Forever and Ever Amen - Randy Travis
(I'm singing this one the next time I get married, to my WW or someone else)

You may think that I'm talking foolish
You've heard that I'm wild & I'm free
You may wonder how I can promise you now
This love that I feel for you always will be
You're not just time that I'm killing
I'm no longer one of those guys
As sure as I live this love that I give
Is gonna be yours until the day that I die -- Oh baby


chorus...

I'm gonna love you forever, forever & ever amen
As long as old men sit & talk about the weather
As long as old women sit & talk about old men
If you wonder how long I'll be faithfull
I'll be happy to tell you again
I'm gonna love you forever & ever, forever & ever Amen

They say that time takes it's toll on a body
Makes a young girl's brown hair turn grey
But honey, I don't care, I ain't in love with your hair
And if it all fell out well I'd love you anyway
They say time can play tricks on a memory
Make people forget things they knew
well it's easy to see it's happening to me
I've already forgotten every woman but you --- Oh darlin'


chorus......

Just listen to how this song ends
I'm gonna love you forever & ever, forever & ever
Forever & ever, Forever & ever Amen

[color:"purple"]What Mattered Most


I thought I knew the girl so well
If she was sad I couldn't tell
I missed the point, I missed the signs
So if she's gone the fault is mine
I know, I know a whole lot of little things
And even though I could list them one by one
She would still be gone

Her eyes are blue, her hair is long
In '64 she was born in Baton Rouge
Her favorite song is "In My Life"
I memorized her every move
I knew her books, her car, her clothes
But I paid no attention to [i]what mattered most

I never asked, she never said
And when she cried I turned my head
She dreamed her dreams behind closed doors
That made them easy to ignore
And I know, I know I missed the forest for the trees
All I have to show oh when she walked out the door
Are cold facts and nothing more

Her eyes are blue, her hair is long
In '64 she was born in Baton Rouge
Her favorite song is "In My Life"
I memorized her every move
I knew her books, her car, her clothes
But I paid no attention to what mattered most

Her eyes are blue, her hair is long
In '64 she was born in Baton Rouge
Her father's tall, her mother's gone
She moved out west when she was two
The way she laughed, the way she loved
Oh my God what did I do[/i][/color]
.

COME ON HOME (by The Indigo Girls)

Dark clouds are comin' in like an army
Soon the sky will open up and disarm me
And you will go, just like you've gone before
One sad soldier off to war
Enemies that only you can see

Dishes stacked, the table cleared
It's always like the scene of the Last Supper here
You speak so cryptically, but that's not news to me
The flood is here, it will carry you
And I've got work to do

Come on home
The team you're hitched to has a mind of its own
It's just the forces of your past you've fought before
Come back here and shut the door
I'm stacking sandbags against the river of your troubles

There is fire, and there is lust
Some would trade it all for someone they could trust
There's a bag of silver for a box of nails
It's so simple the betrayal
Though it's known to change the world and what's to come

Come on home
The team you're hitched to has a mind of its own
It's just the forces of your past you've fought before
Don't you recognise them any more
I'm stacking sandbags against the river of your troubles

There's the given and the expected
I count my blessings while I eye what I've neglected
Is this for better, is this for worse
You're all jammed up and the dam's about to burst

I hear the owl in the night
I realise that some things never are made right
But by some will we string together here
Days to months and months to years
What if everything we have adds up to nothing?

Come on home
The team you're hitched to has a mind of its own
It's just the forces of your past you've fought before
Come back here and shut the door
I'm stacking sandbags against the river of your troubles



(makes me cry whenever I hear it).

I haven't had time yet to look through all the song listed. I will, though. Each one certainly tells a story. Music has always been an outlet for me. Without it I would have died, at least figuratively. Here's mine to add to the growing list.
I'm precious

"One"
sung by Fait Hill


I try with all my mind but still don't understand why
We ever let it get so out of hand
My arms are reaching out and holding on tight
To what has always felt so right
It's hard to figure out the answers to the questions
Wind blow the lights, you're goin' in separate directions

One is breaking into two
And my heart is turning blue
And you still don't get it do you, do you
I thought we had all the love to go it for the long run
So before the damage is done
Let's start back over at one

Lights out when every evening used to get so hot
Now we got so damned distracted we forgot how
To lock the world away and just get lost in
Where you end and where I begin
Love is strong but it's so easy to divide
So boy let's think about
How much is on the line

One is breaking into two
And my heart is turning blue
And you still don't get it do you, do you
I thought we had all the love to go it for the long run
So before the damage is done
Let's start back over at one

Youth by Goldfinger


In my life, been all the places
That I dreamed of since I was a kid
Bury the past, I'm getting on with
Things I never thought I'd get through

So now I know

I don't know anything
Except I notice that
You're still here
I don't want anything
Well that's a lie because
I want you here with me

I made mistakes, I've done some things
That I just wish I could go back and change
But now I'm here, and now I know that I
Can learn from those things that I've done

So now I know

I don't know anything
Except I notice that
You're still here
I don't want anything
Well that's a lie because
I want you here with me

Don't want it back
I like who I've become
I'm right on track
I'm feeling half as young
As I did when I was a kid

In my life, been all the places
That I dreamed of since I was a kid

I don't know anything
Except I notice that
You're still here
I don't want anything
Well that's a lie because
I want you here with me

So now I know

Alphin, those Indigo Girls lyrics -- Come On Home -- were fantastic. I can't believe I had never heard them before, but I am going to find & download that song right now. Thanks for sharing. ~ slh

This song is on one of my exercise DVDs. I like to torture myself by listening to it as I lift weights.

Unbreak My Heart - sung by Toni Braxton?

Don't leave me in all this pain
Don't leave me out in the rain
Come back and bring back my smile
Come and take these tears away
I need your arms to hold me now
The nights are so unkind
Bring back those nights when I held you beside me
Un-break my heart
Say you'll love me again
Undo this hurt you caused
When you walked out the door
And walked outta my life
Un-cry these tears
I cried so many nights
Un-break my heart
My heart

Take back that sad word good-bye
Bring back the joy to my life
Don't leave me here with these tears
Come and kiss this pain away
I can't forget the day you left
Time is so unkind
And life is so cruel without you here beside me

Un-break my heart
Say you'll love me again
Undo this hurt you caused
When you walked out the door
And walked outta my life
Un-cry these tears
I cried so many nights
Un-break my heart
My heart

Don't leave me in all this pain
Don't leave me out in the rain
Bring back the nights when I held you beside me

Un-break my heart
Say you'll love me again
Undo this hurt you caused
When you walked out the door
And walked outta my life
Un-cry these tears
I cried so many, many nights
Un-break my

Un-break my heart
Come back and say you love me
Un-break my heart
Sweet darlin'
Without you I just can't go on
Can't go on

Here's one from the days of big hair and leg warmers (ahhh, the '80s).

Shattered Dreams - Johnny Hates Jazz

So much for your promises
They died the day you let me go
Caught up in a web of lies
But it was just too late to know

I thought it was you
Who would stand by my side

And now you've given me, given me
Nothing but shattered dreams, shattered dreams
Feel like i could run away, run away
From this empty heart

You said you'd die for me

Woke up to reality
And found the future not so bright
I dreamt the impossible
That maybe things could work out right

I thought it was you
Who would do me no wrong

(chorus)

From this empty heart

I thought it was you who said you'd die for love

(chorus)

Oh no no no - you said you'd die for me
Oh oh, oh oh, die for me
So much for your promises

This one breaks my heart every time I hear it:

"Fallen" - Sarah McLachlan

Heaven bend to take my hand
And lead me through the fire
Be the long awaited answer
To a long and painful fight

Truth be told I've tried my best
But somewhere along the way
I got caught up in all there was to offer
And the cost was so much more than I could bear

Though I've tried, I've fallen...
I have sunk so low
I have messed up
Better I should know
So don't come round here
And tell me I told you so...

We all begin with good intent
Love was raw and young
We believed that we could change ourselves
The past could be undone
But we carry on our backs the burden
Time always reveals
The lonely light of morning
The wound that would not heal
It's the bitter taste of losing everything
That I have held so dear.

I've fallen...
I have sunk so low

Heaven bend to take my hand
Nowhere left to turn
I'm lost to those I thought were friends
To everyone I know
Oh they turn their heads embarassed
Pretend that they don't see
But it's one missed step
One slip before you know it
And there doesn't seem a way to be redeemed

Though I've tried, I've fallen...
I have sunk so low
I have messed up
Better I should know
So don't come round here
And tell me I told you so...

A little trivia. The guy who wrote "Please Remember Me" that Tim McGraw sang (lyric on this thread page 9 I think) was interviewed on the radio. He said he wrote that song when he thought his relationship was over and there was no chance he would ever been forgiven. (Plan B??) But he was wrong the relationship was saved and stronger then ever according to him. He has a another song now, performed by Keith Urban. Sounds like a FWH invested in recovery.

Making Memories of Us
(written by Rodney Crowell)

I'm gonna be here for you baby
I'll be a man of my word
Speak the language in a voice that you have never heard
I wanna sleep with you forever
and I wanna die in your arms
in a cabin by a meadow where the wild bees swarm
And I'm gonna love you like nobody loves you
And I'll earn your trust making memories of us

I wanna honor your mother
I wanna learn from your pa
I wanna steal your attention like a bad outlaw
I wanna stand out in crowd for you, a man among men
I wanna make your world better then its ever been
And I'm gonna love you like nobody's loved you
And I'll earn your trust making memories of us

We'll follow the rainbow wherever the 4 winds blow
And there'll be a new day
comin' your way
I'm gonna be here for you from now on
This you know some how
You've been stretched to the limits but it's alright now

And I'm gonna make you a promise
If there's life after this
I'm gonna be there to meet you with a warm, wet kiss
And I'm gonna love you like nobody's loved you
And I'll earn your trust making memories of us

[color:"purple"] MYSTERY

Indigo Girls

Each time you’d pull down the driveway
I wasn’t sure when I would see you again
Yours was a twisted, blind-sided highway
No matter which road you took then
Oh, you set up your place in my thoughts
Moved in and made my thinking crowded
Now we’re out in the back with the barking dogs
My heart the red sun
Your heart the moon clouded
I could go crazy on a night like tonight
When summer’s beginning to give up her fight
And every thought’s a possibility
And the voices are heard, but nothing is seen
Why do you spend this time with me
Maybe an equal mystery.

So what is love then,
Is it dictated, or chosen?
Does it sing like the hymns of 1000 years,
Or is it just pop emotion?
And if it ever was there and it left,
Does it mean it was never true?
And to exist it must elude,
Is that why I think these things of you?
I could go crazy on a night like tonight
When summer’s beginning to give up her fight
And every thought’s a possibility
And the voices are heard, but nothing is seen
Why do you spend this time with me
May be an equal mystery.

But you like the taste of danger
It shines like sugar on your lips
And you like to stand in the line of fire
Just to show you can shoot straight from you hip
There must be a 1000 things you would die for
I can hardly think of two
But not everything is better spoken aloud-
Not when I’m talking to you

Oh the pirate gets the ship and the girl tonight
Breaks a bottle to christen her
Basking in the exploits of her thief
She’s a very good listener
Maybe that’s all that we need
Is to meet in the middle of impossibility
We’re standing at opposite poles
Equal partners in a mystery;

We’re standing at opposite poles
Equal partners in a mystery.[/color]

"...Come on home
The team you're hitched to has a mind of its own
It's just the forces of your past you've fought before
Come back here and shut the door
I'm stacking sandbags against the river of your troubles..."


loved this

"Hold on
Hold on to yourself
For this is gonna hurt like hell
Hold on
Hold on to yourself
You know that only time will tell
What is it in me that refuses to believe
This isn’t easier than the real thing
My love
You know that you’re my best friend
You know I’d do anything for you
My love
Let nothing come between us
My love for you is strong and true

Am I in heaven here or am i...
At the crossroads I am standing
So now you’re sleeping peaceful
I lie awake and pray
That you’ll be strong tomorrow and we’ll
See another day and we will praise it
And love the light that brings a smile
Across your face

Oh God if you’re out there won’t you hear me
I know that we’ve never talked before
Oh God the man I love is leaving
Won’t you take him when he comes to your door

Am I in heaven here or am I in hell
At the crossroads I am standing
So now you’re sleeping peaceful
I lie awake and pray
That you’ll be strong tomorrow and we’ll
See another day and we will praise it
And love the light that brings a smile
Across your face...

Hold on
Hold on to yourself
For this is gonna hurt like hell"

Sarah Mclauchlan

BUMP!

I heard this song for the first time in a long time when my kids were watching Shrek 2. Sometimes I get so tired trying to be the 'hero' for my kids and trying to fight for my marriage and I wish someone would fight for me for a change.

Holding Out for a Hero - sung by Bonnie Tyler

Where have all the good men gone
And where are all the gods?
Where's the street-wise Hercules
To fight the rising odds?
Isn't there a white knight upon a fiery steed?
Late at night I toss and turn and dream
of what I need

(Chorus)

I need a hero
I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night
He's gotta be strong
And he's gotta be fast
And he's gotta be fresh from the fight
I need a hero


I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light
He's gotta be sure
And it's gotta be soon
And he's gotta be larger than life

Somewhere after midnight
In my wildest fantasy
Somewhere just beyond my reach
There's someone reaching back for me
Racing on the thunder and rising with the heat
It's gonna take a superman to sweep me off my feet

(Chorus)

Up where the mountains meet the heavens above
Out where the lightning splits the sea
I would swear that there's someone somewhere
Watching me

Through the wind and the chill and the rain
And the storm and the flood
I can feel his approach
Like the fire in my blood

Pebbles,

Man, I LOVE that song - haven't heard it in years. Thanks for reminding me of it.

***digs through drawer looking for long-forgotten tape***

Alph.

Love's Recovery

Words and Music: Emily Saliers


During the time of which I speak
It was hard to turn the other cheek
To the blows of insecurity
Feeding the cancer of my intellect
The blood of love soon neglected
Lay dying in the strength of its impurity

And all the friends we thought were so together
They've all gone and left each other in search of fairer weather
I sit here in our storm and drink a toast
To the slim chance of love's recovery

There I am in younger days
Star gazing, painting picture-perfect maps
Of how my life and love would be
Not counting the unmarked paths of misdirection
My compass, faith in love's perfection
I missed ten million miles of road I should have seen

Meanwhile our friends we thought were so together
Left each other one by one on the road to fairer weather
And we sit here in our storm and drink a toast
To the slim chance of love's recovery

Rain-soaked and voice-choked
Like silence screaming in a dream
I searched for an absolute distinction
Not content to bow and bend
To the winds of culture that swoop like vultures
Eating us away...eating us away...eating us away to our extinction

Oh how I wish I were a trinity
So that if I lost a part of me
I'd still have two of the same to live
But nobody gets a lifetime rehearsal
As specks of dust, we're universal
[color:"purple"] To let this love survive and be the greatest gift that we could give:

Tell all the friends who think they're so together
[color:"purple"] That these are ghosts and mirages, all these thoughts of fairer weather.

Though it's storming now, I feel safe within the arms
Of Love's Discovery[/color][/color]

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The version from the Shrek 2 soundtrack is covered by Frou Frou and will play at our Renewal; we were just dancing to it tonight, and my "Mr Incredible" was singing it to me! It was hilarious.

btw he's signed up, with his very own MB account. He tends to lay low, though, so I can't guarantee any superhero sightings.

Here's my contribution to the Lyrics thread.

When I was hopeless:

Limp Bizkit from Significant Other CD
REARRANGED

Lately I've been skeptical
Silent when I would used to speak
Distant from all around me
Who witness me fail and become weak
Life is overwhelming
Heavy is the head that wears the crown
I'd love to be the one to disappoint you when I don't fall down

But you don't understand when I'm attempting to explain
Because you know it all and I guess things will never change
But you might need my hand when falling in your hole
Your disposition I'll remember when I'm letting go of
You and me we're through
And rearranged

It seems that you're not satisfied
There's too much on your mind
So you leave and I can't believe all the [censored] that I find
Life is overwhelming
Heavy is the head that wears the crown
I'd love to be the one to disappoint you when I don't fall down

But you don't understand when I'm attempting to explain
Because you know it all and I guess things will never change
But you might need my hand when falling in your hole
Your disposition I'll remember when I'm letting go of
You and me we're through
And rearranged

You're no good
For me
Thank God its over

You make believe
That nothing is wrong until you're cryin'
You make believe
That life is so long until you're dyin'
You make believe
That nothing is wrong until you're cryin'
Cryin' on me
You make believe
That life is so long until you're dyin'
Dyin' on me!

You think that everybody's the same
I don't think that anybody's like you
(You ruin everything and you kept [censored]' with me until its over and I won't be
the same)
You think that everybody's the same
I don't think that anybody's like you
Be the same

Just think about it
You'll get it
###

When I am hopeful, a lot more lately:

Peter Gabriel from the US CD.
"Only Us"

Only Us [x3]

It wasn't in the words that kept sticking in their throats
It wasn't with the angels in their quilted coats
These battered wings still kick up dust
Seduced by the noise and the bright things that glisten
I knew all the time I should shut up and listen
And I'm finding my way home from the great escape

The further on I go, oh the less I know
I can find only us breathing
Only us sleeping
Only us dreaming
Only us

I hear you calling me
Yes I hear you calling me
Home from the great escape
Yes I can read you loud and clear

The further on I go, oh the less I know
Friend or foe, there's only us

The further on I go, oh the less I know
I can find only us breathing

I'm coming home again, home again
And I hear you calling me home again
I am coming home again
only us, only us, only us, only us.....
###

Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation (new one)
"Shine It All Around"

This is the land where I live
Paint it all over golden
Take a little sunshine, spread it all around
This is the love that I give
These are the arms for the holding
Turn on your love light, shine it all around x2

Shine it all around, Shine it all around

These are the times of my life
Bright and strong and golden
This is the way that I choose when the deal goes down
This is the world that I love
Painted all over troubled
Take a little sunshine, shine it all around
Send a little sign now, spread it all around now
Shine it all around now, when the deal goes down now

Shine it all around

This is the heart of the man
This is the heart of the matter
Break a little bread now, spread it all around
Come on break a little bread now, all around

Shine it all around, Shine it all around
Shine it all around, Shine it all around

Send a little sun now, spread it all around now
Shine it all around now, when the deal goes down now
Shine it all around now, when the deal goes down now
Shine it all around now, when the deal goes down now

There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis

(Kirsty Maccoll/Philip Rambow)

Oh darling why d’you talk so fast
Another evening just flew past tonight
And now the daybreak’s coming in
And I can’t win and it ain’t right
You tell me all you’ve done and seen
And all the places you have been without me
Well I don’t really want to know
But I’ll stay quiet and then I’ll go
And you won’t have no cause to think about me

There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis
Just like you swore to me that you’d be true
There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis
But he’s a liar and I’m not sure about you

Oh darling you’re so popular
You were the best thing new in Hicksville
With your mohair suits and foreign shoes
Lou says you changed your pickup for a Seville
And now I’m lying here alone
’cause you’re out there on the phone to some star in New York
I can hear you laughing now
And I can’t help feeling that somehow
You don’t mean anything you say at all

There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis
Just like you swore to me that you’d be true
There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis
But he’s a liar and I’m not sure about you

There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis
Just like you swore to me that you’d be true
There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis
But he’s a liar and I’m not sure about you
I said he’s a liar and I’m not sure about you
I said he’s a liar and I’m not sure about you
I said he’s a liar and I’m not sure about you