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This Old Road

Kris Kristofferson


Look at that old photograph
Is it really you
Smiling like a baby full of dreams
Smiling ain't so easy now
Some are coming true
Nothing's simple as it seems

But I guess you count your blessings with the problems
That you're dealing with today
Like the changing of the seasons
Ain't you come a long way (Ain't you come a long way)
Ain't you come a long way down
This old road

Looking at a looking glass
Running out of time
On a face you used to know
Traces of a future lost
In between the lines
One more rainbow for the road

Thinking of the faces in the windows
That you passed along the way
Or the last thing you believed in
Ain't you come long way (Ain't you come a long way)
Ain't you come a long way down
This old road

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Say you tried to chase the sun down
And you let it slip away
And the holy night is falling
Ain't you come long way (Ain't you come a long way)
Ain't you come a long way down
This old road

Look at that old photograph
Is it really you
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What Sarah Said

And it came to me then that every plan
Is a tiny prayer to Father Time
As I stared at my shoes in the ICU
That reeked of piss and 409
And I rationed my breaths, as I said to myself
That I've already taken too much today
As each descending peak on the LCD
Took you a little farther away from me
Away from me

Amongst the vending machines and year-old magazines
In a place where we only say goodbye
It stung like a violent wind that our memories depend
On a faulty camera in our minds
And I knew that you were a truth I would rather lose
Than to have never lain beside at all
And I looked around at all the eyes on the ground
As the TV entertained itself

'Cause there's no comfort in the waiting room
Just nervous pacers bracing for bad news
And then the nurse comes 'round and everyone lifts their heads
But I'm thinking of what Sarah said
That love is watching someone die

So who's gonna watch you die?

So who's gonna watch you die?
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Let Her Go

Passenger

Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you’re missin' home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go

Staring at the bottom of your glass
Hoping one day you'll make a dream last
But dreams come slow and they go so fast

You see her when you close your eyes
Maybe one day you'll understand why
Everything you touch surely dies

But you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know you love her when you let her go

Staring at the ceiling in the dark
Same old empty feeling in your heart
'Cause love comes slow and it goes so fast

Well you see her when you fall asleep
But never to touch and never to keep
'Cause you loved her too much
And you dived too deep

Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know you love her when you let her go

And you let her go (oh, oh, ooh, oh no)
And you let her go (oh, oh, ooh, oh no)
Will you let her go?

'Cause you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know you love her when you let her go

'Cause you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know you love her when you let her go

And you let her go
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For those that haven't heard it, this song is on the Def Leppard, Pyromania album.
This song means a lot to me because I know a lot of Marines that went to war.

"Die Hard The Hunter"

Shotgun
Let's welcome home the soldier boy from (Far away, far away)
No angel of mercy just a need to destroy (Fire away, fire away)
Let's toast the hero with blood in his eyes
The scars on his mind took so many lives
Die Hard the Hunter

Welcome home soldier boy
Put down your pistol, yeah, put down your toy
Yeah, they can take your gun away from you
But never take away your attitude
They can't do that, no, they can't do that

You got no enemy, no front line
The only battles in the back of your mind
You don't know how to change from bad to good
You brought the war to your neighbourhood

Back in the city, he's a man on the loose
He is the shadow that's following you
He takes no prisoners when he's hunting for game
He's got a bullet and it carries your name

(Die hard) Caught in a trap
(Hunter) There's no lookin' back
(Die hard) He hides in the crowd
(Hunter) Die Hard and Proud

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Maaan, this takes me like 20 years back. The Lep was one of the first bands I listened to. :D
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Evil Has Never- Union of Knives

Even though you're well intentioned
One or two or three things you mentioned
Leave a taste familiar to me so
Even with a slight sarcastic
A ripple in a voice elastic
I could crack the slightest code of woe

You look familiar, I know you
We've met before, is it not true?
I'm zero, don't waste words with me
Here's not the chamber for it

What do you mean?
Evil has never loved you
Evil has never loved you
Evil has never loved you as I do
What do you mean?
Nobody has ever loved you
Nobody has ever loved you
Nobody has ever loved you like I do

Find it at the further reaches
Smelling like a rose or peaches
Crippling the hardest pig nose shell
Find it when I look in your eyes
A little spark that would be kingsize
The mirror does no justice to your spell

You look familiar, I know you
We've met before, is it not true?
I'm zero, don't waste words with me
Here's not the chamber for it

What do you mean?
Evil has never loved you
Evil has never loved you
Evil has never loved you as I do
What do you mean?
Nobody has ever loved you
Nobody has ever loved you
Nobody has ever loved you like I do
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*THREAD NECROMANCY* I wasn't sure if this should be in the Lyrics thread or jabber. It's relation to me is.. kind of weird. Like the show :P

Last night and all of today (so far), I've had the song Rebecca from the show So Weird stuck in my head. At first, it was just a fragment:

Where did you go?
Why did you lie?
Why did you leave without saying goodbye?
[...there's part I didn't remember and I thought the word "looking" was right before "for"]
For another town
Another friend
Another beginning without any end


Nothing resonated too much personally for me last night. It was just a part I really liked. It moved me but there was no specific reason I could discern for it. After I drank up more of the song, getting different stanzas stuck in my head- especially the first one- I started thinking more about it trying to figure out why it's hitting me so hard. I normally don't have songs get stuck THIS hard. I kind of realized that while I don't feel the way Molly did, I have been in Rebecca's place twice. Not the actual plot of her and her family being nearly immortal :P but the leaving.

When my parents and I moved to Wyoming for the Worst Five Months Ever in 2001, I picked up a boyfriend. The only person who knew about it from my family that I can remember was a cousin who is a few years younger than me. It started with a random make out session in the back of a car and he latched on. I was fine with it, kind of excited too since this was my first. But then I kept learning things about him that I didn't like. He did drugs, he was 17 or so and out of school. He had a son, if I remember right, though the son lived with the mother. I was getting more and more convinced that I didn't want anything to do with him. It didn't help that I had a crush on one of the guys we hung out with. I started thinking that if I told him, he'd end up finding me at my grandparents' house (where we were living at the time while searching for our own place) and either rape or otherwise attack me. Because that's how my mind works, even back then. Logic doesn't play part of it. He never did anything to make me think he would but I feared it anyway. I did not know how to deal with this at all. Then winter hit and Dad found out that the rod in his leg could not handle the cold. He toughed it out until December, then realized he couldn't be living somewhere where the weather got that cold. It made sense to move back to New Mexico. The boyfriend was informed but I never actually said goodbye to him. I didn't really say goodbye to anybody who wasn't family. People knew I was moving but not when and I wasn't very sympathetic because I HATED IT there.

I'm not entirely sure, but I think I saw him a few years later when we were visiting for.. I can't remember if it was the summer or Thanksgiving or what, but we went back to visit relatives. We passed someone driving along the street. I think he recognized me and his eyes got wide. That was it. Haven't seen him since. I don't even remember his name. It's definitely not my finest moment.

Then in 2006, there was a guy who kept wanting to date me. I tried to tell him that I didn't want to, I told him I was thinking about dating girls. He said I could as long as he was the only guy. Winner, right? I was working in the computer lab on campus at the time and he kept appearing when i was either first starting my shift or right after I was done. It was kind of creepy the way he knew my schedule like that. He threatened to "take care" of another guy who wanted to talk to me a lot. A lot of general creepiness. Then stuff at work went to shit and everything was just coming down on me so I left. Not town or anything like that. I just stopped going anywhere. I stayed home and my depression and anxiety and everything else spiraled out of control. I never told the guy. I didn't want to be anywhere near him. I didn't give notice at work either, so to them, I just dropped off the face of the Earth, pretty much.

So that's twice that I've dropped everything and ran. I know I hurt some people doing it. So I guess this just kind of reminds me of it now. I thought I was taking care of myself at the time but I don't think that was it. It was just fear. I don't think I've done it since. My social life never did pick up like it had been before 2006, though.

Sorry for the tl;dr >_>;;
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Oh wow, I wish I saw this thread earlier.

Hey all, back again :)

There's way too much lyrics that has touched me and/or influenced me in some way or another, or that just hit really close to home.

I'll start with "Anethema - Untouchable Part 1" (Part 2 is the same, but A Capella).

I've broken up with my last girlfriend for various reasons, but (the lack of) love was never one of them.

And I feel like I knew you before
And I guess that you can hear me through this song

And my love will never die
And my feelings will always shine

And I know that you just want me to belong to someone
And I guess that now I'll just be moving on to someone

But my love will never die
And my feelings will always shine

I'll never betray your trust
I'll never betray your faith
I'll never forsake your heart
I'll never forget your face

There's a feeling that I can't describe

There's a reason that I cannot hide

Because I've never seen a light that's so bright

As the light that shines behind your eyes

I can see
This life
And what you mean to me

And when I dreamed
I dreamed of you
Then I wake
Tell me what could I do?

I had to let you go
To the setting sun
I had to let you go
And find a way back home


Then there's a song I've played a lot, and sent to the mother of my kid when I broke up with her, years ago.

Blue October - Hate Me Of this song it's just a part that grasped me:


There's a burning in my pride, a nervous bleeding in my brain
An ounce of peace is all I want for you. Will you never call again?
And will you never say that you loved me, just to put it in my face?
And will you never try to reach me?
It is I that wanted space

Hate me today
Hate me tomorrow
Hate me for all the things I didn't do for you

Hate me in ways
Yeah, ways hard to swallow
Hate me so you can finally see what’s good for you

......

And with a sad heart I say bye to you and wave
Kicking shadows on the street for every mistake that I had made
And like a baby boy I never was a man
Until I saw your blue eyes cry and I held your face in my hand
And then I fell down yelling, “Make it go away!”
Just make a smile come back and shine just like it used to be
And then she whispered, “How can you do this to me?”


And for the last 10 years, this baby has been my personal anthem, I think.
U2 - I still haven't found what I'm looking for


I have climbed highest mountain
I have run through the fields
Only to be with you
Only to be with you

I have run
I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls
These city walls
Only to be with you

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for

I have kissed honey lips
Felt the healing in her fingertips
It burned like fire
This burning desire

I have spoke with the tongue of angels
I have held the hand of a devil
It was warm in the night
I was cold as a stone

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for

I believe in the kingdom come
Then all the colors will bleed into one
Bleed into one
Well yes I'm still running

You broke the bonds and you
Loosed the chains
Carried the cross
Of my shame
Of my shame
You know I believed it

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
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Woods Of Ypres - Finalty

When we all have gone, to the silence of eternity...
To first be forgotten, and lost in the records of the earth
Could I still miss you, then, in the time and space after life
When no one is searching anymore,
And where we are nowhere to be found

We didn't spend our life together
And I will miss you forever

The choice was mine, to long for a time, that will never come
Though we leave the world apart, I still went peacefully, quietly,
With you, still, firmly... in my heart

I will wait forever. I wait...



This song just ripped my heart out and scattered the pieces all over the floor... =(( Heartsearingly beautiful. And to think this was the band's last album because the singer soon afterward died in a car crash... :(( :(( :((
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Charlotte Martin - The Dance

"Inside my mouth I can hear all the voices say
'Do not lean over the ledge.'
I shouldn't look down and I shouldn't have found
That your lips I still taste in my head.
Raising my glass to the head of the class
As she powers out steps one through ten.
I think I'll be fine if I'm covered in wine;
Nice to hate you and love you again,
And see you again
And see you again..."

"Weary and worn, little monster is born
Tell me lies and I'll justify them.
Desperate today and it's making me pay
For that night, for that kiss, for your bed.
Whoever dared to love someone not there,
I don't need a balloon and a pin.
The name of the game is outrunning the blame
So I hate you and love you, we're friends.
Guess we'll be friends
I guess we'll be friends...

"oh why (why) can't (can't) you take me in your arms now?
why (why) can't (can't) you take me?
why (why) can't (can't) you take me in your arms now?
why (why) can't (can't) you take me?

"Better stop crying, hello and goodbye-ing
Go on through me; slip right through my hands
You get your time and the other half's mine
It's okay, this love weighs fifty men
It's okay, this love weighs fifty men
It's okay, this love weighs fifty men..."
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I Am a Rock

Simon & Garfunkel

A winter's day
In a deep and dark December;
I am alone,
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

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.

Don't talk of love,
But I've heard the words before;
It's sleeping in my memory.
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died.
If I never loved I never would have cried.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

I have my books
And my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my tomb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

And a rock feels no pain;
And an island never cries.

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I'll admit, I forgot about this thread. <.< So, my entry tonight is by a musician that's a guilty pleasure of mine, they're not someone that is considered "cool" to like (not that I've ever been cool). However, it's always appealed to me. Even the tune itself is done in a lounge/jazz style, which was very different from most pop artists in the 90's. It also played a part in a dream that I had years ago that's stuck with me to this day, when of all things I performed this on stage if you believe it.

Cowboy and Angels
by George Michael

When your heart's in someone else's hands
Monkey see and monkey do
Their wish is your command
You're not to blame
Everyone's the same

All you do is love and love is all you do
I should know by now the way I fought for you
You're not to blame
Everyone's the same

I know you think that you're safe, mister
Harmless deception
That keeps love at bay
It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss
Wouldn't you say
Cowboys and angels
They all have the time for you
Why should I imagine that I'd be a find for you
Why should I imagine
That I'd have something to say

But that scar on your face
That beautiful face of yours
In your heart there's a trace of someone ... before

When your hearts in someone else's plans
Things you say and things you do
They don't understand
It's such a shame
Always ends the same

You can call it love but I don't think it's true
You should know by now
I'm not the boy for you
You're not to blame
Always ends the same

I know you think that you're safe, sister
Harmless affection
That keeps things this way
It's the ones who persist for the sake of a kiss
Who will pay
Cowboys and angels
They all take a shine to you
Why should I imagine that I was designed for you
Why should I believe
That you would stay

But that scar on your face
That beautiful face of yours
Don't you think that I know
They've hurt you before

Take this man to your bed
Maybe his hands will help you forget
Please be stronger than your past
The future may still give you a chance
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FKA Twigs - Papi Pacify

Clarify, clarify
Pacify our love

Oh show, tell me I'm the only one
Like I didn't know
Oh show, tell me you're the one that I can call
Even if you choke
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Listening to this It somehow resonated with me. Although I can't really put a finger on what that is.

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Queen Adreena - I Adore You

They open the window
In comes in the light
I froze in the corner
I pray for the night

But if it's you, my dear
Who turns on the light
I'll eat from your hands
As a bird with no fear, no, no

'Cause I adore you
I adore you
'Cause I adore you
I adore you

Rise up, my dark star
Face into the light
Come out if you're cornered
Shine for the night

If it's you, my love
Who turns on the light
I'll eat from your hands
As a bird with no fear, no, no

'Cause I adore you
I adore you
'Cause I adore you
I adore you
'Cause I adore you
I adore you

Climb out of the shadows
Crawl into the light
Fall out of this window
Die to the night

If it's you, my love
Who turns on the light
I'll eat from your hands
As a bird with no fear, no, no

'Cause I adore you
I adore you...
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