Share Songs that Motivate and Talk to You

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"To Make You Smile Again"

Carole Bayer Sager

 

 

Somebody's been crying

Crying far too long

So I sat down hoping

There was something in this song

To make you smile again

Oh, how I would love to see you happy

Find that extra something you believe in

You've been there before

So you're only a smile away

 

Until you laugh again

Just to really feel one day completely

Tell me what it takes

And if you really need me

To make all your gray skies blue today

 

Sometimes you find that in forgiving

You can mend a broken heart

But somehow you're afraid to turn around

To see there's someone who feels like you

Who wants to smile again

 

It's not so long ago we shared forever

And everybody goes through stormy weather

But together there's a lifetime to see it through

If you would just smile again

I'll start smiling too

 

 

                             

[[Lo...]]

The Chameleons - Seriocity

 

 

I used to be so sure

I used to be so certain

Now it's gone

Always needing more

Bleating out excuses

I have none, none

 

Cast reflections on the water

Now that the deed is done

We'll wait

And watch the ripples fade away

Hearts are breaking

Someone's daughter

Joins with someone's son

It goes on and on again

On and on again

We Watch the ripples run

 

I used to be so sure

I used to be so certain

How could I be so wrong

Always needing more

At last the chains are breaking

Watch me now

Watch me run

 

Over fields and past the houses

Like a bullet from the gun

Watch the figure fade away

Hearts are breaking

Someone's daughter

Joins with someone's son

All alone again, all alone again

Watch the ripples run

 

Over fields and past the houses

Watch the rabbit run

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" Giving Up Everything"

 

Natalie Merchant

 

 

"Giving Up Everything"

 

Giving up everything,


my hungry ghost of hopefulness.


 

Giving up everything,


not haunted by wanting this.


 

Giving up everything,


the fortune I was saving. 


 

Giving up everything,


I mercy-killed my craving.


 

Giving up everything,


I’ve opened up my eyes for this.


 

Giving up everything,


see the whole magnificent emptiness.


 

Gave what I want for how it is,


for the stone inside and the bitterness,


for the sweetness at the core of it.


 

Giving up everything,


the master plan, the scheming.


 

Giving up everything,


my cursed search for meaning.


 

Giving up everything,


the compass and the map I was reading.



 

The hinterlands I’m leaving,


I’m finally leaving behind.


 

Giving up everything,


the big to-do, the hullabaloo,

the tug-of-war for some twisted truth.


For the everlasting ache of it,


no longer slave, not chained to it,


no gate, no guard, no keeper,


no guru, master, teacher.



 

See the slow-receding faces


dissolve to black, no traces....

 

 

 

[[Sa...]]

" Conductor"

Florence + The Machine

 

 

"Conductor"

 

I tried to control my shaking

With just one sound

I tried to warm the ocean

By writing it down

I tried to tame my nightmare

Line by line

If I write a song about you

Does that make you mine?

 

The conductor caught in slow motion

The orchestra plays on

Over and over, the same motion

This work is never done

 

The only thing that's certain

Is your indecision

I guess it must be working

Cause you hit me with such precision

Now the strings are breaking

Their fingers run with blood

But they keep on playing

The cycle never stops

 

Who's in control?

Who's playing who?

 

She wants to be amongst them

Conducting them too

She knows the song won't save her

But what else can she do?

She weeps just like a willow

She's playing for you

She's fragile and she's ferocious

As the current flows through

 

She's a conductor caught in slow motion

The orchestra plays loud

Over and over, the same motion

This work is never done

 

Now here comes the crescendo

The music starts to swell

And now it's so ecstatic

I know this part so well

And then it goes staccato

The notes were flying up

Higher and higher

But they never reach the top

 

Who's in control?

Who's playing who?

 

I am the orchestra

The conductor too

My heart is a concert hall

And I filled it with you

 

 

 

 

 

 

[[Sa...]]

" You Know Me Well"

Sharon Van Etten

 

 

"You Know Me Well"

 

Everyone will go with you

Listen for the way out as you

Cut me to the chase til I'm

On the other side and when

It all comes out

We're as empty as a brick house that we

Built without the sides

 

Everyone is crazy with their own life

Lies in existential you ever want to find your way out

Turn into yourself again and reach on out

To become your true self

 

You know me well

You show me hell when I'm looking

And here you are

Looking

 

All the skies are fallin and the sun is movin up and down

Even when you're in a dark way

Some decisions shield you from the positivity until

You reach out to me

You say why you hate it as you pry your way in

I need another investigative mind

Tell me that you're injured, yourself, and you've been healing

And I will see this through

 

You know me well

You show me hell when I'm looking

And here you are

Looking

I told you then

I'd hold you when you need it

And there you are

Looking

Away

 

You know me well

You know me well

You know me well

You know me well

You know me well

 

❤️

 

 

 

 

 

[[Sa...]]

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"Be Here Now"

Ray LaMontagne

 

 

"Be Here Now"

 

Don't let your mind get weary and confused

Your will be still, don't try

Don't let your heart get heavy child

Inside you there's a strength that lies

 

Don't let your soul get lonely child

It's only time, it will go by

Don't look for love in faces, places

It's in you, that's where you'll find kindness

 

Be here now, here now

Be here now, here now

 

Don't lose your faith in me

And I will try not to lose faith in you

Don't put your trust in walls

'Cause walls will only crush you when they fall

 

Be here now, here now

Be here now, here now

 

❤️❤️❤️

 

 

 

[[Lo...]]

 

 

Peter Murphy -  A strange kind of love

 

A strange kind of love

A strange kind of feeling

Swims through your eyes

And like the doors

To a wide vast dominion

They open to your prise

This is no terror ground

Or place for the rage

No broken hearts

White wash lies

Just a taste for the truth

Perfect taste choice and meaning

A look into your eyes

Blind to the gemstone alone

A smile from a frown circles round

Should he stay or should he go

Let him shout a rage so strong

A rage that knows no right or wrong

And take a little piece of you

There is no middle ground

Or that's how it seems

For us to walk or to take

Instead we tumble down

Either side left or right

To love or to hate

 

[[Lo...]]

Peter Murphy - All night long

 

 

When the night is closing

Eyes are running wild

When I hear you humming

All night long

 

The sign I see it

Tell me am I true

All I need from you is

All I see

 

This city's paved with cold

Playboys buying fun

Seems there is no hunter left

Without his hunting gun

 

Can you feel the light?

The air is wild open

Oh, you see the light it's coming through

It's there in the distance

Always offered to me

Always coming over a hill

 

Oh, your see-saw smile

Lasts me all night long

Like a siren's curl

When the night is long

 

Now, come hold my hand

No bad vibe hearts

Hold my hand, you know

This journey could be long

 

Yeah, the seasons come in

All the nights are woven

All the nights, we'll see them through

Ah, no hundred men now

Would dare cut into us

We'll go on and see it through

 

(Belle)

(Une rose qui a joue son role)

(Mon Miroir)

(Mon clef d'or)

(Mon cheval)

(Et mon gant sont les cinq secrets de ma puissance)

Now, hold my hand

No bad vibe hearts

(Je voulais livrer)

(Il vous suffira de mettre ce gant)

(A votre main droite)

(Il vous transportera ou vous desirez l'etre)

 

When the night has come in

Your eyes are running wild

Then I hear you humming

All night long

 

Yeah, the sign I see it

Yeah, the times I see it

All I need to know from you

Is all I see

 

Can you feel the light?

The air is wild, open

Oh you see the light

It's coming through

It's there in the distance

Always offered to me

Always coming over a hill

Yeah, the seasons come in

All the nights are woven

All the nights, we'll see them through

Ah, no hundred men now

Would dare cut into us

We'll go on and see it through

 

 

 

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"I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"

 

Chris Isaak

 

Wynonna

 

The Everly Brothers

 

Hear that lonesome whip-poor-will

He sounds too blue to fly

The midnight train is whining low

I'm so lonesome I could cry

 

I've never seen a night so long

When time keeps crawling by

The moon just went behind a cloud

To hide his face and cry

 

Did you ever see a robin weep

When leaves begin to die

That means he's lost the will to live

I'm so lonesome I could cry

 

The silence of a falling star

Lights up a purple sky

And as I wonder where you are

I'm so lonesome I could cry

 

I'm so lonesome I could cry

 

:'(    :'(    :'(

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Peter Murphy, new to me, loving those blue contacts. 

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"Fallen" - Imagine Dragons

 

Run for cover

My sense of fear is running thin

Undercover

Just like a candle in the wind

 

[CHORUS:]

Tell everybody

Tell everybody

Brother, sister

The ending is coming

Oh, we are fallen

We are fallen

Oh, we are fallen

We are fallen now

We're just gonna ride it out

 

Every morning

I'm staring shadows in the eye

Oh, good morning

Will you just wait until I die

 

[CHORUS]

 

Tell everybody, tell everybody

Tell everybody

We are fallen

Oh, we are fallen, we are fallen

Oh, we are fallen, we are fallen now

We're just gonna ride it out

 

I just want to take it in

Even when your fire runs out

Will you start it up again

We are fallen

 

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"Burning Gold" - Christina Perri

 

Looking for an exit in this world of fear

I can see the path that leads away

Mama never left and daddy needs me here

I wish the wind would carry a change

 

Looking through the window to a world of dreams

I can see my future slip away

Honey you won't get there if you don't believe

I wish the wind would carry a change

 

[CHORUS:]

I've had enough

I'm standing up

I need, I need a change

I've had enough

Of chasing luck

I need, I need a change

 

I'm setting fire to the life that I know

Let's start a fire everywhere that we go

We're starting fires

We're starting fires

Till our lives are burning gold

Till our lives are burning gold

 

Looking for my ticket to a higher place

I can see my chance begin to fade

One step forward and two back again

I wish the wind would carry a change

 

[CHORUS:]

 

Looking back I see I had the flame in me

I'm the wind that's carrying a change

 

I've had enough

Of chasing luck

I need, I need a change

 

I'm setting fire to the life that I know

Let's start a fire everywhere that we go

We're starting fires

We're starting fires

Till our lives are burning gold

Till our lives are burning gold

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"To Be Free" - Mike Oldfield & Jude Sim

https://youtu.be/vKO_jVXU4mI

 

You find yourself alone sometimes

Without a home, no protection

You don't know which way to go

You're lost

No direction

 

The suddenly out of the blue

Some kind of magic comes to you

You don't know how

You don't know why

But someday

You're gonna take off

Fly, fly, fly, fly 

 

My wish would be

To be free

To be wild

And to be

Just like a child

And if I get lost

I really don't mind

Cause I'm me

Doing just fine

 

You're out in the cold sometimes

As far as you can see, misty

You want to run into the sun

The road is lost

Sand, shifty

 

Suddenly out of the blue

Some kind of magic pushes you through

You don't know when

How or why

But someday

You're gonna take off and fly

And if I had a wish

My wish would be

To be free

To be wild

And to be

Just like a child

And if I get lost

I really don't mind

Cause I'm me

Doing just fine

 

 

   

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"You Save Me" - Kenny Chesney

 

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Every now and then I get a little lost

My strings all get tangled

My wires all get crossed

Every now and then I'm right up on the edge

Dangling my toes out over the ledge

I just thank God you're here

 

Cause when I'm a bullet shot out of a gun

Cause when I'm a firecracker coming undone 

Or when I'm a fugitive ready to run

All wild-eyed and crazy

No matter where my reckless soul takes me

Baby you save me

 

It's hard loving a man that's got a gypsy soul

I don't know how you do it

I'm not sure how you know

The perfect thing to say to save me from myself

You're the angel that believes in me

Like nobody else

And I thank God you do

 

[CHORUS]

 

I know I don't tell you nearly enough

That I couldn't live one day without your love

 

When I'm a ship tossed around on the waves 

Up on a highwire that's ready to break

When I've had just about all I can take

Baby you, baby you save me

 

When I'm a bullet shot out of a gun

When I'm a firecracker coming undone 

Or when I'm a fugitive ready to run

All wild-eyed and crazy

No matter where my reckless soul takes me

Baby you save me

 

 

 

[[Lo...]]

Readymade -  Hengshan Reeling

 

 

Took too much medicine in Shanghai

Slept through the capture of Saddam

Dice and eyes dice by drunk candlelight

Thriving on the other side of the dateline

This will only be the once...

 

This is where the moment gained the meaning

Doing the Paris thing with text messaging

Henghan Lu may be my last move

Time zones briefly heal all wounds

 

I always feel first for the ground

But these towers make another case

And now I can't separate from this

 

I always feel first for the ground

But these towers make another sound

And now I can't step away from this

 

So many walks back home

All the crashing reflection

Life: relive a few high nights

 

Goodbye from a few miles away

For the last time

“the last time of today”

 

Each year is more a murder

But I'm not here alone

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"The Girl With The Weight Of The World In Her Hands"

Indigo Girls

 

She won't recover from her losses

She's not chosen this path

But she watches who it crosses

 

Maybe move to the right

Maybe move to the left

So we can all see her pain she wears

Like a banner on her chest

 

And we all say it's sad

And we think it's a shame

And she's called to our attention

But we do not call her name

 

The girl with the weight

Of the world in her hands

 

Cause we're busy with our happiness

And busy with our plans

I wonder if alone she wants it

Taken from her hands

 

But if things didn't keep getting harder

She might miss her sacred chance

To go a consecrated martyr

 

The girl with the weight

Of the world in her hands

 

I wonder which saint

That lives inside a bead

Will grant her consolation

When she counts upon her need

 

It makes us all angry

Though we feign to care

But who will be the scale

To weigh the cross she has to bear

 

The girl with the weight

Of the world in her hands

 

Is the glass half-full or empty

I ask her as I fill it

She said it doesn't really matter

Pretty soon you're bound to spill it

 

With the half logic language

Of the sermon she delivers

And the way she smiles so knowingly

At me gives me the shivers

 

I pull the blanket higher

When I'm finally safe at home

And she'll take a hundred with her

But she always sleeps alone

 

The girl with the weight

Of the world in her hands

 

I wonder which saint

That lives inside a bead

Will grant her consolation

When she counts upon her need

 

It makes us all angry

Though we feign to care

But who will be the scale

To weigh the cross she has to bear

 

The girl with the weight

Of the world in her hands

 

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"Fade To Grey" - Visage

 

Devenir gris

Devenir gris

 

One man on a lonely platform

One case sitting by his side

Two eyes staring cold and silent

Shows fear as he turns to hide

 

We fade to grey

We fade to grey

 

Un homme dans une gare isolée

Une valise a ses cotés

Des yeux fixes et froids

Montre de la peur lorsqu'il

Se tourne pour se cacher

 

We fade to grey

We fade to grey

 

Sent la pluie comme un été Anglais

Entends les notes d'une chanson lointaine

Sortant de derriere d'un poster

Espérant que la vie ne fut aussi longue

 

We fade to grey

We fade to grey

 

Feel the rain like an English summer

Hear the notes from a distant song

Stepping out from a back shop poster

Wishing life wouldn't be so long

 

Devenir gris

 

We fade to grey

We fade to grey

We fade to grey

Devenir gris

 

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"Sky's Still Blue" - Andrew Belle

 

Your heart is a city

Your eyes are a fixture

The mind tells a story

With ten thousand pictures

 

We stumbled upon it

Fell through the ceiling tiles

We drew up a landscape

Climbed down a ladder

Carved out a memory

To follow the pattern

 

And now on a clear glass wall

I can see my faith

You know it's never too late

 

Oh, if you're hearing this

I must have made it through

Oh, when the clouds are burned

I'll open up my window

I'll see the sky's still blue

 

A vision's a portrait

A palette of colors

A swim in an ocean

With blindfolded lovers

 

And now that I've found my side

Oh, I finally realize

That it was there the whole time

 

Oh, if you're hearing this

I must have made it through

Oh, when the clouds are burned

I'll open up my window

I'll see the sky's still blue

 

I see that the sky's still blue

 

Oh, if you're hearing this

I must have made it through

Oh, when the clouds are burned

I'll open up my window

I'll see the sky's still blue

 

Oh, if you're hearing this

I must have made it through

Oh, if you're hearing this

I've seen the sky's still blue

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"On the Wings of an Eagle" - John Denver

 

Oh, my home is in the mountains

I am free, I am free

I am one with wind and eagles

I am free

 

Given wings to sail in gracefulness

The sky, the sky

Given voice to sing in breathlessness

I find that I can fly

Fly away

 

I've been a long time on the highway

I've been a long time on the run

And it gets to be like chaos

When I'm so long away from home

 

And sometimes it's just too much to bear

And I hide behind my eyes

I can picture friendly faces

And I can dream of friendly skies

 

And I guess that I'm the lucky one

For the truth of what I know

For my heart has not denied me

And I have somewhere to go

 

I shall never be a prisoner

To steel and glass and stone

If I leave I will return again

To my rocky mountain home

 

Oh, my home is in the mountains

I am free, I am free

I am one with wind and eagle

I am free

 

Given wings to sail in gracefulness

The sky, the sky

Given voice to sing in breathlessness

I find that I can fly

Fly away

 

In the hands of my father

In the light of the sunshine

On the wings of an eagle

I'm flying again

 

I'm flying again, I'm flying again, I'm flying again

I'm flying again

I'm flying again

I'm flying again

 

:balloon:

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" Daughters Of Time" - Judy Collins

https://youtu.be/HkgUcrBcVFo

 

From the beginning of time

Like a heartbeat that never can die

Like the wind on the sea

Like the sun on the sand

Like a baby's cry

We've had a dream in our hearts

That gives us the courage to try

We must have a song

That says we can be strong

We must reach for the sky

 

We are the daughters of time

And the sisters of a new day

Born in the labor of love

And the promise of tomorrow

 

We are the children of light

And we are here today

We are here to stay

The sons and the daughters of time

 

We are no longer alone

We are no longer afraid

We can reach out

With our hands and our hearts

That's how dreams are made

 

Over the water so wide

Like a bird that sails on through the sky

We know the way to be the best we can be

And look life in the eye

 

We are the daughters of time

And the sisters of a new day

Born in the labor of love

And the promise of tomorrow

 

We are the children of light

And we are here today

We are here to stay

The sons and the daughters of time

 

Just like the lady in the harbor shining bright

Giving us hope in the darkest of the night

Just like the lady in the harbor standing tall

Now we know we are together

One and all

 

We're on our way to the stars

Nothing can turn us away

We will survive

And our dream is alive of a better day

 

There is a way to find peace

Turning away from the past

With love for our brothers

And our sisters on earth

We'll have a new world at last

 

We are the daughters of time

And the sisters of a new day

Born in the labor of love

And the promise of tomorrow

 

We are the children of light

And we are here today

The sons and the daughters of time

We are here to stay

The sons and the daughters of time

 

 

   

[[Lo...]]

"Fade To Grey" - Visage

 

 

:thumbsup:

 

Cocteau Twins - Fifity Fifty Clown

 

 

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"Time Of No Reply" - Nick Drake

 

Summer was gone and the heat died down

And Autumn reached for her golden crown

I looked behind as I heard a sigh

But this was the time of no reply

 

The sun went down and the crowd went home

I was left by the roadside all alone

I turned to speak as they went by

But this was the time of no reply

 

The time of no reply is calling me to stay

There is no hello and no goodbye

To leave there is no way

 

The trees on the hill had nothing to say

They would keep their dreams till another day

So they stood and thought and wondered why

For this was the time of no reply

 

Time goes by from year to year

And no one asks why I am standing here

But I have my answer as I look to the sky

This is the time of no reply

 

The time of no reply is calling me to stay

There's no hello and no goodbye

To leave there is no way

 

Summer was gone and the heat died down

And Autumn reached for her golden crown

I looked behind as I heard a sigh

But this was the time of no reply

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"Sail"

 

Macy Gray

 

Awolnation

https://youtu.be/Sl00LrDVngU

 

This is how I show my love

I made it in my mind because

I blame it on my ADD, baby

 

This is how an angel cries

I blame it on my own sick pride

Blame it on my ADD, baby

 

Sail, sail, sail, sail

 

Maybe I should cry for help

Maybe I should kill myself

Blame it on my ADD, baby

 

Maybe I'm a different breed

Maybe I'm not listening

Blame it on my ADD, baby

 

Sail, sail, sail, sail

 

Would you believe it

What you say, baby

Oh, sail, sail with me

 

Sail, sail, sail with me, baby

Sail with me, baby

This is how an angel cries

 

Sail with me, baby

Into the dark, into the dark

With me

 

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"Beautiful Bluebird" - Neil Young

 

One morning when I was riding

In my old pickup truck

A beautiful bluebird came flying down

 

My eyes caught the color

As it led me down the road

Dipping and bobbing in the sun

 

[CHORUS:]

Beautiful bluebird

See how she flies

Looks like she's always going home

If heaven had a window

Where the sun came shining through

Like a beautiful bluebird

I'd come flying back to you

 

Beautiful bluebird

See how she flies

Looks like she's always going home

 

I've never seen that blue before

Except in one place

And she's not here with me right now

 

And just like a lover

I watched her fly away

And that's what I remember now

 

[CHORUS]

(x2)

 

Beautiful bluebird

See how she flies

Looks like she's always going home

If heaven had a window

Where the sun came shining through

Like a beautiful bluebird

I'd come flying back to you

 

If heaven had a window

Where the sun came shining through

Like a beautiful bluebird

I'd come flying back to you

 

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"Hold My Hand" - Jess Glynne

 

Standing in a crowded room

And I can't see your face

Put your arms around me

Tell me everything's okay

 

In my mind, I'm running around

A cold and empty space

Just put your arms around me

Tell me everything's okay

 

Break my bones

But you won't see me fall

The rising tide

We'll rise against them all

 

[CHORUS:]

Darling, hold my hand

Oh, won't you hold my hand

Cause I don't wanna

Walk on my own anymore

Won't you understand

Cause I don't wanna walk alone

I'm ready for this

There's no denying

I'm ready for this

You stop me falling

I'm ready for this

I need you all in

I'm ready for this

So darling, hold my hand

 

Soul is like a melting pot

When you're not next to me

Tell me that you've got me

And you're never gonna leave

 

Tryna find a moment

Where I can find release

Please tell me that you've got me

And you're never gonna leave

 

Break my bones

But you won't see me fall

The rising tide

We'll rise against them all

 

[CHORUS]

 

Don't wanna know

That feeling when I'm all alone

So please don't make me wait

Cause I don't wanna break

No, I don't wanna fall

 

When you're next to me

Can tell I'm not afraid to be

And you don't make me wait

And never let me break

You never let me fall

 

Darling, hold my hand

Oh, won't you hold my hand

Cause I don't wanna

Walk on my own anymore

Won't you understand

Cause I don't wanna walk alone

I'm ready for this

There's no denying

I'm ready for this

You stop me falling

I'm ready for this

I need you all in

I'm ready for this

So darling, hold my hand

 

 

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