True words

It Hurts Me Too by the Grateful Dead and Duane Allman

You said you was hurtin, almost lost your mind;
Cause the man you love, hurts you all the time.
But when things go wrong, wrong with you... it hurts me too.

You love him a little more, when you ought to love him less.
Why pick up behind him and take his best?
'Cause when things go wrong, wrong with you... it hurts me too.

You love another man; oh, but I love you
Yes I know you love him darlin, stick to him just about like glue.
'Cause when things go wrong, wrong with you... it hurts me too.

He better leave you, or you better put him down.
Cause I just cant stand to see, see you pushed around.
Cause when things go wrong, wrong with you... it hurts me too.

Bird Song by the Grateful Dead

One of my favorite song intros ever! The lyrics in this version are a little different but mainly bc it looks like they are all tripping balls! Fun clip to watch! I put the link in as well bc a lot of these friendly folks on youtube don't let you embed... "Laugh in the sunshine, sing, cry in the dark, fly through the night...Don't you cry, dry your eyes on the wind!"

All I know is something like a bird within her sang,
All I know she sang a little while and then flew on,
Tell me all that you know, Ill show you snow and rain.

If you hear that same sweet song again, will you know why? 
Anyone who sings a tune so sweet is passing by!
Laugh in the sunshine, sing, cry in the dark, fly through the night.

Don't cry now, don't you cry, don't you cry anymore.
Sleep in the stars, Don't you cry, dry your eyes on the wind!!!!

If you hear that same sweet song again, will you know why?
Anyone who sings a tune so sweet is passing by!
Laugh in the sunshine, sing, cry in the dark, fly through the night.

Don't cry now, don't you cry, don't you cry anymore.
Sleep in the stars, Don't you cry, dry your eyes on the wind!
La Da Da Da

All I know is something like a bird within her sang,
All I know she sang a little while and then flew off,
Tell me all that you know, Ill show you snow and rain.

http://youtu.be/geaZ_lXLIxg

Down By The River by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Dedicated to my daughter Kelsi!

For you Kelsi, my love! You are my sunshine!!! Your hearing in your right ear may not be perfect, but YOU ARE!!! Your left ear will pick up where your right leaves off. Now you really do have a VALID excuse for me to crank up the music in the car, even though we don't really need an excuse to rock out!!! This was your first favorite song that you would request every car ride and make me put the volume up on full blast. (Now we know why, huh kid!) I could stare at your smile, watch you dance, and listen to your crazy stories all day! I am in awe of you! Everyone you meet is in awe of your happiness and love! All of my love my beautiful girl. "You take my hand, I'll take your hand, Together we may get away, This much madness is too much sorrow, It's impossible to make it today....She could drag me over the rainbow, send me away!!!"

Be on my side, I'll be on your side,
There is no reason for you to hide
It's so hard for me staying here all alone
When you could be taking me for a ride.

Yeah, she could drag me over the rainbow, send me away!!!

Down by the river I shot my baby
Down by the river,
Dead, oh, shot her dead.

You take my hand, I'll take your hand
Together we may get away
This much madness is too much sorrow
It's impossible to make it today.

Yeah, she could drag me over the rainbow, send me away

Down by the river I shot my baby
Down by the river,
Dead, oh, shot her dead.

Be on my side, I'll be on your side, baby
There is no reason for you to hide
It's so hard for me staying here all alone
When you could be taking me for a ride.

Yeah, she could drag me over the rainbow, send me away
Down by the river I shot my baby
Down by the river,
Dead, oh, shot her dead.

Let My Love Open the Door by Pete Townshend

Perfect song (and version)  to get a long week ahead started!!! "...Everybody seems unkind, I'll give you a four leaf clover, Take all worry out of your mind..."

When people keep repeating
That you'll never fall in love
When everybody keeps retreating
But you can't seem to get enough

Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
To your heart

Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door

When everything feels all over
Everybody seems unkind
I'll give you a four leaf clover
Take all worry out of your mind

Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
To your heart

Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door

I have the only key to your heart
I can stop you falling apart
Try today, you'll find this way
Come on and give me a chance to say

Let my love open the door, it's all I'm living for
Release yourself from misery
There's only one thing gonna set you free
That's my love, that's my love

Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door

When tragedy befalls you
Don't let it drag you down
Love can cure your problems
You're so lucky I'm around

Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
To your heart

Soul Meets Body by Death Cab for Cutie

This song was in my dreams. Very interesting...Now it is on replay in my head which is not a bad thing... I will just have to listen to it till it stops playing:)  HAPPY SUNDAY FUNDAY!!!!! "So brown eyes I hold you near 'cause you’re the only song I want to hear! A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere..."

I want to live where soul meets body
And let the sun wrap its arms around me
And bathe my skin in water cool and cleansing
And feel, feel what it's like to be new

'Cause in my head there’s a Greyhound station
Where I send my thoughts to far off destinations
So they may have a chance of finding a place
Where they’re far more suited than here

I cannot guess what we'll discover
We turn the dirt with our palms cupped like shovels
But I know our filthy hands can wash one another’s
And not one speck will remain

I do believe it’s true that there are roads left in both of our shoes
But if the silence takes you then I hope it takes me too
So brown eyes I hold you near 'cause you’re the only song I want to hear!
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere

Where soul meets body
Where soul meets body
Where soul meets body

I do believe it’s true that there are roads left in both of our shoes
But if the silence takes you then I hope it takes me too
So brown eyes I hold you near 'cause you’re the only song I want to hear!
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere

A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere

"Oh can you feel the same, Yeah you got to love the pain!!! Yeah it looks like rain again, Yeah I feel it comin' in, The mountains win again..."

Phil Lesh and Friends

34 I made it!!!! Touch of Grey by the Grateful Dead

33 was a challenging year and this song is a perfect fit:)  I'm so much stronger then I once thought I was! I'm most proud that I am such a great mom to my kids and dogs!!! I've been told I'm a pretty good friend too;) Can't wait for a brand new year of my life to start today! 34 sounds like a good age to be... "It's even worse than it appears 'cause it's alright!!!"

Must be getting early, clocks are running late.
Paint by numbers morning sky, looks so phony.
Dawn is breaking everywhere, light a candle, curse the glare
Draw the curtains I don't care 'cause it's alright
I will get by, I will get by, I will get by, I will survive!!!!

I see you've got your list out, say your piece and get out.
Guess I get the gist of it 'cause it's alright
Oh, well, anyway, sorry that you feel that way.
The only thing there is to say
Every silver lining's got a touch of grey
I will get by, I will get by, I will get by, I will survive!!!!

It's a lesson to me
The Ables and the beggars and the thieves
The ABC's we all think of
And try to win a little love

It's a lesson to me
The Deltas and the East and the Freeze
The ABC's we all must face
And try to win a little grace

I know the rent is in arrears, the dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears 'cause it's alright

Cow is given kerosene, kid can't read at seventeen
The words he knows are all obscene but it's alright
I will get by, I will get by, I will get by, I will survive!!!!

The shoe is on the hand it fits, there's really not that much to it
Whistle through your teeth and spit 'cause it's alright

Oh, well, a touch of gray, kinda suits you anyway,
That's all I had to say 'cause it's alright
I will get by, I will get by, I will get by, I will survive!!!!

We will get by. We will get by. We will get by. We will survive!!!!
We will get by. We will get by. We will get by. We will survive!!!!

One of my favorites!

Mountains Win Again by Blues Traveler

This song reminds me of my Lauren. She used to love Blues Traveler. Such a pretty song that puts my mind at ease. "A pocket is no place for a smile anyway, Someday I may find love again will blow my mind, Maybe it will be that love that got away from me..."

I pick up my smile put it in my pocket
Hold it for a while try not to have to drop it
Men are not to cry so how am I to stop it
Keep it all inside don't show how much she rocked ya

Ooh can you feel the same
Ooh you gotta love the pain!
Ooh it looks like rain again
Ooh I feel it comin' in
The mountains win again
The mountains win again

Dreams we dreamed at night were never meant to come to life
I can't understand the ease she pulled away her hand
This time in my life I was hurt enough to care
I guess from now on I'll be careful what I share

Ooh can you feel the same
Ooh ya gotta love the pain
Ooh it looks like rain again
Yeah feel it comin' in
The mountains win again

A pocket is no place for a smile anyway!!!
Someday I may find love again will blow my mind
Maybe it will be that love that got away from me
Is there a line to write that could make you cry tonight

Can you feel the same
Yeah ya gotta love the pain
Ooh it looks like rain again
Ooh feel it comin' in
The mountains win again
Ooh the mountains win again

Grateful

Lucifer by Jay-Z

Listening to this song just made my Monday morning so much better:) Although I have now spent the better part of 20 minutes reading these lyrics instead of doing what I should be doing..."Man I gotta get my soul right, I gotta get these devils out my life..."

Lucifer son of da mornin'
I'm gonna chase you out of earth
Lucifer, Lucifer son of da mornin'
I'm from the murder capitol
Where we murder for capitol

Lucifer, Lucifer son of da mornin'
I'm gonna chase you out of earth
Lucifer, Lucifer son of da mornin'
So you niggas change your attitude
For they askin' what happened to you

Lord forgive him, he got them dark forces in him
But he also got a rightous 'cause for sinnin'
Them a murder me so I gotta murder them first
Emergency doctors performin procedures

Jesus, I ain't tryin' to be facetious
But "Vengance is mine" said the Lord
You said it better than all, leave niggas on deaths door
Breathin off respirators for killin' my best boy, haters

On permenant hiatus as I escape
In the Maybach Benz
Fly this then sanaa lathan
Pumpin' Brown Sugar by D'Angelo

In Los Angeles, like an evangelist
How can you introduce you to your maker ?
Bring you closer to nature
Ashes after they cremate you bastards
Hope you been readin your psalms and chapters
Payin' your tithes being good Catholics, I'm comin'

Lucifer, Lucifer son of da mornin'
I'm gonna chase you out of earth
Lucifer, Lucifer son of da mornin'
I'm from the murder capitol
Where we murder for capitol

Lucifer, Lucifer son of da mornin'
I'm gonna chase you out of earth
Lucifer, Lucifer son of da mornin'
So you niggas change your attitude
For they askin' what happened to you, yes

This is Holy war I wet cha all with the Holy water
Spray from the Heckler Koch auto
Matic all the static shall cease to exist
Like a sabbatical I throw a couple at you

Take six, spread love to all of my dead thugs
I'll pour out a little Louie to a head above
Yes sir, and when I perish the meek shall inherit the earth
Until that time it's on a poppin' Church

Like Don Bishop the fifth upon cock either
Lift up your soul or give you the Holy Ghost please
I leave ya in somebodys Cathedral
And stuntin' like Evil Knievel

I'll let you see where that bright light lead you
The more you talk the more you irkin' us
The more you gonna need memorial services
The Black Album's second verse is like
Devil's Pie save some dessert for us

Man I gotta get my soul right
I gotta get these devils out my life
These cowards gonna make a nigga ride
They won't be happy till somebody dies

Man I gotta get my soul right
'For I'm locked up for my whole life
Evertime it seems it's all right
Somebody want they soul to rise
I'll chase you off of this earth

I got dreams of holdin' a Nine milla to Bobs killa
Askin' him why? as my eyes fill up
These days I can't wake up with a dry pillow
Gone but not forgotten holmes I still feel ya

So curse the day that birthed the bastard
Who 'caused your Church mass, reverse the crash
Reverse the blast, and reverse the car
Reverse the day, and there you are

Bob Allah, Lord forgive him we all have sinned
But Bobs a good dude please let him in
And if you feel in my heart that I long for revenge
Please blame it on the sun of the mournin'
Thanks again

Sun is Gonna Shine Again! by Edie Brickell and Steve Martin

Such a pretty song.  Steve Martin has always been one of my favorite actors, but now he just stepped it up in my book! Hopeful song! "Something tells me it'll be alright, Something tells me it's gonna be okay! The sun is gonna shine again, the sun is gonna shine again!"

Lonely broken feeling
Lonely to my soul
You got the look
You got the feel
You got the face of true love
You got the charm
You got appeal
I got to let you go

So long sweet embraces
So long summertime
You got the power
You got the faith
You got the El Camino
You got the night
You got the day
I got the ole dark cloud

The sun is gonna shine again
The sun is gonna shine again

Long time
I've been waiting a long time
Long enough
You got the song
You got the dance
You got the inspiration
You got it all palm of your hand
I got the rolling wheel

The sun is gonna shine again
The sun is gonna shine again

Something tells me it'll be alright
Something tells me it's gonna be okay

The sun is gonna shine again
The sun is gonna shine again

To my Mary

Happy bday!

"She looks like the real thing, She tastes like the real thing..."

Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead

I've loved this song for so many years! Listening to it is like talking to an old friend.  "She looks like the real thing, She tastes like the real thing, My fake plastic love, But I can't help the feeling, I could blow through the ceiling, If I just turn and run..."

Her green plastic watering can
For her fake Chinese rubber plant
In the fake plastic earth
That she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber plans
To get rid of itself

It wears her out, it wears her out
It wears her out, it wears her out

She lives with a broken man
A cracked polystyrene man
Who just crumbles and burns
He used to do surgery
For girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins

It wears him out, it wears him out
It wears him out, it wears him out

She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My fake plastic love
But I can't help the feeling
I could blow through the ceiling
If I just turn and run

It wears me out, it wears me out
It wears me out, it wears me out

If I could be who you wanted
If I could be who you wanted all the time

All the time...
All the time...

Art Therapy

Nutshell by Alice in Chains

Thanks Matt (and Laurs)  for really introducing me to Alice in Chains! They will forever remind me of you:) "And yet I fight this battle all alone, No one to cry to...If I can't be me own, I'd feel better dead..."

We chase misprinted lies 
We face the path of time 
And yet I fight 
And yet I fight 
This battle all alone 
No one to cry to 
No place to call home

Oooh... Oooh... 
Oooh... Oooh... 

My gift of self is raped 
My privacy is raked 
And yet I find 
And yet I find 
Repeating in my head 
If I can't be my own 
I'd feel better dead 

Oooh... Oooh... 
Oooh... Oooh...

Angie by the Rolling Stones

So grateful for music to help me get through rough patches in my life. Feels comforting to hear someone else's words describe what you are feeling..."With no lovin in our souls...you can't say we're satisfied...Ain't it good to be ALIVE!!!"

Angie, Angie
When will those clouds all disappear?
Angie, Angie
Where will it lead us from here?
With no lovin' in our soul and no money in our coats
You can't say we're satisfied
But Angie, Angie
You can't say we never tried

Angie, you're beautiful
But I hate that sadness in your eyes
Angie, I still love you baby
Remember all those nights we cried
All the dreams we held so close
Seemed to all go up in smoke
Let me whisper in your ear
Angie, Angie
Where will it lead us from here? Yeah

Angie don't you weep
All your kisses still taste sweet
Hate that sadness in your eyes
But Angie, I still love you baby
Everywhere I look I see your eyes
There ain't a woman that comes close to you
Come on baby dry your eyes
But Angie, Angie
Ain't it good to be alive
Angie, Angie, you can't say we never tried

"Just what I'm going through,They can't understand..."

"Some try to tell me
Thoughts they cannot defend,
Just what you want to be
You will be in the end"