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Love Songs (happy or sad ones)

tenderchichi
16 years ago

I thought it might be nice to start a thread where we could post some songs about whatever our mood is at the time.

Today, I was thinking about Lost Loves and here is my song:

Long Long Time Lyrics

Artist(Band):Linda Ronstadt

written by Gary B. White

Universal MCA Music (ASCAP)

Love will abide, take things in stride

Sounds like good advice but there's no one at my side

And time washes clean love's wounds unseen

That's what someone told me but I don't know what it means.

Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine

And I think I'm gonna love you for a long long time

Caught in my fears

Blinking back the tears

I can't say you hurt me when you never let me near

And I never drew one response from you

All the while you fell all over girls you never knew

Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine

And I think it's gonna hurt me for a long long time

Wait for the day

You'll go away

Knowing that you warned me of the price I'd have to pay

And life's full of flaws

Who knows the cause?

Living in the memory of a love that never was

Cause I've done everything I know to try and change your mind

and I think I'm gonna miss you for a long long time

Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine

And I think I'm gonna love you for a long long time.

Link to the song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0qm8nq8RcA

I ran across it recently and had completely forgotten about this song. I liked it so much that I am learning to play it on my piano. It's such a tear jerker that I love it!

Comments (59)

  • amyfiddler
    16 years ago

    Popi, yes! Carpenters. And ANYTHING by Bread - anyone remember The Diary? Sob.

  • asolo
    16 years ago

    Also, John Gary's version of "Unchained Melody".

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  • carla35
    16 years ago

    Here's another of my favorite sad love songs. You may notice it's in Russian. My taste in music is about as disverse as my taste in men!

    Anyway, it is metaphorical and hard to translate.. but I think it is about a boy who lives alone in a house... 'weathering the wheather' of past loves and being alone thinking of those past pains becoming even more saddened and depressed thinking he has been fated to always be alone.

    Here is a link that might be useful: Opera #2

  • asolo
    16 years ago

    Carla35........WHOA!!!!

  • used2bsexy
    16 years ago

    I'm Moving On by Rascal Flatts

    I love this song.

    Check it out on this site: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xirxN3xYuYg

  • tenderchichi
    Original Author
    16 years ago

    amyfiddler-
    (this song has a bit of a twist to it!)
    The Diary/Bread

    I found her diary underneath a tree.
    And started reading about me.
    The words she's written took me by surpise,
    You'd never read them in her eyes.
    They said that she had found the love
    She waited for.
    Wouldn't you know it, she wouldn't show it.
    When she confronted with the writing there,
    Simply pretended not to care.
    I passed it off as just in keeping with
    Her total disconcerting air
    And though she tried to hide
    The love that she denied,
    Wouldn't you know it, she wouldn't show it.
    And as I go through my life,
    I will give to her my wife,
    All the sweet things that I can find.
    I found her diary underneath a tree.
    And started reading about me.
    The words began to stick and tears to flow.
    Her meaning now was clear to see.
    The love she'd waited for
    Was someone else not me.
    Wouldn't you know it, she wouldn't show it.
    And as I go through my life,
    I will wish for her his wife
    All the sweet things that she can find
    All the sweet things they can find.

    Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24IfD-0VUu4

  • carla35
    16 years ago

    Oh these songs are great!....Thanks for starting the thread, tenderchichi... keep the songs coming. I'm going through a bad time right now and am especially enjoying the songs.

  • plasticgarden
    16 years ago

    Depeche Mode

    The MEANING OF LOVE (kinda funny)

    Ive read more than a hundred books
    Seen love mentioned many thousand times
    But despite all the places Ive looked
    Its still no clearer its just not enough
    Im still no nearer the meaning of love

    Noted down all my observations
    Spent an evening watching television
    Still I couldnt say with precision
    Know its a feeling and it comes from above
    But whats the meaning, the meaning of love?

    The meaning of love
    Tell me the meaning of love

    From the notes that Ive made so far
    Love seems something like wanting a scar
    But I could be wrong, Im just not sure you see,
    Ive never been in love before

    Next I asked several friends of mine
    If they could spare a few minutes of their time
    Their look suggested that Id lost my mind
    Tell me the answer, my lord high above
    Tell me the meaning, the meaning of love

    The meaning of love
    Tell me the meaning of love

    From the notes that Ive made so far
    Love seems something like wanting a scar
    But I could be wrong, Im just not sure you see,
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  • tenderchichi
    Original Author
    16 years ago

    She's a Very Lovely Woman/Emmitt Rhodes

    Shes a very lovely woman but I think you better turn her down this time
    cause shes used all her charms on you and soon you'll miss the things you left behind
    A girl who loves you thinking of you oh
    my friend shes a lovely woman, a lovely woman
    and now she wants you to forget the things that took us so long to get and find
    and go away with her and follow her and sin and drink her wine
    Make your mind up or wind up in life of sin
    oh even thooough she is lovely her world is ugly and go back no more
    Even though she is lovely it is not enough to ruin our lives
    oh no
    She's a very lovely woman but I think you better turn her down this time.....

    Performed by Linda Ronstadt.

    Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKWgVzQBg28

  • amyfiddler
    16 years ago

    bump to drop spam

  • tenderchichi
    Original Author
    16 years ago

    amyfiddler -

    What does "bump to drop spam" mean?

  • amyfiddler
    16 years ago

    Sorry. I hate it when people advertise on this site, so I attempted to bump enough real posts up in order so that the spam posts would drop to the next page. It discourages spammers, but I pooped out before I got those posts off the page.

  • asolo
    16 years ago

    Thanks for nothing!

  • amyfiddler
    16 years ago

    Sorry asolo, didnt' mean to upset you.

  • asolo
    16 years ago

    I am mighty. I can endure.

  • tenderchichi
    Original Author
    16 years ago

    Remembering when this song first came out and discussing with friends as we turned over the 45 why it was such a big deal? Why not just bake another cake!

    Macarthur Park/Jimmy Webb
    Sung by Richard Harris

    Spring was never waiting for us, girl
    It ran one step ahead
    As we followed in the dance
    Between the parted pages and were pressed
    In love's hot, fevered iron
    Like a striped pair of pants

    MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
    All the sweet, green icing flowing down
    Someone left the cake out in the rain
    I don't think that I can take it
    'Cause it took so long to bake it
    And I'll never have that recipe again
    Oh, no!

    I recall the yellow cotton dress
    Foaming like a wave
    On the ground around your knees
    The birds, like tender babies in your hands
    And the old men playing checkers by the trees

    MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
    All the sweet, green icing flowing down
    Someone left the cake out in the rain
    I don't think that I can take it
    'Cause it took so long to bake it
    And I'll never have that recipe again
    Oh, no!

    There will be another song for me
    For I will sing it
    There will be another dream for me
    Someone will bring it
    I will drink the wine while it is warm
    And never let you catch me looking at the sun
    And after all the loves of my life
    After all the loves of my life
    You'll still be the one

    I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
    I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
    I will have the things that I desire
    And my passion flow like rivers through the sky
    And after all the loves of my life
    After all the loves of my life
    I'll be thinking of you
    And wondering why

    MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
    All the sweet, green icing flowing down
    Someone left the cake out in the rain
    I don't think that I can take it
    'Cause it took so long to bake it
    And I'll never have that recipe again
    Oh, no!
    Oh, no
    No, no
    Oh no!!

    Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkhrTaSnpts

  • used2bsexy
    16 years ago

    Dumb question ..but how do you make it so someone can just click on the link address and get to that site? I copied and pasted mine and so you can't just click on it to get there ..........you also have to copy and paste. Let me know!

  • carla35
    16 years ago

    used2bsexy,

    You need to put the info part you copied and pasted in the part UNDER the message field that says:

    Opitional Link URL:

    (Try to post a message and you'll notice there are two additional fields to enter info in under the message section...one is the Optional Link and one is the Name of the Link)

  • tenderchichi
    Original Author
    16 years ago

    I Ain't Gonna Eat Out my Heart Anymore/Rascals

    Yea
    I admit you've got the biggest brown eyes and you know how to
    part your lips to tantalize
    Sure

    You can get any man you want goin and ya do it and don't say you don't know
    ya do

    Well baby I aint gonna eat out my heart anymore
    I aint gonna eat out my heart anymore - so quit it

    I love you I love you I do girl
    But you aint gonna cheat on me
    I need ya I need ya I do girl
    Choooose is it him or me
    Yea

    Suppose I aint been sayin girl
    You should be ashamed of what I been seeing
    BAD

    Yea

    You better watch your step or girl you can bet your gonna loose the best
    thing
    you've ever had

    Well baby I aint gonna eat out my heart anymore
    Aint gonna eat out my heart anymore

    Quit it

    I love you I love you I do girl
    But you aint gonna cheat on me
    I need ya I need ya I really do girl
    Choooose is it him or me

    Well baby I aint gonna eat out my heart anymore
    I aint gonna eat my heart anymore.

    Done as a cover by Angel

    Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ilfOCbugyU

  • cheerful1_gw
    16 years ago

    Still don't know what MacArthur Park means!

  • tenderchichi
    Original Author
    16 years ago

    cheerful1 - It will probably always be a mystery!
    HOW CAN I TELL YOU/Cat Stevens

    How can I tell you that I love you, I love you
    But I cant think of right words to say
    I long to tell you that Im always thinking of you
    Im always thinking of you, but my words
    Just blow away, just blow away
    It always ends up to one thing, honey
    And I cant think of right words to say
    Wherever I am girl, Im always walking with you
    Im always walking with you, but I look and youre not there
    Whoever Im with, Im always, always talking to you
    Im always talking to you, and Im sad that
    You cant hear, sad that you cant hear
    It always ends up to one thing, honey,
    When I look and youre not there
    I need to know you, need to feel my arms around you
    Feel my arms around you, like a sea around a shore
    And -- each night and day I pray, in hope
    That I might find you, in hope that I might
    Find you, because hearts can do no more
    It always ends up to one thing honey, still I kneel upon the floor
    How can I tell you that I love you, I love you
    But I cant think of right words to say
    I long to tell you that Im always thinking of you
    Im always thinking of you....
    It always ends up to one thing honey
    And I cant think of right words to say

    Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBwUkPYzjKs

  • plasticgarden
    16 years ago

    I love Foreigner.They have alot of love songs,but I'm posting this one."I dont want to live without you".

    Here is a link that might be useful: Foreigner~I dont want to live without you

  • plasticgarden
    16 years ago

    This one makes me cry!

    Here is a link that might be useful: Fields of Gold

  • plasticgarden
    16 years ago

    (sorry there are just so many! I'm on a roll)

    Madonna

    Here is a link that might be useful: The Power of Goodbye

  • tenderchichi
    Original Author
    16 years ago

    plasticgarden -

    I never heard this song. The lyrics and music wrap around each other....The power of goodbye.....

    Madonna - The Power Of Goodbye

    Your heart is not open so I must go
    The spell has been broken, I loved you so
    Freedom comes when you learn to let go
    Creation comes when you learn to say no

    You were my lesson I had to learn
    I was your fortress you had to burn
    Pain is a warning that something's wrong
    I pray to God that it won't be long
    Do ya wanna go higher?

    Chorus:

    There's nothing left to try
    There's no place left to hide
    There's no greater power
    Than the power of good-bye

    Your heart is not open so I must go
    The spell has been broken, I loved you so
    You were my lesson I had to learn
    I was your fortress

    Chorus2:

    There's nothing left to lose
    There's no more heart to bruise
    There's no greater power
    Than the power of good-bye

    Learn to say good-bye
    I yearn to say good-bye

  • plasticgarden
    16 years ago

    Did you like it tenderchichi? I'm a big Madonna fan and that song is one of my favorites.

  • tenderchichi
    Original Author
    16 years ago

    plasticgarden -

    Yes I did and thank you!

    I played it a number of times.

    Madonna has gotten rather esoteric lately, hasn't she?

    (LOL)

  • tenderchichi
    Original Author
    16 years ago

    SAD LISA/Cat Steven
    She hangs her head and cries on my shirt.
    She must be hurt very badly.
    Tell me whats making you sadly?
    Open your door, dont hide in the dark.
    Youre lost in the dark, you can trust me.
    cause you know thats how it must be.

    Lisa lisa, sad lisa lisa.

    Her eyes like windows, tricklin rain
    Upon her pain getting deeper.
    Though my love wants to relieve her.
    She walks alone from wall to wall.
    Lost in a hall, she cant hear me.
    Though I know she likes to be near me.

    Lisa lisa, sad lisa lisa.

    She sits in a corner by the door.
    There must be more I can tell her.
    If she really wants me to help her.
    Ill do what I can to show her the way.
    And maybe one day I will free her.
    Though I know no one can see her.

    Lisa lisa, sad lisa lisa.

    Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69RXBQe5RYg

  • plasticgarden
    16 years ago

    Tenderchichi,do you know what that Sad Lisa song is about?
    To me it seems like something bad happend to Lisa and he wants to help her. Abuse or mental illness maybe? Very touching though.

    Yes,I think kids have finally settled Madonna down!

  • tenderchichi
    Original Author
    16 years ago

    plasticgarden -

    We usually wonder what an artist had in mind when writing lyrics to a song. I did a search and came up with fans' posts. One said they saw him perform this in concert and he mentioned "Sad Lisa" was about him. Another said he wrote it about his sister who had aspergers but I could find no mention of it in his bio.

    It is probably better that the artist not tell what it is about so that it can be interpreted by the listener in a way that is personal to them.

    It seems to me that "Lisa" has closed herself off. The song is about how he is trying to reach her but she is unable to receive his Love/Kindness.

    That is my take on it.

  • tenderchichi
    Original Author
    16 years ago

    Correction on my last post.

    Meant to say "autism" not aspergers. Sorry.

    Is there a way to edit your post?

  • plasticgarden
    16 years ago

    No I wish there was though!

  • devoted3003
    16 years ago

    a song that always makes me cry is All by myself by eric carmen or celine dion. It is a beautiful song.

    Another one which may seem strange is Michael Jackson you are not alone. These both make me cry, if they ever come on the radio at work I have to leave the room. These both bring back happy and sad memories of my mam who passed away when I was 8.

    Whitney houstons I have nothing and I wanna run to you have the same effect. They can be so soothing at times though...

  • devoted3003
    16 years ago

    sorry i didnt mean for that to sound depressing....

  • carla35
    16 years ago

    Yeah, thanks, I just played Eric Carmen version of All by Myself on You Tube and had to turn it off it got me so depressed --LOL

    Hey, what's that depressing song close to the same era that a woman sings (maybe Anne Murray, maybe not) about her friends all growing up and marrying (I think there was a line about 'ugly duckling me'). I know that's not much info, but if anyone is on the same page and know what song I'm talking about, please let me know the name of it. Thanks.

  • devoted3003
    16 years ago

    another that i absolutely love is you needed me by boyzone or anne murray (I listen to a lot of old songs) or Dance with my father by Luther Vandross i think.

  • tenderchichi
    Original Author
    16 years ago

    PETER GABRIEL/"Blood Of Eden"

    I caught sight of my reflection
    I caught it in the window
    I saw the darkness in my heart
    I saw the signs of my undoing
    They had been there from the start
    And the darkness still has work to do
    The knotted chord's untying
    They're heated and they're holy
    Oh they're sitting there on high
    So secure with everything they're buying

    [Chorus:]
    In the blood of Eden
    Lie the woman and the man
    With the man in the woman
    And the woman in the man
    In the blood of Eden
    Lie the woman and the man
    We wanted the union
    Oh the union of the woman
    The woman and the man

    My grip is surely slipping
    I think I've lost my hold
    Yes, I think I've lost my hold
    I cannot get insurance anymore
    They don't take credit, only gold
    Is that a dagger or a crucifix I see
    You hold so tightly in your hand
    And all the while the distance grows between you and me
    I do not understand

    [Chorus]

    At my request, you take me in
    In that tenderness, I am floating away
    No certainty, nothing to rely on
    Holding still for a moment
    What a moment this is
    Oh for a moment of forgetting, a moment of bliss
    Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

    I can hear the distant thunder
    Of a million unheard souls
    Of a million unheard souls
    Watch each one reach for creature comfort
    For the filling of their holes

    In the blood of Eden
    Lie the woman and the man
    With the man in the woman
    And the woman in the man
    In the blood of Eden
    We wanted the union
    Of the woman and the man

    In the blood of Eden
    Lie the woman and the man
    I feel the man in the woman
    And the woman in the man

    In the blood of Eden
    Lie the woman and the man
    I feel the man in the woman
    And the woman in the man

    In the blood of Eden
    We've done everything we can
    In the blood of Eden
    Saw the end as we began
    With the man in the woman
    And the woman in the man
    It was all for the union
    Oh, the union of the woman, the woman and the man.

    Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA_lmSTqet0

  • tenderchichi
    Original Author
    16 years ago

    I miss Croce.
    "One Less Set Of Footsteps"/Jim Croce

    We've been runnin' away from, somethin' we both know
    We've long run out of things to say, and I think I better go
    So don't be gettin' excited, a when you hear that slammin' door
    'Cause there'll be one less set of footsteps on your floor, in the morning.

    And we've been hidin' from somethin', that should have never gone this far
    But after all it's what we've done, that makes us what we are
    And you been talkin' in silence, but if it's silence you adore
    Well there'll be one less set of footsteps on your floor, in the morning.

    Well there'll be one less set of footsteps on your floor, one less man to walk in
    One less pair of jeans upon your door, one less voice a-talkin'
    But tomorrow's a dream away, hmm today has turned to dust
    Your silver tongue has turned to clay, and your golden rule to rust
    If that's the way that you want it, well it's the way I want it more
    'Cause there'll be one less set of footsteps on your floor, in the morning.

    Well there'll be one less set of footsteps on your floor, one less man to walk in
    One less pair of jeans upon your door, one less voice a-talkin'
    But tomorrow's a dream away, oh and today has turned to dust
    Your silver tongue has turned to clay, and your golden rule to rust
    If that's the way that you want it, well it's the way I want it more
    'Cause there'll be one less set of footsteps on your floor, in the morning
    Well there'll be one less set of footsteps on your floor, in the morning.

    (c) Copyright 1972 by Blendingwell Music., Inc./Wingate Music Corp.

    - SONG HITS, Summer 1974.

    Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_2bSvTbvck

  • tenderchichi
    Original Author
    16 years ago

    The Heart of the Matter/Don Henley

    I got the call today, I didnt wanna hear
    But I knew that it would come
    An old, true friend of ours was talkin on the phone
    She said youd found someone
    And I thought of all the bad luck,
    And the struggles we went through
    And how I lost me and you lost you
    What are these voices outside loves open door
    Make us throw off our contentment
    And beg for something more?
    Im learning to live without you now
    But I miss you sometimes
    The more I know, the less I understand
    All the things I thought I knew, Im learning again
    Ive been tryin to get down
    To the heart of the matter
    But my will gets weak
    And my thoughts seem to scatter
    But I think its about forgiveness
    Forgiveness
    Even if, even if you dont love me anymore
    These times are so uncertain
    Theres a yearning undefined
    And people filled with rage
    We all need a little tenderness
    How can love survive in such a graceless age?
    The trust and self-assurance that lead to happiness
    Theyre the very things - we kill I guess
    Pride and competition
    Cannot fill these empty arms
    And the work I put between us
    You know it doesnt keep me warm
    Im learning to live without you now
    But I miss you, baby
    And the more I know, the less I understand
    All the things I thought Id figured out
    I have to learn again
    Ive been trying to get down
    To the heart of the matter
    But everything changes
    And my friends seem to scatter
    But I think its about forgiveness
    Forgiveness
    Even if, even if you dont love me anymore
    There are people in your life whove come and gone
    They let you down you know they hurt your pride
    You better put it all behind you baby; life goes on
    You keep carryin that anger; itll eat you up inside, baby
    Ive been trying to get down
    To the heart of the matter
    But my will gets weak
    And my thought seem to scatter
    But I think its about forgiveness
    Forgiveness
    Even if, even if you dont love me
    Ive been tryin to get down
    To the heart of the matter
    Because the flesh will get weak
    And the ashes will scatter
    So Im thinkin about forgiveness
    Forgiveness
    Even if, even if you dont love me
    Forgiveness
    Forgiveness - baby
    Forgiveness
    Forgiveness
    Forgiveness
    Forgiveness
    Even if, you dont love me anymore

    Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSHst7LF6yw

  • tenderchichi
    Original Author
    16 years ago

    This song is for the Narcissists-

    You're So Vain/Carly Simon

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    When I was still quite naive
    Well, you said that we made such a pretty pair
    And that you would never leave
    But you gave away the things you loved
    And one of them was me
    I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee
    Clouds in my coffee, and

    You're so vain
    You probably think this song is about you
    You're so vain
    I'll bet you think this song is about you
    Don't you? Don't you?


    I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee
    Clouds in my coffee, and

    You're so vain
    You probably think this song is about you
    You're so vain
    I'll bet you think this song is about you
    Don't you? Don't you?

    Well, I hear you went up to Saratoga
    And your horse naturally won
    Then you flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia
    To see the total eclipse of the sun
    Well, you're where you should be all the time
    And when you're not, you're with
    Some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend
    Wife of a close friend, and

    You're so vain
    You probably think this song is about you
    You're so vain
    I'll bet you think this song is about you
    Don't you? Don't you? Don't you?


    You're so vain
    You probably think this song is about you
    You're so vain
    You probably think this song is about you
    You're so vain
    You probably think this song is about you

    You're so vain (so vain)
    I'll bet you think this song is about you
    Don't you? Don't you? Don't you?

    Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLQ5Uh4d3W4

  • tenderchichi
    Original Author
    16 years ago

    Beautiful People/Melanie

    You live in the same world as I do
    But somehow I never noticed
    You before today
    I'm ashamed to say

    Beautiful people
    We share the same back door
    And it isn't right
    We never met before
    But then
    We may never meet again
    If I weren't afraid you'd laugh at me
    I would run and take all your hands
    And I'd gather everyone together for a day
    And when we gather'd
    I'll pass buttons out that say
    Beautiful people
    Then you'd never have to be alone
    'Cause there'll always be someone
    With the same button on as you
    Include him in everything you do.

    Beautiful people
    You ride the same subway
    As I do ev'ry morning
    That's got to tell you something
    We've got so much in common
    I go the same direction that you do
    So if you take care of me
    Maybe I'll take care of you

    Beautiful people
    You look like friends of mine
    And it's about time
    That someone said it here and now
    I make a vow that some time, somehow
    I'll have a meeting
    Invite ev'ryone you know
    I'll pass out buttons to
    The ones who come to show
    Beautiful people
    Never have to be alone
    'Cause there'll always be someone
    With the same button on as you
    Include him in ev'rything you do
    He may be sitting right next to you
    He may be beautiful people too
    And if you take care of him
    Maybe I'll take care of you
    And if you take care of him
    Maybe I'll take care of you

    Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeHtuwsUeRw&feature=related

  • Meghane
    16 years ago

    While I love Love Song by the Cure, my favorite from them is Close to Me.

    Close To Me

    I've waited hours for this
    I've made myself so sick
    I wish I'd stayed asleep today
    I never thought that this day would end
    I never thought that tonight could ever be
    This close to me

    Just try to see in the dark
    Just try to make it work
    To feel the fear before you're here
    I make the shapes come much too close
    I pull my eyes out
    Hold my breath
    And wait until I shake

    But if I had your faith
    Then I could make it safe and clean
    If only I was sure
    That my head on the door was a dream

    I've waited hours for this
    I've made myself so sick
    I wish I'd stayed asleep today
    I never thought that this day would end
    I never thought that tonight could ever be
    This close to me

    But if I had your face
    I could make it safe and clean
    If only I was sure
    That my head on the door
    Was a dream
    I have no idea what this song means, but it *sounds* sexy!

    Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d4-pDw_dHw

  • Meghane
    16 years ago

    I'm on a Cure kick...

    Just Like Heaven

    "Show me how you do that trick
    The one that makes me scream" she said
    "The one that makes me laugh" she said
    And threw her arms around my neck
    "Show me how you do it
    And I promise you I promise that
    I'll run away with you
    I'll run away with you"

    Spinning on that dizzy edge
    I kissed her face and kissed her head
    And dreamed of all the different ways I had
    To make her glow
    "Why are you so far away?" she said
    "Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you
    That I'm in love with you"

    You
    Soft and only
    You
    Lost and lonely
    You
    Strange as angels
    Dancing in the deepest oceans
    Twisting in the water
    You're just like a dream

    Daylight licked me into shape
    I must have been asleep for days
    And moving lips to breathe her name
    I opened up my eyes
    And found myself alone alone
    Alone above a raging sea
    That stole the only girl I loved
    And drowned her deep inside of me

    You
    Soft and only
    You
    Lost and lonely
    You
    Just like heaven

    Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORc5Td_T6og&NR=1

  • tenderchichi
    Original Author
    16 years ago

    Hard Candy~
    Artist:Counting Crows

    On certain Sundays in November
    When the weather bothers me
    I empty drawers of other summer's
    Where my shadows used to be
    She is standing by the water
    As her smile begins to curl
    In this or any other summer
    She is something all together different
    Never just an ordinary girl
    And in the evenings on Long Island
    When the colors start to fade
    She wears a silly yellow hat
    That someone gave her when she stayed
    I didn't think that she returned it
    We left New York in a whirl
    Time expands and then contracts
    When you are spinning
    In the grips of someone
    Who is not an ordinary girl
    When you sleep
    You find your mother in the night
    But she stays just out of sight
    So there isn't any sweetness in the dreaming
    And when you wake the morning covers you with light
    And it makes you feel alright
    But it's just the same hard candy
    You're remembering again
    You send your lover off to China
    Then you wait for her to call
    You put your girl up on a pedestal
    Then you wait for her to fall
    I put my summer's back in a letter
    And I hide it from the world
    All the regrets you can't forget
    Are somehow pressed upon a picture
    In the face of such an ordinary girl
    When you sleep
    You find your mother in the night
    But she fades just out of sight
    So there isn't any sweetness in the dreaming
    And when you wake the morning showers you with light
    And it makes you feel alright
    But it's just the same hard candy
    You're remembering again
    Again 4X
    It's just the same hard candy
    You're remembering again
    Again 4X
    And it's just the same hard candy
    You're remembering again
    Go ask her to come around
    And see me late after dark
    Don't ask me to come around
    Then wait to see if there's a spark.

    Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deVpewZ2dGQ

  • tenderchichi
    Original Author
    15 years ago

    "Cryin in the Rain"/Everly Brothers

    I'll never let you see
    The way my broken heart is hurtin' me
    I've got my pride and I know how to hide
    All my sorrow and pain
    I'll do my cryin' in the rain

    If I wait for cloudy skies
    You won't know the rain from the tears in my eyes
    You'll never know that I still love you so Though the heartaches remain
    I'll do my cryin' in the rain

    Rain drops fallin' from heaven
    Could never wash away my misery since we're not together
    I pray for stormy weather
    To hide these tears I hope you'll never see

    Some day when my cryin's done
    I'm gonna wear a smile and walk in the sun
    I may be a fool but till then darling you'll
    Never see me complain
    I'll do my cryin' in the rain

    I'll do my cryin' in the rain
    I'll do my cryin' in the rain

    Raindrops falling from
    Heaven could never wash away my misery
    Since we are not together I pray for stormy weather
    to hide these tears I hope you'll never see.

    Some day when my cryin's done
    I'm gonna wear a smile and walk in the sun
    I may be a fool but till then darling you'll
    Never see me complain
    I'll do my cryin' in the rain

    I'll do my cryin' in the rain
    I'll do my cryin' in the rain

    Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz0Sscke9z4&feature=related

  • asolo
    15 years ago

    OK, here we go again. Try "Whippoorwill" by Greg Brown. Guy's got a voice like he's been gargling razor blades but I kind of like this one anyway.

    If you ever leave, and I imagine you will,
    It'll just be me and the whippoorwill -
    Just we two, and the evening star,
    If you pack your suitcase and go get in your car
    And drive down the road
    In the mud or the dust, over to the river,
    KC or bust. If you ever go, I'll be here still,
    Getting annoyed at the whippoorwill.

    Getting annoyed, unable to sleep, the dust too dusty,
    Or the mud too deep. I'll follow your dust,
    Or I'll follow your tracks over to the hard road,
    And I'll bring you back.

    If you won't come back, I'll stay on your trail,
    Up through heaven, or down through hell.
    I'll miss this old place, I'll miss these old hills.
    But I sure won't miss that whippoorwill.

    You are dearer to me than the birds or the stars,
    Sweeter to me than the hills and the flowers.
    Long as I have you I can take anything.
    So let love be home, and let the whippoorwill sing.

  • stargazzer
    15 years ago

    If I like the singer I like happy or sad. I like Nana Mouskouri, her love songs are beautiful. My sister had a couple of them played at her husband's memorial. They can bring tears to your eyes with or without a funeral.

  • tenderchichi
    Original Author
    15 years ago

    He sure does have a rough voice asolo but in this clip the audience seems to have enjoyed it.

    Below is the link to the song:

    Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyLMOItxlKY

  • isabelle08
    15 years ago

    You're my peace of mind in this crazy world.
    You're everything I've tried to find, your love is a pearl.
    You're my Mona Lisa, you're my rainbow skies,
    and my only prayer is that you realize
    you'll always be beautiful in my eyes.

    The world will turn and the seasons will change,
    and all the lessons we will learn will be beautiful and strange.
    We'll have our fill of tears, our share of sighs.
    And my only prayer is that you realize
    you'll always be beautiful in my eyes.

    You will always be beautiful in my eyes.
    And the passing years will show
    that you will always grow ever more beautiful in my eyes.

    When there are lines upon my face from a lifetime of smiles,
    and when the time comes to embrace for one long last while,
    we can laugh about how time really flies.
    We won't say goodbye 'cause true love never dies.
    You'll always be beautiful in my eyes.

    You will always be beautiful in my eyes.
    And the passing years will show
    that you will always grow ever more beautiful in my eyes.
    The passing years will show that you will always grow
    ever more beautiful in my eyes.

    Beautiful in My Eyes by Joshua Kadison

  • tracystoke
    15 years ago

    dont know the words but i love flying wiyhout wings by westlife

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