Some of My Favorite Lyrics

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On A Bus To St.Cloud

On a bus to St. Cloud, Minnesota
I thought I saw you there
With the snow falling down around you
Like a silent prayer
And once on a street in New York City
With the jazz and the sin in the air
Once on a cold L.A. freeway going nowhere

And it's strange but it's true
I was sure it was you
just a face in the crowd
On a Bus to St. Cloud

In a church in dowtown New Orleans
I got down on my knees and prayed
And I wept in the arms of Jesus
For the choice you made
We were just getting to the good part
Just getting past the mystery
And it's just like you
Oh, it's just like you
To disagree

And it's strange but it's true
You just slipped out of view
Like a face in the crowd
Ona Bus to St. Cloud

You chase me like a shadow
And you haunt me like a ghost
And I hate you some
And I love you some
But I miss you the most

On a Bus to St. Cloud, Minnesota
I thought I saw you there
With the snow falling down around you
Like a silent prayer...
- Trisha Yearwood

Nowhere To Go

I know a place Down past an old shack
On a road that goes to nowhere, Ain't nobody coming back
We can go there tonight We can talk until dawn
Or maybe something else I'll leave the radio on
The radio on...

There's no one to hear
You might as well scream
They never woke up
From the American dream
And they don't understand

What they don't see
They look through you
And they look past me
Oh, you and I dancing slow
We've got Nowhere To Go

Past the Walmart and the prison, Down by the old V.A
Just my jeans and my t-shirt And my blue Chevrolet
Well, it's Saturday night It feels like everything is wrong
I've got some strawberry wine I wanna get you alone
Get you alone...

There's no one to hear
You might as well scream
They never woke up
From the American dream
And they don't understand
What they don't see
They look through you
And they look past me
Oh, you and I dancing slow
We've got Nowhere To Go

Down by the muddy water Of the Mighty Mo
In an old abandoned boxcar Will I ever know
Dance with me forever This moment is divine
I'm so close to heaven This hell is not mine
This hell is not mine...

There's no one to hear
You might as well scream
They never woke up
From the American dream
And they don't understand
What they don't see
They look through you
And they look past me
Oh, you and I dancing slow
We've got Nowhere To Go...
-Melissa Etheridge

Adia

Adia I do believe I failed you
Adia I know I let you down
Don't you know I tried so hard
To love you in my way
It's easy let it go...

Adia I'm empty since you left me
Trying to find a way to carry on
I search myself and everyone
To see where we went wrong

'Cause there's no one left to finger
There's no one here to blame
There's no one left to talk to, honey
And there ain't no one to buy our innocence
'Cause we are born innocent
Believe me Adia, we are still innocent
It's easy, we all falter
Does it matter?
Adia I thought that we could make it
But I know I can't change the way you feel
I leave you with your misery
A friend who won't betray
I pull you from your tower
I take away your pain
And show you all the beauty you possess
If you'd only let yourself believe that
We are born innocent
Believe me Adia, we are still innocent
It's easy, we all falter, does it matter?
Believe me Adia, we are still innocent
'Cause we are born innocent
Adia we are still innocent
It's easy, we all falter ... but does it matter?
-Sarah McLachlan

How Long Can It Last

Two years ago
Before you felt so familiar
Before I could remember
Your last name
I remember now
How our bright spring green deepened
With the years the seasons changed
br And we were lush as the underside of August
The streets looked like water
They swelled and they shimmered
And they stretch like the sea
And dressed in my best shining skin
And my squinty eyes
I put the miles behind me

And it took us so long to get here
You gotta write between lines
You gotta read between the years
And fleetingly we see ourselves pass
Driving a good thing
And wondering how long can it last

How long can it last

And there was much to forgive
And there was much to forget
It seems we both stood by
While the record was set
And now when I look at you
And when you look at me
It's a much different view
We are both decked out in our history

And it took us so long to get here
You gotta write between the lines
And read between the years
And fleetingly we see ourselves pass
Driving a good thing
And wondering, how long can it last...
-Ani DiFranco

Radical

It's all right, we're gonna be fine
But let's give my mama and my daddy a little time
I've been good, up 'til now
They see you and they think that I have changed somehow

But I'm not being radical, when I kiss you
And I don't love you to make a point
It's the hollow of my heart, that cries when I miss you
And it keeps me alive when we're apart

We go downtown, some people they stare
But there are lots of people who really don't care
I just want to hold your hand
But I don't feel like making some big stand

'Cause I'm not being radical, when I kiss you
And I don't love you to make a point
It's the hollow of my heart, that cries when I miss you
And it keeps me alive when we're apart

It's all right, we're gonna be fine
Even if this world is taking so much time
Though I mind, what people say
Love is stronger than any words anyway

And I'm not radical, when I kiss you
And I don't love you to make a point
It's the hollow of my heart, that cries when I miss you
And it keeps me alive when we're apart...
- Catie Curtis

If I Wrote You

I never thought you were the letter writing type
So now I see the words you chose, the way you write
So I started to write back about the trees and the snow
And I saw a bird, couldn't say what it was
But I thought you'd know
You always surprised me

And if I wrote you
If I wrote you You would know me And you would not write me again And when the spring came and flooded all the streams It's like how you got the night you told me all your dreams
And when the barn roof sagged after an icy bout
It's like how you shrugged when you knew
The truth was the only way out
But not the only way

And if I wrote you
If I wrote you
You would know me
And you would not write me again

We drew our arms around the bastard sons
We never would drink to the chosen ones
Well you know the way I went was not the way I planned
But I thought the world needed love and a steady hand
So I'm steady now

And I'm so happy
I had to tell you
And I love you
And you will not write me again
You will not write me again...
-Dar Williams

Just Between You and Me

Sorrow is a lonely feeling
Unsettled is a painful place
I've lived with both for far too long now
Since we've parted ways
I've been wrestling with my conscience
And I found myself to blame
If there's to be any resolution
I've got to peel my pride away

Just between you and me
I've got somethin' to say
I wanna get it straight
Before the sun goes down
Just between you and me
Confession needs to be made
Recompense is my way to freedom
Just between you and me
I've got something to say

If confession is the road to healing
Forgiveness is the promised land
I'm reaching out in my conviction
I'm longing to make amends
So, I'm sorry for the words I've spoken
For I've betrayed a friend
We have a love that's worth preserving
And a bond I will defend...
-DC TALK

If You Could Only See

If you could only see the way she loves me
Then maybe you would understand
Why I feel this way about our love
And what I must do
If you could only see how blue her eyes can be when she says
When she says she loves me

Well you got your reasons
And you got your lies
And you got your manipulations
They cut me down to size

Sayin' you love but you don't
You give your love but you won't

If you could only see the way she loves me
Then maybe you would understand
Why I feel this way about our love
And what I must do
If you could only see how blue her eyes can be when she says
When she says she loves me

Seems the road less traveled
Show's happiness unraveled
And you got to take a little dirt
To keep what you love
That's what you gotta do

Sayin' you love but you don't
You give your love but you won't
You're stretching out your arms to something that's just not there
Sayin' you love where you stand
Give your heart when you can

If you could only see the way she loves me
Then maybe you would understand
Why I feel this way about our love
And what I must do
If you could only see how blue her eyes can be when she says
When she says she loves me

Sayin' you love but you don't
You give your love but you won't
Sayin' you love where you stand
Give your heart when you can

If you could only see the way she loves me
Then maybe you would understand
Why I feel this way about or love
And what I must do
If you could only see how blue her eyes can be when she says
When she says she loves me...
-Tonic

Plain Song

I've been looking so long at these pictures of
you that I almost believe that they're real I've
been living so long with my pictures of you that
I almost believe that the pictures are all I can feel

Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as
I ran to your heart to be near and we kissed as
the sky fell in holding you close how I always
held close in your fear remembering you
running soft through the night you were bigger
and brighter and whiter than snow and

screamed at the make-believe screamed at the
sky and you finally found all your courage to
let it all go

Remembering you fallen into my arms crying
for the death of your heart you were stone
white so delicate so lost in the cold you were
always so lost in the dark remembering you
How you used to be slow drowned you were
angels so much more than everything oh hold
for the last time then slip away quietly open
my eyes but I never see anything

If only I'd thought of the right words I could
have held onto your heart if only I'd thought of
the right words I wouldn't be breaking apart all
my pictures of you

Looking so long at these pictures of you but I
never hold onto your heart looking so long for
the words to be true but always just breaking apart
my pictures of you

There was nothing in the world that I ever
wanted more than to feel you deep in my heart
There was nothing in the world that I ever
wanted more than to never feel the breaking
apart all my pictures of you...
-The Cure

Truly, Madly, Deeply

I'll be your dream, I'll be your wish, I'll be your fantasy
I'll be your hope, I'll be your love, be everything that you need
I'll love you more with every breath
Truly Madly Deeply Do
I will be strong, I will be faithful
Coz I'm counting on
A new beginning, a reason for living, a deeper meaning yeah

I want to stand with you on a mountain
I want to bathe with you in the sea
I wanna lay like this forever
Until the sky falls down on me

And when the stars are shining brightly in the velvet sky
I'll make a wish send it to heaven, and make you want to cry
The tears of joy for all the pleasure in the certainty
That we're surrounded by the comfort and protection of
The highest powers, in lonely hours
The tears devour you

I want to stand with you on a mountain
I want to bathe with you in the sea
I wanna lay like this forever
Until the sky falls down on me

Oh can you see it baby?
You don't have to close your eyes, coz it's standing right before you
All that you need will surely come

I'll be your dream, I'll be your wish, I'll be your fantasy
I'll be your hope, I'll be your love, be everything that you need
I'll love you more with every breath
Truly Madly Deeply Do

I want to stand with you on a mountain
I want to bathe with you in the sea
I wanna lay like this forever
Until the sky falls down on me
I want to stand with you on a mountain
I want to bathe with you in the sea
I wanna live like this forever
Until the sky falls down on me...
-Savage Garden

Push

she said I don’t know if I’ve ever been good enough
I’m a little bit rusty, and I think my head is caving in
and I don’t know if I’ve ever been really loved
by a hand that’s touched me, well I feel like something’s gonna give
and I’m a little bit angry, well
this ain’t over, no not here, not while I still need you around

you don’t owe me, we might change
yeah we just might feel good

I wanna push you around, I will, I will
I wanna push you down, I will, I will
I wanna take you for granted,
I wanna take you for granted I will

she said I don’t know why you ever would lie to me
like I’m a little untrusting when I think that the truth is gonna hurt ya
and I don’t know why you couldn’t just stay with me
you couldn’t stand to be near me
when my face don’t seem to want to shine
cuz it’s a little bit dirty well

don’t just stand there, say nice things to me
I’ve been cheated I’ve been wronged,
and you you don’t know me, I can’t change
I won’t do anything at all

oh but don’t bowl me over
just wait a minute well it kinda fell apart,
things get so crazy, crazy
don’t rush this baby, don’t rush this baby

I wanna push you around, I will, I will
I wanna push you down, I will, I will
I wanna take you for granted,
I wanna take you for granted I will...
-Matchbox 20

Don't

Don't walk too close, don't breathe so soft
Don't talk so sweet, don't sing
Don't lay oh so near

Please, don't let me fall in love with you again

Please let me forget all those sweet smiles
All of the passion, all of the peace, the heat, the pain
All those blue skies where your words were my freedom

Please, don't let me fall in love with you again

Too many times I've cared too much
I stood on the edge and saw that you held my hand
And knowing too well I couldn't hide from those eyes

Please, don't let me fall in love with you again
Don't let me fall in love with you again...
-Jewel

Glass House

Sitting in my glass house
while your ghost is sleeping down the hall
Watching the little birds fly

kamikaze missions into the walls
Think I'm gonna stay in today,
sit on my couch and watch them fall

Life just keeps getting harder,
keeps getting harder to hide
Darker it is around me,
easier it is to see inside
And outside the glass the whole world is magnified,
and it's a half damn inch from here to the other side

Well, I guess that push has come to this,
so I guess this must be shove
But before you throw those stones at me,
tell me, what's your house made of?
And before you'll know what I'm doing wrong,
you're going to have to get in line
For the purposes of this song
lets just say I'm doing fine
Sure, I'm doing fine

Trapped in my glasshouse,
crowd has been gathering since dawn
Make a pot of coffee
while a catastrophe awaits me out on the lawn
Think I'm going to stay in today,
pretend like I don't know what's going on

Seems that push has come to this,
so I guess this must be shove
But before you throw those stones at me, tell me,
what's your house made of?
And before you'll know what I'm doing wrong,
you're going to have to get in line
For the purposes of this song lets just say I'm doing fine
Sure, I'm doing fine
Sitting in my glass house... -Ani DiFranco

That Day (John's Song)

It's been ten years
It's been too long
So many dead
Such beauty gone
And I was hoping for the day
When we needn't all endure
The prejudice and pain
While the sick wait for a cure

That will be the day
Hold your head high
You deserve to live
I say No one deserves to die

You were their brother
You were their son
Someone's life partner
You were the one
To show the loss is not just numbers
It's the names upon a quilt
It's too many eternal slumbers
In the house that hatred built

That will be the day
Hold your head high
You deserve to live
I say No one deserves to die

It's been ten years
It's been too long
So many dead
Such beauty...
Gone

That will be the day
Hold your head high
You deserve to live
I say No one deserves to die
No one deserves to die....
-Three Track Mind

I Hear Leesha

Seems like it was only yesterday
She was living here

Yeah, she was living here
Lord knows why He's taken her away
It isn't very clear, no it isn't very clear
Into every life a little rain must fall
And losing one you love is like a storm
But storms are passing

I hear Leesha
Singing in Heaven tonight
And in between the sadness
I hear Leesha
Telling me that she's alright

Life goes on even after life
That's what I believe
Yeah, that's what I believe
Leesha's gone, but she will still survive
In a memory that I'm keeping here with me
Silencing the voice of mortal tragedy
Listening to whispers of the soul
All is peaceful

I hear Leesha
Singing in Heaven tonight
And in between the sadness
I hear Leesha
Telling me that she's alright
I hear Leesha...
-Michael W. Smith

Sorry Doesn't Say

Like children wanting candy
you wait for me to say
that it's alright, no one's watching
you can eat your life away

and sorry doesn't say that you made a mistake
and sorry doesn't say that you didn't want the cake

and many times you look to
someone else to be complete
when you're empty and you're searching
and you don't know what you need

and spirits just can't save
a beggar who waits
for a mouthful of the sweet
for an easy oven recipe

Sorry doesn't say that you made a mistake
and sorry doesn't say that you didn't want the cake...
-Lift
(Thought this song was rather appropriate with the recent breakup of the band and all...)

Patchwork Quilt:

They unfolded your lives one by one
They laid out your patchwork under the sun
And people gathered from miles around
To witness your quilt spread on the ground

And then they called out your names
Oh yes, they called out your names
And you will live forever
Know that I'll be loving you like a patchwork quilt

Well there were men and women and mothers and fathers
Sisters and brothers and daughters and sons
And children and babies and lovers and friends
They all lay before me, sewed into one

And then they called out your names
Oh yes, they called out your names
And you will live forever
Know that I'll be loving you like a patchwork quilt

My heart spills over, flowing with tears
I've cried for your suffering and your shortened years
And I'll take you with me as I walk away
Remembering you who have died with AIDS

Yes I remember your names
Oh I remember your names
And you will live forever
Know that I'll be loving you like a patchwork quilt...
-Sweet Honey In the Rock

The Weakness In Me

I'm not the sort of person who falls
In and quickly out of love
But to you I gave my affection
Right from the start.
I have a lover who loves me:
How could I break such a heart?
Yet still you gained my attention.

Why do you come here
When you know I've got troubles enough?
Why do you call me
When you know I can't answer the phone?
Make me lie, when I don't want to
And make someone else some kind of an unknowin' fool
You make me stare, when I should not
Are you so strong or is all the weakness in me?
Why do you come here
And pretend to be just passing by?
But I need to see you,
And I mean to hold you
Tightly...

Feeling guilty, worried,
Waking from tormented sleep
This old love has me bound
But this new love cuts deep.
If I choose now, I'll lose out
One of you has to fall
But I need you, and you.

Why do you come here
When you know I've got troubles enough?
Why do you call me
When you know I can't answer the phone?
Make me lie, when I don't want to
And make someone else some kind of an unknowin' fool
You make me stare, when I should not
Are you so strong or is all the weakness in me?
Why do you come here
And pretend to be just passing by?
But I need to see you,
And I mean to hold you
Tightly...
-Joan Armatrading

And More To Come!..

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