Jolynne Smyth

I'm going to search a bunch of these on youtube later today. Meanwhile, poetgrl, since you mentioned caving to Hallelujah, I'm now compelled, even though I just played it 3 days ago. :-)

If you like heartbreak style, Vince Gill has a different, real country feel but hits some similar emotional notes ("Trying to Get Over You," ["it'll take dyin' to get it done.."] etc.).

boomer22

Better Things by The Kinks.

Marilyn

Imagine - John Lennon - it's a poem and a prayer:

Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

teriwtt

Pink Floyd:
(yea, I know, a very 'angsty' song)

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skys from pain.
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

And did they get you to trade
Your heros for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.

scualum

Morning wake up was "Somewhere over the rainbow" - Israel Kamakawiwo... nice way to wake up...

OK this one's for Gabby
Ooooo oooooo ohoohohoo
Ooooo ohooohoo oooohoo
Ooooo ohoohooo oohoooo
Oohooo oohoooho ooooho
Ooooo oooooo oooooo
Ooooo oooooo oooooo

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
And the dreams that you dreamed of
Once in a lullaby ii ii iii
Somewhere over the rainbow
Blue birds fly
And the dreams that you dreamed of
Dreams really do come true ooh ooooh
Someday I'll wish upon a star
Wake up where the clouds are far behind me ee ee eeh
Where trouble melts like lemon drops
High above the chimney tops thats where you'll find me oh
Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly
And the dream that you dare to,why, oh why can't I? i iiii

Well I see trees of green and
Red roses too,
I'll watch them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

Well I see skies of blue and I see clouds of white
And the brightness of day
I like the dark and I think to myself
What a wonderful world

The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people passing by
I see friends shaking hands
Saying, "How do you do?"
They're really saying, I...I love you
I hear babies cry and I watch them grow,
They'll learn much more
Than we'll know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world (w)oohoorld

Someday I'll wish upon a star,
Wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where trouble melts like lemon drops
High above the chimney top that's where you'll find me
Oh, Somewhere over the rainbow way up high
And the dream that you dare to, why, oh why can't I? I hiii ?

Ooooo oooooo oooooo
Ooooo oooooo oooooo
Ooooo oooooo oooooo
Ooooo oooooo oooooo
Ooooo oooooo oooooo
Ooooo oooooo oooooo

Jolynne Smyth

terwitt--I've always loved that one. Definitely angsty, tho, agree!

TonyK

"Brothers In Arms"

These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day you'll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you'll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms


Through these fields of destruction
Baptism of fire
I've watched all your suffering
As the battles raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms


There's so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones


Now the sun's gone to hell
And the moon's riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it's written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms

- Dire Straits

binx

I'm so outta the box here, I'm almost afraid to post! But there are so many songs whose words just grab me and hold on. I love the lyrics from so many "David Gates and Bread" songs, or from musicals - Impossible Dream, for example. "to march into hell for a heavenly cause..."

Or this from "On a Clear Day":
Could anyone among us
Have an inkling or a clue?
What magic feats, or wizardry
And voodoo you can do?
And who would ever guess
What powers you possess?
And who would have the sense to change his views?
And stop to mind his E.S.P's and Q's
For who would ever dream of hearing phones before they ring,
Or harrowing the earth to send you up a little spring?
Or finding you've been crowned 'The Queen of Lost and Found'
And who would not be stunned to see you prove
There's more to us than surgeons can remove?

I also love old hymns:
Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God above,
Would drain the ocean dry.
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.

jacdad

Leroy Carr- Blues Before Sunrise

I had the blues before sunrise
Long before the break of day.
Just sittin' here thinking,
my mind a million miles away.

Traditional-
Cold winds will blow
and we will have snow
and what will the robin do then, poor thing?
Sit in the barn
to keep herself warm,
with her head tucked under her wing, poor thing.

Mom911

" Bridge Over Troubled Water "

When you're weary
Feeling small
When tears are in your eyes
I will dry them all

I'm on your side
When times get rough
And friends just can't be found
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down

When you're down and out
When you're on the street
When evening falls so hard
I will comfort you

I'll take your part
When darkness comes
And pain is all around
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down

Sail on Silver Girl,
Sail on by
Your time has come to shine
All your dreams are on their way

See how they shine
If you need a friend
I'm sailing right behind
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind

kjofkw

Maybe not the "greatest", but I thought this musical theatre song appropriate for a CC forum group ;-)


Hardest Part of Love
from "Children of Eden"

NOAH
Oh father please don't make me choose
Either way it's more than I can bear to lose

Oh this son of mine I love so well
And all the toil it takes
I'd give to him a garden and keep clear of snakes
But the one thing he most treasures is to make his own mistakes ohhh
He goes charging on the cliffs of life
A reckless mountaineer
I could help him not to stumble
I could warn him what to fear
I could shout until I'm breathless
And he'd still refuse to hear ohhh

But you cannot close the acorn
Once the oak begins to grow
And you cannot close your heart
To what it fears and needs to know
That the hardest part of love
Is the letting go

As a child I found a sparrow
Who had fallen form the nest
And I nursed him back to health till he was stronger than the rest
But when I tried to hold it
It would peck and scratch my chest
Till I let it go
And I watched it fly away from me
With it's brightened self resolve
And part of me was cursing I had helped it grow so strong
And I feared it might go hungery and I feared it might go wrong ohhh

But I could not close the acorn
Once the oak began to grow
And I cannot close my heart
To what it fears and needs to know
That the hardest part of love

FATHER
Is the letting go

NOAH
Is the letting go

FATHER
And it's only in Eden grows a rose without a thorn
And your children start to leave you
On the day that they were born
They will leave you there to cheer for them
They will leave you there to mourn ever so
Like an ark on uncharted seas their lives will be tossed
And the deeper is your love for them
The crueler is the cost
And just when they start to find themselves
Is when you fear they're lost ohhh

NOAH and FATHER
But you cannot close the acorn
Once the oak begins to grow
And you cannot close your heart
To what it fears and needs to know

NOAH
That the hardest part of love

FATHER
And the rarest part of love

NOAH and FATHER
And the truest is part of love
Is the letting go

jonri

Ah..I hesitated to post a hymn, but someone else did. So, from memory, a Father Rivers hymn, based on a psalm, that's helped me through some tough times:

How can He really care
With fury everywhere?
Just like a star at night,
My heart is going to fall.
I turn to see the sun,
But it is on the run.
I look for help, but I can only see a wall.
I am ALONE, I may be crying,
But He is always there.
I yell GOD, where can You be?
Oh where can You be?
But I know, but I know,
After all is said and done,
That my God has known me from before all time,
And one day, I'll see His face.

NJres

Marilyn, you beat me to it, posting "Imagine"... simple, beautiful and profound. It truly is a wonderful poem. I mean, it's crazy, no? No religion? No countries? No possessions? LOL

All you need is love, Love is all you need.

ellemenope

I find lyrics that give hope very uplifting, like these lyrics from a song done by Dar Williams, the group Cry, Cry, Cry and perhaps written by Julie Miller:

BY WAY OF SORROW

You've been taken by the wind
You have known the kiss of sorrow
Doors that would not take you in
Outcast and a stranger

CHORUS:
You have come by way of sorrow
You have come by way of tears
But you'll reach your destiny
Meant to find you all these years
Meant to find you all these years

You have drunk a bitter wine
With none to be your comfort
You who once were left behind
Will be welcome at love's table

CHORUS

All the nights that joy has slept
Will awake to days of laughter
Gone the tears that you have wept
You'll dance in freedom ever after

CHORUS

Jolynne Smyth

From Little Feat's "Rock n Roll Doctor"

"Two degrees in beebop and a Phd in swing...he's the master of rhythm, he's the rock n roll king."

That's just makes me smile. And the funky beat is something else.