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Christopher Hanson Picks Out the World's Most Sad Songs...

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Out of Reach

Get Up Kids

Long way from home,
lost by an echo
I’d never have known.

I’ve got pictures to prove I was there,
but you don’t care.

Here’s me overseas,
across the pond by the Dover peaks.
I’ve smuggled myself into new nationalities.
You think you’d be proud of me.

There’s room to believe,
out of sight, out of mind, out of reach.

Start over is no way to begin.
Long way from home, lost by an echo.
I’d never have known.

I’ve got pictures to prove I was there,
but you don’t care.

There’s room to believe,
out of sight, out of mind, out of reach.

Start over...
Start over is no way to begin.

There’s room to believe,
out of sight, out of mind, out of reach.

Start over...
Start over is no way to begin.
No way to begin.
Way to begin.

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Cry

James Blunt

I have seen peace. I have seen pain,
resting on the shoulders of your name.
Do you see the truth through all their lies?
Do you see the world through troubled eyes?
And if you want to talk about it anymore,
lie here on the floor and cry on my shoulder.
I'm a friend.

I have seen birth. I have seen death.
Lived to see a lover's final breath.
Do you see my guilt? Should I feel fright?
Is the fire of hesitation burning bright?
And if you want to talk about it once again,
on you I depend. I'll cry on your shoulder.
You're a friend.

You and I have been through many things.
I'll hold on to your heart.
I wouldn't cry for anything,
but don't go tearing your life apart.

I have seen fear. I have seen faith.
Seen the look of anger on your face.
And if you want to talk about what will be,
come and sit with me, and cry on my shoulder,
I'm a friend.

And if you want to talk about it anymore,
lie here on the floor and cry on my shoulder.
I'm a friend.

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Goodbye Cruel World

Pink Floyd

Goodbye, cruel world.
I'm leaving you today.
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

Goodbye all you people.
There's nothing you can say
to make me change my mind.
Goodbye.

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Sorry

Buckcherry

Oh I had alot to say.
Was thinking on my time away.
I miss you and things weren't the same
'cause everything inside it never comes out right,
and when I see you cry it makes me wanna die.

I'm sorry I'm bad, I'm sorry I'm blue.
I'm sorry about all the things I said to you
and I know I can't take it back.
I love how you kiss, I love all your sounds
and baby the way you make my world go 'round
and I just wanted to say I'm sorry.

This time I think i'm to blame.
It's harder to get through the days.
We get older and blame turns to shame
'cause everything inside it never comes out right,
and when I see you cry it makes me wanna die.

I'm sorry I'm bad, I'm sorry I'm blue.
I'm sorry about all the things I said to you
and I know I can't take it back.
I love how you kiss, I love all your sounds
and baby the way you make my world go 'round
and I just wanted to say I'm sorry.

Every single day I think about how we came all this way.
The sleepless nights and the tears you cried.
It's never too late to make it right.
Oh yeah, sorry...

I'm sorry I'm bad, I'm sorry I'm blue.
I'm sorry about all the things I said to you
and I know I can't take it back.
I love how you kiss, I love all your sounds
and baby the way you make my world go 'round
and I just wanted to say I'm sorry.

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I Wonder

Kellie Pickler

Sometimes I think about you.
Wonder if you’re out there somewhere thinking about me.
And would you even recognize the woman that your little girl has grown up to be Because I look in the mirror and all I see are your brown eyes looking back at me.
They’re the only thing you ever gave to me at all.

Oh, I hear the weather’s nice in California.
There’s sunny skies as far as I can see.
If you ever come back home to Carolina,
I wonder what you’d say to me.

I think about how it ain’t fair that you weren’t there to braid my hair like mothers do.
You weren’t around to cheer me on.
Help me dress for my high school prom like mother’s do.
Did you think I didn’t need you here to hold my hand, to dry my tears?
Did you even miss me through the years at all?

Forgiveness is such a simple word,
but it’s so hard to do when you’ve been hurt.

Oh, I hear the weather’s nice in California,
and just in case you’re wondering about me.
From now on I won’t be in Carolina.
Your little girl is off to Tennessee...

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Someone Else's Star

Bryan White

Alone again tonight without someone to love.
The stars are shining bright, so one more wish goes up.
Oh I wish I may qnd I wish with all my might
for the love I’m dreaming of and missing in my life.

You’d think that I could find a true love of my own.
It happens all the time to people that I know.
Their wishes all come true, so I’ve got to believe
there’s still someone out there who is meant for only me.

I guess I must be wishing on someone else’s star.
It seems like someone else keeps getting what I’m wishing for.
Why can’t I be as lucky as those other people are.
I guess I must be wishing on someone else’s star.

I sit here in the dark and stare up at the sky.
But I can’t give my heart one good reason why.
Everywhere I look it’s lovers that I see.
It seems like everyone’s in love with everyone but me...

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The Sound of Silence

Simon and Garfunkel

Hello, darkness, my old friend.
I've come to talk with you again.
Because a vision softly creeping
left its seeds while I was sleeping.
And the vision
that was planted in my brain
still remains within the sound of silence.

In restless dreams I walked alone
narrow streets of cobblestone.
Beneath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp.
When my eyes were stabbed
by the flash of a neon light,
that split the night
and touched the sound of silence.

And in the naked light I saw
ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking.
People hearing without listening.
People writing songs that voices never share.
And no one dare disturb the sound of silence.

"Fools," said I, "you do not know
silence like a cancer grows."
"Hear my words that I might teach you,
take my arms that I might reach you."
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
and echoed in the wells of silence.

And the people bowed and prayed
to the neon god they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning
in the words that it was forming.
And the signs said, "The words of the prophets
are written on the subway walls
and tenement halls, and whispered in the sound of silence."

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Two Points for Honesty

Guster

If that's all that you will be, then you'll be a waste of time.
You've dreamed a thousand dreams, none seem to stick in your mind.

Two points for honesty.
It must make you sad to know that nobody cares at all.

I want to be where I've never been before.
I want to be there and then I'd understand.
Know I'm right and do it right.
Could I get to be like that-
how to know what I don't know,
nothing more to gain...

Will I get better or stay the same?
I find I always move too slowly,
can't lift a finger, can't change my mind.
I never knew until someone told me that.

If that's all that you will be, then you'll be a waste of time.
You've dreamed a thousand dreams, none seem to stick in your mind.

Two points for honesty.
It must make you sad to know that nobody cares at all.

And all the people who've seen it all before.
And all the people who already understand
know they're right and done it right.
Could I get to be like that?
I don't know and I don't know.
It's harder everyday.

Can't lift a finger.
Can't hurt a fly.
I find I always move too slowly
One thing's for certain- I'm insecure.
I never knew until someone told me that.

If that's all that you will be then you'll be a waste of time.
You've dreamed a thousand dreams.
None seem to stick in your mind.

Two points for honesty.
It must make you sad to know that.
Nobody cares at all.
Nobody cares at all.
They never cared at all.

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Rapid Hope Loss

Dahboard Confessional

You called to say you wanted out.
Well, I can't say I blame you now.
Sometimes you've got to fold before you're found out.
Well, thanks for waiting this long to show yourself.

Because now that I can see you, I don't think you're worth a second glance.

So much for all the promises you made, they served you well
and now you're gone and they're wasted on me.
So much for your endearing sense of charm, it served you well
and now it's gone and you're wasted on me.

I guess that all you've got is all you're gonna get,
so much for, so much more.
I guess that all you've got is all you're gonna get,
so much for, so much more.

Do what you must if that's what you wish.
I can't be a party to this.
You have a sense that you were born with.
You'll find a way to make things right.

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Always

Bon Jovi

This Romeo is bleeding, but you can't see his blood.
It's nothing but some feelings that this old dog kicked up.
It's been raining since you left me, now I'm drowning in the flood.
You see I've always been a fighter, but without you I give up.

I can't sing a love song like the way it's meant to be.
Well, I guess I'm not that good anymore, but baby, that's just me.

And I will love you, baby always.
And I'll be there forever and a day always.
I'll be there untill the stars don't shine,
untill the heavens burst and the words don't rhyme.
I know when I die, you'll be on my mind, and I'll love you always.

Now your pictures that you left behind are just memories of a different life.
Some that made us laugh, some that made us cry, one that made you have to say goodbye.
What I'd give to run my fingers through your hair, touch your lips, to hold you near.
When you say your prayers try to understand, I've made mistakes, I'm just a man.

When he holds you close, when he pulls you near.
When he says the words you've been needing to hear,
I'll wish I was him 'cause those words are mine
to say to you untill the end of time.

If you told me to cry for you, I could.
If you told me to die for you, I would.
Take a look at my face.
There's no price I won't pay to say these words to you.

Well, there ain't no luck in these loaded dice.
But baby if you give me just one more try,
we can pack up our old dreams and our old lives.
We'll find a place where the sun still shines.

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Hopeless

Train

I hopelessly, helplessly, wonder why
everythings gotta change around me.
I'd tell it to your face,
but you lost your face along the way.
And I'd say it on the phone
if I thought you were alone.
Why do things have to change?

But you don't need my pictures on your wall.
You say you need no one,
and you don't need my secret midnight call.
I guess you need no one.
Is anybody waiting at home for you?
Because it's time that will tell if it's heaven if it's hell or if it's
anybody waiting at home for you,
because it's time that will tell this tale...

You're in and out, up and down.
Wonder if you're lost or found.
But I got my hands on you.
Are you strong enough to tow the line?
Are you gonna make me yours
or do I make you mine?
I'm in and out, I'm up and down.
Wonder if I'm lost or found.
But I need your hands on me now...

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The Most Depressing Song

The Get Up Kids

Long way from home, lost by an echo, never have known. I've got pictures to prove I was there, but you don't care. Here's me overseas, cross the pond, by the Dover Peeks. I've smuggled myself into new nationalities to think you'd be proud of me. There is room to believe out of sight, out of mind, out of reach. Start over. It's no way to begin.

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Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

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?

Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts,
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air to a cool breeze, cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange q 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.

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Thank You for Loving Me

Bon Jovi

It's hard for me to say the things I want to say sometimes.
There's no one here but you and me and that broken old street light.
Lock the doors, we'll leave the world outside.
All I've got to give to you are these five words when I...

Thank you for loving me.
For being my eyes when I couldn't see.
For parting my lips when I couldn't breathe.
Thank you for loving me.

I never knew I had a dream until that dream was you.
When I look into your eyes the sky's a different blue.
Cross my heart, I wear no disguise.
If I tried, you'd make believe that you believed my lies.

You pick me up when I fall down.
You ring the bell before they count me out.
If I was drowning you would part the sea,
and risk your own life to rescue me...

Thank you for loving me.
For being my eyes when I couldn't see.
You parted my lips when I couldn't breathe.
Thank you for loving me.
When I couldn't fly you gave me wings.
You parted my lips when I couldn't breathe
Thank you for loving me...

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Let it Rain

Amanda Marshall

I have given, I have given, and got none.
Still, I'm driven by something I can't explain.
It's not a cross, it is a choice.
I cannot help but hear his voice.
I only wish that I could listen without shame.

Let it rain.
Let it rain on me.
Let it rain, oh let it rain.
Let it rain on me.

I have been a witness to the perfect crime.
I wipe the grin off of my face to hide the blame.
It isn't worth the tears you cry to have a perfect alibi.
Now I'm beaten at the hands of my own game.

It isn't easy to be kind
with all these demons in my mind.
I only hope one day I'll be free.
I do my best not to complain.
My face is dirty from the strain.
I only hope one day I'll come clean.

Come take my hand.
We can walk to the light.
And without fear,
we can see through the darkest night.

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Mr. Brightside

The Killers

I'm coming out of my cage and I’ve been doing just fine.
Gotta be down because I want it all.
It started out with a kiss. How did it end up like this?
It was only a kiss, it was only a kiss...

Now I’m falling asleep and she’s calling a cab
while he’s having a smoke and she’s taking a drag.
Now they’re going to bed and my stomach is sick,
and it’s all in my head but she’s touching his chest.
Now, he takes off her dress.
Now, letting me go...
And I just can’t look- it's killing me and taking control.

Jealousy, turning saints into the sea.
Turning through sick lullabies.
Choking on your alibis.
But it’s just the price I pay.
Destiny is calling me.
Open up my eager eyes because I’m Mr. Brightside...

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It Can't Rain all the Time

Jane Siberry

We walked the narrow path beneath the smoking skies.
Sometimes you can barely tell the difference between darkness and light.
Do you have faith in what we believe?
The truest test is when we cannot, when we cannot see.

I hear pounding feet in the streets below,
and the women crying and the children know
that there's something wrong, and it's hard to belive that love will prevail.

Oh it won't rain all the time.
The sky won't fall forever.
And though the night seems long, your tears won't fall forever.

Oh, when I'm lonely, I lie awake at night
and I wish you were here. I miss you.
Can you tell me, is there something more to belive in?
Or is this all there is?

And the pounding feet in the streets below,
and the window breaks and a woman falls.
There's something wrong.
It's so hard to belive that love will prevail.

Oh it won't rain all the time.
The sky won't fall forever.
And though the night seems long, your tears won't fall forever.

Last night I had a dream.
You came into my room, you took me into your arms,
whispering and kissing me and telling me to still belive.
But then the emptiness of a burning sea against which we see
our darkest of sadness until I felt safe and warm.
I fell asleep in your arms.
When I awoke I cried again for you were gone.
Oh, can you hear me?

Oh it won't rain all the time.
The sky won't fall forever.
And though the night seems long, your tears won't fall forever...

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If It Ain't One Thing (It's You)

Alan Jackson

I guess it's just not my day.
The wind blew my morning paper away.
Then I cut my toe on a sliver of glass
from the stormdoor you broke when you left here so fast.

If it ain't one thing it's you.
If you've heard that I'm going crazy, it's true.
The wheels seem to fall off whatever I do.
If it ain't one thing, it's you.

I rented that movie you hate,
but that old VCR just chewed up the tape.
Then I went to the freezer thought I'd cook me a steak.
All I found was that old piece of our wedding cake.

But I never knew that I needed you so.
But now that I've lost you, I can't let you go...

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Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime

Beck

Change your heart.
Look around you.
Change your heart.
It will astound you.
I need your loving
like the sunshine...

Everybody's gotta learn sometime.
Everybody's gotta learn sometime.
Everybody's gotta learn sometime...

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Look What You've Done

Jet

Take my photo off the wall
if it just won't sing for you,
because all that's left has gone away
and there's nothing there for you to prove.

Oh, look what you've done.
You've made a fool of everyone.
Oh well, it seems like such fun
until you lose what you had won...

Give me back my point of view
because I just can't think for you.
I can hardly hear you say,
'What should I do?' Well, you choose...

Oh, look what you've done.
You've made a fool of everyone.
Oh well, it seems like such fun
until you lose what you had won...

Oh, look what you've done.
You've made a fool of everyone.
A fool of everyone,
a fool of everyone...

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I'm Drunk Again

Reel Big Fish

If I had a dollar bill for every time I've been wrong,
I'd be a self-made millionaire and you'd still be gone.
So hand me down my best dress shoes and my best dress shirt,
because I'm going out in style to cover the hurt...

All I wanna do all day is spend it in bed,
but that's bad for the body and even worse for my head.
So I'll try and find a place where no one will ask me a thing.
It'll help me to forget and help me to sing.

Because now, I'm drunk again,
the means to my end and I'm scared of myself.
Because now, it's all the same,
the faces and names and I'm scared of myself again...

Have you ever wanted to wake up from your dreaming?
It scared you so bad you couldn't control your heart or your breathing.
Well, walk out the door with me onto the floor. You don't care how I'm feeling.
I guess a weak and tired and frightened man is no longer appealing.

Because now, I'm drunk again,
the means to my end and I'm scared of myself.
Because now, it's all the same,
the faces and names and I'm scared of myself again...

Some people have a gift of reaching right into your soul
and finding the hole and making it bigger.
Baby, sometimes I think I catch you cracking cynical smiles
and in a short while you'll be my heart's gravedigger.
Well, there's not much I can do because I'm at mercy of you.
So, baby, I guess we're through...

Because now, I'm drunk again,
the means to my end and I'm scared of myself.
Because now, it's all the same,
the faces and names and I'm scared of myself.
Because now, it's all the same,
the faces and names and I'm scared of myself.
So go. Walk out the door.
You don't believe me no more and I'm scared of myself again...

If I had a dollar bill for every time I've been wrong,

I'd be a self-made millionaire and I wouldn't be singing...

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Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word

Elton John

What I gotta do to make you love me?
What I gotta do to make you care?
What do I do when lightning strikes me,
and I wake to find that you're not there.

What I gotta do to make you want me?
What I gotta do to be heard?
What do I say when it's all over,
and sorry seems to be the hardest word.

It's sad, so sad.
It's a sad, sad situation,
and it's getting more and more absurd.
It's sad, so sad.
Why can't we talk it over?
Oh it seems to me that sorry seems to be the hardest word...

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Where Have You Been?

Reel Big Fish

You called me up last night in tears
and said you missed me after all these years.
Well I’ve been waiting here so long.
I’ve gotten over it since you've been gone.

You called me late last night again
and said you're finished with your new boyfriend.
Asked if you could come back home-
so sorry that you left me all alone...

You say you love me, love me again but if you love me- where have you been?
You say you need me more than anyone else well go to hell, where have you been?

You showed up at my door today
and said 'my friend why do you push me away?'
Your life with him was just so dull,
but what we had was something wonderful.

You say you love me, you love me again but if you love me- where have you been?
You say you need me more than anyone else well go to hell- where have you been?

No way!
You wish!
I don't need this!
What makes you think I’d ever want you again?

Yeah right!
As if!
I don't need this!
What makes you think I'd ever want you again?

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Coming Back to Life

Pink Floyd

Where were you when I was burned and broken
while the days slipped by from my window watching.
Where were you when I was hurt and I was helpless
because the things you say and the things you do surround me.
While you were hanging yourself on someone elses words dying to believe in what you heard,
I was staring straight into the shining sun.

Lost in thought and lost in time
while the seeds of life and the seeds of change were planted.
Outside the rain fell dark and slow
while I pondered on this dangerous but irresistible pastime.
I took a heavenly ride through one silence.
I knew the moment had arrived
for killing the past and coming back to life.

I took a heavenly ride trough our silence.
I knew the waiting had begin,
and headed straight into the shining sun...

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Meanwhile

George Strait

She sparkles, she dazzles, she lights up the room.
We walk together to a table for two.
Every man stares, but her eyes are only for me.
We take to the dance floor, she squeezes my hand.
I can't believe just how lucky I am.

Meanwhile back in the back of my memory,
you're still dancing with me, and I'm holding you once again.
Meanwhile...

We move to the end of a beautiful night,
tender the kisses, soft candle light.
She draws the curtains, slowly we climb up the stairs
and reach for each other, the passion begins.
We fall together as lovers and then...

Meanwhile back in the back of my memory,
you're still lying with me and I'm holding you once again.

I try and I try, the Lord knows I do.
But each time my heart beats back to you...

Meanwhile I'll go on living my life now.
I'll find a way somehow.
But meanwhile back in the back of my memory,
you'll always be with me, but I'll never hold you again.

Meanwhile...

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I Miss You a Little

John Michael Montgomery

Sometimes a song can touch a nerve
that takes me back to you
when I pick up my old guitar
and I play your favorite tune.
Every now and then, some little thing
I've buried comes bubbling up,
and once in a while, you feel close enough to touch.

I miss you a little since you've been gone.
A few little memories keep hanging on.
I miss you a little, I guess you could say,
a little too much, a little too often,
a little more every day...

When I go by our old house
I pretend that you're still there
Waiting for me on the porch,
but there's just an empty chair.
Wish I could see you just one more time
before I drive away
so I could stop and go inside, and say...

I miss you a little since you've been gone.
A few little memories keep hanging on.
I miss you a little, I guess you could say,
a little too much, a little too often,
a little more every day...

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The Reason

Hoobastank

I'm not a perfect person.
There's many things I wish I didn't do,
but I continue learning.
I never meant to do those things to you,
and so I have to say before I go
that I just want you to know.

I've found a reason for me
to change who I used to be,
a reason to start over new
and the reason is you.

I'm sorry that I hurt you.
It's something I must live with everyday.
And all the pain I put you through,
I wish that I could take it all away
and be the one who catches all your tears.
That's why I need you to hear...

I've found a reason for me
to change who I used to be,
a reason to start over new,
and the reason is you.

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Hate Me

Blue October

I have to block out thoughts of you, so I don't lose my head.
They crawl in like a cockroach leaving babies in my bed,
dropping little reels of tape to remind me that I'm alone,
playing movies in my head that make a porno feel like home.

There's a burning in my pride, a nervous bleeding in my brain.
An ounce of peace is all I want for you; will you never call again?
And will you never say that you love me just to put it in my face?
And will you never try to reach me, it is I that wanted space...

Hate me today.
Hate me tomorrow.
Hate me so you can finally see what's good for you.

I'm sober now for three whole months, it's one accomplishment that you helped me with.
The one thing that always tore us apart is the one thing I won't touch again.
In my sick way I want to thank you for holding my head up late at night
while I was busy waging wars on myself, you were trying to stop the fight.

You never doubted my warped opinions on things like suicide or hate.
You made me compliment myself when it was way too hard to take.
So I'll drive so fucking far away that I'll never cross your mind,
and do whatever it takes in your heart to leave me behind...

Hate me today.
Hate me tomorrow.
Hate me for all the things I didn't do for you.
Hate me in ways, yeah ways hard to swallow.
Hate me so you can finally see what's good for you.

And with a sad heart I say bye to you and wave
kicking shadows on the street for every mistake that I have made.
And like a baby boy I never was a man
until I saw your blue eyes cry and I held your face in my hand.
And then I fell down yelling "Make it go away!"
Just to make her smile come back and shine just like it used to be.
And then she whispered "How can you do this to me?"

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Can't We Try?

Dan Hill and Vonda Shepard

(Him)
I see your face cloud over like a little girl's,
and your eyes have lost thier shine.
You whisper something softly I'm not meant to hear,
baby, tell me what's on your mind.

(Her)
I don't care what people say
about the two of us from different worlds.
I love you so much that it hurts inside.
Are you listening?

(Him)
Please listen to me, girl.

Can't we try just a little bit harder?
Can't we give just a little bit more?
Can't we try to understand
that it's love we're fighting for?
Can't we try just a little more passion?
Can't we try just a little less pride?
I love you so much baby,
that it tears me up inside.

I hear you on the telephone with god-knows-who,
spilling out your heart for free.
Everyone needs someone they can talk to,
girl, that someone should be me.

(Her)
So many times, I tried to tell you,
you just turned away.
(Him) How did I know?
(Her) My life is changing so fast now,
leaves me lonely and afraid.
(Him) Don't be afraid, no.

(Him) Don't let our love fade away.
(Her) Don't let our love fade away.
(Him) No matter what people say.
(Her) No matter, no matter what they say.
(Him) I need you more and more each day.
(Her) Don't let our love fade away.
(Him)No matter what people say.
(Her) No matter, no matter what they say.

---

'Round Here

Counting Crows

Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog
where no one notices the contrast of white on white.
And in between the moon and you, the angels get a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right.

I walk in the air between the rain through myself and back again.
Where? I don't know.
Maria says shes dying, through the door I hear her crying.
Why? I don't know.

Round here we always stand up straight.
Round here something radiates.

Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand.
She said she'd like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis.
She walks along the edge of where the ocean meets the land
just like she's walking on a wire in the circus.

She parks her car outside of my house, takes her clothes off.
Say's she's close to understanding Jesus.
She knows she's more than just a little misunderstood.
She has trouble acting normal when shes nervous.

Round here were carving out our names.
Round here we all look the same.
Round here we talk just like lions, but we sacrifice like lambs.
Round here she's slipping through my hands.

Sleeping children better run like the wind
out of the lightning dream.
Mamas little baby better get herself in
out of the lightning...

She says it's only in my head.
She says, "Shhh..." I know it's only in my head.

But the girl on car in the parking lot says,
"Man, you should try to take a shot.
Can't you see my walls are crumbling?"
Then she looks up at the building and say's she's thinking of jumping.
She say's she's tired of life. She must be tired of something.

Round here she's always on my mind.
Round here, hey man, got lots of time.
Round here were never sent to bed early,
and nobody makes us wait.
Round here we stay up very, very, very, very late.
I can't see nothing, nothing round here.
Catch me if I'm falling...

---

Unbreakable Heart

Jessica Andrews

An empty house, a broken fairy tale,
a hollow girl with empty arms.
From an angel's tears God made the stars.
Why can't He make me an unbreakable heart?

In my blue world, you shone like Heaven's fire,
and left me crying in the dark.
How could anyone be so hard?
Did you think I had an unbreakable heart?

I suppose I should know,
sometimes love just comes and goes.
But I believed, foolish me,
we'd go on and on...

One day, someone will come to you
and rock you tightly in her arms.
Please remember this, when you drop your guard,
nobody has an unbreakable heart.

From an angel's wings to a fallen star,
God makes everything but unbreakable hearts...

---

I Don't Love You Anymore

Travis Tritt

I can't hide the way I feel about you anymore.
I can't hold the hurt inside, keep the pain out of my eyes anymore.
My tears no longer waiting, my resistance ain't that strong.
My mind keeps recreating a life with you alone,
and I'm tired of pretending that I don't love you anymore.

Let me make one last appeal to show you how I feel about you
because there's no one else I swear that holds a candle anywhere next to you.
My heart can't take the beating, not having you to hold.
A small voice keeps repeating deep inside my soul.
It says I can't keep pretending I don't love you anymore.

I've got to take the chance or let it pass by
if I expect to get on with my life...

My tears no longer waiting, my resistance ain't that strong.
My mind keeps recreating a life with you alone,
and I'm tired of pretending I don't love you anymore...

---

Not Ready to Make Nice

Dixie Chicks

Forgive, sounds good.
Forget, I’m not sure I could.
They say time heals everything,
but I’m still waiting.

I’m through with doubt.
There’s nothing left for me to figure out.
I’ve paid a price,
and I’ll keep paying.

I’m not ready to make nice.
I’m not ready to back down.
I’m still mad as hell,
and I don’t have time to go round and round and round.
It’s too late to make it right.
I probably wouldn’t if I could,
because I’m mad as hell.
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should.

I know you said,
"Can’t you just get over it?"
It turned my whole world around,
and I kind of like it.

I made my bed and I sleep like a baby,
with no regrets, and I don’t mind saying.
It’s a sad, sad story when a mother will teach her
daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger.
And how in the world can the words that I said
send somebody so over the edge
that they’d write me a letter
saying that I better shut up and sing,

or my life will be over?

---

She's All I Ever Had

Ricky Martin

Here I am, broken wings,
quiet thoughts, unspoken dreams.
Here I am, alone again,
and I need her now to hold my hand.

She's all, she's all I ever had.
She's the air I breathe.
She's all, she's all I ever had...

It's the way she makes me feel.
It's the only thing that's real.
It's the way she understands.
She's my lover, she's my friend.
And when I look into her eyes,
it's the way I feel inside.
Like the man I want to be,
she's all I ever need...

So much time, so much pain.
There's one thing that still remains.
It's the way she cared, the love we shared,
and through it all she's always been there...

---

I'm Not Okay (I Promise)

My Chemical Romance

Well if you wanted honesty, that's all you had to say.
I never want to let you down or have you go, it's better off this way.
For all the dirty looks, the photographs your boyfriend took,
remember when you broke your foot from jumping out the second floor?

I'm not okay.
I'm not okay.
I'm not okay.
You wear me out.

What will it take to show you that it's not the life it seems?
I told you time and time again you sing the words but don't know what it means.
To be a joke and look, another line without a hook...
I held you close as we both shook. For the last time take a good hard look!

I'm not okay.
I'm not okay.
I'm not okay.
You wear me out.

Forget about the dirty looks,
the photographs your boyfriend took.
You said you read me like a book, but the pages all are torn and frayed.

I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay, now.

But you really need to listen to me,
because I'm telling you the truth.
I mean this, I'm okay!
Trust me...

I'm not okay.
I'm not okay.
Well, I'm not okay, I'm not o-f***ing-kay.
I'm not okay.
I'm not okay,
Okay...

---

Never Leave Lonely Alone

Ben Harper

Like an old man sitting alone at a lunch counter,
never leave lonely alone...
Like a small town girl a big city devours,
never leave lonely alone...
Some of us laugh even in our darkest hour,
never leave lonely alone...

Unspoken rules of solitude wound without a trace.
A lifetime of dreams roll down your face.
All that we can't say is all we need to hear.
When you close your eyes, does the world disappear?

There's something in everyone only they know,
Never leave lonely alone...
It moves in the hidden ways of joy and sorrow,
Never leave lonely alone...

---

I'm Moving On

Rascal Flatts

I've dealt with my ghosts and I've faced all my demons,
finally content with a past I regret.
I've found you find strength in your moments of weakness.
For once I'm at peace with myself.
I've been burdened with blame, trapped in the past for too long.
I'm moving on...

I've lived in this place and I know all the faces.
Each one is different but they're always the same.
They mean me no harm, but it's time that I face it.
They'll never allow me to change.
But I never dreamed home would end up where I don't belong.
I'm moving on.

I'm moving on.
At last I can see life has been patiently waiting for me.
And I know there's no guarantees, but I'm not alone.
There comes a time in everyone's life
when all you can see are the years passing by,
and I have made up my mind that those days are gone...

I sold what I could and packed what I couldn't.
Stopped to fill up on my way out of town.
I've loved like I should, but lived like I shouldn't.
I had to lose everything to find out.
Maybe forgiveness will find me somewhere down this road.
I'm moving on...

---

Goodbye, My Lover

James Blunt

Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
'Cause I saw the end before we'd begun,
Yes I saw you were blinded and I knew I had won.

So I took what's mine by eternal right.
Took your soul out into the night.
It may be over but it won't stop there,
I am here for you if you'd only care.

You touched my heart you touched my soul.
You changed my life and all my goals.
And love is blind and that I knew when,
My heart was blinded by you.

I've kissed your lips and held your head.
Shared your dreams and shared your bed.
I know you well, I know your smell.
I've been addicted to you.

Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.

I am a dreamer but when I wake,
You can't break my spirit - it's my dreams you take.
And as you move on, remember me,
Remember us and all we used to be.

I've seen you cry, I've seen you smile.
I've watched you sleeping for a while.
I'd be the father of your child.
I'd spend a lifetime with you.

I know your fears and you know mine.
We've had our doubts but now we're fine,
And I love you, I swear that's true.
I cannot live without you.
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.

And I still hold your hand in mine.
In mine when I'm asleep.
And I will bear my soul in time,
When I'm kneeling at your feet.

Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.
I'm so hollow, baby, I'm so hollow.
I'm so, I'm so, I'm so hollow.

---

Once in a While

Billy Dean

Once in a while someone comes along,
that one in a million heart so pure and so strong.
They can face up to the tears and somehow still find a smile.
We only get it every once in a while.

Once in while someone has the eyes,
that one in a million look that never tells lies.
They can take get you on your feet to walk that extra mile.
We only see it every once in a while.

That's why we call them heroes.
That's why we know their names.
And once you've heard their stories,
you're never quite the same.

That's why we call them heroes.
The best thing they ever do
is point to the best in us all,
and say, "If I can, you can too."

Once in a while I still hear his voice,
that one in a million sound like two laughing boys.
He would hate it if we cried, that never was his style.
Oh, we still miss him every once in a while.

Oh, they can face up to the tears and somehow still find a smile.
But we only get it every once in a while.
Oh, how I miss him every once in a while.

---

What it Takes

Aerosmith

There goes my old girlfriend, there's another diamond ring.
And all those late night promises, I guess they don't mean a thing.
So baby, what's the story? Did you find another man?
Is it easy to sleep in the bed that we made?
When you don't look back, I guess the feelings start to fade away.

I used to feel your fire, but now it's cold inside.
And you're back on the street like you didn't miss a beat...

Tell me what it takes to let you go.
Tell me how the pain's supposed to go.
Tell me how it is that you can sleep in the night
without thinking you lost everything that was good in your life to the toss of the dice?
Tell me what it takes to let you go.

Girl, before I met you I was fine,
but your love made me a prisoner, my heart's been doing time.
You spent me up like money, then you hung me out to dry.
It was easy to keep all your lies in disguise
because you had me in deep with the devil in your eyes...

Tell me that you're happy that you're on your own.
Tell me that it's better when you're all alone.
Tell me that your body doesn't miss my touch.
Tell me that my lovin' didn't mean that much.
Tell me you ain't dying when you're crying for me.

Tell me what it takes to let you go.
Tell me how the pain's supposed to go.
Tell me how it is that you can sleep in the night
without thinking you lost everything that was good in your life to the toss of the dice?
Tell me who's to blame for thinking twice,
because I don't wanna burn in paradise...

---

Please Remember Me

Tim McGraw

When all our tears have reached the sea,
part of you will live in me way down deep inside my heart.
The days keep coming without fail.
A new wind is gonna find your sail.
That’s where your journey starts...

You’ll find better love strong as it ever was,
deep as the river runs, warm as the morning sun.
Please remember me...

Just like the waves down by the shore,
we’re gonna keep on coming back for more,
because we don’t ever wanna stop.
Out in this brave new world you seek,
oh the valleys and the peaks, and I can see you on the top.

Remember me when you’re out walking
when the snow falls high outside your door.
Late at night when you’re not sleeping,
and moonlight falls across your floor,
when I can’t hurt you anymore...

You’ll find better love strong as it ever was,
deep as the river runs, warm as the morning sun.
Please remember me...

---

Drive

The Cars

Who's gonna tell you when it's too late?
Who's gonna tell you things aren't so great?
You can't go on thinking nothing's wrong, but bye...
Who's gonna drive you home tonight?

Who's gonna pick you up when you fall?
Who's gonna hang it up when you call?
Who's gonna pay attention to your dreams?
Who's gonna plug their ears when you scream?

You can't go on thinking nothing's wrong.
Who's gonna drive you home tonight?

Who's gonna hold you down when you shake?
Who's gonna come around when you break?
You can't go on thinking nothing's wrong.
Who's gonna drive you home tonight?

Oh you know you can't go on thinking nothing's wrong.
Who's gonna drive you home tonight?

---

Tonight I Wanna Cry

Keith Urban

Alone in this house again tonight...
I got the TV on, the sound turned down and a bottle of wine.
There's pictures of you and I on the walls around me.
The way that it was and could have been surrounds me.
I'll never get over you walking away.

I've never been the kind to ever let my feelings show.
And I thought that bein' strong meant never losing your self-control.
But I'm just drunk enough to let got of my pain.
To hell with my pride, let it fall like rain from my eyes.
Tonight I wanna cry...

Would it help if I turned a sad song on?
"All By Myself" would sure hit me hard now that you're gone.
Or maybe unfold some old yellow lost love letters.
It's gonna hurt bad before it gets better,
but I'll never get over you by hiding this way...

---

At This Moment

Billy Vera and the Beaters

What did you think I would do at this moment
when you're standing before me with tears in your eyes
trying to tell me that you you found you another,
and you just don't love me no more.

What did you think I would say at this moment
when I'm faced with the knowledge that you just don't love me?
Did you think I would curse you or say things to hurt you
because you just don't love me no more?

Did you think I could hate you, or raise my hands to you?
Now, come on you know me too well.
How I could I hurt you when, darling, I love you,
and you know, I could never hurt you...

What did you think I would give at this moment?
If you'd stay I'd subtract twenty years from my life.
I'd fall down on my knees, kiss the ground that you walk on
if I could just hold you again.

---

What Hurts the Most

Rascal Flatts

I can take the rain on the roof of this empty house.
That don’t bother me.
I can take a few tears now and then and just let them out.
I’m not afraid to cry every once in a while
even though going on with you gone still upsets me.
There are days every now and again I pretend I’m ok,
but that’s not what gets me...

What hurts the most was being so close,
and having so much to say.
And watching you walk away and never knowing
what could have been and not seeing that loving you
is what I was trying to do...

It’s hard to deal with the pain of losing you everywhere I go,
but I’m doin’ it.
It’s hard to force that smile when I see our old friends and I’m alone,
still harder...
Getting up, getting dressed, living with this regret,
but I know if I could do it over,
I would trade, give away all the words that I saved in my heart
that I left unspoken...

---

November Rain

Guns n' Roses

When I look into your eyes I can see a love restrained.
But darlin' when I hold you, don't you know I feel the same?
Nothing lasts forever, and we both know hearts can change.
And it's hard to hold a candle in the cold November rain.

We've been through this auch a long long time just tryin' to kill the pain.
But lovers always come and lovers always go and no one's really sure who's letting go today...
Walking away...

If we could take the time to lay it on the line,
I could rest my head just knowing that you were mine, all mine...
So if you want to love me, then darlin' don't refrain,
or I'll just end up walking in the cold November rain.

Do you need some time on your own?
Do you need some time all alone?
Everybody needs some time on their own.
Don't you know you need some time all alone?

I know it's hard to keep an open heart when even friends seem out to harm you.
But if you could heal a broken heart, wouldn't time be out to charm you?

Sometimes I need some time on my own.
Sometimes I need some time all alone.
Everybody needs some time on their own.
Don't you know you need some time all alone?

And when your fears subside and shadows still remain,
I know that you can love me when there's no one left to blame.
So never mind the darkness, we still can find a way.
Nothing lasts forever, even cold November rain...

Don't you think that you need somebody?
Don't you think that you need someone?
Everybody needs somebody.
You're not the only one.

---

Drowning

Joe Jackson

I don't love you,
but I'm lost thinking of you
and the ghosts of so many special moments
that passed so quickly at the time.
And now they come and track me down
and echo round and round and round.
And time goes quickly or disappears completely,
and I feel like I fade away...
Like drowning, I don't need you.
But it's so hard to be without you.
Though you're not far away, I censor my emotions
and tell myself to bide my time.
But every time you come around you batter my defenses down.
But so gently like some sweet hypnosis,
and the world just slips away...

I'm drowning.
It's dark.
My heart is pounding.
I'm sinking down
into a pool of passion.
There's laughter as I drown
like so many lost before me,
damned by lust and gone to hell.
And then I look into your eyes
and something melts.
I shake inside,
and cool water washes me all over,
washes me away, and still I'm drowning...

---

You're Beautiful

James Blunt

My life is brilliant.
My love is pure.
I saw an angel.
Of that I'm sure.
She smiled at me on the subway.
She was with another man.
But I won't lose no sleep on that,
'cause I've got a plan.

You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
I saw you face in a crowded place,
and I don't know what to do,
'cause I'll never be with you.

Yeah, she caught my eye
as we walked on by.
She could see from my face that I was
f**king high,
and I don't think that I'll see her again,
but we shared a moment that will last till the end.

You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
I saw you face in a crowded place,
and I don't know what to do,
'cause I'll never be with you.

You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
There must be an angel with a smile on her face,
when she thought up that I should be with you.
But it's time to face the truth,
I will never be with you.

---

Suicide is Painless

(The Theme from M.A.S.H.)

Johnny Mandel

Through early morning fog I see visions of the things to be.
The pains that are withheld for me, I realize and I can see...

that suicide is painless.
It brings on many changes.
And I can take or leave it if I please...

I try to find a way to make all our little joys relate
without that ever-present hate, but now I know that it's too late, and...

suicide is painless.
It brings on many changes.
And I can take or leave it if I please...

The game of life is hard to play, I'm gonna lose it anyway.
The losing card I'll someday lay, so this is all I have to say...

Suicide is painless.
It brings on many changes.
And I can take or leave it if I please...

The only way to win is cheat and lay it down before I'm beat,
and to another give my seat, for that's the only painless feat...

Suicide is painless.
It brings on many changes.
And I can take or leave it if I please...

The sword of time will pierce our skins, it doesn't hurt when it begins,
but as it works its way on in. The pain grows stronger, watch it grin, but...

Suicide is painless.
It brings on many changes.
And I can take or leave it if I please...

A brave man once requested me to answer questions that are key.
Is it to be or not to be, and I replied, "Oh why ask me?"

Suicide is painless.
It brings on many changes.
And I can take or leave it if I please...

---

Forgiven, Not Forgotten

The Corrs

All alone, staring on watching the night go by.
When the days are grey and the nights are black,
different shades of mundane,
and the one-eyed furry toy that lies upon the bed
has often heard a cry
and heard her whisper out a name long forgiven, but not forgotten...

You're forgiven, not forgotten.
You're forgiven, not forgotten.
You're forgiven, not forgotten.
You're not forgotten.

A bleeding heart torn apart left on an icy grave.
In the room where they once lay face to face,
nothing could get in their way.
But now the memories of the man are haunting her days
and the craving never fades.
She's still dreaming of a man long forgiven, but not forgotten.

You're forgiven, not forgotten.
You're forgiven, not forgotten.
You're forgiven, not forgotten.
You're not forgotten.

Still alone, staring on wishing her life goodbye,
as she goes searching for the man long forgiven, but not forgotten.

---

Needle in the Hay

Elliott Smith

Your hand on his arm, the hay stack charm around your neck.
Strung out and thin calling some friend trying to cash some check.
He's acting dumb, that's what you've come to expect...

Needle in the hay...
Needle in the hay...
Needle in the hay...
Needle in the hay...

He's wearing your clothes head down to toes, a reaction to you.
You say you know what he did, but you idiot kid, you don't have a clue.
Sometimes they just get caught in the eye you're pulling him through...

Needle in the hay...
Needle in the hay...
Needle in the hay...
Needle in the hay...

Now on the bus nearly touching this dirty retreat.
Falling out 6th and Powell a dead sweat in my teeth.
Gonna walk walk walk four more blocks plus the one in my brain.
Down downstairs to the man, he's gonna make it all OK.

I can't beat myself, I can't beat myself, and I don't want to talk.
I'm taking the cure so I can be quiet whenever I want.
So leave me alone, you ought to be proud that I'm getting good marks...

Needle in the hay...
Needle in the hay...
Needle in the hay...
Needle in the hay...

---

Fade to Black

Metallica

Life it seems will fade away,
drifting further everyday.
Getting lost within myself,
nothing matters, no one else.

I have lost the will to live,
simply nothing more to give.
There is nothing more for me.
Need the end to set me free.

Things not what they used to be,
missing one inside of me.
Deadly loss this can't be real.
Can't stand this hell I feel.

Emptiness is filling me,
to the point of agony.
Growing darkness taking dawn.
I was me but now, he is gone.

No one but me can save myself, but it's too late.
Now I can't think, think why I should even try.

Yesterday seems as though it never existed.
Death greets me warm, now I will just say goodbye.

Goodbye...

---

Here's to the Night

Eve 6

So denied, so I lied.
Are you the now or never kind?
In a day and a day love.
I'm gonna be gone for good again.
Are you willing to be had?
Are you cool with just tonight?

Here's a toast to all those who hear me all too well...

Here's to the night we felt alive.
Here's to the tears you knew you'd cry.
Here's to goodbye tomorrow's gonna come too soon...

Put your name on the line,
along with place and time.
Want to stay, not to go,
I want to ditch the logical.

Here's a toast to all those who hear me all too well...

Here's to the night we felt alive.
Here's to the tears you knew you'd cry.
Here's to goodbye tomorrow's gonna come too soon...

All my time is froze in motion.
Can't I stay an hour or two or more?
Don't let me let you go...

---

Like We Never Loved at All

Faith Hill

You never looked so good as you did last night
underneath the city lights
there walking with your friend
laughing at the moon.
I swear you looked right through me.
But I’m still living with your goodbye,
and you’re just going on with your life.

How can you just walk on by without one tear in your eye?
Don’t you have the slightest feelings left for me?
Maybe that’s just your way of dealing with the pain,
forgetting everything between our rise and fall
like we never loved at all.

You, I hear you’re doing fine.
Seems like you’re doing well as far as I can tell.
Time is leaving us behind, another week has passed
and still I haven’t laughed yet.
So tell me, what your secret is to letting go, letting go like you did...

Did you forget the magic?
Did you forget the passion?
And did you ever miss me, and long to kiss me?

---

Miss Me Baby

Chris Cagle

Miss me baby when you hear our favorite song.
Miss me baby, and when you start to sing along...
Think about all the times that we danced
in moonlight to it all night long, then miss me baby.

And want me honey, like you did the night you told me that you loved me.
We couldn't wait anymore.
Left the keys in the door, took my hand, pulled me down on the kitchen floor.
Yeah, we were that crazy, then miss me baby.

Because when he's holding you, know that it's killing me.
Let my memory be the reason girl that you can't sleep.
And everytime you feel his touch, I pray to God it's not enough.
And that I've touched your heart so deep Girl, you can't shake me because I love you.
Yes I need you. Miss me baby.

Miss me baby until you can't take it no more.
Miss me baby, pack your bags and hit the door.
I'm a man, I was wrong, forgive me, come back home.
I'll be waiting, right here waiting...
Miss me baby.

Everytime you hear this song, miss me baby...

---

I'm Not Sleeping

Counting Crows

She comes to me at night when I'm sleeping.
She comes to me when I'm alone.
She comes to me.
She holds my head when I'm crying.
She comes to me .
She shuts my eyes.
She brings me home.
But I'm not sleeping anymore...

She tells me when you look at me.
She tells me when you're lying.
She tells me when you talk about me.
She lays me on the floor.
She tells me when you're whispering.
She lies beside me naked.
She tells me when you laugh at me,
and she locks all the doors.
But I'm not sleeping anymore...

1-2-3-4-5-6-7 AM, all alone again.
But I've been through all this shit before.
Spend my nights in self defense, cry about my innocence.
But I ain't all that innocent anymore...

I see her on the TV.
I see her in the movies.
I see her in these animals that dance beside my bed.
I'll follow you down baby down into this valley.
I'll follow you down baby, but I won't come up again.
But I'm not sleeping anymore...

---

Goodbye is all We Have

Alison Krauss

I'm soaring the sky, I can hear the birds,
and man they don't lie.
How you gonna catch me, when I'm this high?

I'm moving on.
I got the words to a brand new song.
How you gonna catch me, when I'm this gone?

Gone tommorow, here today,
just in case you got something to say.
I'll be leaving with the rest if goodbye is all we have.

I disconnected the phone.
Told the neighbors I'll be heading home
as soon as the light hits the morn.

I'm heading north.
Gonna see what this heart's really worth.
I guess it's time to be on my own

I sure would love to see you tonight.
Maybe try to end this fight.
If I don't hear you knocking on my door,
then I'll know for sure...

---

Every Breath You Take

The Police

Every breath you take...
Every move you make...
Every bond you break, every step you take,
I'll be watching you...

Every single day...
Every word you say...
Every game you play, every night you stay,
I'll be watching you...

Oh can't you see?
You belong to me.
How my poor heart aches with every step you take...

Every move you make...
Every vow you break...
Every smile you fake, every claim you stake,
I'll be watching you...

Since you've gone I been lost without a trace.
I dream at night I can only see your face.
I look around but it's you I can't replace.
I keep crying baby please...

Every move you make...
Every vow you break...
Every smile you fake, every claim you stake,
I'll be watching you...

---

A Bad Goodbye

Clint Black

I've been bound to leave you, we've known that for a while.
I'm sure it's something I can't do if I can't leave you with a smile.
I don't know how far I'll have to go 'til I'm sure those eyes won't cry.
And in my mind I've left enough to know that I can't leave you,
with a bad goodbye...

Goodbye, easier said than done.
Goodbye, there's no good when you're the one,
whose goodbye you swore would never come,
and in my goodbye you're finding none.

I'm still bound to leave you, I surely don't know how.
My heart won't let me put you through
what my mind says should happen now.
I don't know where we'll go from here, there may be no way to fly.
And the cloud I'm in just makes it all too clear that I can't leave you
with a bad goodbye...

How can we be so far between where we are and one more try.
And any way I look, I've only seen that I can't leave you with a bad goodbye...

---

Tell Me I was Dreaming

Travis Tritt

When I woke up this morning,
wiped the sleep from my eyes.
Found a new day dawning,
and suddenly I realize, you're gone...

Tell me I was dreaming.
That you didn't leave me here to cry.
You didn't say you don't love me anymore,
and it was just my imagination telling lies.
Tell me that you didn't say goodbye.

I'm in a state of confusion.
I hope things aren't what they seem.
If this is really happening,
just let me go back to dream.
You're home...

---

Crying

Roy Orbison

I was all right for a while.
I could smile for a while.
But I saw you last night.
You held my hand so tight.
When you stopped to say hello.
You wished me well.
You couldn’t tell that I’ve been crying over you,
crying over you, and you said, 'so long'.
Left me standing all alone,
alone and crying, crying, crying, crying.
It’s hard to understand, but the touch of your hand can start me crying.

I thought that I was over you,
but it’s true, so true.
I love you even more than I did before,
but darling, what can I do?
For you don’t love me, and I’ll always be
crying over you, crying over you.

Yes, now you’re gone,
and from this moment on, I’ll be crying, crying, crying, crying.
Yeah, crying, crying over you...

---

Back to Good

Matchbox 20

It's nothing, it's so normal.
You just stand there I could say so much,
but I don't go there because I don't want to.
I was thinking if you were lonely,
maybe we could leave here and no one would know...
At least not to the point that we would think so.

Everyone here knows everyone here is thinking about somebody else.
It's best if we all keep it under our heads.
I couldn't tell if anyone here was feeling the way I do.
But I'm lonely now, and I don't know how to get it back to good.

This don't mean that, you own me.
This ain't no good, in fact it's phony as hell.
But things worked out just like you wanted to.
If you see me out, you don't know me.
Try to turn your head, try to give me some room
to figure out just what I'm going to do.

And everyone here hates everyone here for doing just like they do.
It's best if we all keep this quiet instead.
And I couldn't tell why everyone here was doing me like they do.
But I'm sorry now, and I don't know how to get it back to good.

Everyone here is wondering what it's like to be with somebody else.
Everyone here's to blame, everyone here gets caught up in the pleasure of the pain.
Everyone hides shades of shame, but looking inside we're the same.
And we're all grown now, but we don't know how to get it back to good.

Everyone here knows everyone here is thinking about somebody else.
It's best if we all keep this under our heads.
I couldn't tell if anyone here was feeling the way I do.
But it's over now, and I don't know how.
It's over now, there's no getting back to good...

---

If You're Gone

Matchbox 20

I think I've already lost you.
I think you're already gone.
I think I'm finally scared now,
you think I'm weak, but I think you're wrong.

I think you're already leaving.
Feels like your hand is on the door.
I thought this place was an empire,
but now I'm relaxed, I can't be sure.

I think you're so mean. I think we should try.
I think I could need this in my life.
I think I'm just scared. I think too much.
I know this is wrong, it's a problem, I'm dealing...

If you're gone, maybe it's time to go home.
There's an awful lot of breathing room, but I can hardly move.
If you're gone, baby you need to come home.
There's a little bit of something me in everything in you.

I bet you're hard to get over.
I bet the room just won't shine.
I bet my hands I can stay here.
I bet you need more than you mind.

---

I Guess That's Why They Call it the Blues

Elton John

Don't wish it away, don't look at it like it's forever.
Between you and me I could honestly say that things can only get better.

And while I'm away dust out the demons inside.
And it won't be long before you and me run
to the place in our hearts where we hide...

And I guess that's why they call it the blues.
Time on my hands could be time spent with you.
Laughing like children, living like lovers.
Rolling like thunder under the covers.
And I guess that's why they call it the blues.

Just stare into space, picture my face in your hands.
Live for each second without hesitation,
and never forget I'm your man...

Without me girl, cry in the night if it helps.
But more than ever I simply love you more than I love life itself.

---

Walking after You

Foo Fighters

Tonight I'm tangled in my blanket of clouds dreaming aloud.
Things just won't do without you, matter of fact I'm on your back.
I'm on your back, I'm on your back...

If you walk out on me, I'm walking after you.
If you walk out on me, I'm walking after you.

If you'd accept surrender, I'll give up some more.
Weren't you adored?
I cannot be without you, matter of fact I'm on your back.
I'm on your back, I'm on your back...

Another heart is cracked in two, I'm on your back...

I cannot be without you, matter of fact I'm on your back.
I'm on your back, I'm on your back...

If you walk out on me, I'm walking after you...

---

Against All Odds

Phil Collins

How can I just let you walk away, just let you leave without a trace
when I stand here taking every breath with you.
You’re the only one who really knew me at all.

How can you just walk away from me when all I can do is watch you leave
because we’ve shared the laughter and the pain and even shared the tears.
You’re the only one who really knew me at all.

So take a look at me now, there’s just an empty space,
and there’s nothing left here to remind me, just the memory of your face.
Take a look at me now, well there’s just an empty space
and you coming back to me is against all odds and that’s what I’ve got to face...

I wish I could just make you turn around, turn around and see me cry.
There’s so much I need to say to you, so many reasons why.
You’re the only one who really knew me at all.

So take a look at me now, well there’s just an empty space,
and there’s nothing left here to remind me, just the memory of your face.
Now take a look at me now, because there’s just an empty space.
But to wait for you, is all I can do and that’s what I’ve got to face.

Take a good look at me now, because I’ll still be standing here,
and you coming back to me is against all odds, it’s the chance I’ve gotta take...

---

One More Try

George Michael

I've had enough of danger and people on the streets.
I'm looking out for angels just trying to find some peace.
Now I think it's time that you let me know.
So if you love me, say you love me,
but if you don't, just let me go...

Because teacher, there are things that I don't want to learn.
And the last one I had made me cry...
So I don't want to learn to hold you, touch you,
think that you're mine.
Because it ain't no joy for an uptown boy
whose teacher has told him goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

When you were just a stranger and I was at your feet.
I didn't feel the danger, now I feel the heat.
That look in your eyes telling me no.
So you think that you love me, know that you need me.
I wrote the song, I know it's wrong, just let me go...

Because teacher, there are things that I don't want to learn.
And the last one I had made me cry...
So I don't want to learn to hold you, touch you,
think that you're mine.
Because it ain't no joy for an uptown boy
whose teacher has told him goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

So when you say that you need me, that you'll never leave me.
I know you're wrong, you're not that strong, let me go.
And teacher, there are things that I still have to learn.
But the one thing I have is my pride.
Oh so I don't want to hold you, touch you,
think that you're mine.
Because there ain't no joy for an uptown boy
who just isn't willing to try...

I'm so cold inside...
Maybe just one more try...

---

Last Kiss

J. Frank Wilson (Live remake by Pearl Jam)

Where, oh where, can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me.
She’s gone to heaven, so I’ve got to be good
so I can see my baby when I leave this world.

We were out on a date in my daddy’s car.
We hadn’t driven very far.
There in the road, straight ahead,
a car was stalled, the engine was dead.

I couldn’t stop, so I swerved to the right.
I’ll never forget the sound that night.
The screamin tires, the busting glass.
The painful scream that I heard last.

When I woke up the rain was pouring down.
There were people standing all around.
Something warm flowing through my eyes,
but somehow I found my baby that night.

I lifted her head, she looked at me and said,
"Hold me darling, just a little while."
I held her close, I kissed her our last kiss.
I found the love that I knew I had missed.

Well, now she’s gone even though I hold her tight.
I lost my love, my life that night.

---

Without You

The Dixie Chicks

I’ve sure enjoyed the rain,
but I’m looking forward to the sun.
You have to feel the pain
when you lose the love you gave someone.
I thought by now the time
would take away these lonely tears.
I hope you’re doing fine all alone,
but where do I go from here because...

Without you I’m not okay.
And without you, I’ve lost my way.
My heart’s stuck in second place without you...

Well, I never thought I’d be
lying here without you by my side.
It seems unreal to me that
the life you promised was a lie.
You made it look so easy
making love into memories.
I guess you got what you wanted,
but what about me because...

Without you I’m not okay.
And without you, I’ve lost my way.
My heart’s stuck in second place without you....

Somebody tell my head to try to tell my heart
that I’m better off without you because baby I can’t live.

Without you I’m not okay.
And without you, I’ve lost my way.
My heart’s stuck in second place without you....

---

Anna Begins

Counting Crows

My friend assures me, "It's all or nothing."
I am not worried. I am not overly concerned.
My friend implores me, "For one time only,
make an exception." I am not worried.
Wrap her up in a package of lies.
Send her off to a coconut island.
I am not worried I am not overly concerned with the status of my emotions.
"Oh," she says, "you're changing."
But we're always changing.
It does not bother me to say this isn't love.

Because if you don't want to talk about it, then it isn't love,
and I guess I'm going to have to live with that.
But I'm sure there's something in a shade of grey,
something in between, and I can always change my name if that's what you mean...

My friend assures me, "It's all or nothing."
But I am not really worried, I am not overly concerned.
You try to tell yourself the things you try to tell yourself
to make yourself forget. I am not worried.
"If it's love," she said, "then we're going to have to think about the consequences."
She can't stop shaking I can't stop touching her and...

This time when kindness falls like rain,
it washes her away, and Anna begins to change her mind.
"These seconds when I'm shaking leave me shuddering for days," she says,
and I'm not ready for this sort of thing.

But I'm not going to break and I'm not going to worry about it anymore.
I'm not going to bend, and I'm not going to break, and I'm not going to worry about it anymore.
It seems like I should say, "As long as this is love..."
But it's not all that easy, so maybe I should
snap her up in a butterfly net, pin her down on a photograph album.
I am not worried, I've done this sort of thing before.
But then I start to think about the consequences,
because I don't get no sleep in a quiet room and...

The time when kindness falls like rain,
it washes me away, and Anna begins to change my mind.
And everytime she sneezes I believe it's love, and
oh Lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing.

She's talking in her sleep.
It's keeping me awake, and Anna begins to toss and turn.
And every word is nonsense but I understand, and
oh Lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing.

Her kindness bangs a gong.
It's moving me along, and Anna begins to fade away.
It's chasing me away. She disappears, and
oh Lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing...

---

Whiskey Lullaby

Brad Paisley (featuring Alison Krauss)

She put him out like the burnin' end of a midnight cigarette.
She broke his heart he spent his whole life trying to forget.
We watched him drink his pain away a little at a time.
But he never could get drunk enough to get her off his mind...

...until the night he put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger,
and finally drank away her memory.
Life is short but this time it was bigger
than the strength he had to get up off his knees.
We found him with his face down in the pillow
with a note that said 'I'll love her till I die.'
And when we buried him beneath the willow,
the angels sang a whiskey lullaby.

The rumors flew but nobody know how much she blamed herself.
For years and years she tried to hide the whiskey on her breath.
She finally drank her pain away a little at a time,
but she never could get drunk enough to get him off her mind...

...until the night she put that bottle to her head and pulled the trigger,
and finally drank away his memory.
Life is short but this time it was bigger
than the strength she had to get up off her knees.
We found her with her face down in the pillow
clinging to his picture for dear life.
We laid her next to him beneath the willow
while the angels sang a whiskey lullaby.

---

All By Myself

Eric Carmen

When I was young I never needed anyone,
and making love was just for fun.
Those days are gone

Living alone, I think of all the friends I’ve known.
But when I dial the telephone,
nobody’s home...

All by myself,
don’t wanna be all by myself anymore.
All by myself, don’t wanna live all by myself anymore.

Hard to be sure, some times I feel so insecure,
and love so distant and obscure,
remains the cure...

---

Nobody Knows

The Tony Rich Project

I pretended I'm glad you went away.
These four walls closin' more every day,
and I'm dying inside, and nobody knows it but me.
Like a clown I put on a show.
The pain is real even if nobody knows,
and I'm cryin' inside, and nobody knows it but me.

Why didn't I say the things I needed to say?
How could I let my angel get away?
Now my world is just a tumblin' down.
I can say it so clearly, but you're nowhere around.

The nights are lonely, the days are so sad,
and I just keep thinkin' about the love that we had.
And I'm missin' you, and nobody knows it but me.

I carry a smile when I'm broken in two,
and I'm nobody without someone like you.
I'm tremblin' inside and nobody knows it but me.
I lie awake it's a quarter past three.
I'm screamin' at night as if I thought you'd hear me.
Yeah my heart is calling you, and nobody knows it but me.

How blue can I get?
You could ask my heart.
But like a jigsaw puzzle it's been torn all apart.
A million words couldn't say just how I feel.
A million years from now you know I'll be lovin' you still.

The nights are lonely, the days are so sad,
and I just keep thinkin' about the love that we had.
And I'm missin' you, and nobody knows it but me.

Tomorrow mornin' I'm hittin' the dusty road.
Gonna find you wherever, ever you might go.
I'm gonna unload my heart and hope you come back to me,
said when the nights are lonely...

The nights are lonely, the days are so sad,
and I just keep thinkin' about the love that we had.
And I'm missin' you, and nobody knows it but me.

---

Probably Wouldn't Be This Way

LeAnn Rimes

Got a date a week from Friday with a preacher's son.
Everybody says he's crazy, I'll have to see.

I finally moved to Jackson when the summer came.
I won't have to pay that boy to rake my leaves.
I'm probably going on and on.
It seems I'm doing more of that these days.

I probably wouldn't be this way.
I probably wouldn't hurt so bad
I never pictured every minute without you in it.
Oh you left so fast.
Sometimes I see you standing there.
Sometimes it's like I'm losing touch.
Somtimes I feel that I'm so lucky to have had the chance to love this much.
God gave me a moment's grace,
beause if I'd never seen your face,
I probably wouldn't be this way.

Mama says that I just shouldn't speak to you.
Susan says that I should just move on.
You oughta see the way these people look at me.
When they see me round here talking to this stone.
Everybody thinks I've lost my mind.
But I just take it day by day.

---

He Stopped Loving Her Today

George Jones

He said "I'll love you till I die".
She told him "You'll forget in time".
As the years went slowly by,
she still preyed upon his mind.

He kept her picture on his wall,
went half-crazy now and then.
He still loved her through it all,
hoping she'd come back again.

Kept some letters by his bed
dated nineteen sixty-two.
He had underlined in red
every single "I love you".

I went to see him just today,
but I didn't see no tears.
All dressed up to go away, first time
I'd seen him smile in years.

He stopped loving her today.
They placed a wreath upon his door.
And soon they'll carry him away.
He stopped loving her today.

You know, she came to see him one last time.
And we all wondered if she would.
And it kept runnin' through my mind,
"This time he's over her for good."

He stopped loving her today.
They placed a wreath upon his door.
And soon they'll carry him away.
He stopped loving her today.

---

Creep

Radiohead

When you were here before, couldn't look you in the eye.
You're just like an angel, your skin makes me cry.
You float like a feather in a beautiful world.
I wish I was special.
You're so f***ing special.

But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo.
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here.

I don't care if it hurts, I wanna have control.
I want a perfect body, I want a perfect soul.
I want you to notice, when I'm not around.
You're so f***ing special.
I wish I was special.

She's running out the door...
She's running out, she runs, runs, runs, runs...she runs...

Whatever makes you happy.
Whatever you want.
You're so f***ing special.
I wish I was special.
But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo.
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here.
I don't belong here.

---

Selfless, Cold, and Composed

Ben Folds Five

I said what you wanted to hear and what I wanted to say,
so I will take it back.
Are all the dishes intact?
Let them be broken...

It's easy to be easy and free,
when it doesn't mean anything.
You remain selfless, cold, and composed.

You've done me no favor to call and be nice.
Telling me I can take anything I like.
You don't owe me to be so polite.
You've done no wrong.
You've done no wrong.
Get out of my sight.

Come on baby, now throw me a right to the chin.
Don't just stare like you never cared, I know you did.
You just smiled like a bank teller,
telling me blankly, "Have a nice life"...

Come on baby, throw me a right to the chin.
Just one sign that could show me that you give a shit.
But you just smile politely and I grow weaker and I...

...said what you wanted to hear, and what I wanted to say,
so I will take it back.

It's easy to be easy and free,
when it doesn't mean anything.
You can take anything, so selfless, cold, and composed...

---

I Believe

Diamond Rio

Every now and then soft as breath upon my skin,
I feel you come back again,
and it’s like you haven’t been gone a moment from my side.
Like the tears were never cried,
like the hands of time are holding you and me,
and with all my heart I’m sure we’re closer than we ever were.
I don’t have to hear or see, I’ve got all the proof I need.
There are more than angels watching over me, I believe...

That when you die your life goes on it doesn’t end here when you’re gone.
Every soul is filled with light, it never ends and if I’m right.
Our love can even reach across eternity, I believe...

Forever, you’re a part of me, forever, in the heart of me,
and I’ll hold you even longer if I can.
The people who don’t see the most say that I believe in ghosts.
And if that makes me crazy, then I am because I believe...

---

Freshmen

The Verve Pipe

When I was young I knew everything.
She a punk who rarely ever took advice.
Now I'm guilt stricken, sobbing with my head on the floor.
Stop a baby's breath and a shoe full of rice.

I can't be held responsible.
She was touching her face.
I won't be held responsible.
She fell in love in the first place.

For the life of me I cannot remember what made us think that we were wise and we'd never compromise.
For the life of me I cannot believe we'd ever die for these sins.
We were merely freshmen.

My best friend took a week's vacation to forget her.
His girl took a weeks's worth of valium and slept.
And now he's guilt stricken sobbing with his head on the floor.
Thinks about her now and how he never really wept he says,

"I can't be held responsible.
She was touching her face.
I won't be held responsible.
She fell in love in the first place."

We've tried to wash our hands of all this.
We never talk of our lacking relationships,
and how we're guilt stricken sobbing with our heads on the floor.
We fell through the ice when we tried not to slip, we'd say,

"I can't be held responsible.
She was touching her face.
And I won't be held responsible.
She fell in love in the first place."

---

The Heart of the Matter

Don Henley

I got the call today, I didn't wanna hear,
but I knew that it would come.
An old, true friend of ours was talking on the phone,
she said you 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 those voices outside love's open door?
Make us throw off our contentment,
and beg for something more.

I'm 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, I'm learning again.

I've 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 it's about forgiveness...
even if you don't love me anymore.

These times are so uncertain.
There's a yearning undefined,
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,
they're the very things we kill, I guess.
Pride and competition cannot fill these empty arms.
And the work I put between us doesn't keep me warm.

I'm 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, I'm learning again.

I've been trying to get down to the heart of the matter,
but everything changes and my friends seem to scatter.
But I think it's about forgiveness...
even if you don't love me anymore.

There are people in your life who've come and gone.
They let you down and hurt your pride.
Better put it all behind you. Life goes on.
You keep carrying that anger, it'll eat you up inside.

I've been trying to get down to the heart of the matter,
because the flesh will get weak and the ashes will scatter.
So I'm thinking about forgiveness...
even if you don't love me...

---

February Stars

Foo Fighters

I'm hanging on here until I'm gone.
I'm right where I belong just hanging on.
Even though I watched you come and go,
how was I to know you'd steal the show?

One day I'll have enough to gamble.
I'll wait to hear your final call and bet it all.

I'm hanging on here until I'm gone.
I'm right where I belong just hanging on.
Even though I pass this time alone,
somewhere so unknown, it heals the soul.

You ask for walls, I'll build them higher.
We'll lie in shadows of them all.
I'd stand but they're much too tall, and I fall.

February stars floating in the dark. Temporary scars, February stars...

---

Alone Again (Naturally)

Gilbert O'Sullivan

In a little while from now, if I'm not feeling any less sour.
I promised myself, to treat myself and visit a nearby tower.
And climbing to the top would throw myself off,
in an effort to, make clear to whoever.
What it's like when your shattered left standing in a lurch,
in a church with people saying,
"My God, that's tough, she stood him up, no point in us remaining."
I may as well go home as I did on my own, alone again, naturally.

To think that only yesterday I was cheerful, bright and gay.
Looking forward to, and who wouldn’t do the role I was about to play.
But as if to knock me down, reality came around,
and without so much as a mere touch, cut me into little pieces.
Leaving me to doubt, all about God and His mercy.
Oh, if He really does exist, why did He desert me?
And in my hour of need, I truely am, indeed alone again, naturally.

It seems to me that there are more hearts broken in the world that can’t be mended.
Left unattended, what do we do? What do we do?

Now looking back over the years and whatever else that appears.
I remember I cried when my father died never wishing to hide the tears.
At sixty-five years old, my mother, God rest her soul
couldn’t understand why the only man she had ever loved had been taken.
Leaving her to start, with a heart so badly broken, Despite encouragement from me no words were ever spoken.
And when she passed away, I cried and cried all day alone again, naturally.
Alone again, naturally.

---

Do You Remember?

Phil Collins

We never talked about it, but I hear the blame was mine.
I'd call you up to say I'm sorry, but I wouldn't want to waste your time.

Because I love you, but I can't take any more.
There's a look I can't describe in your eyes.
Yes we could try, like we tried before,
when you kept on telling me those lies...

Do you remember?

There seemed no way to make up because it seemed your mind was set.
And the way you looked it told me, It's a look I know I'll never forget.

You could've come over to my side.
You could've let me know.
You could've tried to see the difference between us,
but it seemed too far for you to go.

Through all of my life in spite of all the pain.
You know people are funny sometimes because they just can't wait
to get hurt again...

There are things we won't recall, feelings we'll never find.
It's taken so long to see it because we never seemed to have the time.

There was always something more important to do,
more important to say.
But "I love you" wasn't one of those things,
and now it's too late...

---

Everybody Hurts

R.E.M.

When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone.
When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on.
Don't let yourself go, everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes.

Sometimes everything is wrong.
Now it's time to sing along.
When your day is night alone, hold on.
If you feel like letting go, hold on...

When you think you've had too much of this life, well hang on.

Everybody hurts. Take comfort in your friends.
Everybody hurts. don't throw your hand. Don't throw your hand.

If you feel like you're alone, no, no, no, you are not alone.
If you're on your own in this life, the days and nights are long
When you think you've had too much of this life to hang on.

Well, everybody hurts sometimes.
Everybody cries, and everybody hurts sometimes.
And everybody hurts sometimes, so hold on, hold on.

Everybody hurts, you are not alone...

---

New Favorite

Alison Kraus

New favorite.
They all say it.
I'll say it, too.
You've got a new favorite.

Your old stand by.
Your right hand guy.
Is nothing new?
You've got a new favorite.

Why do you lie about love?
I saw the light go out.

And should I go?
You won't say so.
I know it's true.
I know you've got a new favorite.
I know you've got a new favorite.
You've got a new favorite.

---

Someone in Heaven

Reverened Horton Heat

There's someone in heaven to talk with today.
Someone that know's just the right thing to say.
You lived a full life, you fought the good fight.
There's someone in heaven to talk with tonight.

He'll look the same, then will so will,
just as you did when your marriage was new.
You'll roll over laughing bout a silly ol fight.
There's someone in heaven to talk with tonight.

You've got someone in heaven to talk with today.
Someone who knows just the right thing to say.
So, walk up the stairs to his bright shining light.
There's someone in heaven to talk with tonight.

You used to hold hands and ride round the park.
Stop by the school yard where maybe you'd spark.
So take up the wire sing us a song.
We'll be there someday and we'll sing along.

You've got someone in heaven to talk with today.
Someone who knows just the right thing to say.
So, walk up the stairs to his bright shining light.
There's someone in heaven to talk with tonight.

---

Say Goodnight, Not Goodbye

Chantal Kreviazuk

Say goodnight, not goodbye.
You will never leave my heart behind.
Like the path, of a star,
I'll be anywhere you are.

In the sparke that lies beneath the coals...
In the secret place inside your soul.
Keep my life in your eyes.
Say goodnight, not goodbye.

Don't you fear when you dream.
Waking up is never what it seems.
Like a jewel buried deep...
Like a promise meant to keep.

You are everything you ought to be.
So just let your heart reach out to me.
I'll be right by your side.
Say goodnight, not goodbye.

You are everything you ought to be.
So just let your heart reach out to me.
Keep my life in your eyes.
Say goodnight, not goodbye...

---

It Must've Been Love (But It's Over Now)

Roxette

Lay a whisper on my pillow. Leave the winter on the ground.
I wake up lonely. There's air of silence in the bedroom and all around.
Touch me now.
I close my eyes and dream away...

It must have been love, but it's over now.
It must have been good, but I lost it somehow.
It must have been love, but it's over now.
From the moment we touched 'til the time had run out...

Make-believing we're together that I'm sheltered by your heart.
But in and outside I've turned to water like a teardrop in your palm.
And it's a hard.
Christmas day, I dream away...

It must have been love, but it's over now.
It was all that I wanted, now I'm living without.
It must have been love, but it's over now.
It's where the water flows, it's where the wind blows...

---

All or Nothing

O-Town

I know when he's been on your mind,
that distant look is in your eyes.
I thought with time you'd realized its over.
It's not the way I choose to live,
and something, somewhere's got to give.
As sharing this relationship gets older,
you know I'd fight for you.
But how can I fight someone who isn't even there?
I've had the rest of you,
now I want the best of you.
I don't care if that's not fair.

Because I want it all or nothing at all.
There's nowhere left to fall when you've reached the bottom.
It's now or never.
Is it all or are we just friends?
Is this how it ends, with a simple telephone call?
You leave me here with nothing at all.

There are times it seems to me
I'm sharing you in memories.
I feel it in my heart, but I don't show it.
And then there's times you look at me as though I'm all that you can see.
Those times I don't believe it's right, I know it.
Don't make me promises.
You never did know how to keep them well.
I've had the rest of you, now I want the best of you.
It's time to show and tell.

Because you and I could lose it all if you've got no more room.
No room inside for me in your life...

---

Turn My Head

Live

Anyone, caught in your mystery...
Keep it angry, keep it whispy.
I've fallen down drunk on your juices.

Turn my head.
Turn my head.
It's aimed at you.

Funky temple.
Your dress is torn to shreds.
Your eyes are crazy.
I bowed to save my head.
I can't forget, but I can't remember you...

Oh no, we came to love you all day.
These bastards are leaving, somebody's got to stay.
Whatever we called you, it's just a name...
Just a name...

---

Absence of the Heart

Deana Carter

I write you letters, but I don't send them.
I just can't figure out how to end them.
I try to reach you, you're right beside me.
There's something missin' and we can't deny that...

We live together separately.
We don't want to fall apart.
But every time we kiss there's an emptiness...
An absence of the heart...

How did we lose it, why did this happen?
When did we take it all for granted?
We sit in silence, inside we're crying.
How can we keep our love from dying?

---

Mendocina County Line

Willie Nelson and Lee Ann Womack

Counted the stars on th 4th of July wishing we were rockets bursting in the sky.
Talking about redemption and leaving things behind as the sun sank west of the Mendocino County Line.
Scarce as as Monday morning feeling washed away, I orchastrated paradise, couldn't make you stay.
You dance with the horses through the sands of time as the sun sinks west of the Mendocino County Line.

I have these pictures and I keep these photographs to remind me of a time.
These pictures and these photographs let me know I'm doing fine.
I use to make you happy once upon a time.
But the sun sank west of the Mendocino County Line.

The two of us together felt nothing but right feeling we're immortal every Friday night.
Lost in our convictions, lips stained with wine as the sun sank west of the Mendocino County Line.

I dont talk to you too much these days.
I just thank the Lord pictures don't fade.
I spent time with an angel just passing through.
Now all that's left is this image of you...

---

More than This

Norah Jones

I could feel at the time there was no way of knowing.
Fallen leaves in the night, who can say where they´re blowing?
As free as the wind and hopefully learning.
Why the sea on the tide has no way of turning...

More than this there is nothing.
Oh more than this, you tell me one thing.
More than this you know there's nothing...

It was fun for a while, there was no way of knowing.
Like a dream in the night, who can say where we´re going?
No care in the world and maybe I´m learning.
Why the sea on the tide, it has no way of turning...

---

Peace, Love, and Understanding

Elvis Costello

As I walk through this wicked world
searching for light in the darkness of insanity.
I ask myself, "Is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery?"

And each time I feel like this inside,
there's one thing I wanna know.
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?

And as I walked on through troubled times
my spirit gets so downhearted sometimes.
So where are the strong, and who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony, sweet harmony?

'Cause each time I feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry.
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?

---

Hurt

Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor)

I hurt myself today.
To see if I still feel, I focus on the pain, the only thing that's real.
The needle tears a hole, the old familiar sting.
Try to kill it all away, but I remember everything.

What have I become?
My sweetest friend.
Everyone I know goes away in the end.
You could have it all, my empire of dirt.
I will let you down, I will make you hurt.

I wear this crown of shit upon my liar's chair.
Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair.
Beneath the stain of time the feeling disappears.
You are someone else, I am still right here.

What have I become?
My sweetest friend.
Everyone I know goes away in the end.
You could have it all, my empire of dirt.
I will let you down, I will make you hurt.

If I could start again a million miles away...
I would keep myself, I would find a way...

---

River

Joni Mitchell

---

One

U2

Is it getting better or do you feel the same?
Will it make it easier on you now? You got someone to blame.
You say one love, one life, when it's one need in the night. One love. We get to share it.
Leaves you baby if you don't care for it.

Did I disappoint you or leave a bad taste in your mouth?
You act like you never had love and you want me to go without.
Well it's too late tonight to drag the past out into the light.
We're one, but we're not the same.
We get to carry each other, carry each other...

Have you come here for forgiveness?
Have you come to raise the dead?
Have you come here to play Jesus to the lepers in your head?

Did I ask too much, more than a lot.
You gave me nothing, now it's all I got.
We're one, but we're not the same.
Well we hurt each other, then we do it again.

You say, "love is a temple, love a higher law...
Love is a temple, love the higher law..."
You ask me to enter but then you make me crawl,
and I can't be holding on to what you got when all you got is hurt.

One love.
One blood.
One life.
You got to do what you should.
One life,
with each other.
Sisters.
Brothers.
One life,
but we're not the same.
We get to carry each other, carry each other...

---

Secretly

Skunk Anansie

I've been biding my time.
Been so subtly kind.
I got to think so selfishly because you're the face inside of me.

I've been biding my days.
You see evidently it pays.
I've been a friend with unbiased views, then secretly lust after you.

So now he's gone rusty, you're bored and bemused.

You wanna do someone else, so you should be by yourself...
instead of here with me...secretly...

Trying hard to think pure.
Bloody hard when I'm raw.
You talking out so sexually about boys and girls and your friggin' dreams.

So now you feel lusty, you're hot and confused.

So now you've been busted, you're caught feeling used.

---

Sometime's Love Just Ain't Enough

Patty Smyth and Don Henley

Now I don't wanna lose you, but I don't wanna use you just to have somebody by my side.
And I don't wanna hate you, I don't wanna take you, but I don't wanna be the one to cry.
That don't really matter to anyone, anymore.
But like a fool I keep losing my place and I keep seeing you walk through that door.

But there's a danger in loving somebody too much.
And it's sad when you know its your heart you can't trust.
There's a reason why people don't stay where they are.
Baby, sometimes love just ain't enough.

Now I could never change you and I don't wanna blame you.
Baby you don't have to take the fault.
Yes I may have hurt you, but I did not desert you.
Maybe I just wanna have it all.
It makes a sound like thunder, it makes me feel like rain.
And like a fool who will never see the truth,
I keep thinking something's gonna change.

And there's no way home when it's late at night and you're all alone.
Are there things that you wanted to say?
Do you feel me beside you in your bed there beside you where I used to lay?

---

I Can't Make You Love Me

Bonnie Rait

Turn down the lights, turn down the bed.
Turn down these voices inside my head.
Lay down with me, tell me no lies.
Just hold me close, don't patronize...don't patronize me...
I can't make you love me if you don't.
You can't make your heart feel something it won't.
Here in the dark, in these final hours...
I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power.
But you won't, no you won't...
'Cause I can't make you love me, if you don't...

I'll close my eyes, then I won't see...
the love you don't feel when you're holding me.
Morning will come and I'll do what's right.
Just give me till then to give up this fight...
and I will give up this fight...

---

Colorblind

Counting Crows

I am colorblind.
Coffee black and egg white.
Pull me out from inside.
I am ready, I am ready, I am ready...

I am taffy stuck and tongue tied.
Stutter shook and uptight.
Pull me out from inside.
I am ready, I am ready, I am ready, I am fine...

I am covered in skin.
No one gets to come in.
Pull me out from inside.
I am folded and unfolded and unfolding...

I am colorblind.
Coffee black and egg white.
Pull me out from inside.
I am ready, I am ready, I am ready, I am fine...

---

Without Me Around

George Strait

You said she asked if you knew where she could get some old boxes
because she was going to pack up everything she owned.
Where the closest U-Haul place is and what the cost was.
This time tomorrow she'll be gone.

She says she knows of a place to sell her ring for a good price.
That and what she saved will get her by.
If she can find a job in that little town that she's headed to
to start over with her life.

Without me around, taking up her time and tying her down...
Without me in the way she'll be free to enjoy the freedom you say she's found.
Without me around...

Said she didn't know what she was getting into when we got married.
But she knows damn well what she's getting out of.
Said she's had enough of a man who's never there when she needs him.
She'll be better off in the long run.

---

Hole in My Soul

Aerosmith

I'm down a one way street with a one night stand,
with a one track mind out in no man's land.
The punishment sometimes don't seem to fit the crime.
Yeah, there's a hole in my soul, but one thing I've learned...
For every love letter written, there's another one burned.
So you tell me how it's gonna be this time.

Is it over?
Is it over, because I'm blowin' out the flame.

Take a walk outside your mind.
Tell me how it feels to be the one who turns the knife inside of me.
Take a look and you will find there's nothing there, girl.
Yeah I swear, I'm telling you, girl yeah because...

There's a hole in my soul that's been killing me forever.
It's a place where a garden never grows.
There's a hole in my soul, yeah, I should have known better,
because your love's like a thorn without a rose...

I'm as dry as a seven year drought, I got dust for tears, yeah I'm all tapped out.
Sometimes I feel broken and can't get fixed.
I know there's been all kinds of shoes underneath your bed.
Now I sleep with my boots on but you're still in my head.
And something tells me this time I'm down to my last licks...

---

Beautiful Girl

Pete Droge & The Sinners

I woke up near Rittenhouse Square.
There was noise in the hall; snow was flowing in the air.
And I could see just then the flashing spark...
of the match to my first smoke.

Some houses are built to last.
It's the couple inside that change too fast.
I can see their faces looking through the glass.
They're not where they belong.

I want to stay with you, baby.
Won't you let me stay?
You're a Beautiful Girl.
I'm right where I belong, baby.
I'm here with you.
You're a Beautiful Girl.

I see your feet at the edge of the bed...
while an old love song is creeping into your head.
And as your eyes just closed I could only guess...
if you were dreaming of me again.

Stained glass casts a flickering light...
with the curtains closed I can't tell if it's night.
But I know for sure that this sure feels right...
with you here between my arms.

And I hope that you can take me when I'm going out of my head.
And I hope that you will keep me keep me warm in your bed.

---

Here Without You

3 Doors Down

A hundred days have made me older since the last time that I saw your pretty face.
A thousand lies have me colder and I dont think I can look at this the same.
But all the miles that separate...
They disappear now when I'm dreaming of your face.

I'm here without you baby, but your still on my lonely mind.
I think about you baby, and I dream about you all the time.
I'm here without you baby, but your still with me in my dreams.
And tonight, there's only you and me.

The miles just keep rolling, as the people leave their way to say hello.
I've heard this life is overrated, but I hope that it gets better as we go.

Everything I know and anywhere I go...
It gets hard but it won't take away my love.
And when the last one falls, when its all said and done...
It gets hard but it won't take away my love.

---

The Luckiest

Ben Folds

I don't get many things right the first time.
In fact, I am told that a lot.
Now I know all the wrong turns, the stumbles and falls
brought me here.
And where was I before the day that I first saw your lovely face?
Now I see it everyday And I know that I am the luckiest...

What if I'd been born fifty years before you
in a house on a street where you lived?
Maybe I'd be outside as you passed on your bike.
Would I know?
And in a white sea of eyes I see one pair that I recognize.
And I know that I am the luckiest.

I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.

Next door there's an old man who lived to his nineties,
and one day passed away in his sleep.
And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days,
and passed away.
I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.
I know that I am the luckiest...

---

The Song Remembers When

Trisha Yearwood

I was standing at the counter.
I was waiting for the change
when I heard that old familiar music start.
It was like a lighted match
had been tossed into my soul.
It was like a dam had broken in my heart.

After taking every detour,
getting lost and losing track,
so that even if I wanted
I could not find my way back.
After driving out the memory
of the way things might have been...
After I'd forgotten all about us,
the song remembers when.

We were rolling through the Rockies.
We were up above the clouds
when a station out of Jackson played that song.
And it seemed to fit the moment,
and the moment seemed to freeze
when we turned the music up and sang along.

And there was a God in Heaven,
and the world made perfect sense.
We were young and were in love,
and we were easy to convince.
We were headed straight for Eden,
it was just around the bend.
And though I have forgotten all about it,
the song remembers when.

I guess something must have happened,
and we must have said goodbye.
And my heart must have been broken,
though I can't recall just why.
The song remembers when.

Well, for all the miles between us,
and for all the time that's passed,
you would think I haven't gotten very far.
And I hope my hasty heart
will forgive me just this once
if I stop to wonder how on Earth you are.

But that's just a lot of water
underneath a bridge I burned.
And there's no use in backtracking
around corners I have turned.
Still I guess some things we bury
are just bound to rise again.
For even if the whole world has forgotten,
the song remembers when...

---

My Immortal

Evanesence

I'm so tired of being here
suppressed by all my childish fears.
And if you have to leave,
I wish that you would just leave
'cause your presence still lingers here,
and it won't leave me alone.

These wounds won't seem to heal.
This pain is just too real.
There's just too much that time cannot erase...

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears.
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears.
I held your hand through all of these years.
But you still have all of me.

You used to captivate me
by your resonating light.
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind.
Your face it haunts
my once pleasant dreams.
Your voice, it chased away
all the sanity in me.

I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone.
But though you're still with me,
I've been alone all along...

---

6th Avenue Heartache

The Wallflowers

Sirens ring, the shots ring out.
A stranger cries screams out loud.
I had my world strapped against my back.
I held my hands, never knew how to act...

And the same black line that was drawn on you was drawn on me.
And now it's drawn me in 6th avenue heartache.

Below me was a homeless man
singin' songs I knew complete
on the steps alone, his guitar in hand.
It's fifty years, stood where he stands.

Now walkin' home on those streets.
The river winds move my feet.
Subway steam, like silhouettes in dreams...
They stood by me, just like moonbeams.

Look out the window, down upon that street.
And gone like a midnight where was that man?
But I see his six strings laid against that wall.
And all his things, they all look so small.
I got my fingers crossed on a shooting star...
just like me just moved on.

---

After the Thrill is Gone

The Eagles

Same dances in the same old shoes.
Some habits that you just can't lose.
There's no telling what a man might lose...
after the thrill is gone...

The flame rises but it soon descends.
Empty pages and a frozen pen.
You're not quite lovers and you're not quite friends...
after the thrill is gone...

What can you do when your dreams come true,
and it's not quite like you planned?
What have you done to be losing the one?
You held it so tight in your hand...

Time passes and you must move on.
Half the distance takes you twice as long.
So you keep on singing for the sake of the song...
after the thrill is gone...

You're afraid you might fall out of fashion,
and you're feeling cold and small.
Any kind of love without passion...
that ain't no kind of lovin' at all.

---

Exit Music (For a Film)

Radiohead

Wake... from your sleep,
the drying of your tears.
Today...we escape...we escape.

Pack and get dressed...
before your father hears us.
Before...all hell breaks loose.

Breathe...keep breathing.
Don't lose...your nerve.
Breathe...keep breathing.
I can't do this...alone.

Sing us a song...
a song to keep us warm.
There's such a chill...such a chill.

You can laugh a spineless laugh.
We hope that your rules and wisdom choke you.
Now we are one in everlasting peace.

We hope that you choke...that you choke...

---

Something I Can Never Have

Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor)

I still recall the taste of your tears echoing your voice just like the ringing in my ears.
My favorite dreams of you still wash ashore scraping through my head 'till I don't want to sleep anymore.

You'll make this all go away.
You'll make this all go away.
I'm down to just one thing, and I'm starting to scare myself.
You'll make this all go away.
You'll you make this all go way.
I just want something...I just want something I can never have...

You always were the one to show me how.
Back then I couldn't do the things that I can do now.
This is slowly take me apart.
Grey would be the color if I had a heart.

In this place it seems like such a shame.
Though it all looks different now, I know it's still the same.
Everywhere I look you're all I see.
Just a fading f*%king reminder of who I used to be...

---

Amazing

Aerosmith

I kept the right ones out and let the wrong ones in.
Had an angel of mercy to see me through all my sins.
There were times in my life when I was goin' insane...
...tryin' to walk through the pain...

And when I lost my grip and I hit the floor...
Yeah, I thought I could leave, but couldn't get out the door.
I was so sick n' tired of livin' a lie.
I was wishing that I would die.

It's amazing...
With the blink of an eye, you finally see the light.
It's amazing...
...that when the moment arrives, you know you'll be alright.
It's amazing, and I'm saying a prayer for the desperate hearts tonight...

That one last shot- a Permanent Vacation...
...and a how high can you fly with broken wings?
Life's a journey - not a destination...
...and I just can't tell just what tomorrow brings.

You have to learn to crawl before you learn to walk.
But I just couldn't listen to all that righteous talk.
I was out on the street just tryin' to survive.
Scratchig to stay alive.

To all of you people out there wherever you are - remember...
The light at the end of the tunnel may be you...goodnight...

---

Split Screen Sadness

John Mayer

And I don’t where you went when you left me but
says here in the water you must be gone by now.
I can tell somehow.

One hand on the trigger of the telephone
wonderin' when the call comes.
Will you say it’s all right? You got your heart right?

Maybe I’ll sleep inside my coat and
wait on your porch ‘til you come back home alright.
I can’t find a fight.
We share the sadness…split screen sadness.

Two wrongs make it all alright tonight…

"All you need is love", is a lie 'cause
we had a love but we still said goodbye.
Now we’re tired battered fighters.

And it stings when it's nobody’s fault cause there's
nothing to blame at the drop of your name.
It’s only the air you took and the breath you left.

So, maybe I’ll sleep inside my coat and
wait on your porch 'til you come back home alright.
I can’t find the fight.
So, I’ll check the weather wherever you are cause I
wanna know if you can see the stars tonight.
It might be my only right.

We share the sadness…
(two wrongs make it all alright tonight)
Split screen sadness…
(two wrongs make it all alright tonight)

I called... because... I just... need to feel you on the line.
Don’t hang up this time.
And I know well it’s me who called it over but
I still wish you'd fought me ‘til your dying day.
Don’t let me get away.

Ca