songs that move and inspire us...

[McKrazy]

I just got back from running in the woods and realized that I really only run for the chance to listen to my ipod and spend time with my dog. It's a vacation from my life. This song was the last one I heard and it spoke to me about the "giant" that I've battled for so many years and how many days I've let it win. Not today.....

"Oh, what I would do
to have the kind of strength it takes
To stand before a giant
with just a sling and a stone
Surrounded by the sound
of a thousand warriors
shaking in their armor
Wishing they'd have had the strength to stand

But the giant's calling out
my name and he laughs at me
Reminding me of all the times
I've tried before and failed
The giant keeps on telling me
time and time again
"Boy you'll never win,
you'll never win."

But the voice of truth tells me a different story
the voice of truth says "do not be afraid!"
and the voice of truth says "this is for my glory"
Out of all the voices calling out to me
I will choose to listen and believe the voice of truth"
(from Casting Crowns)

Have a great day!ance7

[suzieq1972]

I LOVE this song. In fact it's probably my favorite Casting Crowns song.

[lovtolaff]

Well being the rocker that I am - the first time I heard this song I was totally shaken. I can barely listen to it for now...but there are two versions - the original (which is very angry sounding) and an acoustic.

Something about it just spoke to me in the final months of my relationship.

"The Bleeding"

[V1:]
I remember when all the games began
Remember every little lie and every last goodbye
Promises you broke, words you choked on
and I never walked away,
it's still a mystery to me

[Pre-Chorus:]
Well I'm so empty
I'm better off without you and you're better off without me
Well you're so unclean
I'm better off without you and you're better off without me

[Chorus:]
The lying, the bleeding, the screaming
Was tearing me apart
The hatred (deceiving), the beatings; it's over

[V2:]
Paint the mirrors black to forget you
I still picture your face and the way you used to taste
Roses in a glass, dead and wilted
To you this all was nothing
Everything to you is nothing

[Pre-Chorus:]
Well you're so filthy
I'm better off without you and you're better off without me
Well I'm so ugly
You're better off without me and I'm better off alone

[Chorus:]
The lying, the bleeding, the screaming
Was tearing me apart
The hatred, the beatings (disaster); it's over

As wicked as you are, you're beautiful to me
You're the darkest burning star, you're my perfect disease

[Chorus:]
The lying, the bleeding, the screaming
Was tearing me apart
The hatred, the beatings; it's over
Disaster
The lying, the bleeding, the screaming
Was tearing me apart
The hatred, the beatings; it's over
Disaster

It's over now...

[McKrazy]

I haven't heard that one, but now I'm curious. Did you say who it's by?

[lovtolaff]

A band called Five Finger Death Punch.

[steve11694]

"This song is about letting go of someone you dont want to let go of. it could be a friend, a child, husband. wife, lover, mother, father"

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Something is about to give
I can feel it coming
I think I know what it means
I'm not afraid to die
I'm not afraid to live
And when I'm flat on my back
I hope to feel like I did

'cause hardness, it sets in
You need some protection
The thinner the skin

I want you to know
That you don't need me anymore
I want you to know
You don't need anyone, or anything at all

Who's to say where the wind will take you
Who's to say what it is will break you
I don't know, which way the wind will blow
Who's to know when the time has come around
Don't want to see you cry
I know that this is not goodbye

In summer I can taste the salt in the sea
There's a kite blowing out of control on a breeze
I wonder what's gonna happen to you
You wonder what has happened to me

I'm a man, I'm not a child
A man who sees
The shadow behind your eyes

Who's to say where the wind will take you
Who's to say what it is will break you
I don't know, where the wind will blow
Who's to know when the time has come around
I don't want to see you cry
I know that this is not goodbye

[strongerwoman]

This song really, really helped me. The video (look on youtube.com) even shows what appears to be an AA meeting at the end as part of the story.

"Over You" - Daughtry

Now that it's all said and done,
I can't believe you were the one
To build me up and tear me down,
Like an old abandoned house.
What you said when you left
Just left me cold and out of breath.
I fell too far, was in way too deep.
Guess I let you get the best of me.

Well, I never saw it coming.
I should've started running
A long, long time ago.
And I never thought I'd doubt you,
I'm better off without you
More than you, more than you know.
I'm slowly getting closure.
I guess it's really over.
I'm finally getting better.
And now I'm picking up the pieces.
I'm spending all of these years
Putting my heart back together.
'Cause the day I thought I'd never get through,
I got over you.

You took a hammer to these walls,
Dragged the memories down the hall,
Packed your bags and walked away.
There was nothing I could say.
And when you slammed the front door shut,
A lot of others opened up,
So did my eyes so I could see
That you never were the best for me.

Well, I never saw it coming.
I should've started running
A long, long time ago.
And I never thought I'd doubt you,
I'm better off without you
More than you, more than you know.
I'm slowly getting closure.
I guess it's really over.
I'm finally getting better.
And now I'm picking up the pieces.
I'm spending all of these years
Putting my heart back together.
'Cause the day I thought I'd never get through,
I got over you.

Well, I never saw it coming.
I should've started running
A long, long time ago.
And I never thought I'd doubt you,
I'm better off without you
More than you, more than you know.

Well, I never saw it coming.
I should've started running
A long, long time ago.
And I never thought I'd doubt you,
I'm better off without you
More than you, more than you know.
I'm slowly getting closure.
I guess it's really over.
I'm finally getting better.
And now I'm picking up the pieces.
I'm spending all of these years
Putting my heart back together.
Well I'm putting my heart back together,
'Cause I got over you.
Well I got over you.
I got over you.
'Cause the day I thought I'd never get through,
I got over you.

[strongerwoman]

And because my faith is important to me....

Matt Redman - You Never Let Go
From the album Passion 06: Everything Glorious
YouTube - You Never Let Go - song by Matt Redman

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
Your perfect love is casting out fear
And even when I’m caught in the middle of the storms of this life
I won’t turn back
I know You are near

And I will fear no evil
For my God is with me
And if my God is with me
Whom then shall I fear?
Whom then shall I fear?

Chorus:
Oh no, You never let go
Through the calm and through the storm
Oh no, You never let go
In every high and every low
Oh no, You never let go
Lord, You never let go of me

And I can see a light that is coming for the heart that holds on
A glorious light beyond all compare
And there will be an end to these troubles
But until that day comes
We’ll live to know You here on the earth

Chorus:

Yes, I can see a light that is coming for the heart that holds on
And there will be an end to these troubles
But until that day comes
Still I will praise You, still I will praise You

Chorus: (2x’s)

[strongerwoman]

One more, my favorite Thrid Day song....
Third Day - Cry Out To Jesus
From the album Wherever You Are
YouTube - Third Day - Cry Out to Jesus

To everyone who's lost someone they love
Long before it was their time
You feel like the days you had were not enough
when you said goodbye

And to all of the people with burdens and pains
Keeping you back from your life
You believe that there's nothing and there is no one
Who can make it right

Chorus:
There is hope for the helpless
Rest for the weary
Love for the broken heart
There is grace and forgiveness
Mercy and healing
He'll meet you wherever you are
Cry out to Jesus, Cry out to Jesus

For the marriage that's struggling just to hang on
They’ve lost all of their faith in love
They've done all they can to make it right again
Still it's not enough

For the ones who can't break the addictions and chains
You try to give up but you come back again
Just remember that you're not alone in your shame
And your suffering

Chorus:

When your lonely
And it feels like the whole world is falling on you
You just reach out, you just cry out to Jesus
Cry to Jesus

To the widow who suffers from being alone
Wiping the tears from her eyes
For the children around the world without a home
Say a prayer tonight

Chorus

[respektingme]

The Allman Brothers Band - sidenote: I heard them in concert a few times and one time Greg was so wasted he couldn't remember the words to his own songs. Turnoff, but I still love their albums.

Aaron Neville - Ave Maria, one of my alltime favorite covers of this song.

Pavarotti - Still moves me

Metro Station (Shake It) - Some silly dumb song that reminds me of Alphaville back in the 80's but really helps me clean my house in a hurry.

[tryingtofly]

The song from my signature line is "Defying Gravity" from the production "Wicked" - What gets me is the part of Elphaba

Defying Gravity"

GLINDA
Why couldn't you have stayed calm, for once! Instead of flying off the handle -- !

I hope you're happy
I hope you're happy now
I hope you're happy how you've
Hurt your cause forever
I hope you think you're clever

ELPHABA
I hope you're happy
I hope you're happy too
I hope you're proud how you would
Grovel in submission
To feed your own ambition

GLINDA & ELPHABA
So though I can't imagine how
I hope you're happy
Right now

GLINDA
Elphie, listen to me. Just say you're sorry!

You can still be with The Wizard
What you've worked and waited for
You can have all you ever wanted -

ELPHABA
I know
But I don't want it - No!
I can't want it anymore

Something has changed within me
Something is not the same
I'm through with playing by
The rules of someone else's game
Too late for second-guessing
Too late to go back to sleep
It's time to trust my instincts
Close my eyes
And leap...

It's time to try defying gravity
I think I'll try defying gravity
And you can't pull me down
GLINDA
Can't I make you understand
You're having delusions of grandeur?

ELPHABA
I'm through accepting limits
Cuz someone says they're so
Some things I cannot change
But till I try I'll never know
Too long I've been afraid of
Losing love I guess I've lost
Well if that's love
It comes at much too high a cost

I'd sooner buy defying gravity
Kiss me goodbye, I'm defying gravity
And you can't pull me down!

Glinda, come with me. Think of what we could do - together!

Unlimited
Together we're unlimited
Together we'll be the greatest team
There's ever been - Glinda!
Dreams the way we planned 'em

GLINDA
If we work in tandem

GLINDA & ELPHABA
There's no fight we cannot win
Just you and I, defying gravity
With you and I defying gravity

ELPHABA
They'll never bring us down!

Well, are you coming?

(GLINDA decides to stay behind.)

GLINDA
I hope you're happy
I hope your happy now that your choosing this -

ELPHABA
You too--
I hope it brings you bliss

GLINDA & ELPHABA
I really hope you get it
And you don't live to regret it
I hope you're happy in the end
I hope you're happy my friend

ELPHABA
So if you care to find me
Look to the Western sky!
As someone told me lately
Everyone deserves the chance to fly
And if I'm flying solo
At least I'm flying free
To those who ground me
Take a message back from me!

Tell them how I am defying gravity
I'm flying high, defying gravity
And soon I'll match them in renown
And nobody in all of Oz
No Wizard that there is or was
Is ever gonna bring me down!!

GLINDA
I hope you're happy

CITIZENS OF OZ
Look at her
She's wicked
Get her!!

ELPHABA
Bring me down!

CITIZENS OF OZ
No one mourns the wicked
So we got to bring her -

ELPHABA
Ahhhh!

CITIZENS OF OZ
--Down!

[McKrazy]

Oh wow, a theater buff! I love that. What a great response. I've just been listening to everyone's picks, and adding new tunes to my ipod. Cry out to Jesus is actually one of my all time faves, too, and a ring tone on my phone to remind me to do that all day long!

[tryingtofly]

I love the theater! (Unfortunatly, we don't get much of it in this 'one horse town' lol) I saw Wicked when I was in London and the first time I heard that song I got goosebumps

[fff]

"The Glass Prison" by Dream Theater...funny, I liked this song even before I knew what it was about, really...

(analysis & background from crookedstep.com):

The Glass Prison
Lyrics by: Mike Portnoy
Music by: Dream Theater
Notes: This song contains is the first three parts of a longer work that will contain 12 total sections, based on the 12 step program of AA (Alchoholics Anonymous). Mike is a recovered alchoholic and this song is about the experiences he went through while recovering. The song is dedicated to "Bill W. and all his friends" Bill W is one of the founding members of AA and the "freinds" are all the people who have successfully completed the program and recovered from alchoholism. The static at the beginning of this song is the end of Scene Nine: Finally Free.

[I. REFLECTION]

Cunning, Baffling, Powerful
Been beaten to a pulp
Vigorous, Irresistable
Sick and tired and laid low
Dominating, Invincible
Black-out, loss of control
Overwhelming, Unquenchable
I'm powerless, have to let go

I can't escape it
It leaves me frail and worn
Can no longer take it
Senses tattered and torn

Hopeless surrender
Obsession's got me beat
Losing the will to live
Admitting complete defeat

Fatal Descent
Spinning around
I've gone too far
To turn back round

Desperate attempt
Stop the progression
At any length
Lift this obsession

Crawling to my glass prison
A place where no one knows
My secret lonely world begins

So much safer here
A place where I can go
To forget about my daily sins

Life here in my glass prison
A place I once called home
Fall in nocturnal bliss again

Chasing a long lost friend
I no longer can control
Just waiting for this hopelessness to end

[II. RESTORATION]

Run - fast from the wreckage of the past
A shattered glass prison wall behind me
Fight - past walking through the ashes
A distant oasis before me

Cry - desperate crawling on my knees
Begging God to please stop the insanity
Help me - I'm trying to believe
Stop wallowing in my own self pity

"We've been waiting for you my friend
The writing's been on the wall
All it takes is a little faith
You know you're the same as us all"

Help me - I can't break out this prison all alone
Save me - I'm drowning and I'm hopeless on my own
Heal me - I can't restore my sanity alone

Enter the door
Desperate
Fighting no more
Help me restore
To my sanity
At this temple of hope

I need to learn
Teach me how
Sorrow to burn
Help me return
To humanity
I'll be fearless and thorough
To enter this temple of hope

Believe
Transcend the pain
Living the life
Humility
Opened my eyes
This new odyssey
Of rigorous honesty

Serenity
I never knew
Soundness of mind
Helped me to find
Courage to change
All the things that I can

"We'll help you perform this miracle
But you must set your past free
You dug the hole, but you can't bury your sole
Open your mind and you'll see"

Help me - I can't break out this prison all alone
Save me - I'm drowning and I'm hopeless on my own
Heal me - I can't restore my sanity alone

[III. REVELATION]

Way off in the distance I saw a door
I tried to open
I tried forcing with all of my will and still
The door wouldn't open
[replaced with "but" in this line]

Unable to trust in my faith
I turned and walked away
I looked around, felt a chill in the air
Took my will and turned it over

The glass prison which once held me is now gone
["now" is not heard in this line]
A long lost fortress
Armed only with liberty
And the key of my willingness

Fell down on my knees and prayed
"Thy will be done"
I turned around, saw a light shining through
The door was wide open

[Tazman53]

This song is called wasted, and it moved me deeply, recovery on both sides of the fence in one song!!!!

Standing at the back door
She tried to make it fast
One tear hit the hard wood
It felt like broken glass
She said sometimes love slips away
And you just can't get it back
Let's face it

For one split second
She almost turned around
But that would be like pouring rain drops
Back into a cloud
So she took another step and said
I see the way out and I'm gonna' take it

I don't wanna' spend my life jaded
Waitin' to wake up one day and find
That I've let all these years go by
Wasted

Another glass of whisky but it still don't kill the pain
So he stumbles to the sink and pours it down the drain
He says it's time to be a man and stop living for yesterday
Gotta face it.

Cause' I don't wanna' spend my life jaded
Waitin' to wake up one day and find
That I've let all these years go by
Wasted

Oh I don't wanna' keep on wishing, missin'
But still every morning' the color of the night
I ain't spending no more time
Wasted

She kept drivin' along
Till the moon and the sun were floating side-by-side
He looked in the mirror and his eyes were clear
For the first time in a while

Hey, yeah,
Oh, I don't wanna' spend my life jaded
Waitin' to wake up one day and find
That I've let all these years go by
Wasted

Oh I don't wanna' keep on wishing, missing
But still every morning' the color of the night
I ain't spending no more time
Wasted

Oh, I don't wanna' spend my life jaded
Waitin' to wake up one day and find
That I've let all these years go by
Wasted

Yeah, yeah
Oh I don't wanna' keep on wishing, missing
But still every morning' the color of the night
I ain't spending no more time
Wasted

[cem001]

This is so good. It brought tears to my eyes.

She can hear his car as it pulls into the drive
She can whisper a prayer. Thank God he’s alive
She can meet him at the door and catch him when he falls
She can even believe that it isn’t his fault
But she cant save him

(Reba)
She can make his coffee in the cold light of day
She can make his excuses tell the boss he'll be late
She can wave at the neighbors, kiss him goodbye
And not say a word 'bout what happened last night
But she can’t save him

(Both)
Sometimes she dreams that he’s caught in a stream
And the water keeps pulling him down

(Reba)
She reaches for him as he pulls her in
She wakes just before she drowns

(Trisha)
But she can remember the man that he was
And still shed a tear for what he’s become

(Reba)
She can live in that house, until the day
She sees that it’s only herself she can save

(Both)
‘Cause she can’t save him

(Both)
And that day shell know, she hasn’t failed

(Reba)
‘Cause nothing can change until he saves himself
‘Cause she can’t save him

(Trisha)
No, she can’t save him

(Both)
No she can't save him

[coyote21]

Hi All!

Man I got a bunch, but am a 2 finger typer and pretty low tech. I'll just try to hit the high points

I drive a truck locally and listen to country music all day... it's an aquired taste! HA! Also get to drive all over some of the most beautiful scenery in the state, no boss looking over me, my buddies on walkie talkie for free, more physical activity b4 10am than most get all week, fresh air, rain on my face..... God life is good!!!!

1)George Strait.. I Saw God Today
"saw a flower pushing up throught the sidewalk like it was planted there for me to see."

We're in a major drought here in the hillcountry, and most of the wild flowres are finished(they were absolutely spectacular this year) now about all thats left are the heat/drought resistant lavendar wild flowers, my favorite color for flowers!

Talks about God's finger prints everywhere if you just take time to notice. Gets me welled up about 3 or 4 times a day.

2) Small Town Southern Man,
"finally death came calling for the small town southern man, He said don't worry cause I see Angels and they got me by the hand,
dont you cry and don't you worry cause I'm blessed and I know I am
I know there's space in Heaven for a small town southern man."

I had this discussion with an alanon buddy recently, I said I was truly blessed, I just didn't realize it b4 recovery higher power etc, She said now you are doubly blessed, cause now you know it! Too true.

Plus, I've had the pleasure of meeting many of my angels right here on earth...I swear, sometimes it feels like Heaven.

3)Country Boy can Survive...
My friend was killed one night by a man with a switch blade knife...
For 43 dollars my friend lost his life...
I'd like to spit some Beechnut in that dudes eye and shoot him with my old forty-five... 'cause a country boy can survive
No tears, just goose bumps from this one

I know too violent and not particularly politically correct. Hey I'm a guy and it's my job to protect. Old school! What can I say.

Thanks for this post,
God Bless us all
Coyote

[Spiritual Seeker]

Check these out on YouTube:

Sugarland " Stay "

Enrique Eglesias " Addicted "

Pink " Who Knew "

Martina McBride " This One's For The Girls "

Pink Floyd " The Final Cut "

Christina Aguilera " Hurt "

Enrique Iglesias " Love to see you cry "

[LaTeeDa]

Crosby, Stills and Nash--Southern Cross.

L

[McKrazy]

from third day:

this one feels a bit sad, but it's a comfort to me on "those days":


"When the rain comes it seems that everyone has
gone away
When the night falls you wonder if you shouldn't
find someplace
To run and hide / Escape the pain
But hiding's such a lonely thing to do

I can't stop the rain / From falling down on you again
I can't stop the rain / But I will hold you 'til it goes away

When the rain comes you blame it on the things that
you have done
When the storm fades you know that rain must fall
on everyone
So Rest awhile / it'll be alright
No one loves you like I do

When the rain comes / I will hold you"