[IStillMatter]

Rascal Flatts  "What Hurts the Most"

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 tryin’ 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, livin’ 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

What hurts the most
Is being so close
And having so much to say (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, oh.

[UKStander]

Apoloiges to Doodlebug!  Just realised I posted the VERY same song two posts below where you'd already posted it...   

Must be a good one, though, eh?   

[SleeplessnSville]

"Loneliness"

Loneliness
Is a place that I know well
It's the distance between us
And the space inside ourselves
And emptiness....
Is the chattering in your head
It's the call of the living
And the race from life to death
Woa and I know
Yes and I know
What you feel...

And I've got a longing
That's hard to find
Won't give me no peace of mind
Something that I've lived with all along
Days and weeks and months and years
Filling in the time my dear
Trying to find the place where I belong

Hopelessness
is the darkness in your heart
It's the sound of one hand clapping
While it's pulling you apart
Woa and I know
Yes and I know
What you feel

And I've got a longing
That's hard to find
Won't give me no peace of mind
Something that I've lived with all along
Days and weeks and months and years
Filling in the time my dear
Trying to find the place where I belong

And I've got a hunger that's
Hard to fill
Driving me on overkill
Telling me that everything's gone wrong
Got me a need
That I can't break
More than I can hardly take
Somehow I still keep on going strong

When I call your name
I'm gonna scream out loud
I'll say...
"Here I am standing in the crowd"
You'll say "Come to me
with your open mind
you never know
what you still might find"
But you keep me here
Like a cancelled flight
An empty train
Running through the night
An orphaned child
A broken shoe
and I'm still down here
Looking out for you
Are you there for me?
'Cause I'm here for you

by Annie Lennox

[R]

The song I woke up to this morning on the radio...!

"Since I Saw You Last"

They took my voice
Erased my past
With all that noise
It couldn’t last
With words so cruel
I washed my face
Hoped one day
I’d wake up in a better place
[Chorus]
Today I took back what was stolen
And gave new life to what was frozen
One mouth talking
A dead man walking
A thousand faces watched me falling —
I’ve made my peace with what may happen
Accepted I won’t be in fashion
All you gave, I got it
Yeh you gave, I got it all back
Since I saw you last
When brothers land
And take what’s good
You can win a war
Oh, and shed no blood
Everybody plays their part
Oh we let the haters hate
While everybody’s losing heart
Lying in the longest grass I sit and wait
[Repeat chorus]
I know you heard
My shout for help
For those who stood and watched
Go f— yourself
I know you heard my cry for help
I know you heard I was going through hell
I know you heard I was losing my mind
I know you heard it was a matter of time
I know you heard…

[doodlebug65]

Apoloiges to Doodlebug!  Just realised I posted the VERY same song two posts below where you'd already posted it...   

Must be a good one, though, eh?   

No problem UK!  It is a very good song!

[IStillMatter]

Maybe one day our MLCers will feel this way. . .

"Working My Way Back To You"

I'm workin' my way back to you babe
With a burnin' love inside
Yeah I'm workin' my way back to you babe
And the happiness that died

I let it get away
Paying every day

When you were so in love with me
I played around like I was free
Thought I could have my cake and eat it too
But how I cried over losin' you

See me down and out
But I ain't about to go livin' my life without you
For every day, I made you cry
I'm payin' girl, till the day that I die

I'll keep workin' my way back to you babe
With a burnin' love inside
I'm workin' my way back to you babe
And the happiness that died

I let it get away
Been payin' every day

I used to love to make you cry (Make you cry)
It made me feel like a man inside (Baby, baby)
But if I'd been a man in reality (Cry, cry)
You'd still be here babe, lovin' me

Now the nights are long and lonely
And I ain't too strong babe, I just miss you so
And you're too proud, you won't give in
But when I think, about all I could win

I keep workin' my way back to you babe
With a burnin' love inside
Mmm, I'm workin' my way back to you babe
And the happiness that died

I let it get away
Been payin' every day

Oh, how I cried
Workin' my way back to you babe
With a burnin' love inside
I'm workin' my way back to you babe

[Serendipity]

I'm not a rap fan, but heard this on the radio and was amazed at the similarities of my MLC'r.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZsj8uH2I8Q&feature=kp

   
"John Doe"
(feat. Priscilla Renea)

[Intro: Priscilla Renea]
Seems like your heart stops working
The minute they close the curtain
And take off your mask
And take off your costume
And if anyone asks you're taking a smoke break
Drinking some coffee
But everyone knows what you're doing
Seems like the bus moves slower
Just cause you got somewhere to go
So you take a few pills in Beverly Hills
But if anyone asks you've got a prescription
You got an addiction
Who do you think that you're fooling

[Hook: Priscilla Renea]
John Doe, I just want the John I know
Once you put the drinks on hold
Maybe you could come back home
John Doe, ooh oh oh oooh
Oooh oh oh ohooh oooh
Oooh oh oh ohooh oooh

[Verse 1: B.o.B]
Errybody's addicted to something
Errybody's got to grip onto something
Even if it's just to feel the response of appeal
Maybe once, maybe twice
Maybe hundreds of times, hundreds of times
Without it, it's just harder to function at times
You race to the bottom of every single bottle
As if there was someone or something to find
You're struggling in your mind
And you tell yourself lie after lie
'Til you get to the point where it's no longer private
People that you work with noticed the signs
When you walk in the room
It gets noticeably quiet
So you break up the silence, you say you've been at the gym
But the way that you look, you can't blame on the diet
So what you hiding?

[Hook]

[Verse 2: B.o.B]
Yeah, I've probably had too many things
Smashed too many freaks
Had too much to dro...(I mean)
Had too much to drink
Left the club, ended up in custody
Random drug test, passed it luckily
My girl broke up with me cause she walked in suddenly
With a woman up under me
I told her "Wait!
It ain't what it look like!
I must've slip and fell, clumsy me!"
Well, at least I admit it, cause the worst you could do
Is to do it and not be man enough to say that you did it
That's just how you prevent it, well I ain't no different
I love all the money, the fame
And the parties with beautiful women
I'd spent so much time as an underground artist
Cause I was afraid to succumb to the business
And what I'd become
But that what you'd judge I become
The path with the greatest resistance
That's how the tables can turn, when they pivot
And change your perspective and flip your entire position
My whole life I've been dying to wish and to live and experience
Everything possible
When I told them my dreams, they just said they ain't logical
Now, I can see it - it's optical

[Hook]

[in it]

Old country western songs on the radio this Palm Sunday morning  : 

Rose colored glasses:
 
I don't know why I keep on believing you need me
 When you've proved so many times that it ain't true
 And I can't find one good reason for staying
 Maybe by leaving would be the best for you

But these rose colored glasses
 That I'm looking through
 Show only the beauty
 'Cause they hide all the truth

And they let me hold on to the good times, good lines
 The ones I used to hear when I held you
 And they keep me from feeling so cheated, defeated
 When reflections in your eyes show me a fool

These rose colored glasses
 That I'm looking through
 Show only the beauty
 'Cause they hide all the truth

So I just keep on hopin', believing
 That maybe by counting the many times, I've tried
 You'll believe me when I say, I love you
 And I'll lay these rose colored glasses aside

These rose colored glasses
 That I'm looking through
 Show only the beauty
 'Cause they hide all the truth

[doodlebug65]

I don't know how many times I've heard this on the radio but the refrain stood out this week. 

'It's time for us to more than survive,
we were made to THRIVE'


Casting Crowns - Thrive


Here in this worn and weary land
Where many a dream has died

Like a tree planted by the water
We never will run dry

So living water flowing through
God we thirst for more of You
Fill our hearts and flood our souls
With one desire

Just to know You and yo make You known
We lift Your name on High
Shine like the sun made darkness run and hide
We know we were made for so much more
Than ordinary lives
It's time for us to more than just survive
We were made to thrive

Woah
Woah

Into Your word we're digging deep
To know our Father's heart

Into the world we're reaching out
To show them who You are

So living water flowing through
God we thirst for more of You
Fill our hearts and flood our souls
With one desire

Just to know You and to make You known
We lift Your name on High
Shine like the sun made darkness run and hide
We know we were made for so much more
Than ordinary lives
It's time for us to more than just survive
We were made to thrive

Joy unspeakable, faith unsinkable,
Love unstoppable, anything is possible
Joy unspeakable, faith unsinkable,
Love unstoppable, anything is possible
Joy unspeakable, faith unsinkable,
Love unstoppable, anything is possible
Joy unspeakable, faith unsinkable,
Love unstoppable, anything is possible

Just to know You and to make You known
We lift Your name on High
Shine like the sun made darkness run and hide
We know we were made for so much more
Than ordinary lives
It's time for us to more than just survive
We were made to thrive
Hey!

Woah
Woah

Woah
Woah

[SleeplessnSville]

"Honestly"
by Annie Lennox


The beauty that you gave
Has turned upon itself
And all the things you said
Evaporated, evaporated

Was I blind
Deaf and dumb
To the words slipped
From your tongue?

Honestly
(Alone in my bed)
Honestly
(The things that you said)
Honestly
(Go round in my head still)

Honestly
(It seems to be true)
Honestly
(That nothin' I do)
Honestly
(Can influence you)

(I tried and tried again)
Don't you know I tried and tried again
To make you listen to me
But everything I said it always seemed to go right through you
(To make you notice me)
I turned myself into a person that I didn't like
But please believe me when I say, "I know it wasn't right"

(But talking to myself)
I never thought that things would get to be so complicated
I never thought that you and me would end up so frustrated
(Won't catch you attention I see)
You'd think that something had to come from all those good intentions
But in the end I needed something more than intervention

Was I mad?
Foolish me
To succumb
So easily

Honestly
(Alone in my bed)
Honestly
(The things that you said)
Honestly
(Go round in my head still)

Honestly
(It seems to be true)
Honestly
(That nothin' I do)
Honestly
(Can influence you still)

Fools like me
Get so easily taken
But fools like me
Can be so mistaken

Honestly
Honestly
Honestly

(The promise that you gave)
Don't you know the promise that you gave just turned it's back upon me
I stopped believing but you couldn't take the whole thing from me
(Has turned it's back)
I never thought I'd have to pay the price to set you free

(And all you represented was just my projection you see)
You know I never thought I'd ever live a day without you
And that's the reason why it makes me sad to think about you
And you know I never thought I'd make it if you wasn't there
And now I'm tryin' to eject myself from this despair

People come
People go
Never say
"I told you so"

Honestly
(Alone in my bed)
Honestly
(The things that you said)
Honestly
(Go round in my head still)

Honestly
(It seems to be true)
Honestly
(That nothin' I do)
Ya, honestly
(Can influence you)

"Honestly", I said
(Alone in my bed)
Honestly
(The things that you said)
Honestly
(Go round in my head still)

Told you honestly
(It seems to be true)
I said, "Honestly"
(That nothin' I do)
Honestly
(Can influence you)

Everything I know you said
Goin' round inside my head
Never thought I'd see the day
Always got a price to pay
Nothin' that I ever do
Ever seems to get to you