Favorite Song Lyrics

You’re the hidden cost, and the thing that’s lost
In everything I do.

Jackson Browne, “Sky Blue and Black”

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You collided into my life
Not fully uninvited
Both veiling your vow as wife
We helplessly united

A smile I thought could never be
From one not fated to come
Found something never within me
I’d never believed in “the one”

I gave my thoughts
I thought I gave
What I thought it takes
But I could not save…

Now I’m tired of wondering, tired of waiting
For time just to pass on by,
Tired of loving, tired of living
Tired of asking myself why

I’m tired of living each day with the task
Of frantically struggling to cope
I’m tired of constantly losing the search
Of desperately grasping for hope

Tired of existing my life in sadly
Trying solely to fill up my days
Tired of struggling to resolve the method
Of which is the most painless way

You crashed into my heart
Not solely without care
The tears I knew would follow
I fooled myself unaware

The girl I knew I could never keep
Right at the wrong time
I’d never held a touch so deep
Were you ever really mine?

I gave my all
But that’s all I gave
How much is not enough
But once again I could not save…

Now I’m tired of replaying, tired of waiting
For days to slowly fade on,
Tired of living, tired of still loving
Tired of rejecting you’re gone

Tired of being in life without
Your image commences each day
Tired of revolving the endless loss
Of what it was that I failed to say

I’m tired of living each day with the curse
Needing to see the face that I love
I’m tired knowing what it will bring
I’m tired of having to run

You crawled beneath my skin
Not staying though self invited
Was I never really meant to win
Your heart the way you hide it

A smile I felt I’d forever see
Has taken mine away
The face I love won’t set me free
It haunts my every day

I gave it up
Or I tried to give
But I have not what it takes
And still I can not save…

Now I’m tired of wanting, tired of waiting
For time just to pass on by,
Tired of longing, tired of losing
Hopelessly still needing to try

Tired of enduring my life pathetically
Failing to fill up my days
Tired again to fall short of the resolve
Which is the most painless way

I’m tired of concluding each night in decay
From losing the battle to cope
Tired of simply just missing you girl
So I resign my pursuance of hope

I’m uncertain which scares me the most
Since fear is all that remains
The hell that I might once more feel this way
Or that I may never feel it again

I’ve never been here before
Can’t you see I still need to say
It’s still the face that I love
Girl, have you been told today?

She’s got big red lips
She’s got big brown eyes
When she treats me right
It’s a big surprise
She won’t do anything
That she said she would
She makes me feel good
She makes me feel good

I ask her come here baby
She tells me no, no
I ask me drive me here
She tells me drive your own
She likes to race my motor
Then slam my hood
She makes me feel good
She makes me feel good

When the angels look down from above
They see a very special love
How she makes me do what no one could
She makes me feel good
She makes me feel good

So buddy if you’re feeling down and blue
And your girlfriend treats you bad too
Man just remember what she’s bound to do
She’ll make you feel good
She’ll make you feel good

She’s got big red lips
She’s got big brown eyes
When she treats me right
It’s a big surprise
She won’t do anything
That she said she would
She makes me feel good
She makes me feel good

Lyle Lovett - “She Makes Me Feel Good”

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She said
“I know what it’s like to be dead
I know what it is to be sad”
And she’s making me feel like
I’ve never been born

I said
“Who put all those things in your head?
Things that make me feel that I’m mad
And you’re making me feel like
I’ve never been born”

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Long afloat on shipless oceans
I did all my best to smile
'Til your singing eyes and fingers
Drew me loving to your isle

And you sang
Sail to me
Sail to me, let me enfold you
Here I am
Here I am
Waiting to hold you

Did I dream you dreamed about me?
Were you hare when I was fox?
But now my foolish boat is leaning
Broken lovelorn on your rocks
For you sing, touch me not
Touch me not, come back tomorrow
Oh my heart, oh my heart
Shies from the sorrow

I’m as puzzled as the oyster
I’m as troubled at the tide
Should I stand amid the breakers?
Or should I lie with death my bride?

Hear me sing
Swim to me
Swim to me, let me enfold you
Oh my heart, oh my heart
Is waiting to hold you

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Tim Buckley - Song to the Siren

One of my favorite Lennon penned Beatles songs, thanks to Peter Fonda for the inspiration.

“Forces of evil in a bozo nightmare
Ban all the music with a phony gas chamber
'Cause one’s got a weasel and the other’s got a flag
One’s on the pole, shove the other in a bag
With the rerun shows and the cocaine nose-job

The daytime crap of the folksinger slob
He hung himself with a guitar string
A slab of turkey-neck and it’s hanging from a pigeon wing
You can’t write if you can’t relate
Trade the cash for the beef for the body for the hate
And my time is a piece of wax falling on a termite
That’s choking on the splinters“

— Beck, “Loser”

Well I looked into a house I once lived in
Around the time I first went on my own,
When the roads were as many as
The places I had dreamed of,
And my friends and I were one.
Now the distance is done and the search has begun;
I’ve come to see where my beginnings have gone.

– Jackson Browne, “Looking into You”

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Better bring your own redemption when you come
To the Barricades of Heaven where I am from.
Jackson Browne

If whiskey could talk
it’d say I’m a great guy
Or at least it ought to
for as much as I buy
But it’s money well spent
just to help me feel free
From the pain she creates
when she’s cheatin’ on me

Tyler Childers - “If Whiskey Could Talk”

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I get vivid mental images when I hear this song.

Call To Heaven

Cannons roared, in the valley they thundered
While the guns lit up the night
Then it rained and both sides wondered
Who is wrong and who is right

On the wire like a ragged old scarecrow
Bloody hands and broken back
When they fire see him pirouette solo
Jump in time to the rat-a-tat

What a night though it’s one of seven
What a night for the dancing dead
What a night to be called to heaven
What a picture to fill your head

By the wall in silhouette standing
Through a flash of sudden light
Cigarette from his mouth just hanging
Paper square to his heart pinned tight

Gather 'round reluctant marksmen
One of them to take his life
With a smile he gives them pardon
Leaves the dark and takes the light

They dispatch their precious cargo
Knock him back right off his feet
And they pray may no one follow
Better still to face the beast

When the field has become a garden
And the wall has stood the test
Children play and the dogs run barking
Who would think or who would guess

Patty Smyth is the singer

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 -- Gordon Lightfoot, "Sundown" from the album of the same name.
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And dream of guitar notes
That would irritate
An executive kinda guy . . .

Outside Now - Zappa

No, his mind is not for rent
To any god or government
Always hopeful, yet discontent
He knows changes aren’t permanent

Tom Sawyer
Rush

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"Ein zwei drei vier
Lift your stein and drink your beer
Ein zwei drei vier
Lift your stein and drink your beer"

~THE STUDENT PRINCE.
(music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly)

We satisfy our endless needs
And justify our bloody deeds
In the name of destiny
And in the name of God

“The Last Resort” Don Henley/Glenn Frey

Still one of my all time favorite songs

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On the road to Appomattox,
Where bullets whine like bees, cut blossoms from the trees…
On the road to Appomattox,
Turned boys into men; men into memories.

“The Road to Appomattox” by Andrew McKnight

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I had to find that one to give it a listen.

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"Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night beside her
And you know that she’s half-crazy but that’s why you wanna be there
And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China
And just when you mean to tell her that you have no love to give her
Then she gets you on her wavelength
And she lets the river answer that you’ve always been her lover

And you want to travel with her, and you want to travel blind
And you know that she will trust you
For you’ve touched her perfect body with your mind"

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