Song For You - Lyrics Thread

[Clear Skies]

Alanis Morissette - Surrendering

you were full and fully capable
you were self sufficient and needless
your house was fully decorated in that sense

you were taken with me to a point
a case of careful what you wish for
but what you knew was enough to begin

and so you called and courted fiercely
so you reached out, entirely fearless
and yet you knew of reservation and how it serves

and I salute you for your courage
and I applaud your perseverance
and I embrace you for your faith in the face of adversarial forces
that I represent

so you were in but not entirely
you were up for this but not totally
you knew how arms length-ing can maintain doubt

and so you fell and you're intact
so you dove in and you're still breathing
so you jumped and you're still flying if not shocked

and I support you in your trusting
and I commend you for your wisdom
and I'm amazed by your surrender in the face of threatening forces
that I represent

you found creative ways to distance
you hid away from much through humor
your choice of armor was your intellect

and so you felt and you're still here
and so you died and you're still standing
and so you softened and you're still safely in command

self protection was in times of true danger
your best defense to mistrust and be wary
surrendering a feat of unequalled measure
and I'm thrilled to let you in
overjoyed to be let in in kind

[boann]

Sarah McLachlan - Angel


Spend all your time waiting for that second chance
For a break that would make it okay
Theres always some reason
To feel not good enough
And its hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
oh beautiful release
Memories seep from my veins
Let me be empty
oh and weight-less and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight

In the arms of an angel
Fly away from here
>From this dark, cold hotel room
And the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage
Of your silent reverie
You're in the arms of the angel
May you find some comfort here

Your so tired of the straightline
That everywhere you turn
There's vultures and thieves at your back
Storm keeps on twisting
Keep on building the lies
That you make up for all that you lack
It dont make no difference escaping one last time
Its easier to believe
In this sweet madness
Oh this glorious sadness
That brings me to my knees

In the arms of an angel
Fly away from here
>From this dark, cold hotel room
And the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage
Of your silent reverie
You're in the arms of the angel
May you find some comfort here

You're in the arms of the angel
May you find
Some comfort here

[boann]

Dan And John Ford Coley
Id Really Love To See You Tonight



Hello, yeah, it's been a while.
Not much, how 'bout you?
I'm not sure why I called,
I guess I really just wanted to talk to you.
And I was thinking maybe later on,
We could get together for a while.
It's been such a long time,
And I really do miss your smile.

I'm not talking 'bout moving in,
And I don't want to change your life.
But there's a warm wind blowing,
The stars are out, and I'd really love to see you tonight.


We could go walking through a windy park,
Or take a drive along the beach.
Or stay at home and watch t.v.
You see, it really doesn't matter much to me.


I'm not talking 'bout moving in,
And I don't want to change your life.
But there's a warm wind blowing,
The stars are out, and I'd really love to see you tonight.


I won't ask for promises,
So you won't have to lie.
We've both played that game before,
Say I love you, then say goodbye.


I'm not talking 'bout moving in,
And I don't want to change your life.
But there's a warm wind blowing,
The stars are out, and I'd really love to see you tonight.

[SlowwHand]

Lost In The 50's Tonight
Ronnie Milsap

Close your eyes baby
Follow my hear-eart
Call on the mem'rie-ie-ies
Here in the dar-ark
We'll let the magic
Take us away-ay
Back to the fee-eelin's
We shared when they'd play

In the still of the ni-i-i-i-ight
Ho-old me darlin', hold me ti-i-ight
Oh-oh-oh-oh...
Shoo-doop, shoo-be do, shoo-doop, doo
So real, so-o-o right
Lost in the fifties tonight

These precious hou-ours
We know can't survi-ive
But love's all that matter-ers
While the past is ali-ive
Now and for always
Till time disappear-ears
We'll hold each other
Whenever we hear

In the still of the ni-i-i-i-ight
Ho-old me darlin', hold me ti-i-ight
Say-ay-ay-ay...
Shoo-doop, shoo-be do, shoo-doop, doo
So real, so right
Lost in the fifties tonight


Oh-oh-oh-oh, Oh-oh-oh-oh...
Shoo-doop, shoo-be do, shoo-doop, shoo-be do
Shoo-doop, shoo-be do, shoo-doop, shoo-be do
So-o-o ri-i-ight

Say-ay-ay, Oh-oh...
Shoo-doop, shoo-be do, shoo-doop, shoo-be do
Shoo-doop, shoo-be do, shoo-doop, shoo-be do
So-o real, so ri-i-ight...

Shoo-doop, shoo-be do, shoo-doop, shoo-be do
Shoo-doop, shoo-be do, shoo-doop, shoo-be do
So-o real, so ri-i-ight...

Shoo-doop, shoo-be do, shoo-doop, shoo-be do [fade]

[SlowwHand]

Isn't It Time
The Babys

Falling in love was the last thing I had on my mind
Holding you is a warmth that I thought I could never find
(Sitting here all alone)
Just trying to decide
(Whether to go all alone)
Or stay by your side
(Then I stop myself because)
I know I could cry
I just can't find the answers
To the questions that keep going through my mind
Hey babe
Isn't it time
(Isn't it time it took time to wait)
(Falling in love could be your mistake)
Isn't it time
(Isn't it time you took time to wait)
(Falling in love could be your mistake)
I've seen visions of someone like you in my life
A love that's strong reaching out
Holding me through the darkest night
(Sitting here all alone)
Just trying to decide
(Whether to go all alone)
Or stay by your side
(Then I stop myself because)
I don't want to cry
I just can't find the answers
To the questions that keep going through my mind
Hey babe
Isn't it time
(Isn't it time it took time to wait)
(Falling in love could be your mistake)
Isn't it time
(Isn't it time you took time to wait)
(Falling in love could be your mistake)
I feel a warmth in my heart
And my soul that I never knew
This love affair gives me strength
That I need just to get me through
(Sitting here all alone)
Just wondering why
(Then I stop myself because)
I know I could cry
(Then I think of you)
And everything seems alright
I've finally found the answers
To the questions that keep going through my mind
Hey babe
Isn't it time
(Isn't it time you don't have to wait)
(Don't have to wait)
I know it's time
(Losing this love could be your mistake)
Ooh yeah
(Isn't it time)
I know it's time
(Isn't it time you don't have to wait)
It must be time
(Don't have to wait)
(Losing this love could be your mistake)
(Isn't it time)
It must be time
(Isn't time you don't have to wait)
(Don't have to wait)
It oughta be time
(Losing this love could be your mistake)
(Isn't it time)
(Isn't it time you don't have to wait)
(Don't have to wait)
It must be time
(Losing this love could be your mistake)
(Isn't it time)
(Repeat and fade)

[Clear Skies]

The Long And Winding Road - The Beatles

The long and winding road
that leads to your door
will never disappear
I've seen that road before
It always leads me here
Lead me to you door

The wild and windy night
that the rain washed away
Has left a pool of tears
crying for the day
Why leave me standing here
let me know the way

Many times I've been alone
and many times I've cried
Any way you'll never know
the many ways I've tried

But still they lead me back
to the long winding road
You left me standing here
a long long time ago
Don't leave me waiting here
lead me to your door

But still they lead me back
to the long winding road
You left me standing here
a long long time ago
Don't leave me waiting here
lead me to your door

[HolyWarrior]

Angels and Rage--Cairo 10:23

I count the reasons for the darkness
there lies a balance in dichotomy
the dead of night scares me
yet the sun shocks the senses, tossing me back and forth
I see the glimmer of the lining
now it rains, soon it rains no more
scorched by the heat, burning
the icy sting numb and frozen, angels and rage

divergent thoughts collide in virtual silence
go...face to face, the two sides alone
which way should I go?
And now the angels weep the tears of rage
again frustrated, the clash of human ways
angels...and rage

The morning sun creeps in the shadows
one word of truth negates hypocrisy
to realize nothing, caught between the seconds
chasing me back and forth
already, outcome is decided
nothing new under the sun, they say
at every turn fate might try and stop me, dragging me down

opposing views defy all trace of reason
go..face to face, the two sides alone--leave me alone
And now the angels weep the tears of rage
again frustrated, the clash of human ways
angels...and rage

sudden change, disturbing pattern
defying all I ever thought was real
feeling pulled by this senseless anger
but I will remain...I remain
out of breath, slipping backwards
the paradigm inverts before my eyes
at last I see clearly all before me, angels and rage

divergent thoughts collide
they scream in silence and curse the night
go...face to face, the two sides alone
where did you go? which way should I go?
and now the angels weep the tears of rage
again frustrated, the clash of human ways
angels...and rage

and now the angels weep the tears of rage
love or conquest, where do we set the stakes?
angels...and rage
angels...and rage...

[Captain Crunch]

Wrapped in Grey
(Partridge)

Some folks see the world as a stone
Concrete daubed in dull monotone
Your heart is the big box of paints
And others, the canvas we're dealt
Your heart is the big box of paints
How coloured the flowers all smelled
As they huddled there, in petalled prayer
They told me this, as I knelt there

Awaken you dreamers
Adrift in your beds
Balloons and streamers
Decorate the inside of your heads
Please let some out
Do it today
But don't let the loveless ones sell you a world wrapped in grey

Some folks pull this life like a weight
Drab and dragging dreams made of slate
Your heart is the big box of paints
And others, the canvas we're dealt
Your heart is the big box of paints
Just think how the old masters felt, they call...

Awaken you dreamers
Asleep at your desks
Parrots and lemurs
Populate your unconscious grotesques
Please let some out
Do it today
Don't let the loveless ones sell you a world wrapped in grey

And in the very least you can
Stand up naked and grin

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Blue Moon
Elvis Presley

Blue Moon
You saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
Blue Moon
You know just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for
And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will hold
I heard somebody whisper please adore me
And when I looked to the Moon it turned to gold
Blue Moon
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will ever hold
I heard somebody whisper please adore me
And when I looked the Moon had turned to gold
Blue moon
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
Blue moon
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

[LTEC!]

Bad Dog, No Buiscuit
(written by William Kitchens and Richard S. Ferrell)

Stayed out late with the boys again
I got to reminiscing and it got out of hand
Pulled up in the driveway, saw the porch light on
Trouble Jack, that's a fact, throw me a bone

(Chorus)
Back in the pound, back on the chain
My baby left me out in the rain
I scratched at the door, she told me to get
She said, "Bad dog, no biscuit"

I whimpered and I whined and started to beg
"I hope you freeze", was all she said
Slept out in my truck with my heater on
Hey Roy, oh boy, throw me a bone

(Repeat chorus)

I woke up with a fever and a runny nose
I'm a housebroken baby, I do what I'm told
I won't ever stray, ever roam
Hush honey, honey hush, throw me a bone

(Repeat chorus three times)

Bad dog

[boann]

Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous
Blue Moon
Elvis Presley

Blue Moon
You saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
Blue Moon
You know just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for
And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will hold
I heard somebody whisper please adore me
And when I looked to the Moon it turned to gold
Blue Moon
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will ever hold
I heard somebody whisper please adore me
And when I looked the Moon had turned to gold
Blue moon
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
Blue moon
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

oh i do love that song

[SlowwHand]

Marcels.


End Of The Innocence
Don Henley


Remember when the days were long
And rolled beneath a deep blue sky
Didn't have a care in the world
With mommy and daddy standin' by
But "happily ever after" fails
And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales
The lawyers dwell on small details
Since daddy had to fly

But I know a place where we can go
That's still untouched by men
We'll sit and watch the clouds roll by
And the tall grass wave in the wind
You can lay your head back on the ground
And let your hair fall all around me
Offer up your best defense
But this is the end
This is the end of the innocence

O' beautiful, for spacious skies
But now those skies are threatening
They're beating plowshares into swords
For this tired old man that we elected king
Armchair warriors often fail
And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales
The lawyers clean up all details
Since daddy had to lie

But I know a place where we can go
And wash away this sin
We'll sit and watch the clouds toll by
And the tall grass wave in the wind
Just lay your head back on the ground
And let your hair spill all around me
Offer up your best defense
But this is the end
This is the end of the innocence

Who knows how long this will last
Now we've come so far, so fast
But, somewhere back there in the dust
That same small town in each of us
I need to remember this
So baby give me just one kiss
And let me take a long last look
Before we say goodbye

Just lay your head back on the ground
And let your hair fall all around me
Offer up your best defense
But this is the end
This is the end of the innocence

[SlowwHand]

The Battle of Evermore
Led Zeppelin


Queen of Light took her bow
And then she turned to go,
The Prince of Peace embraced the gloom
And walked the night alone.
Oh, dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the morn - ing light.
The dark Lord rides in force tonight
And time will tell us all.
Oh, throw down your plow and hoe,
Rest not to lock your homes.
Side by side we wait the might
Of the darkest of them all.
I hear the horses' thunder
Down in the valley blow,
I'm waiting for the angels of Avalon,
Waiting for the eastern glow.
The apples of the valley hold,
The seas of happiness,
The ground is rich from tender care,
Repay, do not forget, no, no.
Oh,-------dance in the dark of night,
sing to the morning light.
The apples turn to brown and black, The tyrant's face is red.
Oh the war is common cry, Pick up you swords and fly.
The sky is filled with good and bad
That mortals never know.
Oh, well, the night is long, The beads of time pass slow,
Tired eyes on the sunrise, Waiting for the eastern glow.
The pain of war cannot exceed
The woe of aftermath,
The drums will shake the castle wall,
The ring wraiths ride in black, Ride on.
Sing as you raise your bow,
Shoot straighter than before.
No comfort has the fire at night
That lights the face so cold.
Oh dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the mornin' light.
The magic runes are writ in gold
To bring the balance back, Bring it back.
At last the sun is shining, The clouds of blue roll by,
With flames from the dragon of darkness
The sunlight blinds his eyes.

[*End Is Forever*]

If You Don't, Don't - Jimmy Eat World

What's wrong baby? Don't they treat you like they should?
Did you take them for it, for every penny that you could?
We once walked out on the beach and once I almost touched your hand
How I dreamed to finally say such things, then only to pretend

Don't you know I'm thinking? Driving 405 past midnight
You know I miss you? 9th and Ash on a Tuesday night
I would write to you from museum mile, a toast to you - your whisper, your smile
Up the stairs at Wetherford, a ghost each place I hide

If you don't, don't know why'd you say so?
Would you mean this please if it happens?
If you don't know why did you say so?
Won't you get your story straight?
If you don't, then honey why'd you just say so?
'Cause I need this now more than I ever did
If you don't, well honey then you don't...

I left you waiting... at the least could we be friends?
Should've never started, ain't that the way it always ends?
On my life I'll try today, there's so much I've felt I should say
But even if your heart would listen, I doubt I could explain...

If you don't, don't know why'd you say so?
Would you mean this please if it happens?
If you don't know why did you say so?
Won't you get your story straight?
If you don't, then honey why'd you just say so?
'Cause I need this now more than I ever did
If you don't, well honey then you don't...

So here we are now, a sip of wine, a sip of water
Someday maybe, maybe someday we'll be smarter
And I'm sorry that I'm such a mess, I drank all my money could get
Took everything that we had and then I never loved you back

If you don't, don't know why'd you say so?
Would you mean this please if it happens?
If you don't know why did you say so?
Won't you get your story straight?
If you don't, then honey why'd you just say so?
'Cause I need this now more than I ever did
If you don't, well honey then you don't...
If you don't, well honey then you don't...
If you don't, well honey then you don't...

If you don't know, honey, honey, well you don't.

[SlowwHand]

Two For Tuesday; Sting & Police

Born In The 50's


We were born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties

My mother cried
When president Kennedy died
She said it was the communists
But I knew better

Would they drop the bomb on us
While we made love on the beach
We were the class they couldn't teach
'Cause we knew better

We were born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties

They screamed
When the Beatles sang
And they laughed when the King fell down the stairs
Oh they should've known better
Oh we hated our Aunts
Then we messed in our pants
Then we lost our faith and prayed to the TV
Oh we should've known better

We were born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties

We freeze like statues on the pages of history
Living was never like this when we took all those G.C.E.'s
Oh, you opened the door for us
And then you turned to dust
You don't understand us
So don't reprimand us
We're taking the future
We don't need no teacher
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties
Born, born in the fifties

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I Been Down So Long

The sun sets across the ocean
I'm a thousand mile from anywhere
And my pocketbook in my heart
Both just got stolen
And the sun act like she don't even care
The wind blows cold when you reach the top
Feels like somebody's face is stuck to the bottom of my shoe
Got a plastic jesus, a cordless telephone for every corner of my room
Got everybody but you tellin' me what to do

Well I've been down so long
It can't be that much longer still
And I've been down for so long
That the end must be drawing near

I looked to everybody but me
To answer my prayers
Until I found an angel in the bathroom
Who said she didn't see anybody who was saving anywhere
And the blind man said, "Simple... like flipping a coin -
Don't matter what side it lands on
So long as it's somebody else's dime"
Cause if you're the top of the bottom
It all feels the same
We live out of fear if we're too rich or we're too poor
Guess all I can do is muster up some change
And a little bit of faith
And take some dignity when I walk through this door

Gonna take a trip
Catch a train
Got a ticket in my hand
And then a fat man takes my money
And like cattle we all stand
I'm just a faceless body lost in this vast and worthless sea
In a thousand people I do not know
But really they are no different from me
They all have passion
They all have fear
They all have intense confusion
And no sweet moments that are clear
They all have aspirations
High hopes and dreams
And are really that alone like me

We've been down so long
It can't be that much longer still
We've been down so long
That the end must be...
The end must be...
The end must be drawing near