Songs That Express How You Feel Today

Bellisima · Post by **Bellisima** » 11-28-2004 12:57 PM

Here's one from me.

Title: American Tune
Words & music by Paul Simon

Many's the time I've been mistaken
And many times confused
Yes, and often felt forsaken
And certainly misused
Oh, but I'm alright, I'm alright
I'm just weary to my bones
Still, you don't expect to be
Bright and bon vivant
So far away from home, so far away from home

I don't know a soul who's not been battered
I don't have a friend who feels at ease
I don't know a dream that's not been shattered
or driven to its knees
Oh, but it's alright, it's alright
for we lived so well so long
Still, when I think of the
road we're traveling on
I wonder what's gone wrong
I can't help it, I wonder what's gone wrong

And I dreamed I was dying
I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly
And looking back down at me
Smiled reassuringly
And I dreamed I was flying
And high up above my eyes could clearly see
The Statue of Liberty
Sailing away to sea
And I dreamed I was flying

We come on the ship they call the Mayflower
We come on the ship that sailed the moon
We come in the age's most uncertain hours
and sing an American tune
Oh, and it's alright, it's alright, it's alright
You can't be forever blessed
Still, tomorrow's going to be another working day
And I'm trying to get some rest, that's all
I'm trying to get some rest

mudwoman · Post by **mudwoman** » 11-28-2004 01:11 PM

SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY
U2

Yes...

I can’t believe the news today
Oh, I can’t close my eyes and make it go away
How long...
How long must we sing this song?
How long? how long...

’cause tonight...we can be as one
Tonight...

Broken bottles under children’s feet
Bodies strewn across the dead end street
But I won’t heed the battle call
It puts my back up
Puts my back up against the wall

Sunday, bloody sunday
Sunday, bloody sunday
Sunday, bloody sunday (sunday bloody sunday...)
(allright lets go!)

And the battle’s just begun
There’s many lost, but tell me who has won
The trench is dug within our hearts
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart

Sunday, bloody sunday
Sunday, bloody sunday

How long...
How long must we sing this song?
How long? how long...

’cause tonight...we can be as one
Tonight...
Tonight...

Sunday, bloody sunday (tonight)
Tonight
Sunday, bloody sunday (tonight)
(come get some!)

Wipe the tears from your eyes
Wipe your tears away
Wipe your tears away
I wipe your tears away
(sunday, bloody sunday)
I wipe your blood shot eyes
(sunday, bloody sunday)

Sunday, bloody sunday (sunday, bloody sunday)
Sunday, bloody sunday (sunday, bloody sunday)
(here I come!)

And it’s true we are immune
When fact is fiction and tv reality
And today the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die

The real battle yet begun (sunday, bloody sunday)
To claim the victory jesus won (sunday, bloody sunday)
On...

Sunday bloody sunday
Sunday bloody sunday...

LisaA · Post by **LisaA** » 11-28-2004 06:49 PM

Kyrie Eleison

Kyrie Eleison

Kyrie Eleiiiii-son

(roughly translated as, "Lord have mercy!")

Devastated · Post by **Devastated** » 11-29-2004 07:32 AM

Que tontos, que locos, estamos tu y yo!!!

NeelyGirl · Post by **NeelyGirl** » 11-29-2004 10:02 AM

everybody wants to live like they wanna live and
everybody wants to love like they wanna love and

everybody wants to be closer to free

everybody wants respect, just a little bit
and everybody needs a chance once in a while
everybody wants to be closer to free

everybody needs to touch ya know now and then and
everybody wants a good good friend
everybody wants to be closer to free

Dale O Sea · Post by **Dale O Sea** » 11-29-2004 01:35 PM

Devastated wrote: Que tontos, que locos, estamos tu y yo!!!

Boy, that one sure loses something in the translation:

That Idiot, That Crazy, We Are Your and I
The time has not obtained that forgets to you. It has not erased the tracks of your love. Todavia I feel the flavor of your kisses in my mouth. Todavia I feel your hands acariendome the skin. And I do not want to follow asi, being with her and thinking about you. To my this going equal, I do not let think about you. There is day that I rise with you in the head, I call it by your name. And I do not want to follow asi, being with her and thinking about you. That idiot that crazy we are your and I, being with amandonos others and. That idiot that crazy we are your and I, being with even amandonos others and. And I do not want to follow asi, being with her and thinking about you. To my this going equal I do not let think about you. There is day that I rise with you in the head, I call it by your name. And I do not want to follow asi, being with her and thinking about you. That idiot that crazy we are your and I, being with amandonos others and. That idiot that crazy we are your and I, being with even amandonos others and. Todavia I am not accustomed nor to cafe done by its hands. It knows to me bad, is not like yours. And I, when I feel its caresses, close the eyes and think about you. That idiot that crazy we are your and I, being with amandonos others and. That idiot that crazy we are your and I, being with even amandonos others and. That idiot that crazy we are your and I, being with amandonos others and. That idiot that crazy we are your and I, being with even amandonos others and. That idiot

I bet that's why you posted the title in the original Spanish. Is is mariachi music? That's what I hear when I read it.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hello NG.

Sorry you are still feeling down. Hope you are your old self again soon. I'll put some fresh grub in the hold. Please feel free to stowaway as long as you need.
A friend -D

Rombaldi · Post by **Rombaldi** » 11-29-2004 01:53 PM

I Miss America
by Harry Chapin

By the time I was thirteen
I started taking shape.
At eighteen I was so beautiful
That the strangers started to gape.
They said "Enter the ultimate contest
If you're as gorgeous as you seem."
They said "Please, please, please
Be our American dream."
But late that night beneath the grieving moon
There's a dazzling sight in my motel room
For a grunting judge with his bulging eyes
I give my all for his cherished prize.

Oh why, oh why?
I'm Miss America
Crying on TV
Silver clad in satin rags,
But everything's where it should be
Oh say can you see, ah say can you see.

After they showed me the game ball
They told me put on weight.
They told me I'd be powerful
They told me I'd be great.
And my Uncle Sam he would coach me
His helmet on my head
And they said "Please, please please, please
Please win and beat the spread."
But the new game plan that the owners had made
Meant that win or lose there would be a trade.
For the team's become a real gold mine
And the kid's sold off for the bottom line.

Oh why, oh why?
Mr. America
Sweating on TV
The winner's joy from the battered boy
For everything's where it should be
Oh say can you see, ah say can you see.

At last we've come together
Call it marriage or civil war.
If it brings us to battle, babe
It must be worth our fighting for.
Though today came up cloudy
There will be other days.
"Ah, please, please, please, please
What else is there to say?"
But in plywood spread
By a plastic stream
And in separate beds with a borrowed dream
And with questions wide and the silence deep
We take two pills so at last we'll sleep.

Oh why, oh why?
Mr. and Mrs. America
Our story's on TV
Can you hear canned laughter
For everything's where it should be
Oh say can you see, ah say can you see.

Well, my little boy he told me something
Just the other night.
He whispered it as I kissed him
Before I turned out the light.
And of course he said it simple
As only children can
He said "Daddy, daddy, daddy, please
I'm ready to dream again."

NeelyGirl · Post by **NeelyGirl** » 11-29-2004 02:25 PM

Oh Thanks Dale, I'm actually okay Today.

I'm starting to become one of "those" people that is losing it one day and "normal" the next. I feel I'm experiencing an "awakening" of the nut in me...seriously

And Rom, someone just got me "into" harry Chapin not too long ago...

"A better place to live"..

Dale O Sea · Post by **Dale O Sea** » 11-29-2004 03:13 PM

I feel I'm experiencing an "awakening" of the nut in me...seriously -NG

Don't worry, it improves with age. The hallucinations become more vivid and lifelike, heh.

:D

Please take care of yourself. I miss your spice...

Lakesider · Post by **Lakesider** » 11-29-2004 07:39 PM

I'm so tired, I haven't slept a wink
I'm so tired, my mind is on the blink
I wonder should I get up and fix myself a drink, no, no, no

I'm so tired, I'm feeling so upset
Although I'm so tired, I'll have another cigarette
and curse Sir Walter Raleigh he was such a stupid get...

Devastated · Post by **Devastated** » 11-30-2004 08:30 AM

Dale, it does lose a bit in the translation. It's about illicit love. How crazy, how insane we are, to be with another but loving each other.
I felt crazy and insane, and everybody else on the ship seems slightly crazy and insane, so I quoted the crazy and insane part.

SETIsLady · Post by **SETIsLady** » 11-30-2004 08:28 PM

American Idiot Lyrics
Artist ;Green Day

Don't want to be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation under the new media.
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind **** America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the idiot nation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.

Well maybe I'm the ****** America.
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along in the age of paranoia.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the idiot nation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.

Don't want to be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It's calling out to idiot America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the idiot nation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.

mudwoman · Post by **mudwoman** » 11-30-2004 09:23 PM

Thank you SLady,

Is there a place on line, where one could listen to this song for free? I like the lyrics a lot, and if the melody is as good, I'd like to hear it.

SETIsLady · Post by **SETIsLady** » 11-30-2004 09:29 PM

Sure MW...no problem...its punk but its good. I am sending you a link to the video...you have to see the colors wash off the flag in the video.

This is one of my fav bands !! Just scroll down the page..and pick your internet speed.

Produced by Rob Cavallo, the album discusses themes of alienation and disillusionment in their native country and is centred around two five-part, nine minute epics (Jesus Of Suburbia and Homecoming).

The Californians headlined Reading and Leeds Festivals earlier this summer but have not played in Manchester since Move Festival in 2002.

Green Day Video

mudwoman · Post by **mudwoman** » 11-30-2004 10:55 PM

Thank You!