Share Songs that Motivate and Talk to You

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*** Happy Healing New Year ***

 

"Something Beautiful" - Tim Halperin

 

 

Here we stand

The world awaits

We’ll let the stars tonight

Light the way

 

Hand in hand

Through light or rain

It’s your constant love

That gives me strength

 

[CHORUS:]

Under the starlight

We’ll find our way I know

This is the start of something beautiful

With you by my side

There’s no place that we can’t go

This is the start of something beautiful

 

When the wind

Moves along your face

It captures everything

I long to say

 

So don’t look back, love

And don’t you wait

Just say you’ll run with me

Come what may

 

[CHORUS]

 

Something beautiful

 

Here we stand

The world awaits

It’s your love I know

That gives me strength

 

Under the starlight

We’ll find our way I know

This is the start of something beautiful

With you by my side

There’s no place that we can’t go

This is the start of something beautiful

 

 

                                                                           

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"Sweet Bird" - Joni Mitchell

https://youtu.be/0DAqsC1ZhoU

 

Out on some borderline

Some mark of in between

I lay down golden in time

And woke up vanishing

 

Sweet bird you are

Briefer than a falling star

All these vain promises on beauty jars

Somewhere with your wings on time

You must be laughing

 

Behind our eyes

Calendars of our lives

Circled with compromise

Sweet bird of time and change

You must be laughing

Up on your feathers laughing

 

Golden in time

Cities under the sand

Power, ideals, and beauty

Fading in everyone's hand

 

Give me some time

I feel like I'm losing mine

Out here on this horizon line

With the earth spinning

And the sky forever rushing

 

No one knows

They can never get that close

Guesses at most

Guesses based on what each set

Of time and change is touching

Guesses based on what each set

Of time and change is touching

Guesses based on what each set

Of time and change is touching

 

 

 

Good morning and Happy New Year ABCD! Just checked this thread and this song took me back, a very long way. Thank you for sharing.

 

Happy New Year to all the music lovers here

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Just about anything from Playing For Change inspires me, so here are a few fantabulous tidbits:

 

Start with this lovely version of John Denver's "Country Roads".

 

 

Then if you need another hit of good vibrations, here's "Lean On Me":

 

 

Plus "una version fantastico de Guantanamera":

 

 

And a rousing performance of "Pata Pata"

 

 

Plus one last delicious tune from PFC, "La Bamba", which has to get you rockin' in your seat, if you weren't already doing so:

 

 

 

AAAAAAH, good for the soul!

 

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Hey, wai and Lap, and Happy New Year to both you girlies too. 

 

Wai, glad you enjoyed a little nostalgic trip down memory lane.  And Dizzy Dame thinks she's being hilarious with her "Rockin' in your seat" comment.  For those who don't know, the two of us are 24/7 rockers and it's just so old already (polite version)! 

 

May the coming year brings all kinds of healing for all of us.

 

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'The Inner Scream" - Sananda Maitreya

 

If you're not good to yourself

You'll be drowned out

By your inner scream

If you're not good to yourself

Then your anger becomes a disease

 

A carnival of confusion

A carousel of emotion

A freak show of frustration

A merry go-round mojo

 

If you're not good to yourself

You'll look elsewhere for absolution

If you're not good to yourself

Your self doubt becomes retribution

 

A sideshow of suspicion

A ferris wheel of fear

A roller coaster of madness

A circus of solitude

 

If you're not good to yourself

To yourself, to yourself

 

Go ahead and let your scream out

Let it out and let your scream out

Go ahead and let your scream out

Baby, go and let your scream out

 

If you're not good to yourself

You'll be drowned out

By your inner scream

If you're not good to yourself

Your anger becomes a disease

 

If you're not good to yourself

To yourself

 

Go ahead and let your scream out

Let it out and let your scream out

Go ahead and let your scream out

Let it out

 

Please be good to yourself

Please be good to yourself

Please be good to yourself

 

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"A Bitter Song" - Butterfly Boucher

 

All I need is a bitter song

To make me better

Much better

 

All I need to write is a bitter song

To make me better

Much better

 

It found me

To hold me

But I don't like it at all

Won't feed it

Won't grow it

It's folded in my stomach

 

It's not fair

I found love

It made me say that

Get back

You'll never see daylight

If I'm not strong

It just might

 

All I need is a bitter song

To make me better

Much better

 

All I need to write is a bitter song

To make me better

I feel better

I feel better

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"Flying" - Nazareth

 

Here I am flying

Looking down at Mother Earth below

Above me only blue skies

Below me is a cotton candy world

 

Here I am dreaming

Plane I'm on flies gently as a bird

Captain said something

But I never heard a single word

 

Here I am flying

Look above you

I'll be watching you

Maybe you won't see me

But soon I'll be flying

Soon I'll be flying home to you

 

Gazing at the sunrise

Homeland sure looks green far down below

Now we're almost landed

I can see the hostess by the door

 

Here I am flying

Look above you

I'll be watching you

Maybe you won't see me

But soon I'll be flying

Soon I'll be flying home to you

 

Won't be long till I see

Bridges on our river

Looking at the old familiar lights

Won't be long till we'll be

Making up for countless sleepless nights

 

Here I am flying

Looking down at Mother Earth below

Above me only blue skies

Below me is a cotton candy world

 

Here I am flying

Look above you

I'll be watching you

Maybe you won't see me

But soon I'll be flying

Soon I'll be flying home to you

 

 

         

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"Music is Medicine" - Marie Osmond

https://youtu.be/F8uxzA7Ckdk

 

Drink, drink, drink

Down a double shot of the melody

Overdose

You can never get enough

Of a feel good beat

 

When I'm feeling down and blue

Or when I'm dancing

I'm unmoved

I turn my radio on

I turn my radio on

I turn it up

Turn it up

 

[CHORUS]

Music is medicine

Works every time

The rhythm and rhyme

Get me high, get me high

Music is medicine

My heart's gonna break

If my body don't shake

Give me a fix, give me a fix

Music

Music is medicine

 

Light it up

Just breathe it in and let it go

Fill your veins with the sound of a song

That can heal your soul

 

When I need to kill some pain

Or when I want to go insane

I turn my radio on

I turn my radio on

I turn it up

Turn it up

 

[CHORUS]

 

That they categorize it only makes me mad

Oh there's only two kinds the good and bad

Oh when you're busted up

And down on your knees

Oh I do believe there's a remedy

I turn it up turn it up

 

Music is medicine

Works every time

The rhythm and rhyme

Get me high, get me high

Music is medicine

My heart's gonna break

If my body don't shake

Give me a fix, give me a fix

Music

Music is medicine

 

Music

 

 

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"Home Again" - Ron Pope

 

 

A smile that lingers on a Sunday morning

And I can't quite find the words

I lean in to kiss you

And I give no warning

As we both forget the world

 

I'll be there when your days are long

Hold you up if you don't feel strong

Light your way when the dark comes in

When you're lost

I'll lead you home again

When you're lost

I'll lead you home again

 

Look out the window and the day's upon us

Now we don't know where to go

I'm not sentimental

But I try to be honest

There's a few things you should know

 

I'll be there when your days are long

Hold you up if you don't feel strong

Light your way when the dark comes in

When you're lost

I'll lead you home again

When you're lost

I'll lead you home again

 

 

   

 

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I meant to share this at Christmas time, and as happens all day long, forgot. It's just a happy video to watch and snappy tune. Last Christmas I watched it so much I was singing along, but of course have no idea what I was singing

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di68s1z1dRc

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I meant to share this at Christmas time, and as happens all day long, forgot. It's just a happy video to watch and snappy tune. Last Christmas I watched it so much I was singing along, but of course have no idea what I was singing

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di68s1z1dRc

 

:laugh:   I had to Google it, it's Turkish, right?  And you managed to still sing along to it, lol, that's so great!

Seriously, what would we do without our music, some days it's about all I can do to get through this nightmare ... drown myself in the music. 

I so hope you're seeing some decent progress?

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"Have Mercy" - Firehouse

 

Looking for direction

Got nowhere to place my loyalties

I've stumbled and I've fallen

My life is breaking me down

Like some disease

 

I'm lost in the darkness

Can't find the light

I can't see anymore

I'm crying, I'm waiting

I'm asking is there something more

 

[CHORUS:]

Have mercy, have mercy

In the name of God

Have mercy

Please help me, please help me

In the name of God

Have mercy

 

I don't know, I don't know

I don't know where I'm going to

I don't know, I don't know

Forgive me I know not what I do

 

Looking for the answer

I've been asking the question

I'm on my knees

Show me, help me

In the name of God

I'm begging please

 

I don't know, I don't know

I don't know where I'm going to

I don't know, I don't know

Forgive me I know not what I do

 

Have mercy

Have mercy

 

:'( :'( :'(

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"I'm With You" - Avril Lavigne

 

I'm standing on the bridge

I'm waiting in the dark

I thought that you'd be here by now

There's nothing but the rain

No footsteps on the ground

I'm listening but there's no sound

Isn't anyone trying to find me

Won't somebody come take me home

 

[CHORUS:]

It's a damn cold night

Trying to figure out this life

Won't you take me by the hand

Take me somewhere new

I don't know who you are

But I, I'm with you

I'm with you

 

I'm looking for a place

I'm searching for a face

Is anybody here I know

Cause nothings going right

And everything's a mess

And no one likes to be alone

Isn't anyone trying to find me

Won't somebody come take me home

 

[CHORUS]

 

Oh why is everything so confusing

Maybe I'm just out of my mind

 

It's a damn cold night

Trying to figure out this life

Won't you take me by the hand

Take me somewhere new

I don't know who you are

But I, I'm with you

I'm with you

 

Take me by the hand

Take me somewhere new

I don't know who you are

But I, I'm with you

I'm with you

 

Take me by the hand

Take me somewhere new

I don't know who you are

But I, I'm with you

I'm with you

I'm with you

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Happy New Year abcd! Yes, it's Turkish. And I agree, music is amazing, and we have the entire world at our fingertips now too. It's funny, because I've been singing songs I don't understand going way back to high school when I would play a stack of 45's my mom had in Italian and sing them at the top of my lungs in my bedroom. 

 

I'm doing just ok, thanks for asking. Rough holiday at 32 months out, really expected to be doing better but feeling very hopeful for the new year. I hope you are doing better, too abcd.  (But since we're awake, are you in the insomnia club too?)

 

Thanks for all the tunes, I'm trying to focus on the positives, like music, because rabbit holes are everywhere, still.

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Happy New Year abcd! Yes, it's Turkish. And I agree, music is amazing, and we have the entire world at our fingertips now too. It's funny, because I've been singing songs I don't understand going way back to high school when I would play a stack of 45's my mom had in Italian and sing them at the top of my lungs in my bedroom. 

 

  You're so great, wai.  Me, I've always been very into the lyrics, I never could understand people saying they never paid attention to them.  Huh?  But, um ...   

So, hey, keep on keeping on, okay, whatever that means to us stragglers this far out  ... and I will too.  New Year Hug. 

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"Remember When It Rained" - Josh Groban

 

Wash away the thoughts inside

That keep my mind away from you

No more love and no more pride

And thoughts are all I have to do

 

Ooh, remember when it rained

I felt the ground and looked up high

And called your name

Ooh, remember when it rained

In the darkness I remain

 

Tears of hope run down my skin

Tears for you that will not dry

They magnify the one within

And let the outside slowly die

 

Ooh, remember when it rained

I felt the ground and looked up high

And called your name

Ooh, remember when it rained

In the water I remain

 

Running down, running down, running down

Running down, running down

Running down

Running down

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"Keep Me from Blowing Away"

 

Linda Ronstadt

 

Willie Nelson

https://youtu.be/_jHOF02nV90

 

Well I spent my whole lifetime

In a world where the sunshine

Finds excuses for not hanging round

 

I squandered emotions

On the slightest of notions

And the first easy loving I found

 

But soon all the good times

The gay times and play times

Like colors run together and fade

 

Oh Lord, if you hear me

Touch me and hold me

And keep me from blowing away

There's times when I trembled

When my mind remembered

The days that just crumbled away

 

With nothing to show

But these lines that I know

Are beginning to show in my face

 

Oh Lord, if you're listening

I know I'm no Christian

And I ain't got much coming to me

 

So send down some sunshine

And throw out your lifeline

And keep me from blowing away

 

Oh Lord, if you hear me

Touch me and hold me

And keep me from blowing away

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"Bird Of Paradise" - Snowy White

https://youtu.be/sY2I8TlG4Ug

 

Saw you flying by

Flash of turquoise blue

I just had to try

To keep your life in view

 

My bird of paradise

Sweet bird of paradise

 

Wish that I could fly

I'd be beside you now

But I can only sigh

And watch you circle round

 

My bird of paradise

Sweet bird of paradise

My bird of paradise

Sweet bird of paradise

My bird of paradise

 

So you fly away

When will you come again

So I can watch you play

In the pouring rain

 

My bird of paradise

Sweet bird of paradise

My bird of paradise

Sweet bird of paradise

My bird of paradise

 

 

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"Help Is On Its Way" - Little River Band

https://youtu.be/iq2WJ2r0NkM

 

Why're you in so much hurry

Is it really worth the worry

Look around

Then slow down

 

What's it like inside the bubble

Does your head ever give you trouble

It's no sin

Trade it in   

 

Hang on

Help is on its way

I'll be there as fast as I can

Hang on

A tiny voice did say

From somewhere deep inside the inner man

 

Are you always in confusion

Surrounded by illusion

Sort it out

You'll make out

 

Seem to make a good beginning

Someone else ends up winning

Don't seem fair

Don't you care

 

[CHORUS]

 

Don't you forget who'll take care of you

It don't matter what you do

Form a duet

Let him sing melody

You'll provide the harmony

 

Why're you in so much hurry

Is it really worth the worry

Look around

Then slow down

 

What's it like inside the bubble

Does your head ever give you trouble

It's no sin

Trade it in 

 

Hang on

Help is on its way

I'll be there as fast as I can

Hang on

A tiny voice did say

From somewhere deep inside the inner man

 

Help is on its way

Help is on its way

 

 

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"By Your Side" - Sade

 

http://i.imgur.com/57CGlbi.png?1

 

You think I'd leave your side, baby

You know me better than that

Think I'd leave you down

When you're down on your knees

I wouldn't do that

 

I'll tell you you're right

When you're wrong

And if only you could see into me

 

Oh, when you're cold

I'll be there

Hold you tight to me

When you're on the outside, baby

And you can't get in

I will show you

You're so much better than you know

 

When you're lost

And you're alone

And you can't get back again

I'll find you, darling

And I'll bring you home

 

If you want to cry

I am here to dry your eyes

And in no time you'll be fine

 

You think I'd leave your side, baby

You know me better than that

Think I'd leave you down

When you're down on your knees

I wouldn't do that

 

I'll tell you you're right

When you're wrong

And if only you could see into me

 

Oh, when you're cold

I'll be there, hold you tight to me

Oh, when you're low

I'll be there by your side, baby

 

Oh, when you're cold

I'll be there, hold you tight to me

Oh, when you're low

I'll be there by your side, baby

 

 

 

 

             

 

 

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Sia- Bird Set Free... She was addicted to Xanax, Oxycotin, and Alcohol and is now 5 years sober. She understands us! In interviews she talks about the sick world of Benzo and alcohol co addiction. Many of her songs reflect it. This song really is powerful to me "you held me down"... It's a metaphor for the drugs.

 

 

 

Clipped wings, I was a broken thing

Had a voice, had a voice but I could not sing

You would wind me down

I struggled on the ground, oh

So lost, the line had been crossed

Had a voice, had a voice but I could not talk

You held me down

I struggle to fly now, oh

But there's a scream inside that we all try to hide

We hold on so tight, we cannot deny

Eats us alive, oh it eats us alive, oh

Yes, there's a scream inside that we all try to hide

We hold on so tight, but I don't wanna die, no

I don't wanna die, I don't wanna die, yeah

I'm not gon' care if I sing off key

I find myself in my melodies

I sing for love, I sing for me

I shout it out like a bird set free

No, I don't care if I sing off key

I find myself in my melodies

I sing for love, I sing for me

I'll shout…

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Sia- Big Girls Cry

 

I'm at home, on my own

Check my phone, nothing, though

Act busy, order in

Pay TV, it’s agony

I may cry ruinin' my makeup

Wash away all the things you’ve taken

 

 

This verse is a strong reference to the drugs "wash away all you have taken"... all Klonopin has taken from me!

 

Sia- "Unstoppable"- is really positive about pushing through the pain, lyrics are very powerful, she is powerful!

 

 

Love her videos too.

 

I'll smile, I know what it takes to fool this town

I'll do it 'til the sun goes down

And all through the night time, oh yeah,

Oh, yeah, I'll tell you what you want to hear

Keep my sunglasses on while I shed a tear

It's never the right time, yeah, yeah

 

I'll put my armor on,

Show you how strong I am

I'll put my armor on,

I'll show you that I am

 

I'm unstoppable

I'm a Porsche with no brakes

I'm invincible

Yeah, I win every single game

I'm so powerful

I don't need batteries to play

I'm so confident

I'm unstoppable today

Unstoppable today [3x]

I'm unstoppable today

 

I break down, only alone I will cry out loud

You'll never see what's hiding out

Hiding out deep down, yeah, yeah

I know I've heard that to let your feelings show

Is the only way to make friendships grow

But I'm too afraid now, yeah, yeah

 

I'll put my armor on,

Show you how strong I am

I'll put my armor on,

I'll show you that I am

 

I'm unstoppable

I'm a Porsche with no brakes

I'm invincible

Yeah, I win every single game

I'm so powerful

I don't need batteries to play

I'm so confident

I'm unstoppable today

Unstoppable today [3x]

I'm unstoppable today

Unstoppable today [3x]

I'm unstoppable today

 

I'll put my armor on,

Show you how strong I am

I'll put my armor on,

I'll show you that I am

 

I'm unstoppable

I'm a Porsche with no brakes

I'm invincible

Yeah, I win every single game

I'm so powerful

I don't need batteries to play

I'm so confident

I'm unstoppable today

Unstoppable today [3x]

I'm unstoppable today

Unstoppable today [3x]

I'm unstoppable today

 

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Sia- Bird Set Free... She was addicted to Xanax, Oxycotin, and Alcohol and is now 5 years sober. She understands us! In interviews she talks about the sick world of Benzo and alcohol co addiction. Many of her songs reflect it. This song really is powerful to me "you held me down"... It's a metaphor for the drugs.

 

 

 

Hi thirdtime, yes, some artists you can really tell just "get it" and Sia's certainly one of them.  Bird Set Free, just love that one, very powerful, thanks so much for the share!

 

Clipped wings, I was a broken thing

Had a voice, had a voice but I could not sing

You would wind me down

I struggled on the ground, oh

So lost, the line had been crossed

Had a voice, had a voice but I could not talk

You held me down

I struggle to fly now, oh

But there's a scream inside that we all try to hide

We hold on so tight, we cannot deny

Eats us alive, oh it eats us alive, oh

Yes, there's a scream inside that we all try to hide

We hold on so tight, but I don't wanna die, no

I don't wanna die, I don't wanna die, yeah

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My favorite line too 😊

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OMD - Enola Gay

 

 

Enola Gay, you should have stayed at home yesterday

Ah-ha words can't describe the feeling and the way you lied

These games you play they're going to end in more than tears some day

Ah-ha Enola Gay it shouldn't ever have to end this way

It's eight fifteen and that's the time that it's always been

We got your message on the radio

Conditions normal and you're coming home

Enola Gay, is mother proud of little boy today

Ah-ha this kiss you give, it's never going to fade away

Enola Gay, it shouldn't ever have to end this way

Ah-ha Enola Gay, it shouldn't fade in our dreams away

It's eight fifteen and that's the time that it's always been

We got your message on the radio

Conditions normal and you're coming home

Enola Gay, is mother proud of little boy today

Ah-ha this kiss you give, it's never ever going to fade away