Share Songs that Motivate and Talk to You

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"Blown by the Wind" - Alan Parsons

 

All along the shoreline

There are footprints by the sea

They head into the distance

Then they lead right back to me

I made the break to freedom

Now I'm following the dream

You're never going to get here

If you hold the old routine

 

Now everything that we possess

That fills our empty lives

Is only good for leaving far behind

 

[CHORUS:]

We are blown by the wind

Just like clouds in the sky

We don't know where we're going

Don't know why

We just ride with the wind

And we'll drive through the rain

We don't where we'll get to

Or if we'll get back again

 

Call along the valley

And you just may find us there

I couldn't say for sure

Because we may be anywhere

Head into the sunset

Or just wander out to sea

Wherever your heart leads you

Is the place you're meant to be

 

And someone who could be impressed

With ordinary lies

Could really use a little peace of mind

 

[CHORUS]

 

Now everything that we possess

That fills our empty lives

Is only good for leaving far behind

 

We are blown by the wind

Just like clouds in the sky

We don't know where we're going

Don't know why

We just ride with the wind

And we'll drive through the rain

We don't where we'll get to

Or if we'll get back again

 

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"There's a Rugged Road" - Judee Sill

 

There's a rugged road on the prairie

Stretching all across the last frontier

There a stranger strives solitary

Blessed is the lonesome pioneer

 

[CHORUS:]

Roll on, roll on, roll on

Night birds are flying

Come on, the light is gone

Hope's slowly dying

Tell me how you come riding through

Still surveying the miles yet to run

On the long and lonely road to kingdom come

 

He can blaze a trail

Though the rumbling

Dims his guiding light to just a spark

When the hour is low he comes tumbling

But when the moon is high he gives his heart

 

[CHORUS]

 

People far below chasing pleasures

Offer him directions on the run

Prophets on the path offer treasures

Though he's mighty hungry he takes none

 

[CHORUS]

 

When the sun goes down at the right time

He comes winding through the purple haze

Just a feather's touch in the nighttime

But it'll color all my weary days

 

Shining finer than this earthly sun

On the ragged rugged road to kingdom come

On the ragged rugged road to kingdom come

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"Lost" - Within Temptation

 

My hope is on fire

My dreams are for sale

I dance on a wire

I don't want to fail her

 

[CHORUS:]

I walk against the stream

Far from what I believe in

I run towards the end

Trying not to give in

 

She's lost in the darkness

Fading away

I'm still around here

Screaming her name

She's haunting my dreamworld

Trying to survive

My heart is frozen

I'm losing my mind

 

Help me

I'm buried alive

Buried alive

 

I'm burning the bridges

And there's no return

I'm trying to reach her

I feel that she yearns

 

[CHORUS]

 

I tried to revive

What's already drowned

They think I'm a fool

Can't realize

 

Hope plays a wicked game

With the mind

Cause I thought

That love would bind

 

I cannot revive

What's already drowned

She won't come around

 

She's lost in the darkness

Fading away

I'm still around here

Screaming her name

She's haunting my dreamworld

Trying to survive

My heart is frozen

I'm losing my mind

 

Help me

I'm buried alive

Buried alive

 

 

:'(

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"Are You Sad" - Our Lady Peace

 

Your life has been so hard

It's dried up

Angels can't keep guard

I'm trying to reach your hand

But I'm on fire

I never planned to fade away

 

Oh just stop pretending

When they say you're nothing

 

Are you sad

Are you holding yourself

Are you locked in your room

You shouldn't be

 

I'm drowning inside your head

Help me to answer

Help understand

Why it's been so long

Since we talked like friends

Please forgive me

I'm just a man

Who's made mistakes

 

Oh just stop pretending

When they say you're nothing

 

Are you sad

Are you holding yourself

Are you locked in your room

You shouldn't be

 

Are you sad

Are you holding yourself

Are you locked in your room

You shouldn't be

 

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"Song to a Seagull" - Joni Mitchell

https://youtu.be/LBGqGZ9GWzE

 

Fly, silly seabird

No dreams can possess you

No voices can blame you

For sun on your wings

My gentle relations

Have names they must call me

For loving the freedom

Of all flying things

 

My dreams with the seagulls fly

Out of reach

Out of cry

 

I came to the city

And lived like old Crusoe

On an island of noise

In a cobblestone sea

And the beaches were concrete

And the stars paid a light bill

And the blossoms hung false

On their store window trees

 

My dreams with the seagulls fly

Out of reach

Out of cry

 

Out of the city

And down to the seaside

To sun on my shoulders

And wind in my hair

But sandcastles crumble

And hunger is human

And humans are hungry

For worlds they can't share

 

My dreams with the seagulls fly

Out of reach

Out of cry

 

I call to the seagull

Who dives to the waters

And catches his silver-fine

Dinner alone

Crying where are the footprints

That danced on these beaches

And the hands that cast wishes

That sunk like a stone

 

My dreams with the seagulls fly

Out of reach

Out of cry

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"Recovery" - James Arthur

 

I don't want to play this game no more

I don't wanna play it

I don't want to stay round here no more

I don't wanna stay here

Like rain on a Monday morning

Like pain that just keeps on going on

 

Look at all the hate they keep on showing

I don't want to see that

Look at all the stones they keep on throwing

I don't want to feel that

Like sun that will keep on burning

And I used to be so discerning

 

In my recovery

I’m a soldier at war

I have broken down walls

I defined

I designed

My recovery

 

In the salt of the sea

In the oceans of me

I defined

I designed

My recovery

 

Keep soaring

Keep songwriting

My recovery

 

And I can hear the choirs keep on singing

Tell me what they’re saying

And I can hear the phone

It keeps on ringing

I don’t want to answer

I know that I used to listen

And I know I’ve become dismissive

 

In my recovery

I’m a soldier at war

I have broken down walls

I defined

I designed

My recovery

 

In the salt of the sea

In the oceans of me

I defined

I designed

My recovery

 

Keep soaring

Keep songwriting

My recovery

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"Reach" - Gloria Estefan

 

Some dreams live on in time forever

Those dreams you want with all your heart

And I'll do whatever it takes

Follow through with the promise I made

Put it all on the line

What I hoped for at last would be mine

 

If I could reach higher

Just for one moment touch the sky

From that one moment in my life

I'm gonna be stronger

Know that I've tried my very best

I'd put my spirit to the test

If I could reach

 

Some days are meant to be remembered

Those days we rise above the stars

So I'll go the distance this time

Seeing more the higher I climb

That the more I believe

All the more that this dream will be mine

 

If I could reach higher

Just for one moment touch the sky

From that one moment in my life

I'm gonna be stronger

Know that I've tried my very best

I'd put my spirit to the test

If I could reach

 

If I could reach

If I could, if I could

If I could reach

I'd reach, I'd reach

I'd reach

I'd reach so much higher

 

 

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"High Hopes" - Pink Floyd

 

Beyond the horizon

Of the place we lived when we were young

In a world of magnets and miracles

Our thoughts strayed constantly

And without boundary

The ringing of the division bell had begun

 

Along the long road

And on down the causeway

Do they still meet there by the cut

 

There was a ragged band

That followed in our footsteps

Running before time took our dreams away

Leaving the myriad small creatures

Trying to tie us to the ground

To a life consumed by slow decay

 

The grass was greener

The light was brighter

With friends surrounded

The nights of wonder

 

Looking beyond the embers

Of bridges glowing behind us

To a glimpse of how green it was

On the other side

Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again

Dragged by the force of some inner tide

 

At a higher altitude with flag unfurled

We reached the dizzy heights

Of that dreamed of world

Encumbered forever by desire and ambition

There's a hunger still unsatisfied

Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon

Though down this road we've been so many times

 

The grass was greener

The light was brighter

The taste was sweeter

The nights of wonder

With friends surrounded

The dawn mist glowing

The water flowing

The endless river

 

Forever and ever

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"Haze" - Amber Run

 

I wanna be your lover

I wanna be your friend

I wish I could tell you I'd last till the end

I'm in a blue haze

A blue haze

 

I wanna be a preacher

I wanna be a king

And now I know why everything

Is in a blue haze

A blue haze

 

My friends have all left me

Away on the breeze

There's a crushing silence

Where love's a disease

Like a fever it grips me

Like a lover it holds

Scared of getting older

Scared of dying alone

I'm in a blue haze

A blue haze

 

And I'm carried on the back

Of a wave of gloom

I'm told I'll see the shore again soon

I'm in a blue haze

A blue haze

 

I'm living in dark rooms

Playing at God

Staring at blank walls pretending I'm not

In a blue haze

A blue haze

 

My friends have all left me

Away on the breeze

There's a crushing silence

Where love's a disease

Like a fever it grips me

Like a lover it holds

Scared of getting older

Scared of dying alone

I'm in a blue haze

A blue haze

 

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"I was a Bird"

Mary Chapin Carpenter & Alison Krauss

 

I was a bird

That loved to fly

Catching the wind

As it went south

And I could touch

Every inch of sky

And the sweetest songs

Trilled from my mouth

 

But I'm no bird

Anyone can see

And there's no wind

Waiting for me

It's just a dream

It's just a dream

To be a bird

Flying free

 

I was a cloud

That loved to drift

Offering shade

To lay upon

And the greenest grass

Was my gift

And a summer day

Was my song

 

But I'm no cloud

Anyone can see

And there's just dust

Instead of green

It's just a dream

It's just a dream

To be a cloud

Drifting free

 

I was a light

That loved to dance

Without a care

Of who might see

I tempted fate

And welcomed chance

And I held the world

Inside of me

 

The clouds have fled

And the birds have flown

And the light that was

Is all but gone

It's just a dream

It's just a dream

To be a light

To be a cloud

To be a bird

Flying free

 

 

               

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"Fear" - Blue October

 

All my life

Been running from a pain in me

A feeling I don't understand

Is holding me down

 

So rain on me

Underwater

All I am, getting harder

A heavy weight

I carry around

 

Today

I don't have to fall apart

I don't have to let

The damage consume me

My shadow see through me

 

[CHORUS:]

Fear in itself

Will reel you in and spit you out

Over and over again

Believe in yourself

And you will walk

Fear in itself

Will use you up and break you down

Like you were never enough

I used to fall

Now I get back up

 

I'm up here

I'm looking at the way down there

I'm staring through the I don't care

It's staring back at me

 

The beauty is

I'm learning how to face my beast

Starting now to find some peace

And set myself free

Today

I don't have to fall apart

I don't have to let

The damage consume me

My shadow see through me

 

[CHORUS]

 

I'm moving on

Oh god just move on

Today

I don't have to fall apart

And I don't have to be afraid

Get back up

Get up

 

Fear in itself can use you up

And breaks you down

Just like you're never enough

I used to fall

 

Breathe

Ask for more

If you're bitter still

Ask him to help you carry on

 

 

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"Someone Who Believes in You"

 

Carole King

 

Air Supply

 

 

 

 

When there's a dark storm on your horizon

And you think you can't get through it

Just put your hand in my hand

And I'll show you how to do it

 

When the future looks uncertain

You can count on me to be there

And when your heart and soul are hurting

Just look and you'll see me there

 

Just follow where I lead

I'll give you what you need

A love that's always true

And someone who believes in you

 

It's time to come alive

Your moment has arrived

I'll bring out the best in you

We can have it all

No, we will never fall

Looking down from our celestial view

 

So when you're searching for that rainbow

I will help you find it

And when a mountain stands before you

I will help you climb it

 

Just follow where I lead

I'll give you what you need

And I'll tell you something else

You'll start believing in yourself

It's an easy thing to do

When you have someone who believes in you

 

Someone who believes

Someone who believes

I'm someone who believes

You've got someone who believes in you

 

 

 

                     

[[Sa...]]

 

:hug:

 

 

"Somewhere Out There"

 

Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram

 

 

 

"Somewhere Out There"

 

Somewhere out there

Beneath the pale moonlight

Someone's thinking of me

And loving me tonight

 

Somewhere out there

Someone's saying a prayer

That we'll find one another

In that big somewhere out there

 

And even though I know how very far apart we are

It helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star

And when the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby

It helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky

 

Somewhere out there

If love can see us through

Then we'll be together

Somewhere out there

Out where dreams come true

 

❤️❤️❤️

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    what are the odds of accidentally posting the exact same panda picture  .....can you say hilarious ? Or best day ever, get it MB 

 

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" Pieces"

 

Rob Thomas

 

 

 

 

"Pieces"

 

Run away, run away if you can't speak

Turn a page on a world that you don't need

Wide awake and you're scared that you won't come down now

 

Didn't I tell you you were gonna break down

Didn't I warn you, didn't I warn you

Better take it easy, try to find a way out

Better start believing in yourself

 

We build it up, we tear it down

We leave our pieces on the ground

We see no end, we don't know how

We are lost and we're falling

Hold onto me

You're all I have, all I have

Hold onto me

You're all I have, all I have

 

Now and then there's a light in the darkness

Feel around till you find where your heart went

There's a weight in the air but you can't see why, why

 

Didn't I tell you you were gonna break down

Didn't I want you, everybody wants you

Tell me what you're needing, give into your bleeding

Never any feeling for yourself

 

We build it up, we tear it down

We leave our pieces on the ground

We see no end, we don't know how

We are lost and we're falling

Hold onto me

You're all I have, all I have

Hold onto me

You're all I have, all I have

 

Didn't I tell you you were gonna break down

Didn't I warn you, didn't I warn you

Better take it easy, try to find a way out

Better start believing in yourself

 

We build it up, we tear it down

We leave our pieces on the ground

We see no end, we don't know how

We are lost and we're falling

Hold onto me

You're all I have, all I have

Hold onto me

You're all I have, all I have

Can you hold onto me

Can you hold onto me

 

Run away, run away if you can't speak

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    what are the odds of accidentally posting the exact same panda picture  .....can you say hilarious ? Or best day ever, get it MB 

 

 

Yes, but of course best day ever, MB!  Or perhaps another example of LLTM? I did spit at the computer seeing that, I'll admit, but I was prepared to give you the benefit of the doubt that maybe it was a techie issue.    Nice surprise, got me good again, shows how stubbornness/persistence pays off.  Hmmmm? 

 

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Soooooo!  Speaking of surprises! 

This one comes from our lovely, irresistible little friend, none other than (the silent) Princess Eva herself.   

Well, our princess sent me a knock-out tune which I hadn't heard before.  I told her I was going to throw it down here and dedicate it to her, and she asked me to please dedicate it to Saga!  Awww. So now it's gone full circle, here goes.

 

(Geez, notice how many emotis I used in just these few lines?      Seems she didn't steal them all after all!  )

 

 

"Say it Ain't So, Joe" - Murray Head

 

Say it ain't so, Joe, please

Say it ain't so

That's not what I wanna hear, Joe

And I got a right to know

Say it ain't so, Joe, please

Say it ain't so

I'm sure they're telling us lies, Joe

Please tell us it ain't so

 

They told us that our hero

Has played his trump card

He doesn't know how to go on

We're clinging to his charm

And determined smile

But the good old days have gone

 

The image and the empire

May be falling apart

The money has gotten scarce

One man's word

Held the country together

But the truth is getting fierce

 

Say it ain't so, Joe, please

Say it ain't so

We've pinned our hopes on you, Joe

And they're ruining our show

 

Ooh babies

Don't you think

We're gonna get burned

we're gonna get turned

we're gonna get learned

 

Say it ain't so, Joe, please

Say it ain't so

That's not what I wanna hear, Joe

And I got a right to know

Say it ain't so, Joe, please

Say it ain't so

I'm sure they're telling us lies, Joe

Please tell us it ain't so

 

 

 

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"Disappear Always" - Wild Nothing

 

Pull the blinds

All the black dreams I've had

Well they don't mean much now

 

When I rise at noon

I'm missing someone I don't know

And I don't want to be alone

 

And this house is now a grave

I've been sleeping here for days

I'm too hidden to awake

So I disappear always

 

Call someone up

Just having a dream

We talk about anything

I don't care

 

Get out of the house

For an hour or two

But it's missing something

I can't explain

 

And this house is now a grave

I've been sleeping here for days

I'm too hidden to awake

So I disappear always

 

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"Closer To Fine" - Indigo Girls

 

I'm trying to tell you something about my life

Maybe give me insight between black and white

And the best thing you've ever done for me

Is to help me take my life less seriously

It's only life after all

 

Well the darkness has a hunger that's insatiable

And the lightness has a call that's hard to hear

And I wrap my fear around me like a blanket

I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it

I'm crawling on your shores

 

[CHORUS:]

And I went to the doctor

I went to the mountains

I looked to the children

I drank from the fountains

There's more than one answer to these questions

Pointing me in a crooked line

And the less I seek my source for some definitive

Closer I am to fine

Closer I am to fine

 

And I went to see the doctor of philosophy

With a poster of Rasputin

And a beard down to his knee

He never did marry or see a B-Grade movie

He graded my performance

He said he could see through me

I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind

Got my paper and I was free

 

[CHORUS]

 

I stopped by the bar at 3 a.m.

To seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend

And I woke up with a headache

Like my head against a board

Twice as cloudy as I'd been the night before

And I went in seeking clarity

 

And I went to the doctor

I went to the mountains

I looked to the children

I drank from the fountains

We go to the doctor

We go to the mountains

We look to the children

We drink from the fountains

We go to the bible

We go through the workout

We read up on revival

And we stand up for the lookout

 

There's more than one answer to these questions

Pointing me in a crooked line

The less I seek my source for some definitive

Closer I am to fine

Closer I am to fine

Closer I am to fine

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"Falling Awake" - Gary Jules

 

Eagle in the dark

Feathers in the pages

Monkeys in my heart

Are rattling their cages

 

Found a way to blue

And another ghost to follow

Said it's only up to you

And that's the hardest pill to swallow

 

You never get to choose

You live on what they sent you

And you know they're gonna use

The things you love against you

 

One foot in the grave

One foot in the shower

There's never time to save

You're paying by the hour

 

And that's just the way it goes

Falling awake

And that's just the way it goes

 

Slipping through the bars

Aware of the danger

Of riding in the cars

Taking candy from strangers

 

And it's never out of hand

Never out of pocket

I'm supersonic man

Do you wanna buy a rocket

 

And that's just the way it goes

Falling awake

Falling awake

Oh that's just the way it goes

Falling awake

Falling awake

 

Eagle in the dark

Feathers in the pages

Monkeys in my heart

Are rattling their cages

 

I could learn to play the game

I could learn to run the hustle

If I only had the brains

The money or the muscle

 

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"Need Someone To Hold"

Creedence Clearwater Revival

 

The sun came up

And pushed away the clouds

Stumbled back to my room

Really don't know how

 

Won't wake up till this afternoon

Been out walking all night again

Stranger here trying to have fun

Far from home, it's just begun

 

[CHORUS:]

Give out the warm

It comes back cold

Oh God, I need someone to hold

 

My coffee's cold

Gonna have to do

My feet are shot

Feeling hungry too

 

People don't have a thing to say

Feel your dignity slip away

Won't wake up till this afternoon

It's a waste of time cause there's nothing new

 

[CHORUS]

 

A city nice as this one

Should be kind

It pushed me down

Really don't know why

 

When I wake up this afternoon

Another day to make it through

Might get lucky and find a dime

If things don't change, gonna give up trying

 

Give out the warm

It comes back cold

Oh God, I need someone to hold

 

 

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"You Know Where To Find Me" - Imogen Heap

 

You know where to find me

When you’re on your way up

All bustle and busy

Enough is enough

Cause life’s sweet assemblages

Are quick to driftwood away

Be still with me

 

You know where to find me

For no particular reason

For stop traffic behavior

Or to get something off your chest

Cause we go a long way back

Back to nothing at all

Be still with me

 

Won’t you be

Be still with me

 

You know where to find me

If you think it’s all over

I can sense it a mile off

It’s no friendly hello

You could be screaming drunk

Well I’ve got my bad days too

I’m gonna be here for you

Be still with me

 

In a public place

Private thoughts

A reminder of a precious loss

I can be a source of constant reassurance

Let the breeze block sadness drop

 

Won’t you be

Be still with me

 

Heart, lung, soul

Arteries and all

A shoulder at the ready

Vital organs on call

Heart, lung, soul

Arteries and all

A shoulder at the ready

Vital organs on call

 

Don’t mistake my charity

For what it is

A deep need to be needed necessary

Don’t mistake my open arms

For what they are

They can turn on you

So show me the money

Show me the money

 

Blue and green

Fresh eyes on me

I’m young again

All things to men

With bite-sized life boats

I’ll fix your smashed up head

Be still with me

 

If you want to be alone

If you’d rather die

Then tell, you know where I’ll be

Where to find me

For hard talk

To call it off or bring it on

A proposal

If you’re broken

I’ll be here

I’ll be here

For your secrets

For a breather

There's nothing you can't do

 

 

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"We Fly so Close" - Phil Collins

 

My harbor lights are fading fast

Soon they'll disappear

Alone I sit in darkness

Hoping someone might come near

Though I wait

Though I try

No one ever comes

And the feelings that I have

Flood over me

The river starts to run

 

We fly so close

We fly so close

Sometimes we fly too close

 

Every place you run to

Everywhere you turn

There are places that you know

You should not go

But some bridges just won't burn

All my life though I try

I cannot change the past

And the ghosts

That come back to haunt you

Make you realize at last

 

We fly so close

We fly so close

Sometimes we fly too close

We fly too close

 

My heart is racing much faster now

Life passes before my eyes

Some things I see

They make me smile

Some things they make me cry

So I look, so I try to find

A lesson I can learn

The passing of time

Hasn't changed my mind

And the ghosts I know return

 

We fly so close

We fly so close

Sometimes we fly too close

We fly too close

 

Oh, we fly so close

You and I sometimes

Sometimes we fly so close

We'll never know how many times

Oh, we fly so close

We fly so close

 

 

                 

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      This one's for you, Princess!     

 

 

"Full Circle"

 

The Byrds

 

Dan Fogelberg

 

Funny how the circle turns around

First you're up and then you're down again

Though the circle takes what it may give

Each time around

It makes it live again

 

Funny how the circle is a wheel

And it can steal someone who is a friend

Funny how the circle takes you flying

And if it's right

It brings it back again

 

Funny how the circle turns around

You think you're lost and then you're found again

Though you always look for what you know

Each time around

It's something new again

 

Funny how the circle is a wheel

And it can steal someone who is a friend

Funny how the circle takes you flying

And if it's right

It brings it back again

 

 

[[Si...]]

Motion City Soundtrack

"Everything is Alright"

 

Tell me that you're alright,

Yeah everything is alright.

Oh please tell me that you're alright,

Yeah everything is alright.

 

Give me a reason to end this discussion,

To break with tradition.

To fold and divide.

 

Cause I hate the ocean, theme parks and airplanes,

Talking with strangers, waiting in line..

I'm through with these pills that make me sit still.

"Are you feeling fine?"

Yes, I feel just fine.

 

Tell me that you're alright,

Yeah everything is alright.

Oh please tell me that you're alright,

Yeah everything is alright.

 

I'm sick of the things I do when I'm nervous

Like cleaning the oven or checking my tires

Or counting the number of tiles in the ceiling..

Head for the hills, the kitchen's on fire!

 

I used to rely on self-medication,

I guess I still do that from time to time.

But I'm getting better at fighting the future,

"Someday you'll be fine.."

Yes, I'll be just fine.

 

Tell me that you're alright,

Yeah everything is alright.

Oh please tell me that you're alright,

Yeah everything is alright.

 

Give me a reason (I don't believe a word)

To end this discussion (of anything I've heard)

To break with tradition (they tell me that it's not so hard)

To fold and divide (it's not so hard)

So let's not get carried (away with everything)

Away with the process (from here to in-between)

of elimination (the long goodbye)

I don't want to waste your time.

 

Tell me that you're alright,

Yeah everything is alright.

Oh please tell me that you're alright,

Yeah everything is alright.

 

Tell me that you're alright, (Hi, everything's great)

Yeah everything is alright. (Everything's fine)

Oh please tell me that you're alright, (Hi, everything's great)

Yeah everything is alright.

(Everything's fine) [x4]