This is my new favorite song. There is something about starting over ‘where no one knows your name’ that makes me love this song. Well, it’s been my life for ten years…..
One of my favorite Artists - Alison Krauss singing Gravity
I left home when I was seventeen, I just grew tired of falling down, And I’m sure I was told, the allure of the road, Would be all I found. And all the answers that I started with turned out questions in the end, So years roll on by, And just like the sky, The road never ends.
And the people who love me still ask me, When are you coming back to town, And I answer quite frankly, When they stop building roads, And all God needs is gravity to hold me down.
I was listening to Vienna Waits for You by Billy Joel as I was running up a hill that always kicks my butt and forces me to to walk. But a few lines in this song really kept me going and I didn’t walk up that hill today.
But you know that when the truth is told, that you can get what you want or you can just get old …. You’ve got your passion, you’ve got your pride but don’t you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true
I got off my Kenny Chesney kick and now I’m listening to Jackson Browne. His music hits me at so many different times in my life: when I’m happy, sad, content, miserable. Today, The Fuse seemed to fit in perfectly with my life today. Here’s the ones that do:
And the years that I spent lost in the mystery
Fall away leaving only the sound of the drum
Like a part of me
It speaks to the heart of me
Forget what life used to be
You are what you choose to be
Its whatever it is you see
That life will become-*
Whatever it is you might think you have
You have nothing to lose
Through every dead and living thing
Time runs like a fuse
And the fuse is burning
And the earth is turning
I’ve been listening to a Melissa Ethridge CD in my car. When this song came on #10, I remember listening to it over and over on my drive to Colorado. Some times I think it’s a justification for my actions but somehow it soothes my inner turmoil:
Don’t be afraid
Close your eyes
Lay it all down
Don’t you cry
Can’t you see I’m going
Where I can see the sun rise
I’ve been talking to my angel
And he said that it’s alright
I’ve always had to run
I don’t know just why
Desire slowly smoking
Under the midwest sky
There’s something waiting out there
That says I’ve got to try
I’ve been talking to my angel
And he said that it’s alright
This town thinks I’m crazy
They just think I’m strange
Sometimes they want to own me
Sometimes they wish I’d change
But I can feel the thunder
Underneath my feet
I sold my soul for freedom
It’s lonely but it’s sweet
I just heard an interesting collaboration from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. I really like the sound and lyrics:
Caught out running With just a little too much to hide Maybe baby Everything’s gonna work out fine Please read the letterI pinned it to your door It’s crazy how it all turned out We needed so much more Too late, too late A fool could read the signs Maybe baby You’d better check between the lines
Please read the letter, I wrote it in my sleep With help and consultation from The angels of the deep Once I stood beside a well of many words My house was full of rings and Charms and pretty birds Please understand me, my walls come falling down There’s nothing here that’s left for you But check with lost and found
Please read the letter that I wrote Please read the letter that I wrote One more song just before we go Remember baby All the things We used to know Please read my letter And promise you’ll keep The secrets and the memories and Cherish in the deep
*When I listen to this song I idealize Vermont. Some day I will live there again, but for now, I’ll just remember and listen to this song. I know that when I do live there again, I will idealize Colorado and listen to every song that reminds me of my time here.
Pennies in a stream
Falling leaves a sycamore
Moonlight in Vermont
Icy finger waves
Ski trails ON a mountain side
Snowlight in Vermont
Telegraph cables, how they SING/HUM down the highway
As they travel each bend in the road
PEOPLE WHO MEET, in this romantic setting
ARE so hypnotized by the lovely…
Evening summer breeze
Warbling of a meadowlark
Moonlight in Vermont
I’m listening to JackoPierce and it reminds me of living in Maine and playing this song over and over. .
It’s six o’clock now in the morning As I wait for my train to come To take me somewhere just outside of Boston As I run to find the other sun Now I’m leaving more behind than I care to talk about Just more pain than this hard a man can use As this big world’s always spinning All that I thought I was winning I never thought, I never thought I’d lose And this great force it takes me to the ferry To cross wind and water so untamed And while on that ship my life just seems so very Small in comparison to everything around*
Thereis a girl over there sheis got mahogany hair And eyes of sweet amethyst I bow as she curtseys She doesnit look like sheis gonna hurt me So I decide to add her to my list And she says* She says*
Wonit you stay on the vineyard for the summer Wonit you stay on the vineyard for the year We’ll find a little house down there in Oak Bluffs And our children is all that we hear*
I seems now that I should be going As that one day turned into five or six Although Iim loving all the beautiful things sheis showing me I pack up and am enveloped by the mist
‘Cause it’s a bittersweet symphony this life Trying to make ends meet, you’re a slave to the money then you die I’ll take you down the only road I’ve ever been down You know the one that takes you to the places where all the veins meet, yeah No change, I can’t change, I can’t change, I can’t change, but I’m here in my mold , I am here in my mold But I’m a million different people from one day to the next I can’t change my mold,
Oh how sadly sound the songs the queen must sing of dying*
A prisoner upon her throne of melancholy sighing
If she could see her mirror now
She would be free of those who bow and
Scrape the ground before her feet*
Silently she walks among her dying midnight roses
Watches as each moment goes that never really know us
And so it seems she doesn’t careIf she has dreams of no one there
Within the shadows of her room*
But all my frozen words agree, and say it’s time to
Call back, all the birds I sent to
Fly behind her castle walls, and I’m
Weary of the nights I’ve seen
Inside these empty halls*
Wooden lady turn and turn among my weary secrets
And wave within the hours past and other empty pockets
Maybe we’ve found what we have lost
When we’ve unwound so many crossed entangling
Misunderstandings; but*
Let me run with you tonight* Iill take you on a moonlight ride* Thereis someone I used to see** But she donit give a damn for me*
But let me get to the point, lets roll another joint* And turn the radio loud, Iim too alone to be proud* You donit know how it feels, You donit know how it feels to be me.
(Substitute island life with mountain life and this song would be about me)
She comes from Boston. Works at the jewelry store. Down in the harbor Where the ferries come to shore She never really knew how good it would feel To finally find herself in a place so warm and real* She wears a Red Sox cap To hide her baby dreads The girl she was in New Englandis different now and then. In all the local bars She flirts and tells the boys while they’re talkin’ She’s from Boston*
She comes from Boston Talks to her family now and then Through e-mails and postcards She tries to explain to them That education and occupation will have to wait for now She loves the Rasta, reggae rhythms, her dreams have changed somehow* Her toes dig deep and deeper in the sand She’s seduced by the sunsets and her new life at hand
Listening to Jackson Browne*last night and it still amazes me how a song finds its way into your life at certain moments to help you along the way.
Give up your heart and you lose your way, Trusting another to feel that way
Give up your heart and you find yourself, Living for something in somebody else
Sometimes you wonder what happens to love,
Sometimes the touch of a friend is enough
Sometimes you wonder what’s in this for you, But you wait, and you see, ‘
Cause it’s all you can do.
Brandi Carlile - Have you ever ….. Have you ever wandered lonely through the woods? And everything there feels just as it should You’re part of the life thereYou’re part of something good If you’ve ever wandered lonely through the woods*
Have you ever stared into a starry sky? Lying on your back you’re asking why What’s the purpose I wonder who am I If you’ve ever stared into a starry sky*
Have you ever been out walking in the snow? Tried to get back to where you were before You always end up not knowing where to go If you’ve ever been out walking in the snow If you’d ever been out walking you would know
Oe..They’ll throw opinions like rocks in riots
And they’ll stumble around like hypocrates
And is it just me or is it dark in here? *
You may never be or have a husband
You may never have or hold a child
You will learn to lose everything
We are temporary arrangements *
And you’re like a 90’s Noah
And they laughed at you when you packed all of your things
And they wonder why you’re frustrated
And they wonder why you’re so angry
Is it just me or are you fed up *
And God bless you in your travels, in your conquests, and queries
The wind’s in the sky, and the blue’s in the ocean The thought’s in my mind, sending me into motion I could fly or I could fall, but to never have tried at all Scares me more than anything in the world*The leaves on the trees, and the color’s in flowers The thought’s in my mind, and I toss it around for hours I could win or I could lose, heaven above will have to choose.*
Scares me more than growin old Scares me more than growing cold Scares me more than being told: It’s all on me, loss or victory*The sun’s in my shine, and the clouds in my coffee The thought’s in my mind, and it slowly consumes me I could hit or I could miss, but just to sit around like this Scares me more than anything in the world
I just love Carlile’s sound and her lyrics are amazing. I first discovered her music on Grey’s Anatomy and have been listening to her songs on Napster. This is a really good song and I really like the lyrics. Listen to it sometime:
Turpentine:
I watch you grow away from me in photographs And memories like spies
And salt betrays my eyes again
I started losing sleep and gaining weight
And wishing I was was ten again So I could be your friend again*
These days we go to waste like wine
That’s turned to turpentine
It’s six AM and I’m all messed up I didn’t mean to waste your time
So I’ll fall back in line But I’m warning you we’re growing up*
I heard you found some pretty words to say
You found your little game to play and there’s no one allowed in
Then just when we believe we could be great
Reality it permeates
And conquers from within again*We’re OK I know we’re OK
and
Wasted:
Every time you close a door and nothing opens in its place you’ve wasted
And when you speak the words you know to those who know the words themselves you’re wasted,
You’re such a classic waste of cool, so afraid to break the rules in all the wrong places
Then again it’s good to get a call Now and then just to say hello
When you try your best but you don’t succeed, When you get what you want but not what you need, When you feel so tired but you can’t sleep, Stuck in reverse.*
And the tears come streaming down your face, When you loose something you can’t replace, When you love someone but it goes to waste, Could it be worse?*
Lights will guide you home, And ignite your bones, And I will try to fix you.*
And high up above or down below, When you’re too in love to let it go, But if you never try you’ll never know, Just what you’re worth.