kipper

For those of us that have decided to leave our A's here is a song that I can't stop listening to.
It just rings really true for me.

Another Lonely Day
By Ben Harper

Yes indeed, I'm alone again.
And here comes emptiness crashing in.
It's either love or hate,
I can't find in between,
'cause I've been with witches and I've been with a queen.

It wouldn't have worked out anyway.
So now it's just another lonely day.
Further along we just may.
But for now it's just another lonely day.

Wish there was something now I could say or do.
I can resist anything but the temptation from you.
But I'd rather walk alone than chase you around.
I'd rather fall myself than let you drag me on down.

It wouldn't have worked out anyway.
And now it's just another lonely day.
Further along we just may.
But for now, it's just another lonely day.

Yesterday seems like a life ago,
'cause the one I love today, I hardly know,
You I held so close in my heart, Oh dear,
Grow further from me with every fallen tear.

It wouldn't have worked out anyway.
So now it's just another lonely day.
Further along we just may.
But for now it's just another lonely day.
For now it's just another lonely day.
For now it's just another lonely day.

kipper

So what songs do you listen to when you need to feel better or even to cry?

TexasGirl

I'll have to try to download that one, Kip. When I want to cry, I listen to the Red House Painters...just discovered them, but they are pretty old apparently. It's a very melancholy sound.

I hope I'm not hijacking your thread (but we're sharing lyrics I think...?), but I want to add another song that I discovered (I played it over and over the month before I moved out). It's very uplifting, and it also fits my life right now and hopefully yours too. (p.s....India Arie has a lot of great songs regarding relationships, understanding endings, and self -- Good Mourning, Beautiful, Private Party, These Eyes, and she also sings the first part of the Serenity Prayer on her latest CD under the name Intro - Loving).

I Choose
by India Arie

Because you never know where life is gonna take you
And you can’t change where you’ve been
But today, I have the opportunity to choose

Here I am now looking at 30 and I got so much to say
Gotta get this off of my chest, I gotta let it go today
I was always too concerned about what everybody would think
But I can’t live for everybody; I gotta live my life for me, Yea

I’ve reached a fork in the road of my life
Ain’t nothing gonna happen unless I decide

And I choose, to be the best that I can be
I choose, to be authentic in everything
I do, my past don’t dictate who I am,
I choose

I have been through some painful things I thought that I would never make it through
Filled up with shame from the top of my head to the soles of my shoes
I’ve put myself in so many chaotic circumstances
By the grace of God I’ve been given so many second chances

But today I decided to let it all go
I’m dropping these bags, I’m making room for my joy

And I choose, to be the best that I can be
I choose, to be authentic in everything
I do, my past don’t dictate who I am,
I choose

Bridge
Because you never know where life is gonna take you
And you can’t change where you’ve been
But today, I have the opportunity to choose

Release the guilt about why things happen the way they do
Cause life is gonna do what it do
And everyday I have the opportunity to choose

From this day forward, I’m going to be exactly who I am
I don’t need to change the way that I live just to get a man, no
I even had a talk with my mama and I told her today I’m grown
From this day forward every decision that I make will be my own

And I choose, to be the best that I can be
I choose, to be courageous in everything
I do, my past don't dictate who I am,
I choose

And I choose, to be the best that I can be
I choose, to be authentic in everything
I do, my past don't dictate who
I am, I choose

Bridge
Because you never know where life is gonna take you
And you can’t change where you’ve been
But today, I have the opportunity to choose

Release the guilt about why things happen the way they do
Cause life is gonna do what it do
And everyday I have the opportunity to choose

TexasGirl

I hope you don't mind....I'm adding one other India Arie song lyrics. It's awesome...

Good Mourning
by India Arie

Do do do
Do do do
Do do do do do do dooooooo (4 times)

Good mourning silence
Good mourning to myself

Good mourning to the pain in the center of my chest

It's crazy how much I miss
a simple good morning kiss
oh ohhhhh~

Good mourning independence or is it loneliness?
I know I said I wanted this but I have regrets

I prayed for God's will to be done
The very next day you were gone
Oh Ohhhhhh

Good mourning to the harsh realities of life
and good mourning to the fact we're not husband and wife

We made a promise to stay
But destiny got in the way
oh ohhhhhhhh

Good mourning~~~~

Good morning acceptance
Good morning inner strength
I'm loving every moment
even the strain

It's crazy how much I miss
a simple good morning kiss
It's crazy how much I've missed
Now it's time for me to live
oh ohhhhhhhhhh

Good morning~~~~

Good morning optimism
Good morning to my faith
Good morning to the beginning of a brand new day

I know that God's will be done
So I lay down my pain and I'm moving on

I know that God's will be done.
It's a good morning after all

kipper

Thanks TexasGirl, these are both great songs that I have never heard. Will be downloading them tonight!

steve11694

Running to stand still

BAD

Sometimes you can't make it on your own

Stuck in a moment



many others and other artists

sunwish

Lyrics.com may have the lyrics for them....

Too Little, Too Late by JoJo
Call Me When You're Sober by Evanescence

StandingStrong

I have had a few songs that have really hit close to my heart throughout my life. But when it comes to my recovery, I remember the first one that really spoke to me. Interesting enough - this song can be taken from the addicts veiw as well as the codependants - which for me shows that it truly does represent recovery. However, that is just my interpretation.
Anyways, as I said, the first one to really get to me is this one:

StandingStrong

When I need to feel better - hmm....dare I admit this?????? LOL. Okay, normally it's songs such as "My give a damn's busted", "Scars", by papa roach, umm....songs that keep me strong, remind me of where I've been and where I need to go, etc. I suppose some may take them as "hating AH songs" but they aren't really meant that way at all for me. They are to remind me of reality and keep me strong.

When I need to cry........well, I can tell you that I'm not one to want to cry much these days. I guess I feel I cried enough over the years and it's time to get better and not drown in my tears. But the song that gets to me everytime is "Goodbye Time" by Blake Shelton which my AH had told me about last year. He told me the name of the song and asked if I'd heard it and to listen to it if I got the chance. Well, that song STILL gets to me. But I don't really cry anymore, I just find it really really sad and heartbreaking. Soooooooo..............I just don't listen to it often! LOL. It does help me to gauge how I'm doing though as I used to cry every single time I heard it.

deax

Tons of them. But Bobby Jean by Bruce SPringsteen always does something serious to me. I don't even know why for sure, it's not related on a literal level lyrically or anything. But I guess in a roundabout way it is. Must be something about the idea of someone you love just slipping through your fingers (regardless of the circumstances), and you can't get through to them.

The last part, where he says, "I'm just calling one last time, not to change your mind, but just to say I miss you, babe. Good luck, goodbye."

Uggh-- it gets me every time.

embraced2000

beautiful disaster.....by kelly clarkson

in the song she says.......

he drowns in his dreams
an exquisite extreme, i know
he's as damned as he seems
more heaven than a heart could hold

and if i try to save him
my whole world could cave in
just ain't right
lord, it just ain't right

and if i could hold on
through the tears and the laughter
would it be beautiful?
or just a beautiful disaster?


i listen to this song and just know it was written just for me!!!!! ha ha
another one of her songs that is just great is....because of you

when i want to feel good, i listen to songs like "earl"......dixie chicks.
haven't we all fantasized about what they did to earl????

andrea bocelli.....love him.
il divo.......love them.

blessings
jeri

AllTooSober

Here's a song by Semisonic that helps me feel better.

Ordinary Life

Well I looked for the life fantastic
Cuz I read it in a magazine
What I got was myself as a plastic figurine

And the happily ever after
I traded everything to see
Now my scene is the snow on a static TV screen

Lord I can dream of an ordinary life
Where nothing particularly weird is going down
Lord I can dream of an ordinary time
Where nothing particularly hard is spinning us around

Well now read me a bedtime story
And be sure that it's nice and sweet
Cuz I don't think I can take any more reality

With a peacefully ever after
For me and my little treat
And I don't want nobody saying "We'll wait and see"

Lord I can dream of an ordinary life
Where nothing particularly weird is going down
Lord I can dream of an ordinary time
Where nothing particularly hard is spinning us around

Pick-a-name

"Overwhelming"--Everclear
(evidently about an A)

"How to Save a Life"--the Fray (about an intervention attempt)

(lots of the songs already mentioned,too)

more later!

Pick-a-name

Oh....and "Gallery" by Mario Vazquez. (In fact, my 24yr old son recently asked me if I heard this song...)

melissaealy

Here is another song you all might like. Its a song that I listen to when I want to leave but dont have the courage.

Cheap Whiskey
Patty Loveless

(Jim Rushing/Emory Gordy, Jr)

He sits all alone in his easy chair
Staring back on all his lost yesterdays
Long before he encountered the bottle
And the demons that drove her away
In his hand he is holding her photograph
Her image all tear-stained and worn
Tonight he's embracing reality
And he curses the day he was born

And the darkness still echoes her warning
You can't have two loves in your life
Now the things that still haunt him
Till the day he dies
Is the smell of cheap wiskey
And the sound of goodbye

Since the hour she left he's been sober
And each breath that he draws makes him think
Of the love of his life lost forever
When he traded her love for a drink

And the darkness still echoes her warning
You can't have two loves in your life
Now the things that still haunt him
Till the day he dies
Is the smell of cheap wiskey
And the sound of goodbye

And the darkness still echoes her warning
You can't have two loves in your life
Now the things that still haunt him
Till the day he dies
Is the smell of cheap wiskey
And the sound of goodbye

melissaealy

and heres another.

MARY J. BLIGE LYRICS



"Not Gon' Cry"

[Verse 1:]
While all the time that I was loving you
You were busy loving yourself
I would stop breathing if you told me to
Now you're busy loving someone else
Eleven years out of my life
Besides the kids I have nothing to show
Wasted my years a fool of a wife
I shoulda have left your ass a long time ago

[Chorus:]
Well I'm not gon cry,
I'm not gon cry,
I'm not gon shed no tears
No, I'm not gon cry,
it's not the time
cuz you're not worth my tears
Well I'm not gon cry,
I'm not gon cry,
I'm not gon shed no tears
No, I'm not gon cry,
it's not the time,
cuz you're not worth my tears

[Verse 2:]
I was your lover and your secretary
Working every day of the week
Was at the job when no one else was there
Helping you get on your feet
Eleven years of sacrifice
And you can leave at the drop of a dime
Swallowed my fears, stood by your side
I shoulda left your ass a thousand times

[Chorus]

I know there are no guarantees
In love you take your chances
But somehow it seems unfair to me
Look at the circumstances
Through sickness and health 'till death do us part
Those were the words that we said from our hearts
So now when you say that you're leaving me
I don't get that part

[Repeat Verse 2]

[Chorus]

queenteree

How about the song "Hate Me Tomorrow". I heard it on the radio the other day, couldn't really understand all the words, but I think I get the drift. Sometimes when I'm really down, all of a sudden these songs come on the radio, go figure, and then I feel like it's a sign.

kermit

my song is by My Chemical Romance
Famous Last words
Now I know
That I can't make you stay
But where's your heart
But where's your heart
But where's your
And I know
Theres nothing I can say
To change that part
To change that part
To change
So many
Bright lights they cast a shadow
But I can't speak
Is it hard understanding
I'm incomplete
A life that's so demanding
I get so weak
A love that's so demanding
I get so weak

Chours
I am not affraid to keep on living
I am not affraid to walk this world alone
Honey if you stay
I'll be forgiven
Nothing you can can keep me from going home

Can you see?
My eyes are shining bright
'Cause I'm out here
On the other side
Of a jet black hotel mirror
And I'm so weak
Is it hard understanding
I'm incomplete
A love that's so demanding
I get weak

Chours

These bright lights have always blinded me
These bright lights have always blinded me

I said
I see you lying next to me
With words I thought I'd never speak
Awake and unafraid
Asleep or Dead

JellyBean

Here's the song that I really relate too, it doesn't cheer me up at all, but it sure describes my feelings... It's called "I Miss My Friend" by Daryll Worley

I miss the look of surrender in your eyes
The way your soft brown hair would fall
I miss the power of your kiss when we made love
Oh, but, baby, most of all
I miss my friend

The one my heart and soul confided in
The one I felt the safest with
The one who knew just what to say
To make me laugh again
And let the light back in
I miss my friend

I miss the colors that you brought into my life
Your golden smile, those blue-green eyes
And I miss your gentle voice in lonely times like now
Saying it'll be alright
I miss my friend

The one my heart and soul confided in
The one I felt the safest with
The one who knew just what to say
To make me laugh again
And let the light back in
I miss my friend

I miss those times, I miss those nights
I even miss our silly fights, the making up
The mornin' talks and those late afternoon walks
I miss my friend

The one my heart and soul confided in
The one I felt the safest with
The one who knew just what to say
To make me laugh again
And let the light back in
I miss my friend

I miss my friend
I miss my friend


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JellyBean

Okay, that song is a little depressing, here's an upbeat one that actually makes me feel better, "Some People Change" by Montgomery Gentry...



His old man was a rebel yeller
Bad boy to the bone
He'd say, can't trust that other fella
He'd judge em by the tone of their skin
He was raised to think like his Dad
Narrow mind full of hate
On the road to no-where fast
Till the Grace of God got in the way
Then he saw the Light
And hit his knees and cried and said a prayer
Rose up a brand new man
Left the old one right there

Here's to the strong, thanks to the brave
Don't give up hope, some people change
Against all odds, against the grain
Love finds a way: some people change

She was born with her mother's habit
You could say, it's in her blood
She hates that she's gotta have it
As she fills her glass up
An she'd love to kill that bottle
But all she can think about
Is a, a better life, a second chance
And everyone she's letting down
She throws that bottle down

Here's to the strong, thanks to the brave
Don't give up hope, some people change
Against all odds, against the grain
Love finds a way, some people change

Thank God for those who make it
Let them be the Light

(Let them be the light)
(Some people change)

Here's to the strong, thanks to the brave
Don't give up hope, some people change
Against all odds, against the grain
Love finds a way, some people change
Some people change

(Some people change)