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Eqlibrium

I have often told you stories
About the way
I lived the life of a drifter
Waiting for the day
When Id take your hand
And sing you songs
Then maybe you would say
Come lay with me love me
And I would surely stay

But I feel Im growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill goin round
I guess Ill always be
A soldier of fortune

Many times Ive been a traveller
I looked for something new
In days of old
When nights were cold
I wandered without you
But those days I thougt my eyes
Had seen you standing near
Though blindness is confusing
It shows that youre not here

Now I feel Im growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill goin round
I guess Ill always be
A soldier of fortune
Yes, I can hear the sound
Of a windmill goin round
I guess Ill always be
A soldier of fortune

unigirl

I like the tunes on Van Marrisons new album - alot about alcoholism and recovery - its entitled 'keep it simple'.

Eqlibrium

Nirvana - Dumb
I'm not like them
But I can pretend
The sun is gone
But I have a light
The day is done
But I'm having fun

I think I'm dumb
or maybe just happy
Think I'm just happy
my heart is broke
But I have some glue
help me inhale
And mend it with you
We'll float around]
And hang out on clouds
Then we'll come down
And I have a hangover...Have a hangover

Skin the sun
Falkl asleep
Wish away
The soul is cheap
Lesson learned
Wish me luck
Soothe the burn
Wake me up

I'm not like them
But I can pretend
The sun is gone
But I have a light
The day is done
But I'm having fun

Eqlibrium

Dream On - Aerosmith
Everytime that I look in the mirror
All these lines on my face gettin clearer
The past is gone
It went by like dust to dawn
Isnt that the way
Everybodys got their dues in life to pay

I know what nobody knows
Where it comes and where it goes
I know its everybodys sin
You got to lose to know how to win

Half my life is in books written pages
Live and learn from fools and from sages
You know its true
All the things come back to you

Sing with me, sing for the years
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tears
Sing with me, if its just for today
Maybe tomorrow the good lord will take you away
(x2)

Dream on, dream on
Dream yourself a dream come true
Dream on, dream on
Dream until your dream come true
Dream on, dream on, dream on...

Sing with me, sing for the years
Sing for the laughter and sing for the tears
Sing with me, if its just for today
Maybe tomorrow the good lord will take you away

best

U2 has a song that tells it all.

Though I didn't cry out with my lips...my life was a mess and my life did the crying out for me and my cry was heard.

U2


40

(sing this with me, this is 40)

I waited patiently for the lord
He inclined and heard my cry
He lift me up out of the pit
Out of the mire and clay

I will sing, sing a new song
I will sing, sing a new song

How long to sing this song?
How long to sing this song?
How long...how long...how long...
How long...to sing this song

He set my feet upon a rock
And made my footsteps firm
Many will see
Many will see and hear

I will sing, sing a new song
I will sing, sing a new song

(sing it!)

How long to sing this song?
How long to sing this song?
How long...how long...how long...
How long...to sing this song

Eqlibrium

The Velvet Underground - Heroin
I dont know just where Im going
But Im gonna try for the kingdom, if I can
cause it makes me feel like Im a man
When I put a spike into my vein
And Ill tell ya, things arent quite the same
When Im rushing on my run
And I feel just like jesus son
And I guess that I just dont know
And I guess that I just dont know

I have made the big decision
Im gonna try to nullify my life
cause when the blood begins to flow
When it shoots up the droppers neck
When Im closing in on death
And you cant help me not, you guys
And all you sweet girls with all your sweet silly talk
You can all go take a walk
And I guess that I just dont know
And I guess that I just dont know

I wish that I was born a thousand years ago
I wish that Id sail the darkened seas
On a great big clipper ship
Going from this land here to that
In a sailors suit and cap
Away from the big city
Where a man can not be free
Of all of the evils of this town
And of himself, and those around
Oh, and I guess that I just dont know
Oh, and I guess that I just dont know

Heroin, be the death of me
Heroin, its my wife and its my life
Because a mainer to my vein
Leads to a center in my head
And then Im better off and dead
Because when the smack begins to flow
I really dont care anymore
About all the jim-jims in this town
And all the politicians makin crazy sounds
And everybody puttin everybody else down
And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds

cause when the smack begins to flow
Then I really dont care anymore
Ah, when the heroin is in my blood
And that blood is in my head
Then thank God that Im as good as dead
Then thank your God that Im not aware
And thank God that I just dont care
And I guess I just dont know
And I guess I just dont know

353

This song makes me think about where I was headed......not esoteric just straight to the point

High Cost of Living - Jamey Johnson

I was just a normal guy
Life was just a 9 to 5
With bills and pressure
Piled up to the sky

She never asked she knew I'd been
Running with my wilder friends
Looking for some other way to fly

Three days straight was no big feat
You get by on no food or sleep
And crazy was becoming my new norm

I'd pass out on the bedroom floor
Sleep right through the calm before the storm

CHORUS

Life was just an old routine
Every day the same damn thing
I couldn't even tell I was alive
The high cost of livin' ain't nothing like The Cost Of Livin' High


That southern baptist parking lot
Was where I'd go to smoke my pot
Sit there in my pick-up truck and pray

Starin' at that giant cross
Just reminded me that I was lost
And it just never seemed to point the way

As soon as Jesus turned his back
I'd find my way across the track
Just lookin' to score another deal

With my back against that damned 8 ball
I didn't have to think or talk ...or feel

REPEAT CHORUS

My whole life flashed through my head
Lying in that motel bed
Watchin' as the cops kicked in the door

I had a job and a peace of land
My sweet wife was my best friend
But I traded that for cocaine and a *****

With my newfound sobriety
I've got time to sit and think
Of all I had and through away

This prison is much colder than
That one that I was locked up in...just yesterday

Chorus

RK2007

Extract from Tristania - Equilibrium

I swim in you
In your dark rivers
Dive in your mind
Search for your monsters
Search for resistance
Sink into the mud
Dance in the halls of insanity
Yet madness is
Your highest deed
Your vanity

findingout

With the small substitution of "Drugs" for "Love", this was me before I found recovery. In recovery, I found I out I wasn't the only one


Am I The Only One (Who's Ever Felt This Way) - Dixie Chicks

There Is No Good Reason
I Should Have To Be So Alone
I'm Smothered By This Emptiness
Lord I Wish I Was Made Of Stone
Like I Fool I Lent My Soul To Love
And It Paid Me Back In Change
God Help Me
Am I The Only One Who's Ever Felt This Way?

A Heart That's Worn And Weathered
Would Know Better Than To Fight
But I Wore Mine Like A Weapon
Played Out Love Like A Crime
And It Wrung Me Out And Strung Me Out
And It Hung Years On My Face
God Help Me
Am I The Only One Who's Ever Felt This Way?

Now My Sense Of Humor Needs A Break
I See A Shadow In The Mirror
And She's Laughin' Through Her Tears
One More Smile's All I Can Fake

There Is A Wound Inside Me
And It's Bleeding Like A Flood
There's Times When I See A Light Ahead
Hope Is Not Enough
As Another Night Surrounds Me
And It Pounds Me Like A Wave
God Help Me
Am I The Only One Who's Ever Felt This Way?

Captain Kirk

The Waterboys - Higher In Time

The mountain is steep
the ditches are deep
The task in hand
is making us weep
But here's a promise
I intend to keep
That I mean to keep

Seed it in your mind
and say it each night
Before you sleep:
we will climb higher in time

You've got a head full of trouble
and a ship to build
You think you won't make it
but you know you will
You feel you need your
cup refilled
Fill it out of mine
we'll drop the defenses,
Pool our skill

Your heart you're hiding
it's making you ill
You feel like you want to have your
sporran (?) refilled
Well, fill it out of mine
let the soulful water
Overspill

and we will climb higher in time

I've been to the bottom
I've been on the train
I've slept in the gutter
with my head in a drain
I've been brutally proud
I've been mortally shamed
But this is not a crime
I'm just learning, my friends,
That it's all in the game
and we will climb higher in time

Climb higher in time
climb higher in time

Captain Kirk

Here's another one.

Good Man Gone - The Waterboys

I'm staring at a stranger in the mirror
he's looking like a ghost in human form.
That used to be my head but the occupant has fled.
Lord, where's the good man gone?

My eyes are like two troopers in a foxhole.
I'm doing things I used to know were wrong.
I've hurt all my friends and I'll do it again.
Lord, where's the good man gone ?

There's a woman, Lord, somewhere in this city.
I've got to put her in my song.
I'm treating her unkind and I don't mind.
Lord, where's the good man gone
and is he coming back?
Is he coming back?
Lord, where's the good man gone.

Skivvy

Just one of my days at present. I have tried to detox myself and can not do it. Was heading into DT's yesterday and even drinking took an hour to take effect. I am a mess but I have to stop.

That smell, Lynard Skynard

Whiskey bottles, and brand new cars
Oak tree you're in my way
There's too much coke and too much smoke
Look what's going on inside you
Ooooh that smell
Can't you smell that smell
Ooooh that smell
The smell of death surrounds you

Angel of darkness is upon you
Stuck a needle in your arm
So take another toke, have a blow for your nose
One more drink fool, will drown you
Ooooh that smell
Can't you smell that smell
Ooooh that smell
The smell of death surrounds you

Now they call you Prince Charming
Can't speak a word when you're full of 'ludes
Say you'll be all right come tomorrow
But tomorrow might not be here for you
Ooooh that smell
Can't you smell that smell
Ooooh that smell
The smell of death surrounds you

Hey, you're a fool you
Stick them needles in your arm
I know I been there before

One little problem that confronts you
Got a monkey on your back
Just one more fix, Lord might do the trick
One hell of a price for you to get your kicks
Ooooh that smell
Can't you smell that smell
Ooooh that smell
The smell of death surrounds you
Ooooh that smell
Can't you smell that smell
Ooooh that smell
The smell of death surrounds you

Toomutch

Brick House!

Just kidding. :rof

I will post one in a bit.