what music are you listening to right now?

[wurlitzer153]

Got Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre stuck in my head

[aintright]

Set Fire To The Third Bar!

Snow Patrol


tee hee!!



ghosts with just voices

your words in my memory

are like music to me!

[Admiral Mappalazarou]

Hakuna Matata - The Lion King


...What?

[Angela V]

Steven Curtis Chapman's album Declaration
Though I was listening to Hits of the 80's earlier.

[Trialia]

Got Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre stuck in my head

Oh, man, I LOVE that piece. So epic and dramatic and velvety.

Lacuna Coil, Fragments of Faith.

[shovar]

You know what they do to guys like us in prison? - My Chemical Romance

[Trialia]

Wicked OBC, Defying Gravity.

[Otera]

The Chain of Love
Clay Walker

~~ I loved this song since the first time I heard it...

"You don't owe me a thing, I've been there too
Someone once helped me out,
Just the way I'm helping you
If you really want to pay me back,
Here's what you do
Don't let the chain of love end with you"

[Otera]

Really not that different
Collin Raye

~~~ I love the message of this song....

"Look behind your own soul and the person that you'll see
Just might remind you of me.
I laugh,
I love,
I hope,
I try.
I hurt
I need,
I fear,
I cry.
And I know you do the same things, too.
So we're really not that different, me and you."

Spoiler:

She said, "We're much too different.
We're from two seperate worlds."
And he admitted she was partly right.
But in his heart's defense, he told her
what they had in common was strong enough to bond them for life.
He said, "Look behind your own soul and the person that you'll see
just might remind you of me.

(Chorus)
I laugh,
I love,
I hope,
I try.
I hurt
I need,
I fear,
I cry.
And I know you do the same things, too.
So we're really not that different, me and you."

Now she could hardly argue with his pure and simple logic,
but logic never could convince a heart.
She had always dreamed of loving someone more exotic,
and he just didn't seem to fit the part.
So she searched for greener pastures, but never could forget
what he whispered when she left.

(repeat Chorus)

Was it time, or was it truth?
Maybe both led her back to his door.
And as her tears fell at his feet,
she didn't say 'I love you,'
what she said meant even more...

(repeat Chorus)

[Otera]

I loved Her First
Heartland

~~~ Sweet song...

"But I loved her first and I held her first
And a place in my heart will always be hers
From the first breath she breathed
When she first smiled at me
I knew the love of a father runs deep
And I prayed that she'd find you someday
But it still hard to give her away
I loved her first"

Spoiler:

Look at the two of you dancing that way
Lost in the moment and each others face
So much in love your alone in this place
Like there's nobody else in the world
I was enough for her not long ago
I was her number one
She told me so
And she still means the world to me
Just so you know
So be careful when you hold my girl
Time changes everything
Life must go on
And I'm not gonna stand in your way

But I loved her first and I held her first
And a place in my heart will always be hers
From the first breath she breathed
When she first smiled at me
I knew the love of a father runs deep
And I prayed that she'd find you someday
But it still hard to give her away
I loved her first

How could that beautiful women with you
Be the same freckle face kid that I knew
The one that I read all those fairy tales to
And tucked into bed all those nights
And I knew the first time I saw you with her
It was only a matter of time

But I loved her first and I held her first
And a place in my heart will always be hers
From the first breath she breathed
When she first smiled at me
I knew the love of a father runs deep
And I prayed that she'd find you someday
But its still hard to give her away
I loved her first

From the first breath she breathed
When she first smiled at me
I knew the love of a father runs deep
Someday you might know what I'm going through
When a miracle smiles up at you
I loved her first

[Otera]

Alyssa Lies
John Michael Carroll

~~~ so sad... a girl tells her father why she's so upset about her new friend and her father realizes that his daughter's new friend is being abused. He goes to report it, but it's too late. his daughter's friend was killed through the abuse.

Spoiler:

My little girl met a new friend,
just the other day,
on the playground at school
between the tires and the swings

But she came home with tear-filled eyes,
and she said to me "Daddy, Alyssa lies"

Well I just brushed it off at first,
'cause I didn't know how much my little girl had been hurt
or the things she had seen.
I wasn't ready when I said "You can tell me"

and she said...

"Alyssa lies to the classroom,
Alyssa lies everyday at school,
Alyssa lies to the teachers
as she tries to cover every bruise"

My little girl laid her head down that night to go to sleep.
As I stepped out the room, I heard her say a prayer so soft and sweet
"God bless my mom and my Dad
and my new friend, Alyssa
*oh*I know she needs you bad

Because Alyssa lies to the classroom,
Alyssa lies everyday at school,
Alyssa lies to the teachers
as she tries to cover every bruise"

(bridge)

I had the worst night of sleep in years
as I tried to think of a way to calm her fears
I knew just what it was I had to do *I knew exactly what I had to do*
but when we got to school on Monday I heard the news

My little girl asked me why everybody looked so sad
the lump in my throat grew bigger
with every question that she asked.
Until I felt the tears run down my face
and I told her that Alyssa wouldn't be at school today

'Cause she doesn't lie in the classroom
she doesn't lie anymore at school
Alyssa lies with Jesus
because there's nothin' anyone would do

Tears filled my eyes when my little girl asked me why
Alyssa lies
*Oh Daddy, oh* Daddy tell me why
Alyssa lies

[Otera]

Concrete Angel
Martina McBride

~~ the flipside of that coin. Song about the abused child....

Spoiler:

She walks to school with a lunch she packed
Nobody knows what she's holding back;
Wearing the same dress she wore yesterday,
She hides the bruises with the linen and lace;
oh

The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask,
It's hard to see the pain behind the mask;
Bearing the burdon of a secret storm,
Sometimes she wishes she was never born;

Through the wind and the rain,
She stands hard as a stone in a world that she can't rise above;
But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place where she's loved.

Concrete Angel

Somebody cries in the middle of the night,
The neighbors hear but they turn out the lights;
A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate,
When morning comes it will be too late.

Through the wind and the rain,
She stands hard as a stone in a world that she can't rise above;
But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place where she's loved.

Concrete Angel

A statue stands in a shaded place,
An angel girl with an upturned face;
Her name is written on a polished rock,
A broken heart that the world forgot.

Through the wind and the rain,
She stands hard as a stone in a world that she can't rise above;
But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place where she's loved.

Concrete Angel

[Otera]

One Tin Soldier
Peter Paul and Mary

~~~ I really don't care who sings it.... I link this song with campfires and friends and tears and hope and high emotions. I link it with the woods. I link it to my Girl Scout camp, where I first heard it.

Spoiler:

Listen children, to a story, that was written long ago. About a kingdom, on a mountain, and the valley folk below.

On the mountain, was a treasure, burried deep beneath a stone and the valley people swore they'd have it for their very own.

Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend, do it in the name of Heaven, you can justify it in the end. There wont be any trumpets blowing, come the judgement day. On the bloody morning after, One Tin Soldier rides away.

So the people of the valley, sent a message up the hill, asking for the buried treasure, tons of gold for which they'd kill. Came an answer, from the kingdom, with our brothers, we will share, all the secrets, of our mountain, all the riches buried there.

Now the valley, cried with anger, mount your horses, draw your swords, and they killed the, mountain people. So they won their just rewards. Now they stand, beside the treasure, on the mountain, dark and red. Turned the stone, and looked beneath it... "Peace on earth" was all it said.

Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend, do it in the name of Heaven, you can justify it in the end. There wont be any trumpets blowing, come the judgement day. On the bloody morning after, One Tin Soldier rides away.

[Otera]

Living on a prayer
Bon Jovi

~~ another song I link to my camp. We'll just break out in this song randomly... tem years as a camper... no surprise I've got a lot of links to my camp...

Spoiler:

Once upon a time not so long ago:
Tommy used to work on the docks
union's been on strike

He's down on his luck - It's tough
so tough.
Gina works the diner all day
working for her man

She brings home her pay for love
for love.

She says: We've got to hold on to what we've got
'Cause it doesn't make a difference if we make it or not.
We've got each other and that's a lot for love -
We'll give it a shot.

We're half way there - Livin' on a prayer

Take my hand and we'll make it
I swear - livin' on a prayer.

Tommy got his six string in hock.
Now he's holding in what he used to make it talk -
So tough
it's tough.
Gina dreams of running away
when she cries in the night
Tommy whispers: Baby
it's okay
someday.

We've got to hold on to what we've got . . .
We're half way there - Livin' on a prayer
. . .

We've got to hold on ready or not

You live for the fight when it's all that you've got.

We're half way there - Livin' on a prayer
. . .
We're half way there - Livin' on a prayer
. . .
We're half way there - Livin' on a prayer
. . .

[Otera]

Cat's in the Cradle
Cat Stevens

~~~and this one is one I know by heart, though when our unit was to sing it for the last night campfire, the staff didn't believe me... well after I taught half the unit they did...