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Lionheart
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Vincent
~Don Mclean~
Starry starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land
Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now
Starry starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now
For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left inside
On that starry starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you Vincent
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
Starry starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They did not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will
~Don Mclean~
Starry starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land
Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now
Starry starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now
For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left inside
On that starry starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you Vincent
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
Starry starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They did not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will
Lionheart
Not Active
I just found out that my idol; Greg Lake of King Crimson and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer has passed away at age 69.
Take A Pebble
~Greg Lake
Just take a pebble and cast it to the sea,
Then watch the ripples that unfold into me,
My face spill so gently into your eyes,
Disturbing the waters of our lives.
Shreds of our memories are lying on your grass;
Wounded words of laughter are graveyards of the past.
Photographs are grey and torn, scattered in your fields
Letters of your mem'ries are not real.
Sadness on your shoulders like a worn out overcoat
In pockets creased and tattered hang the rags of your hope.
The daybreak is your midnight; the colors have all died.
Disturbing the waters of our lives, of our lives, of our lives, lives,
lives, lives...
Of our lives.
Take A Pebble
~Greg Lake
Just take a pebble and cast it to the sea,
Then watch the ripples that unfold into me,
My face spill so gently into your eyes,
Disturbing the waters of our lives.
Shreds of our memories are lying on your grass;
Wounded words of laughter are graveyards of the past.
Photographs are grey and torn, scattered in your fields
Letters of your mem'ries are not real.
Sadness on your shoulders like a worn out overcoat
In pockets creased and tattered hang the rags of your hope.
The daybreak is your midnight; the colors have all died.
Disturbing the waters of our lives, of our lives, of our lives, lives,
lives, lives...
Of our lives.
Loooove Vincent. Wow! We have the same taste in music - kinda melancholy but moving...
-lemurlibs91-
Bronze Member
I love her stuff anyway, but these songs really get me because they ring so true, particularly about the complexities of abuse in a relationship.
The Glass Child - I'll Never Tell
It's quiet now...
Broken glass and pieces of me on the floor
I hear you now, please don't be angry anymore
I'm staring at that door...
I wear you on my skin, open wounds from every fight, no one can win
You made me doubt my worthiness, believed your sin, murder from within
I'm running now, counting every breath I take
You're right behind, breathing down my neck
What will you do this time? And will I survive?
Then you're slowing down
I say I don't deserve this but now I can't do without
Boy, you can use violence, I will hurt for you
Please just kill this silence
If I only knew, loneliness is worse than being killed by you
Please don't leave me now, don't leave me fallen here to drown
Who am I now?
Can't you see you're all I've got?
I'll take your fists, if you take me too
Secrets hidden well and I will never tell
So don't leave me now
My body's broken, now my heart is too.
The Glass Child - Give Myself Away
Leave, come back again, lock and throw the key out
I can't swallow, you're my prison
I call you my friend
Why do they keep telling me to fight you? They don't know...
Close off feelings, convinced me to believe in you, with all the glory
Sweet desire, you say they will admire me and one day I'll be free
But you won't stop, now I give up, you own me *this bit is a tad close to home!*
I hold my breath cause I dont need it when I'm with you
Just take me, breathe me, I give myself to you
Your ghost lives in my shade
Everywhere I go I hear you whisper, all my secrets
Think I've gone insane
Feeling something pouring in my veins, a ticking louder
I thought you said you'd help me be a better me
So where's the glory?!
Sweet desire, you said they will admire me
But I'm too blind to see
That you won't stop
I throw my hands up, you own me.
The Glass Child - I'll Never Tell
It's quiet now...
Broken glass and pieces of me on the floor
I hear you now, please don't be angry anymore
I'm staring at that door...
I wear you on my skin, open wounds from every fight, no one can win
You made me doubt my worthiness, believed your sin, murder from within
I'm running now, counting every breath I take
You're right behind, breathing down my neck
What will you do this time? And will I survive?
Then you're slowing down
I say I don't deserve this but now I can't do without
Boy, you can use violence, I will hurt for you
Please just kill this silence
If I only knew, loneliness is worse than being killed by you
Please don't leave me now, don't leave me fallen here to drown
Who am I now?
Can't you see you're all I've got?
I'll take your fists, if you take me too
Secrets hidden well and I will never tell
So don't leave me now
My body's broken, now my heart is too.
The Glass Child - Give Myself Away
Leave, come back again, lock and throw the key out
I can't swallow, you're my prison
I call you my friend
Why do they keep telling me to fight you? They don't know...
Close off feelings, convinced me to believe in you, with all the glory
Sweet desire, you say they will admire me and one day I'll be free
But you won't stop, now I give up, you own me *this bit is a tad close to home!*
I hold my breath cause I dont need it when I'm with you
Just take me, breathe me, I give myself to you
Your ghost lives in my shade
Everywhere I go I hear you whisper, all my secrets
Think I've gone insane
Feeling something pouring in my veins, a ticking louder
I thought you said you'd help me be a better me
So where's the glory?!
Sweet desire, you said they will admire me
But I'm too blind to see
That you won't stop
I throw my hands up, you own me.
Lionheart
Not Active
This song was written and composed by Greg Lake and Peter Sinfield
EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER
Closer To Believing
I am closer to believing
Than I ever was before
On the crest of this elation
Must I crash upon the shore
And with the driftwood of acquaintance
Light the fire to love once more
I am wind blown, I am times
To be closer to believing
To be just a breath away
On the death of inspiration
I would buy back yesterday
But there's no crueler illusion
There's no sharper coin to pay
As I reach out it slips away
From the opium of custom
To the ledges of extremes
Don't believe it till you've held it
Life is seldom what it seems
Lay your heart upon the table
And in the shuffling of dreams
Remember who on earth you are
I need me
You need you
We want us
But of course you know I love you
Or what else am I here for
Only you not face to face
But side by side for evermore
And I need to be here with you
For without you what am I
Just another fool out searching
For some heaven in the sky
Take me closer to believing
Take me forward lead me on
Through collision and confusion
While there's life beneath the sun
You are the reason I continue
So near for so long
So close yet so far away
I need me
You need you
We want us to live forever
Don't let the curtain fall
Measure after measure
Of writing on the wall
That burns so brightly
It blinds us all
I need me
You need you
We want us to be together
On Sundays in the rain
Closer than forever
Against or with the grain
To ride the storms of love again
So be closer to believing
Though your world is torn apart
For a moment changes all things
And to end is but to start
And if your journey's unrewarded
May your God lift up your heart
You are windblown but you are mine
EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER
Closer To Believing
I am closer to believing
Than I ever was before
On the crest of this elation
Must I crash upon the shore
And with the driftwood of acquaintance
Light the fire to love once more
I am wind blown, I am times
To be closer to believing
To be just a breath away
On the death of inspiration
I would buy back yesterday
But there's no crueler illusion
There's no sharper coin to pay
As I reach out it slips away
From the opium of custom
To the ledges of extremes
Don't believe it till you've held it
Life is seldom what it seems
Lay your heart upon the table
And in the shuffling of dreams
Remember who on earth you are
I need me
You need you
We want us
But of course you know I love you
Or what else am I here for
Only you not face to face
But side by side for evermore
And I need to be here with you
For without you what am I
Just another fool out searching
For some heaven in the sky
Take me closer to believing
Take me forward lead me on
Through collision and confusion
While there's life beneath the sun
You are the reason I continue
So near for so long
So close yet so far away
I need me
You need you
We want us to live forever
Don't let the curtain fall
Measure after measure
Of writing on the wall
That burns so brightly
It blinds us all
I need me
You need you
We want us to be together
On Sundays in the rain
Closer than forever
Against or with the grain
To ride the storms of love again
So be closer to believing
Though your world is torn apart
For a moment changes all things
And to end is but to start
And if your journey's unrewarded
May your God lift up your heart
You are windblown but you are mine
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Indigo Girls
Watershed
Up on the watershed
Standing at the fork in the road
You can stand there and agonize
Till your agony's your heaviest load
A ghost of someone's tragedy
How recklessly my time has been spent
They say that it's never too late
But you don't, you don't get any younger
Well I better learn how to starve the emptiness
And feed the hunger
Watershed
Up on the watershed
Standing at the fork in the road
You can stand there and agonize
Till your agony's your heaviest load
A ghost of someone's tragedy
How recklessly my time has been spent
They say that it's never too late
But you don't, you don't get any younger
Well I better learn how to starve the emptiness
And feed the hunger
Candleflames
Platinum Member
Imperative Reaction - Side Effect
It's just a side effect, nothing is wrong
Relax and swallow your dose
Just a necessary step on the road
To track and stay in control
Stop alarming yourselves
There's no need for panic
Please remain calm
Your compliance isn't optional
Now, calmly
Line up
Stay down
It's just a side effect, nothing is wrong
Relax and swallow your dose
Just a necessary step on the road
To track and stay in control
Stop alarming yourselves
There's no need for panic
Please remain calm
Your compliance isn't optional
Now, calmly
Line up
Stay down
-lemurlibs91-
Bronze Member
Evanescence - Snow White Queen
Stoplight, lock the door. Don't look back.
Undress in the dark, and hide from you, all of you.
You'll never know the way your words have haunted me.
I can't believe you'd ask these things of me.
You don't know me, now or ever.
Wake up in a dream, frozen in fear.
All your hands on me. I can't scream, I can't scream.
I can't escape the twisted way you think of me.
I feel you in my dreams and I don't sleep, I don't sleep.
You say "You belong to me, my snow white queen.
There's nowhere to run, so let's just get it over.
Soon I know you'll see, you're just like me.
Don't scream anymore my love, 'cause all I want is you."
I can't save your life,
Though nothing I bleed for is more tormenting.
I'm losing my mind and you just stand there and stare as my world divides. << this line always gets me
The song below really resonates for me with PTSD/trauma. It has always had significance to me as it struck a chord when I began hearing voices as a teenager which later became intertwined with PTSD.
Evanescence - Whisper
Catch me as I fall, say you're here and it's all over now
Speaking to the atmosphere, no one's here and I fall into myself
This truth drives me into madness
I know I can stop the pain if I will it all away
Don't turn away, don't give into the pain
Don't try to hide, though they're screaming your name
Don't close your eyes, God knows what lies behind them
Don't turn out the light. Never sleep, never die.
I'm frightened by what I see
But somehow I know that there's much more to come
Immobilized by my fear and soon to be blinded by tears
I can stop the pain if I will it all away, if i will it all away
Fallen angels at my feet, whispered voices at my ear
Death before my eyes, lying next to me I fear
She beckons me, shall I give in?
Stoplight, lock the door. Don't look back.
Undress in the dark, and hide from you, all of you.
You'll never know the way your words have haunted me.
I can't believe you'd ask these things of me.
You don't know me, now or ever.
Wake up in a dream, frozen in fear.
All your hands on me. I can't scream, I can't scream.
I can't escape the twisted way you think of me.
I feel you in my dreams and I don't sleep, I don't sleep.
You say "You belong to me, my snow white queen.
There's nowhere to run, so let's just get it over.
Soon I know you'll see, you're just like me.
Don't scream anymore my love, 'cause all I want is you."
I can't save your life,
Though nothing I bleed for is more tormenting.
I'm losing my mind and you just stand there and stare as my world divides. << this line always gets me
The song below really resonates for me with PTSD/trauma. It has always had significance to me as it struck a chord when I began hearing voices as a teenager which later became intertwined with PTSD.
Evanescence - Whisper
Catch me as I fall, say you're here and it's all over now
Speaking to the atmosphere, no one's here and I fall into myself
This truth drives me into madness
I know I can stop the pain if I will it all away
Don't turn away, don't give into the pain
Don't try to hide, though they're screaming your name
Don't close your eyes, God knows what lies behind them
Don't turn out the light. Never sleep, never die.
I'm frightened by what I see
But somehow I know that there's much more to come
Immobilized by my fear and soon to be blinded by tears
I can stop the pain if I will it all away, if i will it all away
Fallen angels at my feet, whispered voices at my ear
Death before my eyes, lying next to me I fear
She beckons me, shall I give in?
amosmorris
Silver Member
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2SPNT1lwBg&feature=youtu.be
Mad respect for Patti Smith getting overwhelmed singing "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall" at the Nobel ceremony...admitting she's so nervous...starting over...and then just crushing it with such feeling and pain....wow...
Mad respect for Patti Smith getting overwhelmed singing "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall" at the Nobel ceremony...admitting she's so nervous...starting over...and then just crushing it with such feeling and pain....wow...
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