Simple Kind Of Life

"Simple Kind Of Life" - No Doubt

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Human Touch

"Human Touch" - Bruce Springsteen

You and me we were the pretenders
We let it all slip away
In the end what you don't surrender
Well the world just strips away

Girl ain't no kindness in the face of strangers
Ain't gonna find no miracles here
Well you can wait on your blessings my darlin'
I got a deal for you right here

I ain't lookin' for prayers or pity
I ain't comin' 'round searchin' for a crutch
I just want someone to talk to
And a little of that Human Touch
Just a little of that Human Touch

Ain't no mercy on the streets of this town
Ain't no bread from heavenly skies
Ain't nobody drawin' wine from this blood
It's just you and me tonight

Tell me in a world without pity
Do you think what I'm askin's too much?
I just want something to hold on to
And a little of that Human Touch
Just a little of that Human Touch

Oh girl that feeling of safety you prize
Well it comes with a hard hard price
You can't shut off the risk and the pain
Without losin' the love that remains
We're all riders on this train

So you been broken and you been hurt
Show me somebody who ain't
Yeah I know I ain't nobody's bargain
But hell a little touch-up and a little paint

You might need somethin' to hold on to
When all the answers they don't amount to much
Somebody that you could just to talk to
And a little of that Human Touch

Baby in a world without pity
Do you think what I'm askin's too much?
I just want to feel you in my arms
And share a little of that Human Touch
Share a little of that Human Touch
Feel a little of that Human Touch in you
Feel a little of that Human Touch
Share a little of that Human Touch in you
Feel a little of that Human Touch
Give me a little of that Human Touch in you
Give me a little of that Human Touch

Mine Would Be You

"Mine Would Be You" - Blake Shelton

Stay

                                                                rihanna - "stay"

All along it was a fever
A cold sweat, hot-headed believer
I threw my hands in the air and said show me something
He said, if you dare come a little closer

Round and around and around and around we go
Now tell me now, tell me now, tell me now, you know

Not really sure how to feel about it
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can't live with out you
It takes me all the way
I want you to stay

It's not much of a life you're living
It's not just something you take, it's giving

Round and around and around and around we go
Now tell me now, tell me now, tell me now, you know

Not really sure how to feel about it
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can't live without you
It takes me all the way
I want you to stay

The reason I hold on
'Cause I need this hole gone
Funny you're the broken one, but I'm the only one who needed saving
Cause when you never see the light it's hard to know which one of us is caving

Not really sure how to feel about it
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can't live without you
It takes me all the way
I want you to stay

Stay

I want you to stay

I Should Have Known

 "I Should Have Known" - Foo Fighters

I should have known that it would end this way
I should have known there was no other way
Didn't hear your warning
Damn my heart gone deaf

I should have known
Look at the shape you're in
I should have known
But I dove right in
One thing is for certain
As I'm standing here
I should have known

Lay your hands in mine
Heal me one last time
Though I cannot forgive you yet
No I cannot forgive you yet
To leave my heart in debt

I should have known
I was inside of you
I should have known
There was that side of you
Came without a warning
Caught me unaware

I should have known
I've been here before
I should have known
Don't want it anymore
One thing is for certain
I'm still standing here
I should have known

Lay your hands in mine
Heal me one last time
Though I cannot forgive you yet
No I cannot forgive you yet
To leave my heart in debt

No I cannot forgive you yet
No I cannot forgive you yet
You leave my heart in debt


Maybe you was right
Didn't want a fight
I should have known
Couldn't read the signs
Couldn't draw the line
I should have known

Though I cannot forgive you yet
No I cannot forgive you yet
To leave my heart in debt
No I cannot forgive you yet
No I cannot forgive you yet
To leave my heart in debt
No I cannot forgive you yet
No I cannot forgive you yet
To leave my heart in debt

I should have known. -

Black Gives Way To Blue....

"Black Gives Way To Blue" - AIC

Music is what feelings sound like...

Most assuredly so.  Who among us hasn't been going about the business of everyday living when a song's lyrics suddenly stop you dead in your tracks?

BAM!  Blindsided by a ballad!  Pulverized by poetry!

Those words... They strike a chord somewhere deep within the core our being.  Someone else "gets" us; someone else understands what we're feeling.  And there's a certain comfort found in not bleeding alone, and assists coagulating our emotional wounds. "O true music apothecary! Thy drugs are quick! Thus with a song, I die!"  Or so this is how I imagine my modern day B. Shakespeare would have penned it.

I can think of a heaping handful of songs that have touched me on such a soul level over the years. And there's a back story for each.  It doesn't matter how long it's been since I last heard any of them; to hear one now is to be transported instantly back to that certain place and time in my life: a rewind to the past. I can recall the emotions I felt; I can feel, smell, and touch that moment in my mind and remember again, if only just for the moment.

So there was this guy I'd known casually from the music scene for a few years: the quiet, brooding melancholy guitarist. Yeah, I could tell by the way he wore those skinny jeans that his taste in music was far cooler than mine. But we'd strike up small talk when ever our paths crossed, and exchange deliciously witty emails from time to time when our paths didn't.  One New Year's Day, his long-time girlfriend unceremoniously dumped him, and a few weeks later, he'd asked me out.  And I went.  Again.  And again.  Funny how two totally opposite people could turn out to have so much in common and so much fun!  Alas, discovering our mutual love of the band Alice In Chains ultimately led to our demise.  It sparked our first kiss as he eagerly borrowed my copy of their latest CD that I'd offered at the close of Date Number Four (on the eve of his birthday) one rainy Spring night.

He called me the next evening as I was getting ready for our big night out for his birthday gig and celebration.  He said couldn't see me tonight-- or any more, for that matter-- as he was so deeply affected by a certain song on that CD, and had come to the sad realization that he wasn't over his ex-girlfriend yet.  He was terribly sorry, and just not ready to be seeing anyone at this point. 

Damn. Liquified by lyrics! Ravaged by riffs!  Curse you, Alice In Chains!

So much for Date Number Five. What do you even say to that?  I mean, "Well, alright then. Hope you have a happy birthday celebration tonight!" somehow seems a bit awk-weird.  I'm pretty sure I responded with some sort of unintelligible syllables, and pretty sure I hung up on him.

Well.

It's all good though. The truth is, I had originally picked up that CD because it reminded me of an old boyfriend I couldn't get off my mind.  He was a brooding guitarist, too.

Yeah... I definitely coulda used more cowbell.