I don't know what happens when people die Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear that I can't sing I can't help listening
This was from when my PTSD had a firmer grip on me and my wife and only son passed. It serves as a reminder of darker days past and how far I have clawed my way back from the pit.
I don't really have a song that I want engraved on my tombstone but I have gotten my ex-wife (yeah, she'll outlive me. She's mean enough she'll probably outlive the sun) to agree to play 'Pop goes the Weasel' at my funeral.
So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell?Blue skies from pain? Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil?Do you think you can tell?
Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change?Did you exchange A walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year Running over the same old ground, what have we found? The same old fears, wish you were here
I turn my back to the wind To catch my breath before I start off again Driven on without a moment to spend To pass an evening with a drink and a friend I let my skin get too thin I'd like to pause, no matter what I pretend Like some pilgrim who learns to transcend Learns to live as if each step was the end
Time stand still I'm not looking back, but I want to look around me now Time stand still See more of the people and the places that surround me now Time stand still
Freeze this moment a little bit longer Make each sensation a little bit stronger Experience slips away Experience slips away Time stand still
I turn my face to the sun Close my eyes, let my defences down All those wounds that I can't get unwound I let my past go too fast No time to pause, if I could slow it all down Like some captain whose ship runs aground I can wait until the tide comes around
Time stand still I'm not looking back, but I want to look around me now Time stand still See more of the people and the places that surround me now
Freeze this moment a little bit longer Make each sensation a little bit stronger Make each impression a little bit stronger Freeze this motion a little bit longer The innocence slips away The innocence slips away Time stand still Time stand still
[I'm not looking back, but I want to look around me now See more of the people and the places that surround me now Time stand still
The Life-force is as strong in yo u as it is strong in me, The difference is what you h old captive I set free. You seek to subjugate all t hose who won't comply, I'll take your prejudice and p ride and show you why - The values that you hold so dear (all your laws and rules), They hold no more sway here t han the mutterings of fools. Just look about you and I'm sure that you will find - Heaven lies within our hearts a nd Hell is but a figment of y our mind.
The second:
When living your life Like an arrow in flight You must always accept that The end is in sight, Be grateful at least for the fact t hat you knew You came to death - He did not come for you.
I close my eyes to worldly skies I leave behind the day And deep within me, I shall begin To chase my thoughts away As loved ones hold me to their sides Their strength flows into me To cast me out of sorrow's blindness Into eternity
I thought I heard them softly calling The voices of the spheres As light years flash forever falling Away from waking fears I reach out, try to touch the passing Of beings bathed in light But they just smile, their eyes not asking To see beyond their sight
I thought I saw the candle-bearers On their way to the beyond Beckon to me from the future To come and join the throng I stepped upon the silver tightrope Balancing beliefs And wings unfurling with a new hope I left behind my griefs Ooh silver tightrope Ooh silver tightrope Ooh silver tightrope
Isn't it rich? Are we a pair? Me here at last on the ground You in mid-air Send in the clowns
Isn't it bliss? Don't you approve? One who keeps tearing around One who can't move Where are the clowns? Send in the clowns
Just when I'd stopped opening doors Finally knowing the one that I wanted was yours Making my entrance again with my usual flair Sure of my lines No one is there
Don't you love farce? My fault, I fear I thought that you'd want what I want Sorry, my dear But where are the clowns? Quick, send in the clowns Don't bothеr, they're herе
And as I approach twilight, a French song translated by Paul Anka:
This is one of the songs my sister wanted played for her while she was bedridden, at home, in hospice, dying of cancer.
"I Hope You Dance"
I hope you never lose your sense of wonder You get your fill to eat, but always keep that hunger May you never take one single breath for granted God forbid love ever leave you empty-handed
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean Whenever one door closes, I hope one more opens Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance I hope you dance
I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance Never settle for the path of least resistance Livin' might mean takin' chances but they're worth takin' Lovin' might be a mistake but it's worth makin'
Don't let some hell-bent heart leave you bitter When you come close to sellin' out, reconsider Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance (Time is a wheel in constant motion) I hope you dance (Always rolling us along) I hope you dance (Tell me, who wants to look back on their youth and wonder) I hope you dance (Where those years have gone?)
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean Whenever one door closes, I hope one more opens Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
Dance I hope you dance I hope you dance (Time is a wheel in constant motion) I hope you dance (Always rolling us along) I hope you dance (Tell me, who wants to look back on their youth and wonder) I hope you dance (Where those years have gone?) (Dance) (Tell me, who wants to look back on their years and wonder) (Dance) (Where those years have gone?)
I'll walk just beyond the moon then I'll stop and wait for you
My mother and my father were in love for fifty years so when dad died she shed no tears
We asked her once about it but she wouldn't tell us why. Instead she'd walk outside each night and smile up at the sky
Then just before she left us she called us to her side. She told us what my father said to her just before he died.
I remember when you said you'd never leave me. Through these golden years I've kept the same vow too. But now that I am going please don't leave me. I'll walk just beyond the moon then I'll stop and wait for you.
You can look up every night and you'll see me light the light.
Where I'll watch for you to join me someday soon. We'll go looking through the stars for the Heaven that is ours.
And I know we'll find it soon somewhere just beyond the moon.
I'll walk just beyond the moon then I'll stop and wait for you.
I'll just sit there by a star and I'll watch for you from afar till I see you walking toward me someday soon. Then together hand in hand we'll find our promised land. And we'll settle down forever darlin just beyond the moon.
I'll walk just beyond the moon then I'll stop and wait for you.
The best song lyrics ever are the ones that touch you at the time you hear them. I've expanded my book now into a trilogy, the first one quotes movies, the second song lyrics and the third literature. I'm learning a lot about all of them.
Here's one I've like recently -
The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout Downed all the beer to drown the voices out Up came the sun and brang back all the pain So the itsy bitsy spider went out to drink again
Stuck in a cycle, no one can tell us the way that this might go And everyone looking at me like I'm psycho You know you should be better, you know you gotta change You knew I wasn't ready, I knew you'd never stay You knew I wanted more than just your web of lies So I'll say goodbye
One shot, two shot, three Feel those bad feels leave Four shots, nine shots, eleven Just can't learn his lesson
The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout Downed all the beer to drown the voices out Up came the sun and brang back all the pain So the itsy bitsy spider went out to drink again
Creeping and crawling, head in the toilet, you might just fall in Mama been calling, wish she could take it back, not what she wanted Dreaming of drinking, what are you thinking? Back of your mind be confessin' You know it ain't worth it, she don't deserve it Caught in your deadly obsession
One shot, two shot, three Feel those bad feels leave Four shots, nine shots, eleven Just can't learn his lesson
The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout Downed all the beer to drown the voices out Up came the sun and brang back all the pain So the itsy bitsy spider went out to drink again
Ahh (don't make this harder than it has to be) ahh (you got until the count of three) (And by the end I'm leavin')
You're on the edge of losing me Don't make this harder than it has to be You got until the count of three
And by the end I'm leavin'
The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout Downed all the beer to drown the voices out Up came the sun and brang back all the pain So the itsy bitsy spider went out to drink again
[Verse 1] I want a new drug One that won't make me sick One that won't make me crash my car Or make me feel three feet thick I want a new drug One that won't hurt my head One that won't make my mouth too dry Or make my eyes too red
[Chorus] One that won't make me nervous Wondering what to do One that makes me feel like I feel when I'm with you When I'm alone with you.
Credit: Huey Lewis and the News (Written by : Huey Lewis and Chris Hayes.)
Huey Lewis & the News - I Want A New Drug - 5/23/1989 - Slim's (Official)
[Verse 1] Baby, baby, brush the dust of youth from off your shoulder Because the years of fretting days is right behind you now Don't return to fields of green where rainbow secrets were told Place your ragged doll with all the toys and things and deeds
[Pre-Chorus] I will show you a game where the winner never wins
[Chorus] Let your hair hang down Wear the dress your mother wore Let me sleep beside you
You got a fast car I want a ticket to anywhere Maybe we can make a deal Maybe together we can get somewhere Any place is better Starting from zero, got nothing to lose Maybe we'll make something Me, myself, I got nothing to prove
You got a fast car I got a plan to get us out of here I been working at the convenience store Managed to save just a little bit of money Won't have to drive too far Just 'cross the border and into the city You and I can both get jobs And finally see what it means to be living
See, my old man's got a problem He live with the bottle, that's the way it is He say his body's too old for working His body's too young to look like his My mama went off and left him She wanted more from life than he could give I said somebody's got to take care of him So I quit school and that's what I did
You got a fast car Is it fast enough so we can fly away? We gotta make a decision Leave tonight or live and die this way
So I remember when we were driving, driving in your car Speed so fast, it felt like I was drunk City lights lay out before us And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder And I-I had a feeling that I belonged I-I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone
You give me a sign, you give me a lift You take me home when I'm done my shift You give me a loan when I'm stone-cold broke You get me high when I need a toke
I was born to love I was born to I was born to love I was born to
Times were tough, we made it through We tasted the rough, so let's savor the smooth All the time I was hurting you Got to believe that I was hurting too
I was born to love I was born to Born to love I was born to
You're the only one I can talk to The only one I can really read I know you give because you want to Don't you think it's time you learn to let yourself receive?
Post one of your favorite lyrics and a link to the song. I love Carsie Blanton, and this lyric and song hits home for me.
For A Dancer by Jackson Browne
I Am A Rock by Simon & Garfunkel
I've built walls
A fortress deep and mighty
That none may penetrate
I have no need of friendship, friendship causes pain
It's laughter and it's loving I disdain
I am a rock I am an island
That’s a little grim.
This was from when my PTSD had a firmer grip on me and my wife and only son passed. It serves as a reminder of darker days past and how far I have clawed my way back from the pit.
Living Colour - Cult of Personality
From 1988, but it's spooky how relevant it is today. Crystal ball type stuff.
Excerpts from the lyrics...
I know your anger, I know your dreams
I've been everything you want to be
Oh, I'm the cult of personality...
Neon lights, a Nobel prize
When a mirror speaks, the reflection lies...
I exploit you, still you love me
I tell you one and one makes three
Oh, I'm the cult of personality...
You gave me fortune, you gave me fame
You gave me power in your god's name
I'm every person you need to be
Oh, I'm the cult of personality...
I love that song!
I don't really have a song that I want engraved on my tombstone but I have gotten my ex-wife (yeah, she'll outlive me. She's mean enough she'll probably outlive the sun) to agree to play 'Pop goes the Weasel' at my funeral.
So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell? Blue skies from pain?
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell?
Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change? Did you exchange
A walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year
Running over the same old ground, what have we found?
The same old fears, wish you were here
One of Pink Floyd's best
Thats very unscientific of you.
How is that scientific? It's more just a state of affairs in one's life.
At 18 in Army Basic Training a couple of guys and I would sneak out of bed to shine our boots at night. We'd always sing this song.
friends and liars, won't wait for me,
I'll get on, all by myself,
That's my favorite song off of "Hold Your Fire"
...experience slips away. Time stand still
Beautiful.
From Rush- " Hemispheres "
We can walk our roads together, if our goals are all the same.
We can run alone and free, if we pursue a different aim.
Let the truth of love be lighted, let the love of truth shine clear...
Sensibility, armed with sense and liberty
With the heart and mind united in a single... perfect... sphere.
I love that song.
Two verses from the same song - The Best of Enemies by Sabbat
The second:
I leave behind the day
And deep within me, I shall begin
To chase my thoughts away
As loved ones hold me to their sides
Their strength flows into me
To cast me out of sorrow's blindness
Into eternity
The voices of the spheres
As light years flash forever falling
Away from waking fears
I reach out, try to touch the passing
Of beings bathed in light
But they just smile, their eyes not asking
To see beyond their sight
Ooh silver tightrope
Ooh silver tightrope
On their way to the beyond
Beckon to me from the future
To come and join the throng
I stepped upon the silver tightrope
Balancing beliefs
And wings unfurling with a new hope
I left behind my griefs
Ooh silver tightrope
Ooh silver tightrope
Ooh silver tightrope
Send in the Clowns - Stephen Sondheim
Isn't it rich?
Are we a pair?
Me here at last on the ground
You in mid-air
Send in the clowns
Isn't it bliss?
Don't you approve?
One who keeps tearing around
One who can't move
Where are the clowns?
Send in the clowns
Just when I'd stopped opening doors
Finally knowing the one that I wanted was yours
Making my entrance again with my usual flair
Sure of my lines
No one is there
Don't you love farce?
My fault, I fear
I thought that you'd want what I want
Sorry, my dear
But where are the clowns?
Quick, send in the clowns
Don't bothеr, they're herе
And as I approach twilight, a French song translated by Paul Anka:
This is one of the songs my sister wanted played for her while she was bedridden, at home, in hospice, dying of cancer.
Just Beyond The Moon
I'll walk just beyond the moon then I'll stop and wait for you
My mother and my father were in love for fifty years so when dad died she shed no tears
We asked her once about it but she wouldn't tell us why. Instead she'd walk outside each night and smile up at the sky
Then just before she left us she called us to her side. She told us what my father said to her just before he died.
I remember when you said you'd never leave me. Through these golden years I've kept the same vow too. But now that I am going please don't leave me. I'll walk just beyond the moon then I'll stop and wait for you.
You can look up every night and you'll see me light the light.
Where I'll watch for you to join me someday soon. We'll go looking through the stars for the Heaven that is ours.
And I know we'll find it soon somewhere just beyond the moon.
I'll walk just beyond the moon then I'll stop and wait for you.
I'll just sit there by a star and I'll watch for you from afar till I see you walking toward me someday soon. Then together hand in hand we'll find our promised land. And we'll settle down forever darlin just beyond the moon.
I'll walk just beyond the moon then I'll stop and wait for you.
Song by Tex Ritter.
The best song lyrics ever are the ones that touch you at the time you hear them. I've expanded my book now into a trilogy, the first one quotes movies, the second song lyrics and the third literature. I'm learning a lot about all of them.
Here's one I've like recently -
Downed all the beer to drown the voices out
Up came the sun and brang back all the pain
So the itsy bitsy spider went out to drink again
And everyone looking at me like I'm psycho
You know you should be better, you know you gotta change
You knew I wasn't ready, I knew you'd never stay
You knew I wanted more than just your web of lies
So I'll say goodbye
Feel those bad feels leave
Four shots, nine shots, eleven
Just can't learn his lesson
Downed all the beer to drown the voices out
Up came the sun and brang back all the pain
So the itsy bitsy spider went out to drink again
Mama been calling, wish she could take it back, not what she wanted
Dreaming of drinking, what are you thinking?
Back of your mind be confessin'
You know it ain't worth it, she don't deserve it
Caught in your deadly obsession
Feel those bad feels leave
Four shots, nine shots, eleven
Just can't learn his lesson
Downed all the beer to drown the voices out
Up came the sun and brang back all the pain
So the itsy bitsy spider went out to drink again
ahh (you got until the count of three)
(And by the end I'm leavin')
Don't make this harder than it has to be
You got until the count of three
And by the end I'm leavin'
Downed all the beer to drown the voices out
Up came the sun and brang back all the pain
So the itsy bitsy spider went out to drink again
[Verse 1]
I want a new drug
One that won't make me sick
One that won't make me crash my car
Or make me feel three feet thick
I want a new drug
One that won't hurt my head
One that won't make my mouth too dry
Or make my eyes too red
[Chorus]
One that won't make me nervous
Wondering what to do
One that makes me feel like I feel when I'm with you
When I'm alone with you.
Credit: Huey Lewis and the News (Written by : Huey Lewis and Chris Hayes.)
Huey Lewis & the News - I Want A New Drug - 5/23/1989 - Slim's (Official)
Oh so long for this night I prayed
That a star would guide you my way
To share with me this special day
Where a ribbon's in the sky for our love
If allowed may I touch your hand
And if pleased may I once again
So that you too will understand
There's a ribbon in the sky for our love
Do...Do...
Do Do Do Do Do...
HMM HMM...
source:
Ribbon In the Sky
[Verse 1]
Baby, baby, brush the dust of youth from off your shoulder
Because the years of fretting days is right behind you now
Don't return to fields of green where rainbow secrets were told
Place your ragged doll with all the toys and things and deeds
[Pre-Chorus]
I will show you a game where the winner never wins
[Chorus]
Let your hair hang down
Wear the dress your mother wore
Let me sleep beside you
David Bowie Let Me Sleep Beside You.
Fast Car
Tracy Chapman
You got a fast car
I want a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we can make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere
Any place is better
Starting from zero, got nothing to lose
Maybe we'll make something
Me, myself, I got nothing to prove
You got a fast car
I got a plan to get us out of here
I been working at the convenience store
Managed to save just a little bit of money
Won't have to drive too far
Just 'cross the border and into the city
You and I can both get jobs
And finally see what it means to be living
See, my old man's got a problem
He live with the bottle, that's the way it is
He say his body's too old for working
His body's too young to look like his
My mama went off and left him
She wanted more from life than he could give
I said somebody's got to take care of him
So I quit school and that's what I did
You got a fast car
Is it fast enough so we can fly away?
We gotta make a decision
Leave tonight or live and die this way
So I remember when we were driving, driving in your car
Speed so fast, it felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
And I-I had a feeling that I belonged
I-I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone
Lyrics provided by Musixmatch
Tracy Chapman Fast Car (Official Music Video)
You take me home when I'm done my shift
You give me a loan when I'm stone-cold broke
You get me high when I need a toke
I was born to love
I was born to
I was born to love
I was born to
Times were tough, we made it through
We tasted the rough, so let's savor the smooth
All the time I was hurting you
Got to believe that I was hurting too
I was born to love
I was born to
Born to love
I was born to
You're the only one I can talk to
The only one I can really read
I know you give because you want to
Don't you think it's time you learn to let yourself receive?
I Was Born To Love You
Magic Man
Heart
Cold late night, so long ago
When I was not so strong, you know
A pretty man came to me
Never seen eyes so blue
Even though I could not run away
It seemed we'd seen each other in a dream
It seemed like he knew me
He looked right through me
Yeah
Come on home, girl
He said with a smile
You don't have to love me yet
Let's get high awhile
But try to understand
Try to understand
Try, try, try to understand
That I'm a magic man.
Written by: Nancy Lamoureaux Wilson, Ann Wilson Dustin
Album: Dreamboat Annie
Released: 1976