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InactiveMarch 14, 2019 at 9:26 amPost count: 1I understand this is old, but I just got out of detox 3 days ago, and they played this song for us in there, and told us to play it every once in a while to give us hope that we can do it.
It works, makes me pumped lol.
One Day – Matisyahu
youtube.com/watch?v=kS9uTiEY9ag
InactiveMarch 14, 2019 at 9:26 amPost count: 12Signs of Life – Journey
It’s been forty days since I heard
from you this waiting game…
You put me through
I feel the silence… killing me… day to day
Losin’ hope, I lose myself,
it’s got me thinkin’ there’s
someone else
We need to talk… you give me
metaphors, by the way…
What are you tryin’ to sayTryin’ to not think about you
I’m not a dead man walkin’ without you
You know I’ll be alright
I’m showing signs of lifeYou left me barley breathin’
I’ve had time for the healing
Now I’ve opened my eyes
I’m showing signs of lifeLyin’ next to me… Were you ever mine
Just wasted love and wasted time
Did you ever find what you were lookin’ for,
the nights you took me breath away
I’ll miss your love… Miss your
touch, but this holdin’ on it
hurts too much
Now it’s my time to walk away… I’ll be okayTryin’ to not think about you
I’m not a dead man walkin’ without you
You know I’ll be alright
I’m showing signs of lifeYou left me barley breathin’
I’ve had time for the healing
Now I’ve opened my eyes
I’m showing signs of lifeWell, tell your friends that you stole my heart
But you’ll never got a piece of my soul
You took my love, tore my life apart
There’s more to me than you’ll ever know…Tryin’ to not think about you
I’m not a dead man walkin’ without you
You know I’ll be alright
I’m showing signs of lifeTryin’ to not think about you
I’m not a dead man walkin’ without you
You know I’ll be alright
I’m showing signs of lifeYou left me barley breathin’
I’ve had time for the healing
Now I’ve opened my eyes
I’m showing signs of lifeSeeing signs of life…
InactiveMarch 14, 2019 at 9:26 amPost count: 12Judas – Depeche Mode
Is simplicity best
Or simply the easiest
The narrowest path
Is always the holiest
So walk on barefoot for me
Suffer some misery
If you want my love
If you want my loveMan will survive
The harshest conditions
And stay alive
Through difficult decisions
So make up your mind for me
Walk the line for me
If you want my love
If you want my loveIdle talk
And hollow promises
Cheating Judases
Doubting Thomases
Don’t just stand there and shout it
Do something about itYou can fulfil
Your wildest ambitions
And I’m sure you will
Lose your inhibitions
So open yourself for me
Risk your health for me
If you want my love
If you want my love
If you want my love
If you want my loveInactiveMarch 14, 2019 at 9:26 amPost count: 7Mumford & Sons—The Cave
Some of the lyrics:
Cause I need freedom now
And I need to know how
To live my life as it’s meant to beAnd I will hold on hope
And I won’t let you choke
On that noose around your neckAnd I’ll find strength in pain
And I will change my ways
I’ll know my name as it’s called againInactiveMarch 14, 2019 at 9:26 amPost count: 12Eddie Vedder Singing “Hard Sun”
Video with lyrics
http://youtu.be/bH_5FNJ9R3gInactiveMarch 14, 2019 at 9:26 amPost count: 12Faded Flowers – Shriekback
This is the sound of poisons
the sickness no one knows
No one is crying for us this time
Our shapes are blurring under miracles of snow
Weave a circle round him three times
You have to plan your moves at these times
Our hearts are breaking
One more song to goThese eyes are blind
This is a pure thing
These hands I kiss
Tragic as anything
These eyes are blind
This is a pure thing
All splash and hiss
Beyond my measuringOnly the anacrucis
the main event remains
Shameful and naked, out there in the
great cold outdoors
We have to learn these things again
Bathe in this incandescent glow
the leap to something I don’t know
There is no doubt upon us when
the greasy men come back againThese eyes are blind
This is a pure thing
These hands I kiss
Tragic as anything
These eyes are blind
This is a pure thing
All splash and hiss
Beyond my measuring
These faded flowers
Precious as memory
A veil of cloud
Correct as energy
We had some good machines
But they don’t work no more
I loved you once
Don’t love you anymoreInactiveMarch 14, 2019 at 9:26 amPost count: 12Time Stand Still – Rush
I turn my back to the wind
To catch my breath
Before I start off again.
Driven on without a moment to spend
To pass an evening with a drink and a friendI let my skin get too thin
I’d like to pause
No matter what I pretend
Like some pilgrim
Who learns to transcend
Learns to live as if each step was the end(Time stand still)
I’m not looking back
But I want to look around me now
(Time stand still)
See more of the people and the places that surround me now
Time Stands still
Freeze this moment a little bit longer
Make each sensation a little bit stronger
Experience slips away
Experience slips awayTime Stands still
I turn my face to the sun
I Close my eyes
Let my defences down
All those wounds that I can’t get unwoundI let my past go too fast
No time to pause
If I could slow it all down
Like some captain, whose ship runs aground
I can wait until the tide comes around(Time stand still)
I’m not looking back
But I want to look around me now
(Time stand still)
See more of the people and the places that surround me now
Freeze this moment a little bit longerMAKE EACH SENSATION A LITTLE BIT STRONGER
Make each impression, a little bit stronger
Freeze this motion a little bit longer
The innocence slips away
The innocence slips away…Time stands still
Time stands stillI’m not looking back
But I want to look around me now
See more of the people and the places that surround me now
Time stands stillSummer’s going fast, nights growing colder
Children growing up, old friends growing older
Freeze this moment a little bit longer
Make each sensation a little bit stronger
Experience slips away
Experience slips away…
The innocence slips away.InactiveMarch 14, 2019 at 9:26 amPost count: 12I’ve Found My Way – Sally Dworsky
Traveling blind, trapped in darkness.
Kept trying to find easy rule to win the game.
Going round and round in an old disguise.
So full of doubt but I’m turning around ’cause now it’s my time.Standing on the edge of tomorrow.
Leaving far behind my yesterday.
And shadows disappearing as more no light is nearing
And tomorrow will be more than just another day.
I’ve found my way.Played it safe for a long time.
And so afraid to find the courage to believe.
But with each new day, I find the urge.
To face the pain. Now it’s time for a change, I swear it’s my turn.Standing on the edge of tomorrow.
Leaving far behind my yesterday.
And shadows disappearing as more no light is nearing
And tomorrow will be more than just another day.
I’ve found my way.And now with a love I can’t explain.
Somehow, he gave me faith to find a way…[Repeat chorus]
[Note: I substitute the word “you” for “he” in the bridge; the “you” being the 12-step fellowships.]
InactiveMarch 16, 2019 at 4:51 amPost count: 5I didn’t read through the whole thread so these may be already listed.
“Come Away from It”
by Ani Difrancocome
come away
come away from
come away from itnext to the glass ashtray
in a little plastic baggy
is a bitter rock remedy
really good stuff
but i take offense to the fact
that you’re so hell bent
are you trying to tell me this world
just isn’t beautiful enough?do you want to get off?
is this your stop?
do you gotta have a tripledecker super fudge sundae
with a godd—n cherry on top?
i mean, what makes you so lavish
that you can afford
to spend every sober moment feeling angry and boredwhy don’t you come
come away
come away from it
why?we used to hold hands down
those unfamiliar streets
you used to take me diving
into the watery blue deep
but now you’re trying to find every tiny treasure
every shiny penny of pleasure
satisfy every selfish purpose
before you swim back up to the surfacewhy don’t you come
come away
come away from ityou think that i just don’t like it anymore
but i’ll tell you what i don’t like
i don’t like that i had to put the training wheels
back onto your bike
and i don’t like the extravagance
or the way you taste when i kiss you
i don’t like being left alone
baby, don’t you think i miss you?InactiveMarch 16, 2019 at 5:32 amPost count: 1My Old Addiction
by K. D. LangMy old addiction
Changed the wiring in my brain
So that when it turns the switches
Then i am not the sameSo like the flowers toward the sun
I will follow
Stretch myself out thin
Like there’s a part of me that’s already buried
That sends me out into this windowMy old addiction
Is a flood upon the land
This tiny lifeboat
Can keep me dry
But my weight is all
That it can standSo when I try to lean just a little
For just a splash to cool my face
Ahh that trickle
Turns out fickle
Fills my boat up
Five miles deepMy old addiction
Makes me crave only what is best
Like these just this morning song birds
Craving upward from the nest
These tiny birds outside my window
Take my hand to be their mom
These open mouths
Would trust and swallow
Anything that came alongLike my old addiction
Now the other side of day
As the springtime
Of my life’s time
Turn’s the other wayIf a swan can have a song
I think I know that tune
But the page is only scrawled
And I am gone this afternoon
But the page is only scrawled
And I am gone this afternoonInactiveMarch 16, 2019 at 5:32 amPost count: 6@Dan Dare 1623577 wrote:
“Fix You” by Coldplay has been in my head for a while now…
Same here! I really listened to the lyrics a few days ago. I wonder if the song is referring to a higher power? Awesome song.
InactiveMarch 16, 2019 at 5:32 amPost count: 1“Fix You” by Coldplay has been in my head for a while now…
InactiveMarch 16, 2019 at 5:32 amPost count: 1painkiller by Pendulum (Noisia remix)
truthful and the bass is literally a killa!!
InactiveMarch 16, 2019 at 5:32 amPost count: 425“Travelin Thru” by Dolly Parton…One of my all time favs
“The Women In My Life” by Holly Near [favorite line is “And she throws the drink away”
InactiveMarch 16, 2019 at 5:32 amPost count: 6I was listening to an old Sting CD the other day (The Soul Cages) and the words to Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot jumped out at me even though I had listened to it a million times (funny how this happens):
“Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot”
Let your soul be your pilot
Let your soul guide you
He’ll guide you wellWhen you’re down and they’re counting
When your secrets all found out
When your troubles take to mounting
When the map you have leads you to doubt
When there’s no information
And the compass turns to nowhere that you know wellLet your soul be your pilot
Let your soul guide you
He’ll guide you wellWhen the doctors failed to heal you
When no medicine chest can make you well
When no counsel leads to comfort
When there are no more lies they can tell
No more useless information
And the compass spins
The compass spins between heaven and hellLet your soul be your pilot
Let your soul guide you
He’ll guide you wellAnd your eyes turn towards the window pane
To the lights upon the hill
The distance seems so strange to you now
And the dark room seems so stillLet your pain be my sorrow
Let your tears be my tears too
Let your courage be my model
That the north you find will be true
When there’s no information
And the compass turns to nowhere that you know wellLet your soul be your pilot
Let your soul guide you
Let your soul guide you
Let your soul guide you upon your way… -
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