Let's hear it for the music!

[Lifecrafting]

I  love Kid Rock! When he was rappin, some of that was just too much for me although I do enjoy listening to You Never Met A ** Quite Like Me...too funny! But now he shares his soul in a way I can totally relate to!

I love his New Orleans song - the way it builds and fires off at the end... WHEW!
Blue Jeans And A Rosary.... Oh yeah...

And Only God Knows Why....Yep. I've listened to that one so many times I can't count em; it's so easy to sing (way out loud)  with...
Sometimes I change the words in the chorus to feel positive...

Like this:   
Now, I do see mine"
Yeah I do see mine
I've been given and now I'm getting

You get the picture...simple but oh so effective when I need to feel better.

I'm walkin that there line....

Oh yeah. Godsmack. Talk about heavy stuff...

Thanks for posting Johnnyboy; I'm gonna do some rockin now!

[Lifecrafting]

Awesome tune, KayFly!

I see how she could inspire you to finish your own song; You go get it girl!

[JohnnyBoy]

I went to a godsmack concert once...they literally blew the the plaster off the walls lol

[Dutch Uncle]

The song is called "So Have I For You"

[Dutch Uncle]

Here's a strange and beautiful one:

The great gig in the sky - Pink Floyd
***mild trigger warning on 'going to heaven'***

Here's a live version, and the amazing thing is: it's a 'cover' of the original, improvised 'lyrics' sung by Clare Torry. (who, after a long legal battle, was at last given 'writers' credits for her original improvisation on the album "Dark side of the moon".  )

It's a wonderful and touching song. Why? I think there are no songs were the phrase "words fail me to express myself" is more apt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D33qylfZbrY

One thing I can say though: it's amazing that such passionate performance, such a touching event is actually a willful, conscious, deliberate, 'trained' effort. Passion is a skill, perhaps, after all. That gives me comfort. This has been hard work for Bianca Antoinette, without a doubt.

[KayFly]

I love this thread so much.

Dutch I burst into tears as soon as this song came on because Pink Floyd reminds me of this time in my life when I was surrounded by musicians and I was nurturing my talents, and learning Pink Floyd Songs.

I often play this on guitar...Wot's...Uh the Deal...I sing it beautifully too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ilb_57xUC4

I don't know why this is making my cry so much. Maybe because I am on a juice cleanse and emotionally cleansing a lot, but I think it's just the "letting go" of the people who I lived with that helped me nourish my music, and empowered my voice. These people took me in rent free after someone had stole the van i was living in. They let me live there for 5 months, until I figured out a plan, but they would have let me stayed longer.

I wound up not trusting them, not because of what they had done, but because of what the bad people in my life had made me think of humans in general. How many friendships they ruined, I cannot count. I'm just so grateful for what some people have done for me, and I wish I could have shown that gratitude at the time.

This all just makes me very emotional.  Thank you for sharing. I'm glad I can recollect on a part of my life in a positive manner, as I had many years of toxic emotion toward almost any situation I was in, or any people I was around..

[Dutch Uncle]

Beautiful story KayFly.

I have this post-card in a frame on the wall: "The best things in Life are Free." Your five months stint sounds just like that.
Ever thought of re-establishing contact with them?

Now I've got this song in my head 

The simple things - Joe Cocker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L80OXhcCrIQ

Somewhere Along The Way
I Got Caught Up In The Race
I Kept Spinning And Turning
Lost Myself My Hope My Faith

We're Always Wanting More Than What We Have
And What I've Learned Is All I Really Need Are...

The Simple Things
That Come Without A Price
The Simple Things
Like Happiness Joy And Love In My Life
I've Seen It All From So Many Sides
And I Hope You Would Agree
The Best Things In Life
Are The Simple Things

Hey Everybody Don't Get Me Wrong You Got To Understand
Ambition And Knowledge
Are The Seeds Of Every Woman And Man

It's Good To Work... Work Hard And Prosper
As Long As You Take Time To Find...

The Simple Things
That Come Without A Price
The Simple Things
Like Happiness Joy And Love In My Life
I've Seen It All From So Many Sides
And I Hope You Would Agree
That The Best Things In Life
Are The Simple Things

[Solo]

This World Moves So Fast
Sometimes You Got To Slow Down, Down, Down
To Find Out What Its All About

We're Always Wanting More Than What We Have
What I've Learned, Is What I Really Need A

The Simple Things
That Come Without A Price
The Simple Things
Like Happiness Joy And Love In My Life
I've Seen It All From So Many Sides
And I Hope You Would Agree
The Best Things In Life
Are The Simple Things


Writer(s): Rick Neigher, Phil Roy, John Shanks

[KayFly]

Thanks for sharing. I have re-established connection with the man who let me into his home, and another man who lived there. We are all on good terms. Though I am in a different state now. Maybe I should send a card or something...Have a good day!

[JohnnyBoy]

I like Joe Cocker, I like his songs "A little help from my friends", and "Up were we belong" with Kim Carnes.

[KayFly]

I've been listening to a lot of Ben Harper lately...I love his work...I found this song very touching when I heard it this morning.

This song made me think about an experience I had the other day, that I posted about here:
http://outofthefog.net/C-PTSD/forum/index.php?topic=2231.0

particularly this lyric: So speak kind to a stranger, cause you'll never know, it just might be an angel come knockin' at your door

Here he sings live. This man has so much peace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVHZtxMtt0M

Waiting on an Angel
Waiting on an angel
One to carry me home
Hope you come to see me soon
Cause I don't want to go alone
I don't want to go alone

Now angel won't you come by me
Angel hear my plea
Take my hand lift me up
So that I can fly with thee
So that I can fly with thee

And I'm waiting on an angel
And I know it won't be long
To find myself a resting place
In my angel's arms
In my angel's arms

So speak kind to a stranger
Cause you'll never know
It just might be an angel come
Knockin' at your door
Knockin' at your door

And I'm waiting on an angel
And I know it won't be long
To find myself a resting place
In my angel's arms
In my angel's arms

Waiting on an angel
One to carry me home
Hope you come and see me soon
Cause I don't want to go alone
I don't want to go alone
Don't want to go
I don't want to go alone

[JohnnyBoy]

Nice

[Dutch Uncle]

The past couple of days I've been confronted by my incapability to accept the 'good stuff' arriving at my doorstep.
I've been so used to "have it coming", that I have developed such an aversion to anything "I have coming", that I simply block out anything "coming my way".

And that includes the good stuff.

I think that (for me) this is what Pete Walker called "the Outer Critic", but I'm still working on that.


Anyway, here's a song that relates so strongly to what I feel so often, and it's crippling me.
It's an angry song, a desperate song, a destructive song.
But a freeing song, I sense...
The stuff that gets dumped on me, under the pretense of charitability... and then the guilt of (apparently) not 'wanting' it... Ugh...

(I don't want your) Charity - Skunk Anansie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ7ZeSU8ZXM

Why do I sense benevolence?
You stand tall at my great expense
Thick words of gratitude, what a price to pay
Stuck in my throat, I sell every word I say

But I don't want your charity
Twisting me round
I don't want your charity
Keeping me down

Why does your world keep burying?
Gorging much deeper than it's ever been
Rubbing still harder, salt on my hurt
Licking my burns while I grovel in your dirt

But I don't want your charity
Twisting me round
I don't want your charity
Keeping me down, you keeping me down

You pity me with your tasteless gestures
Gratitude for kind
But your bludgeoned, intentioned objectives
Are screwing with my mind, screwing with my mind

But I don't want your charity
Twisting me round
I don't want your charity
Keeping me down

I don't want your charity
Twisting me round
I don't want your charity
Keeping me down

I don't want your charity
Twisting me round
I don't want your charity
Keeping me down, down
Keeping me down, down, down
Your, your charities is keeping me, keeping me down

Songwriters
DEBORAH ANN DYER, LEN ARRAN

Published by
Lyrics © BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC

[Dutch Uncle]

Here's one of my favorite singers: Seal

In general I always feel very soothed by his songs. They are very self-compassionate songs on the 'struggles of life'.
For this one I want to put in the disclaimer that it's perfectly OK to cry, and it's more a song for when I'm actually crying. 

Don't Cry - Seal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mte99L-oOSY

Don't be so hard on yourself
Those tears are for someone else
I hear your voice on the phone
I hear you feel so alone

My baby, ohh, my baby
Please, my baby, my baby

When we were young
And truth was paramount
We were older then
And we lived a life without any doubt

Those memories
They seem so long ago
What's become of them?
When you feel like me I want you to know

Don't cry, you're not alone
Don't cry tonight, my baby
Don't cry, you'll always be loved
Don't cry tonight, my baby

Today I dreamed
Of friends I had before
And I wonder why
The ones who care don't call anymore

My feelings hurt
But you know I overcome the pain
And I'm stronger now
There can't be a fire unless there's a flame

Don't cry, you're not alone
Don't cry tonight, my baby
Don't cry, you'll always be loved
Don't cry

Oh, limousines and sycophants
Don't leave me now 'cause I'm afraid
What you've done to me is now the wolf in my bed
In my head, in my head, in my head

The challenges
We took were hard enough
They get harder now
Even when we think that we've had enough

Don't feel alone
'Cause it's I you understand
I'm your sedative
Take a piece of me whenever you can

Don't cry, you're not alone
Don't cry tonight, my baby
Don't cry, you'll always be loved
Don't cry tonight, sweet baby

Don't cry, don't cry
Don't cry, don't you cry
Cry, don't cry, 'cause you still be loved
Don't cry, don't cry tonight

Ohh
My baby, my baby, my baby
Don't cry tonight
You'll still be loved

Songwriters
LEVY, MORRIS/GLOVER, HENRY/MINTER, IVERSON

Published by
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, DOWNTOWN MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC

[woodsgnome]

"Every Long Journey" seems to apply to everyone here at OOTS at some point...especially the lines:

We cannot know what you go through or see through your eyes...but we will surround you, the pride undisguised
--------------------------------------

Every Long Journey
Words and music: Ann Reed

Every long journey is made of small steps
Is made of the courage the feeling you get
When you know it's been waiting, been waiting for you
The journey's the only thing you want to do

We cannot know what you go through or see through your eyes
But we will surround you, the pride undisguised
In any direction whatever you view
You're taking our love there with you

In every long journey what drives you to go
It's half what you know and half what you don't
The secret's been waiting your heart's got the key
The secret's the only thing you want to see

Every long journey begins with a dream
A spirit with courage to make it all real
The dream has been calling, been calling to you
The dream is the only thing you want to do

---------------------------------------------------------

It's also been covered by American folk singer Bill Staines.

There are several Youtube versions; here's one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLI5mRFno7g

Some of the kid pics are triggering for me--but that's okay, it was all a part of those dreams

[Dutch Uncle]

Beautiful song.

We cannot know what you go through or see through your eyes...but we will surround you, the pride undisguised