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    9/27/2008

    Swing Life Away

     
    Am I loud and clear, or am I breaking up?
    Am I still your charm, or am I just bad luck?
    Are we getting closer, or are we just getting more lost?

    I'll show you mine if you show me yours first
    Let's compare scars, I'll tell you whose is worse (we all survived)
    Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words (ready to begin again?)

    We live on front porches and swing life away,
    We get by just fine here on minimum wage
    If love is a labor I'll slave till the end,
    I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand

    I've been here so long, I think that it's time to move
    The winter's so cold, summer's over too soon
    Let's pack our bags and settle down where palm trees grow

    I've got some friends, some that I hardly know (Spacees friends)
    But we've had some times, I wouldn't trade for the world (share - Love you all)
    We chase these days down with talks of the places that we will go (travel all over the world)

    We live on front porches and swing life away,
    We get by just fine here on minimum wage
    If love is a labor I'll slave till the end,
    I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand....until you hold my hand

    I'll show you mine if you show me yours first
    Let's compare scars, I'll tell you whose is worse (comments)
    Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words

    We live on front porches and swing life away,
    We get by just fine here on minimum wage
    If love is a labor I'll slave till the end,
    I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand

    Swing life away [x4]
    8/7/2008

    Bleeding Love

    "Bleeding Love"

    Closed off from love
    I didn't need the pain
    Once or twice was enough
    And it was all in vain
    Time starts to pass
    Before you know it you're frozen

    But something happened
    For the very first time with you
    My heart melts into the ground
    Found something true
    And everyone's looking round
    Thinking I'm going crazy

    But I don't care what they say
    I'm in love with you
    They try to pull me away
    But they don't know the truth
    My heart's crippled by the vein
    That I keep on closing
    You cut me open and I

    Keep bleeding
    Keep, keep bleeding love
    I keep bleeding
    I keep, keep bleeding love
    Keep bleeding
    Keep, keep bleeding love
    You cut me open

    Trying hard not to hear
    But they talk so loud
    Their piercing sounds fill my ears
    Try to fill me with doubt
    Yet I know that the goal
    Is to keep me from falling

    But nothing's greater than the risk that comes with your embrace
    And in this world of loneliness
    I see your face
    Yet everyone around me
    Thinks that I'm going crazy, maybe, maybe

    But I don't care what they say
    I'm in love with you
    They try to pull me away
    But they don't know the truth
    My heart's crippled by the vein
    That I keep on closing
    You cut me open and I

    Keep bleeding
    Keep, keep bleeding love
    I keep bleeding
    I keep, keep bleeding love
    Keep bleeding
    Keep, keep bleeding love
    You cut me open

    And it's draining all of me
    Oh they find it hard to believe
    I'll be wearing these scars
    For everyone to see

    I don't care what they say
    I'm in love with you
    They try to pull me away
    But they don't know the truth
    My heart's crippled by the vein
    That I keep on closing
    You cut me open and I

    Keep bleeding
    Keep, keep bleeding love
    I keep bleeding
    I keep, keep bleeding love
    Keep bleeding
    Keep, keep bleeding love
    You cut me open and I

    Keep bleeding
    Keep, keep bleeding love
    I keep bleeding
    I keep, keep bleeding love
    Keep bleeding
    Keep, keep bleeding love
    You cut me open and I
    Keep bleeding
    Keep, keep bleeding love

     

    Marc and Chelse on So You Think You Can Dance - Excellent!!!

     


    8/4/2008

    Song for the blog

    Aug 6, 2008 - I just could not believe all the memories I experienced in the last couple of days. Since hearing this song again I can remember so vividly my grandparents. Every room and every item in it. The smells from Grandma's kitchen, Thanksgiving dinners, learning to sew and knit, the parades. It has been an amazing experience. If they are looking down right now, I'm looking up saying I love you.
     
    BTW - My grampa would always play this song when I was little and I would sit on his big chair with him and wipe his tears. He was a big tough trucker with a soft heart. I was just looking for a song to go with the blog. Now I got tears.
    9/23/2006

    King of May

    Slide Show - Excellent
     
    NATALIE MERCHANT LYRICS

    "King Of May"

    Farewell today
    Travel on now
    Be on your way

    Go safely there
    Never worry
    Never care
    Beyond this day

    Farewell tonight
    To all joy and to all delight
    Go well and go peacefully
    We can't keep your majesty
    Be on your way

    Make ready for the last King of May
    Make a cardboard crown for him
    Make your voices one
    Praise a crazy mother's son
    Who loved his life
    Who loved his life

    Farewell today
    Travel on now
    Be on your way
    Can't bear the very thought
    That we could keep your majesty
    Be on your way

    Make ready for the last King of May
    Make a hole in the crowd for him
    Raise your voices up
    Lift your loving cups
    To his long life
    To his long life

    Make ready for the last King of May
    Make a hole in the sky for him
    Raise your voices up
    Drink your loving cups
    To his long life
    To his long life

    7/28/2006

    Boulevard Of Broken Dreams

    GREEN DAY LYRICS

    "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" (Click title to save song and hear)

    I walk a lonely road
    The only one that I have ever known
    Don't know where it goes
    But it's home to me and I walk alone

    I walk this empty street
    On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
    Where the city sleeps
    and I'm the only one and I walk alone

    I walk alone
    I walk alone

    I walk alone
    I walk a...

    My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
    My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
    Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
    'Til then I walk alone

    Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah,
    Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah

    I'm walking down the line
    That divides me somewhere in my mind
    On the border line
    Of the edge and where I walk alone

    Read between the lines
    What's f***ed up and everything's alright
    Check my vital signs
    To know I'm still alive and I walk alone

    I walk alone
    I walk alone

    I walk alone
    I walk a...

    My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
    My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
    Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
    'Til then I walk alone

    Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah
    Ah-ah, Ah-ah

    I walk alone
    I walk a...

    I walk this empty street
    On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
    Where the city sleeps
    And I'm the only one and I walk a...

    My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
    My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
    Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
    'Til then I walk alone...

    7/20/2006

    Bring On The Rain

    So I guess today is music day. I heard this on my way home last night and just had to hear it again.
     
     
    Bring On The Rain (click to listen)
    Jo Dee Messina and Tim McGraw

    Another day has almost come and gone
    Can't imagine what else could go wrong
    Sometimes I'd like to hide away
    somewhere and lock the door
    A single battle lost but not the war ('cause)

    Tomorrow's another day
    And I'm thirsty anway
    So bring on the rain

    Its almost like the hard times circle 'round
    A couple drops and they all start coming down
    Yeah, I might feel defeated,
    And I might hang my head
    I might be barely breathing -
    but I'm not dead (no, cause')

    Tomorrow's another day
    And I'm thirsty anyway
    So bring on the rain

    No I'm not gonna let it get me down,
    I'm not gonna cry
    And I'm not gonna lose any sleep tonight ('cause)

    Tomorrow's another day
    And I am not affraid
    So bring on the rain

    Tomorrows another day
    And I'm thirsty anyway
    So bring on the rain

    (Bring on, Bring on the rain)

    No I'm not gonna let it get me down
    No I'm not gonna cry
    So bring on the rain

    Because Of You

    What does your phone play when it rings? My current ringtone is:
     
     
    "Because Of You" (click to listen)
    KELLY CLARKSON

    I will not make the same mistakes that you did
    I will not let myself
    Cause my heart so much misery
    I will not break the way you did,
    You fell so hard
    I've learned the hard way
    To never let it get that far

    Because of you
    I never stray too far from the sidewalk
    Because of you
    I learned to play on the safe side so I don't get hurt
    Because of you
    I find it hard to trust not only me, but everyone around me
    Because of you
    I am afraid

    I lose my way
    And it's not too long before you point it out
    I cannot cry
    Because I know that's weakness in your eyes
    I'm forced to fake
    A smile, a laugh everyday of my life
    My heart can't possibly break
    When it wasn't even whole to start with

    Because of you
    I never stray too far from the sidewalk
    Because of you
    I learned to play on the safe side so I don't get hurt
    Because of you
    I find it hard to trust not only me, but everyone around me
    Because of you
    I am afraid

    I watched you die
    I heard you cry every night in your sleep
    I was so young
    You should have known better than to lean on me
    You never thought of anyone else
    You just saw your pain
    And now I cry in the middle of the night
    For the same damn thing

    Because of you
    I never stray too far from the sidewalk
    Because of you
    I learned to play on the safe side so I don't get hurt
    Because of you
    I try my hardest just to forget everything
    Because of you
    I don't know how to let anyone else in
    Because of you
    I'm ashamed of my life because it's empty
    Because of you
    I am afraid

    Because of you
    Because of you

    7/5/2006

    The Road I'm On

    3 DOORS DOWN LYRICS

    "The Road I'm On"

    She said life's a lot to think about sometimes
    When you're living in between the lines
    And all the stars they sparkle and shine everyday

    He said life's so hard to move in sometimes
    When it feels like I'm towin' the line
    And no one even cares to ask me why I feel this way

    I know you feel helpless now and I know you feel alone
    That's the same road, the same road that I am on

    He said life's a lot to think about sometimes
    When you keep it all between the lines
    Of everything I want and I want to find, one of these days

    What you thought was real in life somehow steered you wrong
    Now you just keep drivin' tryin' to find out where you belong

    I know you feel helpless now and I know you feel alone
    That's the same road, that same road that I am on

    What you thought was real in life somehow steered you wrong
    Now you just keep drivin' tryin' to find out where you belong

    I know you feel helpless now and I know you feel alone
    That's the same road, that same road that I am on

    6/20/2006

    I Dare You

    This is from LM Wasted Space:
     
    Music. Nourishment for the soul, an emotional escape at times, or just plain old fun. Your assignment, if you choose to accept it Jim is to answer the folllowing-
     
    1. When you were younger, what was your favorite genre of music? For those under 30, you are NOT considered older in my book and you can all kiss my.....I mean, you have the option to answer both 1 and 2 if it so applies to you (!)
    2. What is your favorite genre now?
    3. What song makes you go weak in the knees and melts your heart (details of why are optional, unless it involves naked, undulating flesh, then details are MANDATORY!)?
    4. Who is your favorite artist/group?
    5. What artist/group can you do without?
     
    Okay, in the interest of fairness, I will answer first.
     

    1. Rock n roll baby

    2. Adult Alternative

    3. Far Away - Nickelback

    4. Too many to list, Staind, Nickelback, The Killers, Shinedown

    5. Garth Brooks (just kidding, it was playing on LM's Space)

     

    A little music for your listening pleasure. Click on the title of the song and choose "Save" for faster download. 

     

    SHINEDOWN LYRICS



    "I Dare You"

    Hello, let me introduce you to
    The characters in the show
    One says yes, one says no
    Decide - which voice in your head you can keep alive

    Even in madness, I know you still believe
    Paint me your canvas so I become
    What you could never be

    I dare you to tell me to walk through the fire
    Brand my soul and call me a liar
    I dare you to tell me to walk through the fire
    I dare you to tell me
    I dare you to

    Hello, are you still chasing
    The memories in shadows
    Some stay young, some grow old
    Come alive, there are thoughts unclear
    You can never hide

    Even in madness, I know you still believe
    Paint me your canvas so I become
    What you could never be

    I dare you to tell me to walk through the fire
    Brand my soul and call me a liar
    I dare you to tell me to walk through the fire
    I dare you to tell me
    I dare you to

    Hello
    Hello...
    I dare you to tell me to walk through the fire
    Brand my soul and call me a liar
    I dare you to tell me to walk through the fire
    I dare you to tell me
    I dare you to
    Hello...
    Hello...
    I dare you to tell me
    I dare you to
    I dare you to tell me
    I dare you to
    5/5/2006

    Music List

    Have you seen my music list? I think it is quite a list. Please visit it (under the world map). Some of the items go to blog entries with the lyrics and some are just downloads. If it asks open or save- save, it's faster. Let me know your favorite. Enjoy your weekend. 
    Photographs - Nickelback
    Featuring The King and the trip to Buffalo
    Alcohol - Brad Paisley
    so true
    Falling Out of Love
    Feeling a little blue
    Spooky
    An old favorite
    Would You Change?
    Lyrics 10/14/05
    Swing Life Away - Rise Against
    Sit on front porches and swing life away
    If Everyone Cared
    Nickelback
    Feels Good Inc. - Gorillaz
    Grammy Nominee
    Sometime You Can't Make It On Your Own - U2
    Grammy Winner
    Aquarium - The Spirit Music Jamia: Dance of the Infidel
    Grammy Nominee
    At Last - Etta James
    Happy Valentine's Day
    Far Away - Nickelback
    Video - My favorite for the moment
    Tim McGraw
    Live Like You Were Dying
    Staind
    Everything Changes
    Queen Latifa
    California Dreamin'
    Madeline Peyroux
    Dance With Me to The End of Love
    Pink
    Get This Party Started
    The Killers
    All These Things That I Have Done
    Jack Johnson
    Where Did All The Good People Go
    2/7/2006

    2006 Grammy - Record of the Year

    photos of Gorillaz

    I could have picked a few of these but I picked Gorillaz because they are such a fun cartoon group and the song has a good beat. Hope you enjoy.

     

    Record of the Year

    1. Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.
    2. Green Day, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
    3. Gwen Stefani, "Hollaback Girl"
    4. Mariah Carey, "We Belong Together"
    5. Kanye West, "Gold Digger"

     

      Gorillaz Bio:

    Conceived as the first virtual hip-hop group. Gorillaz quartet, which includes *2-D, the cute but spacy singer/keyboardist, *Murdoc, the spooky, possibly Satanic bassist who is the brains behind the group, drummer *Russel, who is equally inspired by "Farrakhan and Chaka Khan" and is possessed by "funkyphantoms" that occasionally rise up and provide some zombie-style rapping, and last but not least, *Noodle, a ten-year-old Japanese guitar virtuosa and martial arts master.

    2/4/2006

    2006 GRAMMY NOMINEES - JAZZ

     
    2006 Grammy Nominees - Jazz Record of the Year

    By recommendation from Dietrich

    1. The Spirit Music Jamia: Dance Of The Infidel
      Aquarium- The Spirit Music Jamia: Dance of the Infidel
      Now PlayingMeshell Ndegeocello
      [Shanachie Entertainment Corp.]
    2. The Way Up
      Pat Metheny Group
      [Nonesuch]
    3. Keystone
      Dave Douglas
      [Greenleaf Music]
    4. Soulgrass
      Bill Evans
      [BHM Productions]
    5. Momentum
      Joshua Redman Elastic Band
      [Nonesuch]
    1/4/2006

    "If Everyone Cared"

     

    by Nickelback

     

    From underneath the trees, we watch the sky
    Confusing stars for satellites
    I never dreamed that you'd be mine
    But here we are, we're here tonight

    Singing Amen, I, I'm alive
    Singing Amen, I, I'm alive

    [Chorus:]
    If everyone cared and nobody cried
    If everyone loved and nobody lied
    If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
    Then we'd see the day when nobody died

    And I'm singing

    Amen I, Amen I, I'm alive
    Amen I, Amen I, Amen I, I'm alive

    And in the air the fireflies
    Our only light in paradise
    We'll show the world they were wrong
    And teach them all to sing along

    Singing Amen, I, I'm alive
    Singing Amen, I, I'm alive
    (I'm alive)

    [Chorus x2]

    And as we lie beneath the stars
    We realize how small we are
    If they could love like you and me
    Imagine what the world could be

    If everyone cared and nobody cried
    If everyone loved and nobody lied
    If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
    Then we'd see the day when nobody died
    When nobody died...

    [Chorus]

    We'd see the day, we'd see the day
    When nobody died
    We'd see the day, we'd see the day
    When nobody died
    We'd see the day when nobody died
    11/6/2005

    Swing Life Away

      

    "Swing Life Away" (click to play)

    by Rise Against
     
     
    Am I loud and clear, or am I breaking up?
    Am I still your charm, or am I just bad luck?
    Are we getting closer, or are we just getting more lost?
    I'll show you mine if you show me yours first
    Let's compare scars, I'll tell you whose is worse
    Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words
     
    We live on front porches and swing life away,
    We get by just fine here on minimum wage
    If love is a labor I'll slave till the end,
    I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand
     
    I've been here so long, I think that it's time to move
    The winter's so cold, summer's over too soon
    Let's pack our bags and settle down where palm trees grow
    I've got some friends, some that I hardly know
    But we've had some times, I wouldn't trade for the world
    We chase these days down with talks of the places that we will go
     
    We live on front porches and swing life away,
    We get by just fine here on minimum wage
    If love is a labor I'll slave till the end,
    I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand....until you hold my hand
     
    I'll show you mine if you show me yours first
    Let's compare scars, I'll tell you whose is worse
    Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words
     
    We live on front porches and swing life away,
    We get by just fine here on minimum wage
    If love is a labor I'll slave till the end,
    I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand
    Swing life away [x4]
    10/21/2005

    Spooky - An old favorite redone

    Spooky (click to play)

     

    by Imogen Heap

     
    10/14/2005

    Tracy Chapman

    Change
    If you knew that you would die today
    If you saw the face of God and Love
    Would you change?
    Would you change?
    If you knew that love can break your heart
    When you're down so low you cannot fall
    Would you change?
    Would you change?

    How bad how good does it need to get?
    How many losses how much regret?
    What chain reaction
    What cause and effect
    Makes you turn around
    Makes you try to explain
    Makes you forgive and forget
    Makes you change
    Makes you change

    If you knew that you would be alone
    Knowing right being wrong
    Would you change?
    Would you change?
    If you knew that you would find a truth
    That brings a pain that can't be soothed
    Would you change?
    Would you change?

    How bad how good does it need to get?
    How many losses how much regret?
    What chain reaction
    What cause and effect
    Makes you turn around
    Makes you try to explain
    Makes you forgive and forget
    Makes you change
    Makes you change

    Are you so upright you can't be bent
    if it comes to blows
    Are you so sure you won't be crawling
    If not for the good why risk falling
    Why risk falling

    If everything you think you know
    Makes your life unbearable
    Would you change?
    Would you change?
    If you'd broken every rule and vow
    And hard times come to bring you down
    Would you change?
    Would you change?

    If you knew that you would die today
    If you saw the face of God and Love
    Would you change?
    Would you change?

    © 2003 Tracy Chapman


    9/12/2005

    Aqualung - new song

    Well for today's selection, Aqualung. I had a hard time deciding which song to use so it may change tomorrow LOL.
     
    At Launch you can view the music video for Brighter Than Sunshine (which is the alternate to what I'm playing) target http://music.yahoo.com/ar-305856---Aqualung (Id and password required). His official site is http://www.aqualungmusic.com/ which play samples of the songs.
     
    Lyrics:

    "Falling Out Of Love"

     

    I watch the sun

    See it rise and fall

    Waiting for something to change

    I get through the day

    Hope to turn things around

    Seems like

     

    I'm falling out of love

     

    Feeling alone

    With you by my side

    Further and further away

    Funny how long

    A moment can seem

    When you're trying to hold on

    Feels like

     

    I'm falling out of love

     

     I know- getting quite sappy here with the music. Although I don't remember falling in love.   Just a mood. Later...

    9/9/2005

    New song - Alcohol

    Ok so I'm not a country music fan but this song is great (must have a Yahoo sign in) http://music.yahoo.com/ar-291413-videos--Brad-Paisley 
     
     
    Alcohol
    Brad Paisley (ASCAP)

    I can make anybody pretty
    I can make you believe any lie
    I can make you pick a fight
    With somebody twice your size

    I been known to cause a few break ups
    I been known to cause a few births
    I can make you new friends
    Or I can make you say bad words

    1st Chorus
    And since the day I left Milwaukee
    Lynchburg and Bordeaux France
    Been making the bars lots of big money
    And helping white people dance
    I got you in trouble in high school
    But college, now that was a ball
    You had some of the best times
    You'll never remember with me
    Alcohol
    Alcohol

    I got blamed at your wedding reception
    For your best man's embarrassing speech
    And also for those
    Naked pictures of you at the beach

    I've influenced kings and world leaders
    I helped Hemmingway write like he did
    And I'll bet you a drink or two that I can make you
    Put that lampshade on your head

    2nd Chorus
    'Cause since the day I left Milwaukee
    Lynchburg and Bordeaux France
    Been making a fool out of folks just like you
    And helping white people dance
    I'm medicine and I am poison
    I can help you up or make you fall
    You had some of the best times
    You'll never remember with me
    Alcohol
    Alcohol


    Repeat 1st Chorus