Share Songs that Motivate and Talk to You

[[Be...]]

This reminds me to not take everything so seriously, it is a classic

 

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i always sing along to this cheers me right the fuck up

 

 

Sorry you're also struggling so much, Bbill.  Here, take a peek here, guaranteed to cheer you up a little. 

 

http://www.benzobuddies.org/forum/index.php?topic=113166.msg1700308;topicseen#msg1700308

 

Which one's your favorite?

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OMG MB...I'm staring at this nearly speechless and for me that's no small feat is it 

I'm filled with so many emotions I truly can't put into words this morning, but I'm sure you have a pretty good idea of how I'm feeling about all the love. Simply and beautifully phrased the beauty of friends, the deep connection we find amidst the suffering...nothing but beauty and love at the heart of it, truly the greatest blessing.

 

We laugh we cry and we whine...and yes I did notice there was a tiny bit of a whine in there  but most of all we love and heal side by side holding each other..I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

So much love MB....❤️❤️❤️

 

 

Well, I'm still kinda half laughing, OMFG, talk about abrupt endings, holy moly, couldn't have happened at a worse time, could it?  Ah well, c'est la vie, you still know how much I love you and huge, huge brownie points I still give to myself for effort, all things considered. 

 

I know today's a toughie, MB, hugs, hugs, hugs.    Oh, and a pokey in the eye just for good measure? 

 

Wishing healing and better days to everyone who passes by.

 

 

"Hang On" - Plumb

 

 

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/images/attachement/jpg/site1/20081212/00221917f7600aac549819.jpg

 

 

I'm so stubborn

It's how I got here

So alone

Feels like forever

I wanna swim away

And breathe the open air

But I feel so afraid

Then I hear you say

 

Hang on

When the water is rising

Hang on

When the waves are crashing

Hang on

Just don't ever let go

 

I'm so hungry

How can I stay here

Starving for what I hold so dear

Like a hurricane

It takes everything from me

Wake me from this dream

 

Hang on

When the water is rising

Hang on

When the waves are crashing

Hang on

Just don't ever let go

 

Hang on

When you're barely breathing

Hang on

When your heart's still beating

Hang on

Just don't ever let go

 

Three days, thirty years

So hopeless, doesn't matter

Don't say it's too late if you blink your eyes

The sun is rising, the sun is rising

 

Hang on

When the water is rising

Hang on

When the waves are crashing

Hang on

Just don't ever let go

 

Hang on

When you are barely breathing

Hang on

When your heart's still beating

Hang on

Just don't ever let go

 

 

:smitten:

 

 

 

 

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"Carefree Highway" - Gordon Lightfoot

https://youtu.be/ewhM7I9gD4U

 

Picking up the pieces of my sweet shattered dream

I wonder how the old folks are tonight

Her name was Ann and I'll be damned if I recall her face

She left me not knowing what to do

 

Carefree highway

Let me slip away on you

Carefree highway

You've seen better days

The morning after blues

From my head down to my shoes

Carefree highway

Let me slip away, slip away on you

 

Turning back the pages to the times I love best

I wonder if she'll ever do the same

Now the thing that I call living is just being satisfied

With knowing I got no one left to blame

 

Carefree highway

I've got to see you my old flame

Carefree highway

You've seen better days

The morning after blues

From my head down to my shoes

Carefree highway

Let me slip away, slip away on you

 

Searching through the fragments of my dream shattered sleep

I wonder if the years have closed her mind

I guess it must be wanderlust or trying to get free

From the good old faithful feeling we once knew

 

Carefree highway

Let me slip away on you

Carefree highway

You've seen better days

The morning after blues

From my head down to my shoes

Carefree highway

Let me slip away, slip away on you

Let me slip away on you

 

Carefree highway

I've got to see you my old flame

Carefree highway

You've seen better days

The morning after blues

From my head down to my shoes

Carefree highway

Let me slip away, slip away on you

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"The Long Day is Over" - Norah Jones

 

Feeling tired

By the fire

The long day is over

 

The wind is gone

Asleep at dawn

The embers burn on

 

With no reprise

The sun will rise

The long day is over

 

 

 

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"It's Only Fear" - Alexi Murdoch

https://youtu.be/RrMMcdhAXhY

 

Pretty, pretty on the fence

In your pretty moment of innocence

You do not see that I see inside

The quiet heart you're trying to hide

 

Don't hold your head too high

Don't be afraid to cry

Because you know my dear

It's only fear, it's only fear

 

Yes my dear, do you hear

It's only fear, it's only fear, it's only fear

Yes it's only fear, it's only fear, it's only fear

Keeps you locked in here

 

Now you may believe you are so bright

And you may not see how they confine your sight

And maybe you wake up late at night

Wondering why you feel so tired

 

Well my dear, let me tell you now, do you hear

It's only fear, it's only fear, it's only fear,

Yes it's only fear, it's only fear, it's only fear

Yes it's only fear, it's only fear, it's only fear

That keeps you locked in here

 

 

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"Broken Down Angel" - Nazareth

https://youtu.be/ZmbJnjBdbbg

 

She used to be someone you could depend on

To brighten up your coldest winter day

But the one she leaned upon

Let her down, now has moved on

And morning brings another empty day

 

Now she's only a broken down angel

She's only a bird that's broke her wing

She's only someone, someone who's gone wrong

She's only a child that's lost her way

 

She used to be a girl of simple pleasures

A breath of spring to chase your blues away

But now she bears a cross

For a love that she has lost

No sunshine in her eyes just clouds of gray

 

Now she's only a broken down angel

She's only a bird that's broke her wing

She's only someone, someone who's gone wrong

She's only a child that's lost her way

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"Breath of Life" - Florence + The Machine

 

[Chorus]

I was looking for a breath of a life

For a little touch of heavenly light

But all the choirs in my head sang, No

To get a dream of life again

A little vision of the start and the end

But all the choirs in my head sang, No

 

But I need one more touch

Another taste of heavenly rush

And I believe, I believe it's so

 

Whose side am I on

Whose side am I

Whose side am I on

Whose side am I

 

And the fever began to spread

From my heart down to my legs

But the room is so quiet, oh

 

And although I wasn't losing my mind

It was a chorus so sublime

But the room is so quiet, oh

 

[Chorus]

 

It's a harder way and it's come to claim her

And I always say

We should be together

And I can't sleep alone

Because there's something in here

And if you are gone I will not belong here

 

And I started to hear it again

But this time it wasn't the end

And the room is so quiet, oh

 

And my heart is a hollow plain

For the devil to dance again

And the room is too quiet, oh

 

I was looking for a breath of a life

For a little touch of heavenly light

But all the choirs in my head sang, No

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"Hell Or Heaven" - Lynyrd Skynyrd

 

Mama used to say to me

You can make your destiny

Keep your feet planted on the ground

You can always get it back

Make a castle from a one room shack

It's all of what you make of what you've found

Son, you're gonna find out when you're older

There's always been the hand of God

Resting right there on your shoulder

 

[Chorus]

Will it be hell or heaven on earth

The choice is up to you

Look to the sky, the answer is clear

Are you gonna live life for all it's worth

Choose hell or heaven on earth

If you live it right, there's nothing to fear

Cause you'll find heaven right here

 

Saw a man the other day

Had it made in every way

Till his greed brought him down

He was blinded by the city lights

Now he shivers in the cold tonight

Who will save the lifeguard

When he's about to drown

 

[Chorus]

 

You know you're gonna walk through fire

You know you're gonna feel the pain

Oh you're gonna lose if you want to win the game

And every time your heart is breaking

And every time your faith is shaken

Remember what mama said on that day

 

I hope when my time has come

I've left enough to build upon

Ain't no one gonna say I didn't try

Here's why

 

Hell or heaven on earth

The choice is up to you

Look to the sky, the answer is clear

Are you gonna, live life for all it's worth

Choose hell or heaven on earth

If you live it right, there's nothing to fear

Cause you'll find heaven right here

You'll find heaven right here

You'll find heaven right here

Heaven right here

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"King Of Sorrow" - Sade

 

I'm crying everyone's tears

And there inside our private war

I died the night before

And all of these remnants of joy and disaster

What am I supposed to do

 

I want to cook you a soup that warms your soul

But nothing would change

Nothing would change at all

It's just a day that brings it all about

Just another day and nothing's any good

 

The DJ's playing the same song

I have so much to do

I have to carry on

I wonder if this grief will ever let me go

I feel like I am the King of sorrow

The King of sorrow

 

I suppose I could just walk away

Will I disappoint my future if I stay

It's just a day that brings it all about

Just another day and nothing's any good

 

The DJ's playing the same song

I have so much to do

I have to carry on

I wonder will this grief ever be gone

Will it ever go

I'm the King of sorrow

King of sorrow

 

I'm crying everyone's tears

I have already paid for all my future sins

There's nothing anyone

Can say to take this away

It's just another day and nothing's any good

 

I'm the King of sorrow

King of sorrow

I'm the King of sorrow

King of sorrow

 

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"Simple Life" - Elton John

https://youtu.be/D0nae6BmVu0

 

There's a breakdown on the runway

And the timeless flights are gone

I'm a year ahead of myself these days

And I'm locomotive strong

My city spread like cannon fire

In a yellow nervous state

I can't cut the ties that bind me

To horoscopes and fate

 

And I won't break and I won't bend

But someday soon we'll sail away

To innocence and the bitter end

And I won't break and I won't bend

And with the last breath we ever take

We're gonna get back to the simple life again

 

When we break out of this blindfold

I'm gonna take you from this place

Until we're free from this ball and chain

I'm still hard behind the eight

My city beats like hammered steel

On a shallow cruel rock

If we could walk proud after midnight

We'd never have to stop

 

And I won't break and I won't bend

But someday soon we'll sail away

To innocence and the bitter end

And I won't break and I won't bend

And with the last breath we ever take

We're gonna get back to the simple life again

 

 

[[Be...]]

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"Hell of a Year" - Keri Noble

 

Sorry I'm late, got a lot on my mind these days

Tell me what you're drinking

And bartender, I'll have the same

So start talking, what's new, what's going on with you

Found someone that you love I hear

No, not much new with me, it's already on the street

All I guess I can say is it's been

 

A hell of a year

I've been to the dark side

Don't think I can tell you

All I know is that I'm still alive

Barely breathing

I just keep on believing

That this can't last forever

Keeps me from going under

Trust me that you don't wanna hear

About my hell of a year

 

Please don't

I can tell you right now

You don't wanna go down this road

Try to understand

Maybe it's just that I need to do this alone

No, I don't think you're right

I'm not trying to keep it light

I just think that you wanna hear

 

About my hell of a year

I've been to the dark side

Don't think I can tell you

All I know is that I'm still alive

Barely breathing

I just keep on believing

That this can't last forever

Keeps me from going under

Trust me that you don't wanna hear

 

I am beginning to see all of the pieces of myself

I tried to give away

But they wouldn't leave me

 

A hell of a year

I've been to the dark side

Don't think I can tell you

All I know is that I'm still alive

Barely breathing

I just keep on believing

That this can't last forever

Keeps me from going under

 

What a hell of a year

I've been to the dark side

I don't think I can tell you

All I know is that I'm still alive

Barely breathing

I just keep on believing

That this can't last forever

Keeps me from going under

Trust me that you don't wanna hear

 

Trust me you don't wanna hear

About my hell of a year

 

 

        :'(     

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"How To Disappear Completely" - Radiohead

 

That there

That's not me

I go where I please

I walk through walls

I float down the Liffey

 

I'm not here

This isn't happening

I'm not here

I'm not here

 

In a little while

I'll be gone

The moment's already passed

Yeah, it's gone

 

I'm not here

This isn't happening

I'm not here

I'm not here

 

Strobe lights and blown speakers

Fireworks and hurricanes

 

I'm not here

This isn't happening

I'm not here

I'm not here

 

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"Everybody's Changing" - Keane

 

You say you wander your own land

But when I think about it

I don't see how you can

You're aching, you're breaking

And I can see the pain in your eyes

Says everybody's changing

And I don't know why

 

So little time

Try to understand that I'm

Trying to make a move just to stay in the game

I try to stay awake and remember my name

But everybody's changing

And I don't feel the same

 

You're gone from here

And soon you will disappear

Fading into beautiful light

Cause everybody's changing

And I don't feel right

 

So little time

Try to understand that I'm

Trying to make a move just to stay in the game

I try to stay awake and remember my name

But everybody's changing

And I don't feel the same

 

Oh, everybody's changing

And I don't feel the same

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"Heal" - Tom Odell

 

Take my mind

And take my pain

Like an empty bottle takes the rain

And heal, heal, heal, heal

 

And take my past

And take my sins

Like an empty sail takes the wind

And heal, heal, heal, heal

 

And tell me some things last

And tell me some things last

 

Take my heart

And take my hand

Like an ocean takes the dirty sand

And heal, heal

Hell, heal

 

Take my mind

And take my pain

Like an empty bottle takes the rain

And heal, heal

Hell, heal

 

And tell me some things last

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"You Don't Have to Cry" - Rene and Angela

 

You don't have to cry alone

Cause I'll be right by your side

To help you be strong

Baby dry your eyes

Please be strong

I can pull you through these times

And help you hold on

 

I've been on standby

Waiting for your call

I'll catch any teardrop

Before one can fall

I'll never deceive you

The way others did

I've got what you need, girl

And so much to give

 

You don't have to cry alone

I'll be right by your side

You've found a new home

Baby dry your eyes

Please, you've got to be strong

Just hold, hold on

 

There's someone here now

Who cares about your needs

We'll make it somehow

Cause I'll share your grief

I'm just here to fill you

With some good love in bad times

I'm yours when you need me

Keep me close

I'll keep you warm all the time

 

You don't have to cry alone

I'll be right by your side

To help you be strong

Baby, dry your eyes

Hold on

Cause I can pull you through these times

And help you be strong

 

You don't have to cry

 

Dry your eyes, please don't cry

You can be strong if you just hold on

Dry your eyes, please don't cry

You can be strong if you just hold on

 

 

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Suzanne Vega - Luka

 

 

My name is Luka

I live on the second floor

I live upstairs from you

Yes I think you've seen me before

 

If you hear something late at night

Some kind of trouble, some kind of fight

Just don't ask me what it was

Just don't ask me what it was

Just don't ask me what it was

 

I think it's because I'm clumsy

I try not to talk too loud

Maybe it's because I'm crazy

I try not to act too proud

 

They only hit until you cry

After that you don't ask why

You just don't argue anymore

You just don't argue anymore

You just don't argue anymore

 

Yes I think I'm okay

I walked into the door again

If you ask that's what I'll say

And it's not your business anyway

I guess I'd like to be alone

With nothing broken, nothing thrown

 

Just don't ask me how I am

Just don't ask me how I am

Just don't ask me how I am

 

My name is Luka

I live on the second floor

I live upstairs from you

Yes I think you've seen me before

 

If you hear something late at night

Some kind of trouble, some kind of fight

Just don't ask me what it was

Just don't ask me what it was

Just don't ask me what it was

 

And they only hit until you cry

After that, you don't ask why

You just don't argue anymore

You just don't argue anymore

You just don't argue anymore

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Suzanne Vega - Luka

 

 

 

Good one, LF. 

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"Believe" - Mumford & Sons

 

You may call it in this evening

But you've only lost the night

Present all your pretty feelings

May they comfort you tonight

And I'm climbing over something

And I'm running through these walls

 

I don't even know if I believe

I don't even know if I believe

I don't even know if I believe

Everything you're trying to say to me

 

I had the strangest feeling

Your world's not all it seems

So tired of misconceiving

What else this could've been

 

I don't even know if I believe

I don't even know if I believe

I don't even know if I believe

Everything you're trying to say to me

 

So open up my eyes

Tell me I'm alive

This is never gonna go our way

If I'm gonna have to guess what's on your mind

 

Say something, say something

Something like you love me

Lest you want to move away

From the noise of this place

 

I don't even know if I believe

I don't even know if I believe

I don't even know if I wanna believe

Everything you're trying to say to me

 

So open up my eyes

Tell me I'm alive

This is never gonna go our way

If I'm gonna have to guess what's on your mind

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"Cast No Shadow" - Oasis

 

Here's a thought for every man

Who tries to understand what is in his hands

He walks along the open road of love and life

Surviving if he can

 

Bound with all the weight of all the words he tried to say

Chained to all the places that he never wished to stay

Bound with all the weight of all the words he tried to say

 

As he faced the sun he cast no shadow

As they took his soul they stole his pride

As they took his soul they stole his pride

As they took his soul they stole his pride

As he faced the sun he cast no shadow

 

As he faced the sun he cast no shadow

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"Backed Into The Corner" - Amy Stroup

 

Nothing turns out the way you want it

Nothing plays out like you saw in your mind

You keep finding out everything is changing

It's hard to find a place just to calm down

 

You're backed into the corner

Your hands are tied down

You're backed into the corner

You're by yourself now

But from where you're standing

You can see it all now

See it all now, see it all now

 

You're standing on the edge of the ocean

Yelling at the waves to stop

But they keep crashing down

Your hoping seems helpless

You got no choices

In a world without answers

Everything fades to black

 

You're backed into the corner

Your hands are tied down

You're backed into the corner

You're by yourself now

But from here where you're standing

See it all now, see it all now

You can see it all now

You see it all now

See it all now

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"Bird Song" - The Wailin' Jennys

 

I hear a bird chirping up in the sky

I’d like to be free like that

Spread my wings so high

 

I see the river flowing water running by

I’d like to be that river

See what I might find

 

I feel the wind a blowin’ slowly changing time

I’d like to be that wind

I’d swirl and the shape sky

 

I smell the flowers blooming opening for spring

I’d like to be those flowers

Open to everything

 

I feel the seasons change, the leaves, the snow and sun

I’d like to be those seasons

Made up and undone

 

I taste the living earth, the seeds that grow within

I’d like to be that earth

A home where life begins

 

I see the moon a risin’ reaching into night

I’d like to be that moon

A knowing glowing light

 

I know the silence as the world begins to wake

I’d like to be that silence

As the morning breaks

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"Cloudy" - Simon & Garfunkel

https://youtu.be/3Tth-lt1TvI

 

Cloudy

The sky is gray and white and cloudy

Sometimes I think it's hanging down on me

And it's a hitchhike a hundred miles

I'm a rag-a-muffin child

Pointed finger-painted smile

I left my shadow waiting down the road for me a while

 

Cloudy

My thoughts are scattered and they're cloudy

They have no borders, no boundaries

They echo and they swell

From Tolstoy to Tinker Bell

Down from Berkeley to Carmel

Got some pictures in my pocket and a lot of time to kill

 

Hey sunshine

I haven't seen you in a long time

Why don't you show your face and bend my mind

These clouds stick to the sky

Like floating questions, why?

And they linger there to die

They don't know where they're going and, my friend, neither do I

 

Cloudy, cloudy, cloudy

Cloudy

Cloudy

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"Walking On a Wire" - Richard and Linda Thompson

 

I hand you my ball and chain

You just hand me that same old refrain

I'm walking on a wire

I'm walking on a wire

And I'm falling

 

I wish I could please you tonight

But my medicine just won't come right

I'm walking on a wire

I'm walking on a wire

And I'm falling

 

Too many steps to take

Too many spells to break

Too many nights awake

And no one else

 

This grindstone's wearing me

Your claws are tearing me

Don't use me endlessly

It's too long, too long to myself

 

Where's the justice

And where's the sense

When all the pain

Is on my side of the fence

 

I'm walking on a wire

I'm walking on a wire

And I'm falling

 

Too many steps to take

Too many spells to break

Too many nights awake

And no one else

 

This grindstone's wearing me

Your claws are tearing me

Don't use me endlessly

It's too long, it's too long to myself

 

It scares you when you don't know

Whichever way the wind might blow

I'm walking on a wire

I'm walking on a wire

And I'm falling

 

I'm walking on a wire

I'm walking on a wire

And I'm falling

 

I'm walking on a wire

I'm walking on a wire

And I'm falling