpkins - Today

 

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Victoria Williams - Crazy Mary, later covered by Pearl Jam

 

 

 

 

LF, I can tell you're also very into music therapy.    Great song, enjoyed both, but I think my vote goes to Victoria Williams.

Thanks for all your contributions, really hoping things start letting up for you soon. 

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"In My Hour Of Darkness"

Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt

 

In my hour of darkness

In my time of need

Oh Lord, grant me vision

Oh Lord, grant me speed

 

Once I knew a young man

Went driving through the night

Miles and miles without a word

But just his high beam lights

Who'd have ever thought they'd build

Such a deadly Denver bend

To be so strong, to take so long

As it would till the end

 

In my hour of darkness

In my time of need

Oh Lord, grant me vision

Oh Lord, grant me speed

 

Another young man safely strummed

His silver stringed guitar

And he played to people everywhere

Some say he was a star

But he was just a country boy

His simple songs confess

And the music he had in him

So very few possess

 

In my hour of darkness

In my time of need

Oh Lord, grant me vision

Oh Lord, grant me speed

 

The there was an old man

Kind and wise with age

And he read me just like a book

And he never missed a page

And I loved him like a father

And I loved him like my friend

And I knew his time could shortly come

But I did not know just when

 

In my hour of darkness

In my time of need

Oh Lord, grant me vision

Oh Lord, grant me speed

 

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"Runaway Train" - Soul Asylum

 

Call you up in the middle of the night

Like a firefly without a light

You were there like a blow torch burning

I was a key that could use a little turning

 

So tired that I couldn't even sleep

So many secrets I couldn't keep

Promised myself I wouldn't weep

One more promise I couldn't keep

 

It seems no one can help me now

I'm in too deep

There's no way out

This time I have really led myself astray

 

[Chorus]

Runaway train never going back

Wrong way on a one way track

Seems like I should be getting somewhere

Somehow I'm neither here nor there

 

Can you help me remember how to smile

Make it somehow all seem worthwhile

How on earth did I get so jaded

Life's mystery seems so faded

 

I can go where no one else can go

I know what no one else knows

Here I am just drowning in the rain

With a ticket for a runaway train

 

And everything seems cut and dry

Day and night

Earth and sky

Somehow I just don't believe it

 

[Chorus]

 

Bought a ticket for a runaway train

Like a madman laughing at the rain

A little out of touch, little insane

It's just easier than dealing with the pain

 

[Chorus]

 

Runaway train never coming back

Runaway train tearing up the track

Runaway train burning in my veins

I run away but it always seems the same

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"Running Away" - Midnight Hour

 

Don't lie and say that it's okay

It's alright if there's nothing more to say

So I'm running away

I'm leaving this place

Yeah, I'm running away

I'm running away

 

Don't tell me I'm the one to blame

It's too late for you to make me stay

No, I won't stay

So I'm running away

I'm leaving this place

Yeah, I'm running away

I'm running away

 

And faster than you can follow me

From this lonely place

And farther than you can find me

I'm leaving

Yeah, I'm leaving today

And I'll never let you find me

I'm leaving you behind with the past

No, I won't look back

And I don't want to hear your reasons

Don't want to hear you tell me why I should stay

 

And try to understand me

And try to understand what I say

When I say I can't stay

I'm moving on from this place

I'm leaving and I won't quit

Running away

 

I'm running away

I'm leaving this place

Yeah, I'm running away

I'm running away