Lyrically Speaking....

[Siren]

If you had not have fallen
Then I would not have found you,
Angel flying too close to the GROUND

I patched up your broken wing, and hung around awhile
Trying to keep your spirits up and your fever down

I knew someday that you would fly away
For love's the greatest HEALER to be found

So leave me if you need to, I will still remember
Angel flying too close to the ground

Fly on, fly on, past the speed of sound
I'd rather see you up than see you down

So leave me if you need to, I will still remember
Angel flying too close to the ground.

"Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground" by Willie Nelson

healer

[fallenangel]

Bonnie Raitt : Lovers Will

Who'll take the only hearts they got
and throw them into the fire?
Who'll risk their own self respect
in the name of desire?
Who'll regret everything they've done
and who will get the bill?
Lovers will
Who'll hurt each other all the time
and never give it a thought?
Who'll lie about where they've been
and hope they never get caught?
Who'll say each other's kisses
no longer thrill?
Lovers will
Lovers will do almost anything
For the thrill that only love can bring
If love is a healer, who'll be the first ones ill?
Lovers will
Who'll never know what they've got
until it's just about gone?
And whose arms will gather up what's left
to carry on?
And who'll stalk that little bit of love
that hasn't been killed?
Lovers will


next word: killed

[Phalon]

"By Myself" ~ Linkin Park

I can’t hold on
To what I want when I’m stretched so thin.
It’s all too much to take in.
I can’t hold on
To anything watching everything spin,
With thoughts of failure sinking in.
If I
Turn my back I’m defenseless,
And to go blindly seems senseless
If I hide my pride and let it all go on then they’ll
Take from me ‘till everything is gone.
If I let them go I’ll be outdone,
But if I try to catch them I’ll be outrun.
If I’m killed by the questions like a cancer,
Then I’ll be buried in the silence of the answer -
[by myself].

Buried

[mabd]

Buried in Blue

Harry Connick, jr

The sun sets red with rage
White clouds float by
Like high cotton
Blank as an empty page
Blue is a color buried
Not forgotten

Sweet as mother’s milk
And clear as the wind
Wrap the dead in a pleat of silk
Blue is the color to be buried in

When you left
Leaving nothing behind
There’s no one to blame
No criminal, no crime
You can report a missing person
But not a stolen heart
And I’m missing a person
To whom stealing was an art

The painting’s complete
The brush strokes dry
I hear a band playing
A bent note or two
I guess someone died
And just wants to be
Buried in blue

next word: complete

Maeve

[fallenangel]

Alanis Morissette : Precious Illusions

You'll rescue me right?
in the exact same way they never did..
I'll be happy right?
when your healing powers kick in

you'll complete me right?
then my life can finally begin
I'll be worthy right?
only when you realize the gem I am?

but this won't work now the way it once did
and I won't keep it up even though I would love to
once I know who I'm not then I'll know who I am
but I know I won't keep on playing the victim

these precious illusions in my head did not let me down
when I was defenseless
and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends


next word : VICTIM

[Siren]

You can say you've got issues,
You can say you're a VICTIM.
It's all your parents fault,
Aafter all you didn't pick 'em.
Maybe somebody else has got time to listen.
My give-a-damn's busted.

Jo Dee Messina "My Give-A-Damn's Busted"

busted

[fallenangel]

Janis Joplin: Me and Bobby McGee

Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waiting for a train
And I's feeling nearly as faded as my jeans.
Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained,
It rode us all the way to New Orleans.

I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandanna,
I was playing soft while Bobby sang the blues.
Windshield wipers slapping time, I was holding Bobby's hand in mine,
We sang every song that driver knew.

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose,
Nothing don't mean nothing honey if it ain't free, now now.
And feeling good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues,
You know feeling good was good enough for me,
Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.

next word;BLUES

[mabd]

Trouble in Mind
Janis Joplin's cover

Trouble in mind, I'm blue
But I won't be blue always,
'Cause that sun is gonna shine in my back door someday

Now all you men's the same
But now I'm old enough to change my name
Lord, that sun's gonna shine in my back door someday

I'm gonna lay my head
On that lonesome railroad line
And let the 2:19 ease my troubled mind

Trouble in mind, I'm blue,
But I won't be blue always
Child, that wind's gonna come and blow my blues away!


next word: shine

Maeve

[Siren]

Is there anybody out there who can shine
Anytime would be fine
Is there anybody out there who can glow
And would like to see a little flower grow
Shine on me, let it shine

Olivia Newton John - "Let It Shine"

glow

[fallenangel]

Sarah McLachlan : Drifting

You've been gone for so long all that you know
Has been shuffled aside as you bask in the glow
of the beautiful strangers that whisper your name
do they fill up the emptiness

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one


'Cause you have been drifting for so long
I know you don't want to come down
But somewhere below you theres people who love you
and theyre waiting for you to come home please come home

next word : DRIFTING

[mabd]

Drifting Along by Jamiroquai

Nowhere to go
But I'll still be cruising
I live this life long
Long long time

You know I'm drifting along
Can't see where I'm going
I will get to my destination

I'm feeling the pressure
All around me crumble
But I won't be put down this time

I'm shifting along
Though I sing a sweet song
We'll murder in the streets where I be livin'

I'm closing my eyes
Don't want to see killin'
Gentle giants will roam forever

I'm cruising the street
Wondering who I will meet
Oh love has got to
Reign in our world

La la la la
La la la la
I don't know where I am going to

Drifting along
Closing up my ears
to the sound
I don't want to hear crying

next word: reign

Maeve

[Phalon]

An old one by the Who - "Love Reign O'er Me".


"On the dry and dusty road
The nights we spend apart alone
I need to get back home to cool, cool rain
I can't sleep and I lay and I think
The nights are hot and black as ink
Ooh, O God, I need a drink of cool, cool rain

Love can bring the rain
That makes you yearn to the sky
Only love can bring the rain
That falls like tears from on high

Love, reign o'er me
Rain it over me, over me, over me, whoa
Love, reign o'er me
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, on me
Love."

Next word: Whoa

[Siren]

Well the bus pulled away
In a roaring black cloud
While I stood in the road
And honey I hollered right out loud

Hey darlin' I love you
Hey BUS driver, WHOA
But you can't stop a woman
When she's out of control

from "She's Crazy For Leaving" by Rodney Crowell

next: bus

[fallenangel]

Dido: Thank You

My tea's gone cold, I'm wondering why I got out of bed at all
the morning rain clouds up my window and I can't see at all
And even if I could it'd all be grey, but your picture on my wall
it reminds me that it's not so bad
it's not so bad

I drank too much last night, got bills to pay
my head just feels in Pain
I missed the bus and there'll be hell today
I'm late for work again and even if I'm there,
they'll all imply that I might not last the day
and then you call me and it's not so bad
it's not so bad and

I want to thank you for giving me the best day of my life
Oh just to be with you is having the best day of my life

next word; PAIN

[Siren]

Oh, the pain of loving you
Oh, the misery I go through
Never knowing what to do
Oh, the pain of loving you

Trio (Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris) - "The Pain Of Loving You"

misery

[mabd]

Lament Of Misery by Dark Moor

I am the loner
The gloomy mist's owner
I am the sailor
In the sea of squalor
Waiting in the sand
That return your lovely light eyes
But I'm crying and dying
Eternally lying
Under the shower
A grave of black flower
Hollow...
In my soul

The tears in my face
The rain in the sad place
My soul is kneeling
The tide brings the feelings
I could live a dream
Where your spirit call on the high seas
Oh! My lover, I'm lonely
Time passes so slowly
My heart I bear
With pain of despair
Sorrow...
In the shore

From the breeze
Of the seas
The waves sing
The sweet song of your memory
In the deep
Of my soul
When the sirens
Of the ocean
Bring the silent
I cry

In my eyes
There's a lament of misery
In my sigh
A dark misery
So I die
Oh! My love

I am dreaming, darkness around
I am sailing in the ship's wound
Angels screaming
In the mist out at sea

(Silent, blackness, sirens madness
Loving, gladness, dying sadness
Dreaming hollow, feeling, sorrow
Waiting, drear, looking, fear
The angels are crying for me)

Oh! Silver mirror
Your cost was an error
I die of broken
My sentence was spoken
But in the cold foam
Stay hopes of my soul immortal
In the twilight the sky burn
And there isn't return
Only my reason
To live in this prison
Waiting...
In the shore

next word: hollow

Maeve

[Phalon]

"(When this began)
I had nothing to say
And I get lost in the nothingness inside of me
(I was confused)
And I let it all out to find
That I'm not the only person with these things in mind
(Inside of me)
But all that they can see the words revealed
Is the only real thing that Ive got left to feel
(Nothing to lose)
Just stuck, hollow and alone
And the fault is my own, and the fault is my own

I wanna heal, I wanna feel what I thought was never real
I wanna let go of the pain Ive held so long
(Erase all the pain till its gone)
I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I'm close to something real
I wanna find something I've wanted all along
Somewhere I belong..."

from Somewhere I Belong by Linkin Park

next word: stuck

[mabd]

Stuck Down A Mineshaft
by the Milwaukee Youth Center Choir

it's so dark
I can't see
give me a candle or something
it's so deep
I can't breathe
there's no air down here underneath

no hope of growing dafodils
without a single window sill

it's so hard
to wake up
got no daybreak to remind me
so hungry
it's been so long
since it all collapsed behind me

if you pitch in with a shovel's worth
maybe I could come unearthed

underneath the rubble
I'm a man in deep trouble
I'm stuck down a mineshaft

don't care if you believe me
'cause I'm suffering so deeply I'm
stuck down a mineshaft

next word: rubble

Maeve

[Siren]

"the Milwaukee Youth Center Choir"?? That must be SOME music collection, Maeve!

I'm lying in the RUBBLE,
Cinders, smoke, and ash
My heart still pounding
With the impact of the crash
I can see tomorrow's headline
"Heartbroke From Blind DEVOTION"
Just another victim of a
Trainwreck of emotion

"Trainwreck of Emotion" - Lorrie Morgan

next: devotion

[Scrappy Amazon]

You Are - Leann Rimes

You, you’ve made no mistake
You take everything I ever wanted into account
When you walk into the room
You give me, reason
Talk in turn, never too late or too soon.

You are, poetry in motion
You inspire, power and devotion
You are, turning all the tide under me
You are, the potential in me

You are...

You are, the first one that I wish to tell
Everything that matters
Matters because you reflect it back so well

You see understanding
Wherever you are are standing
Between reason, passion, balance.

You are, poetry in motion
You inspire, power and devotion
You are, turning all the tide underneath
You are, the potential in me

You are my strongest link
You are, everything I ever wanted to be, yeah

You are, poetry in motion
You inspire, power and devotion
You are, turning all the tide underneath
Oh yeah.

You are, poetry in motion
You inspire, power and devotion
You are, turning all the tide underneath
You are, you are, the potential in me

You are...

You are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are... (8x)

You inspire power and devotion
You are, sensual
You touch my hand and... (fade out)

power

[fallenangel]

Jewel: Near You Always

Please don't bring me flowers,
They only whisper the sweet things you say.
And don't try to understand me,
Your hands already know too much anyways.
Makes me want to make you near me always.

And when you look in my eyes,
Please know my heart is in your hands.
It's nothing that I understand,
But in your arms you have complete power over me.
So be gently if you please.
'Cause your hands are in my hair,
But my heart is in you teeth babe,
And it makes me want to make you near me always,
Your hands are in my hair,
But my heart is in you teeth babe,
And it makes me want to make you near me always,
Want to be near you always.
Want to be near you always.
Want to be near you always.

next word :HANDS

[mabd]

siren said:

"the Milwaukee Youth Center Choir"?? That must be SOME music collection, Maeve!

Siren, if I tried to explain it all, I'd sound more loopy than I already do. <Sigh.>

Both Hands, Ani Difranco

I am walking
out in the rain
and I am listening to the low moan
of the dial tone again
and I am getting
nowhere with you
and I can't let it go
and I can't get through...
the old woman behind the pink curtains
and the closed door
on the first floor
she's listening through the air shaft
to see how long our swan song can last
and both hands
now use both hands
oh, no don't close your eyes
I am writing
graffiti on your body
I am drawing the story of
how hard we tried
I am watching your chest rise and fall
like the tides of my life,
and the rest of it all
and your bones have been my bed frame
and your flesh has been my pillow
I am waiting for sleep
to offer up the deep
with both hands
in each other's shadows we grew less and less tall
and eventually our theories couldn't explain it all
and I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall
and eventually the landlord will come
and paint over it all
and I am walking
out in the rain
and I am listening to the low moan of the dial tone again
and I am getting nowhere with you
and I can't let it go
and I can't get though
So now use both hands
please use both hands
oh, no don't close your eyes
I am writing graffiti on your body
I am drawing the story of how hard we tried
hard we tried
how hard we tried

next word: paint

Maeve

[Siren]

Could you paint me a Birmingham
Make it look just the way I planned
A little house house on the edge of town
Porch going all the way around
Put her there in the front yard swing
Cotton dress, make it early spring
For a while she'll be mine again
If you'll paint me a Birmingham

"Paint Me A Birmingham" - Tracy Lawrence

next: Birmingham

[fallenangel]

Sheryl Crow : Run Baby Run

She was born in November 1963
The day that Aldous Huxley died
And her mama believed
That every man could be free
So her mama got high high high
And her daddy marched on Birmingham
Singing mighty protest songs
And he pictured all the places
Where he knew that she'd belong
But he failed and taught her young
The only thing she'd need to carry on
He taught her how to
Run baby run baby run baby run
Baby run


next word :YOUNG

[Phalon]

"....Choke, choke again,
I find my demons are my friends
Getting me in the end;
They're out to get me.
Since I was young,
I've tasted sorrow on my tongue..."

from Coming Undone by KoRn

tongue

[Siren]

"Heart Half Empty" by Ty Herndon & Stephanie Bentley

Is my heart half full or half empty
Is our love like the wine in this glass
You drink like there's no tomorrow
So sure it will always last
Will the memories taste sweet as they linger
Or the BITTERNESS stay on my TONGUE
Is my heart half full of the love you gave me
Or my heart half empty
'Cause your love is gone

bitterness

[fallenangel]

Ani Difranco: Back Back Back

back back back in the back of your mind
are you learning an angry language
tell me boy boy boy are you tending to your joy
or are you just letting it vanquish
back back back in the dark of your mind
where the eyes of your demons are gleaming
are you mad mad mad
about the life you never had
even when you are dreaming

who are these old old old people
in these nursing homes
scowling away at nothing
like big rag dolls just cursing at the walls
and pulling out all of their stuffing
ever day is a door leading back to the core
yes, old age will distill you
and if you're this this this full of bitterness now
some day it will just fill you

next word: WALLS

[mabd]

WALLS OF TIME
Emmylou Harris

The wind is blowing across the mountain
Down on the valley way below
It sweeps the grave of my darling
When I die that's where I want to go

Lord send the angels for my darling
And take him to that home on high
I'll wait my time out here on earth love
And come to you when I die

I hear a voice out in the darkness
It calls and whispers through the pines
I know it's my sweetheart a-calling
I hear him through the walls of time

Lord send the angels for my darling
And take him to that home on high
I'll wait my time out here on earth love
And come to you when I die

Our names are carved upon a tombstone
I promised you before you died
Our love would bloom forever darling
When we rest side by side

Lord send the angels for my darling
And take him to that home on high
I'll wait my time out here on earth love
And come to you when I die


bloom

Maeve

[Siren]

Where the Walker runs down to the Carson Valley PLAIN
There lived a maiden, Darcy Farrow was her name
The daughter of old Dundee and a fair one was she
The sweetest flower that BLOOMed o'er the range

"Darcy Farrow" (gad, what a great song!), by John Denver

next: plain

[mabd]

Plain Jane
Van Zant

Ah, tell 'em about it Donnie.
Here we go.

She's a waitress at her corner,
Always dancin' nine-to-five.
Well, she ain't no supermodel,
But I'm here to tell you, she's fine, (Ha, ha.)
She's so fine, Johnny.
She's like the classic girl next door,
There's somethin' 'bout her walk:
There's somethin' that goes off inside,
Each time she starts to talk.

Plain Jane,
Oh, I love her name.
She drives me insane.
She's my plain Jane.

She always gets my business,
I can't wait to ring her bell.
(Ah, I bet you can't Donnie.)
She puts a quarter in the jukebox:
Says she don't kiss an' tell.
Is that right, brother.
The way she wears that dress, (Yeah.)
It's time that I confess:
The music starts an' my heart stops,
An' I become a mess.

Plain Jane,
Oh, I love her name.
She drives me insane.....

next word: jukebox

Maeve