posted July 07, 2006 12:25 PM         

Luther Vandross, Dance with my father

Back when I was a child
Before life removed all the innocence
My father would lift me high
And dance with my mother and me and then

Spin me around till I fell asleep
Then up the stairs he would carry me
And I knew for sure
I was loved

If I could get another chance
Another walk, another dance with him
I’d play a song that would never, ever end
How I’d love, love, love to dance with my father again

Ooh, ooh

When I and my mother would disagree
To get my way I would run from her to him
He’d make me laugh just to comfort me, yeah, yeah
Then finally make me do just what my mama said

Later that night when I was asleep
He left a dollar under my sheet
Never dreamed that he
Would be gone from me

If I could steal one final glance
One final step, one final dance with him
I’d play a song that would never, ever end
‘Cause I’d love, love, love to dance with my father
again

Sometimes I’d listen outside her door
And I’d hear her, mama cryin’ for him
I pray for her even more than me
I pray for her even more than me

posted July 08, 2006 11:35 AM         

Hey! Thanks for sharing The Cranberries are indeed beautiful, and "Dreams" is a great one. I have many "Cranberries all-time favorites"...

posted July 09, 2006 08:55 AM         

Let me love you
Take me home to your religion for the night
Let me touch you
Teach me how to see your vision through my eyes
Turn the pages
Tell my story, let me face another day
Safe embraces, i feel it comin' now
My captain's on his way.

Hey, my high power
The world is spinnin', but i'm not afraid
Yeah, give me the power it's the beginnin', the beginnin' of another day.

Let me hold you
Take me back into the secrets of my mind
Let me know you
Come and save me lord
Don't let me cross the line

Hey, my high power
The world is spinnin', but i'm not afraid
Yeah, give me the power it's the beginnin', the beginnin' of another day.

Ooh, let me love you
Ooh, let me love you

Hey, my higher power
The world is spinnin', but i'm not afraid

Yea, my higher power
It's the beginning of another day.

Hey, my higher power
The world is spinnin', but i'm not afraid

Yeah, my higher power
It's the beginnin' of another day.

Hey, my high power
The world is spinnin', but i'm not afraid
Yeah, give me the power it's the beginnin', the beginnin' of another day.

Hey, my high power
The world is spinnin', but i'm not afraid
Yeah, give me the power it's the beginnin', the beginnin' of another day.

posted July 09, 2006 09:08 AM         

last night..I allowed mySelf to feel the pain of the World..all of our pain..I have been crying all night..and still am..my eyelids are so swollen I look funny..
it thses times..when I allow this pain to OverCome me..I send all my Tears to MOther and Father GOD..cleansing our OverSouls..
Tears are good..

I hope it doesn't last much longer..I want to be happy and smiling, again..and praying for all twin souls..lock and keys to be together again
to bring Peace on Earth. ...

posted July 09, 2006 01:41 PM         

cleasing Our OverSouls..came out wrong..cleansing US here..connecting us to our OverSoul to GOD..
Your OverSoul awaits your connection to the you-of-you..the knowing..and the guidance through GOD MOther and Father. ...

posted July 09, 2006 03:45 PM         

Somewhere there's a stolen halo
I used to watch her wear it well
Everything would shine
Where ever she would go
But looking at her now you'd never know
Someone ran away with her innocence
A memory she can't get out of her head
And I can only imagine what she's feeling when she's praying
Kneeling at the edge of her bed
And she says take me away
and take me farther
Surround me now
And hold, hold, hold me
Like Holy Water.
She wants someone to call her angel,
Someone to put the light back in her eyes,
She's looking through the faces and the unfamiliar places
She needs somone to hear her when she cries.
And she says take me away
and take me farther
Surround me now
And hold, hold, hold me
Like Holy Water.

posted July 09, 2006 04:47 PM         

I Ain’t Blue

I ain't blue, baby
Just a little bit lonesome for some lovin'
Everything is fine
Just don't want to be all by myself

On a rainy day
I'm feelin' kind of funny
Dreaming 'bout some loverman who'll call me honey
Yeah and a good lookin' man
My heart inside
A lonely smile and lovin' in his eyes

No I ain't blue, baby
but I'm just a little bit lonesome for some love again
Everything is fine
Just don't want to be all by myself

Sit around the house
Readin' magazines
All the time thinkin' 'bout those same sweet dreams
Yeah, walk down the street
My heart jumps a beat
Every time I see some sweet man I want to meet

No I ain't blue, baby
but I'm just a little bit lonesome for some love again
Everything is fine
I just don't want to be all by myself

Under the Falling Sky
(Jackson Browne)

Warm and lovely mystery, fire smiling through
Before this moment fades away I want to know you
I've got lightening in my pocket, thunder in my shoe
Have no fear I've got something here I want to show you

Low, under the falling sky
Easily we will lie
While I bring it to you

It's a low road, a high wire going from me to you
And in your eyes the distance left is closing
I've got a feeling in my oceans
Blood underneath my skin
That into your bright fields this prison is opening

Our shadows wake each day though they don't know why
They hope and try -- live and die
So leave them in their frozen world
Come and be my lover
If only for one stolen moment
We will live forever

Warm and lovely mystery, can you hear the choir?
Voices can no longer hold my desire
Just abandon your sad history and meet me in the fire
Angels wait to take us higher and higher
Higher and higher

So Close
(Tony Arata/George Marinelli/Pete Wasner)

So far
There was not a second thought
No heart
Ever got close enough
You are
Watching as I am caught
In a moment off-guard

So close
I can nearly taste it
Suppose
This is that one promised love
God knows
All that I've wasted now
Never letting it start

Now all my resistance
I feel it slip away
Now all of the distance
Ever less with every day by day

So far
There was no connection
No spark
Out of which a fire grows
I start
In your direction I'm
Ever so close

Now all my resistance
I feel it slip away
Now all of the distance
Ever less with every day by day

So far, I have never been
So close

Everybody’s Cryin’ Mercy

I don't believe the things I'm seein'
I've been wonderin' 'bout some things I've heard
Everybody's crying mercy
When they don't know the meaning of the word

A bad enough situation
Is sure enough getting worse
Everybody's crying justice
Just as soon as there's business first

Toe to toe, touch and go
Give a cheer and get your own souvenir

Well you know the people running round in circles
Don't know what they're headed for
Everybody's crying peace on earth
Just as soon as we win this war

Straight ahead, gotta knock em dead
So pack your kit, choose your own hypocrite

You don't have to go to off-Broadway
To see something plain absurd
Everybody's crying mercy
When they don't know the meaning of the word

Nobody knows the meaning of the word

posted July 09, 2006 04:47 PM         

Illegal Smile

When I woke up this morning, things were lookin' bad
Seem like total silence was the only friend I had
Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won
And it was twelve o'clock before I realized
That I was havin' ... no fun

Chorus:
But fortunately I have the key to escape reality
And you may see me tonight with an illegal smile
It don't cost very much, but it lasts a long while
Won't you please tell the man I didn't kill anyone
No I'm just tryin' to have me some fun

Last time I checked my bankroll,
It was gettin' thin
Sometimes it seems like the bottom
Is the only place I've been
I Chased a rainbow down a one-way street... dead end
And all my friends turned out to be insurance salesmen

Repeat Chorus:

Well, I sat down in my closet with all my overalls
Tryin' to get away
From all the ears inside my walls
I dreamed the police heard
Everything I thought... what then?
Well I went to court
And the judge's name was Hoffman
Ah but fortunately I have the key to escape reality

And you may see me tonight with an illegal smile
It don't cost very much, but it lasts a long while
Won't you please tell the man I didn't kill anyone
No I'm just tryin' to have me some fun
Well done, hot dog bun, my sister's a nun

Hello In There

We had an apartment in the city,
Me and Loretta liked living there.
Well, it'd been years since the kids had grown,
A life of their own left us alone.
John and Linda live in Omaha,
And Joe is somewhere on the road.
We lost Davy in the Korean war,
And I still don't know what for, don't matter anymore.

Chorus:
Ya' know that old trees just grow stronger,
And old rivers grow wilder ev'ry day.
Old people just grow lonesome
Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello."

Me and Loretta, we don't talk much more,
She sits and stares through the back door screen.
And all the news just repeats itself
Like some forgotten dream that we've both seen.
Someday I'll go and call up Rudy,
We worked together at the factory.
But what could I say if asks "What's new?"
"Nothing, what's with you? Nothing much to do."

Repeat Chorus:

So if you're walking down the street sometime
And spot some hollow ancient eyes,
Please don't just pass 'em by and stare
As if you didn't care, say, "Hello in there, hello."

Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore

While digesting Reader's Digest
In the back of a dirty book store,
A plastic flag, with gum on the back,
Fell out on the floor.
Well, I picked it up and I ran outside
Slapped it on my window shield,
And if I could see old Betsy Ross
I'd tell her how good I feel.

Chorus:
But your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more.
They're already overcrowded
From your dirty little war.
Now Jesus don't like killin'
No matter what the reason's for,
And your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more.

Well, I went to the bank this morning
And the cashier he said to me,
"If you join the Christmas club
We'll give you ten of them flags for free."
Well, I didn't mess around a bit
I took him up on what he said.
And I stuck them stickers all over my car
And one on my wife's forehead.

Repeat Chorus:

Well, I got my window shield so filled
With flags I couldn't see.
So, I ran the car upside a curb
And right into a tree.
By the time they got a doctor down
I was already dead.
And I'll never understand why the man
Standing in the Pearly Gates said...

"But your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more.
We're already overcrowded
From your dirty little war.
Now Jesus don't like killin'
No matter what the reason's for,
And your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more."

The Accident (Things Could be Worse)

Last night I saw an accident
on the corner of Third and Green
two cars collided and I got excited
just being part of that scene

It was Mrs. Tom Walker and her beautiful daughter
Pamela, was driving the car
they got hit by a man in a light blue sedan
who had obviously been to a bar.
Chorus:
They don't know how lucky they are
they could have run into that tree
got struck by a bolt of lightning
and raped by a minority.

It was a four way dilemma
we all arrived the same time
I yielded to the man to the right of me
and he yielded it right back to mine
well, the yield went around and around and around
till Pamela finally tried
just then the man in the light blue sedan
hit Pamela's passenger side.

Chorus:

Pamela hit her head on the mirror
Mrs. Walker got a bump on the knee
the man hit himself in the face and said
"Why does this happen to me?"
the neighbors came out
and they gathered about
saying "Hey! who hit who anyway?"
and the police arrived at a quarter to five
and pronounced all the victims "Okay".

Chorus:

posted July 15, 2006 09:43 AM         

Sometimes I can feel you breathing into me.
And these hands I can feel them tugging at my sleeve,
I move through the day in the rhythm that I've known.
I've got this crazy dream of stripping down to truth and bone.

All of it, all of it, all of it stripped down.
All of it, all of it, all of it, to truth and bone.

My mouth is full of secrets I'm too afraid to tell.
My body's full of longing for you to know me well.
I move through the day in the rhythms that I've known.
I've got this crazy dream of stripping down to truth and bone.

All of it, all of it, all of it stripped down.
All of it, all of it, all of it, to truth and bone.

I think of sinking in way over my shoulders, let the water, the water take me in and I need you to cut through to where I'm hidden, I'm awkward and I'm too polite and I want two stars for arms like orion I could breathe in and breathe in and breathe out.
If I could only lose myself
I would lose myself in you,
I move trough the day in the rhythms that I've known.
I've got this crazy dream of stripping down to truth and bone.

All of it, all of it, all of it stripped down.
All of it, all of it, all of it, to truth and bone.

posted July 15, 2006 05:29 PM         

Recently I was particularly moved by a song called Sand and Water by Beth Nielsen Chapman. I heard it originally on an episode of Charmed many years ago (and recently on the DVD's), and it strikes a haunting chord (despite the deathist philosophy):

Sand and Water

"All alone I didn't like the feeling
All alone I sat and cried
All alone I had to find some meaning
In the center of the pain I felt inside

All alone I came into this world
All alone I will someday die
Solid stone is just sand and water, baby
Sand and water, and a million years gone by

I will see you in the light of a thousand suns
I will hear you in the sound of the waves
I will know you when I come, as we all will come
Through the doors beyond the grave

All alone I heal this heart of sorrow
All alone I raise this child
Flesh and bone, he's just
Bursting towards tomorrow
And his laughter fills my world and wears your smile

I will see you in the light of a thousand suns
I will hear you in the sound of the waves
I will know you when I come, as we all will come
Through the doors beyond the grave

All alone I came into this world
All alone I will someday die
Solid stone is just sand and water, baby
Sand and water and a million years gone by."

In L.V.X. Eternal...

A

posted July 16, 2006 04:41 AM         

Whenever I read a post of yours.....there is a strong sense of serenity....depth, peacefulness emanating from it. I've always wanted to mention that to you. No matter what the post is about.

You are someone I'd love hug.

posted July 16, 2006 06:16 AM         

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Thank you for sharing that, Aselzion.

Whenever I read a post of yours.....there is a strong sense of serenity....depth, peacefulness emanating from it. I've always wanted to mention that to you. No matter what the post is about.

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posted July 16, 2006 10:11 AM         

Well... you didn't wake up this morning,
'cause you didn't go to bed.
You were watching the whites of your eyes turn red.
The calendar on your wall is ticking the days off.

You've been reading some old letters.
You smile and think how much you've changed.
All the money in the world couldn't buy back those days.

You pull back the curtains, and the sun burns into your eyes.
You watch a plane flying across a clear blue sky.
This is the day your life will surely change.
This is the day when things fall into place.

You could've done anything, if you'd wanted.
And all your friends and family think that you're lucky.
But the side of you they'll never see
Is when you're left alone with the memories
That hold your life together like -- GLUE

You pull back the curtains, and the sun burns into your eyes,
You watch a plane flying across a clear blue sky.
This is the day your life will surely change.
This is the day when things fall into place.

This is the day your life will surely change...
(repeat to fade)

posted July 16, 2006 10:50 AM         

you know I was thinking about when people die..and are whole with their own OverSoul..and that when we come into this World and leave it..we are never alone..for our OverSoul's are all in Heaven..and when we are on Earth..we are always connected..and the Truth is..when you connect with your OverSoul..all OverSouls are always in contact..that is why..you always see those you love when you cross over..for their OverSoul's as is yours is always there..
until we bring Heaven on Earth..then the trinity will be whole here..anywhere..mastership..immortality. ...

posted July 16, 2006 04:16 PM         

26, teasel and Lotus...

Thank you for the kind words. Hugs are always appreciated whether in person or through the Ethers.

Despite my own sense of loss and depression over the death of my mother last year, I find that the Universe (God or Goddess), The All or whatever we choose to call It moves so clearly and directly through our poets and musicians, many of whom are the Healers on our Sorrowful Star...

God speaks to us all, in many ways... do we listen? As often as I "try", I find that it is so easy to get caught up in day to day life and "stuff" that I close down my Inner Senses, only to find them jarred awake with messages such as this.

May the Melodies of The All continue to be channeled and, more importantly, Heard, in these trying times on this Planet of ours... I feel we need music now, more than ever to soothe our Souls and Heal our Hearts.

Brightest Blessings...

A

posted July 18, 2006 01:45 AM         

Here I stand head in hand
Turn my face to the wall
If she's gone I can't go on
Feeling two-foot small

Everywhere people stare
Each and every day
I can see them laugh at me
And I hear them say

Hey you've got to hide your love away
Hey you've got to hide your love away

How can I even try
I can never win
Hearing them, seeing them
In the state I'm in

How could she say to me
Love will find a way
Gather round all you clowns
Let me hear you say

Hey you've got to hide your love away
Hey you've got to hide your love away

posted July 19, 2006 12:56 PM         

I was reading recently that one of the best things for us to be doing at this time - as Saturn is transiting Leo, is to sing whenever possible. To try and find creative ways to alleviate stress and uplift the spirits, such as finding ways to laugh, another major stress reducer.

posted July 21, 2006 03:41 AM         

Think of what you're saying.
You can get it wrong and still you think that it's all right.
Think of what I'm saying,
We can work it out and get it straight, or say good night.
We can work it out,
We can work it out.
Life is very short, and there's no time
For fussing and fighting, my friend.
I have always thought that it's a crime,
So I will ask you once again.

Try to see it my way,
Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong.
While you see it your way
There's a chance that we might fall apart before too long.
We can work it out,
We can work it out.
Life is very short, and there's no time
For fussing and fighting, my friend.
I have always thought that it's a crime,
So I will ask you once again.

Try to see it my way,
Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong.
While you see it your way
There's a chance that we may fall apart before too long.
We can work it out,
We can work it out.