Sunday, May 31, 2009

Today Has Songs

The Space Between

You cannot quit me so quickly
Is no hope in you for me
No corner you could squeeze me
But I've got all the time for you, love

The space between
The tears we cry
Is the laughter keeps us coming back for more
The space between
The wicked lies we tell
And hope to keep us safe from the pain
Will I hold you again?
These fickle, fuddled words confuse me
Like will it rain today?
We waste the hours with talking, talking
These twisted games we're playing

We're strange allies
With warring hearts
What a wild-eyed beast you be
The space between
The wicked lies we tell
And hope to keep us safe from the pain

Will I hold you again?
Will I hold you...

Look at us spinning out in the madness of a rollercoaster
You know you went off like the devil in a church
In the middle of a crowded room
All we can do, my love
Is hope we don't take this ship down

The space between where you smile and hide
Where you'll find me if I get to go
The space between, the bullets in our fire fight
Is where I'll be hiding, waiting for you
The rain that falls splashed in your heart
Ran like sadness down the window into your room
The space between
Our wicked lies is
Where we hope to keep safe from pain

Take my hand
'Cause were walking out of here
Oh, right out of here
Love is all we need dear
The space between
What's wrong and right
Is where you'll find me hiding, waiting for you
The space between
Your heart and mine
Is a space we'll fill with time
The space between...

--Dave Matthews Band

Run

I'll sing it one last time for you
Then we really have to go
You've been the only thing that's right
In all I've done

And I can barely look at you
But every single time I do
I know we'll make it anywhere
Away from here

Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you can not hear my voice
I'll be right beside you dear

Louder, louder
And we'll run for our lives
I can hardly speak and understand
Why you can't raise your voice to say

To think I might not see those eyes
Makes it so hard not to cry
And as we say our long goodbyes
I nearly do

Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you can not hear my voice
I'll be right beside you dear

Louder louder
And we'll run for our lives
I can hardly speak and understand
Why you can't raise your voice to say

Slower slower
We don't have time for that
All I want is to find an easy way
To get out of our little heads

Have heart my dear
We're bound be afraid
Even if its just for a few days
Making up for all that's less

Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you can not hear my voice
I'll be right beside you dear

--Snow Patrol

Skinny Love

C'mon skinny love just last the year
Pour a little salt we were never here

My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer
I tell my love to wreck it all
Cut out all the ropes and let me fall

My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
Right in the moment this order's tall

I told you to be patient
I told you to be fine
I told you to be balanced
I told you to be kind
In the morning I'll be with you
But it will be a different "kind"
I'll be holding all the tickets
And you'll be owning all the fines

C'mon skinny love what happened here
Suckle on the hope in lite brazziere

My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
Sullen load is full; so slow on the split

I told you to be patient
I told you to be fine
I told you to be balanced
I told you to be kind
Now all your love is wasted?
Then who the hell was I?
Now I'm breaking at the britches
And at the end of all your lines

Who will love you?
Who will fight?
Who will fall far behind?
--Bon Iver

Friday, May 29, 2009

ZOMG! CUTE!!

SNORGLE!!!!!

baby crocodiles should NOT be this cute.... but... I just want to eat them up. *makes happy noises*

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

A Blog Post With CONTENT?! You HAVE to be kidding...

Ah but i'm not! my two loyal followers, never fear! I'm actually going to post something with content instead of just song lyrics. Now that's not to say that some song lyrics might not make it into this blog post, but let's just wait and see what happens.

so i want to apologize for the lack of updates lately. I know that song lyrics are great and are probably the best way to get a quick look at what's going on in the mind of the TDG, but you know, its not always enough.

In the last six months, I've realized that there are probably 5 people in this world who love me unconditionally. I'm fortunate enough to have five people... five... so many people don't even have one, and that's such a huge thing. I want to thank you guys; you are amazing. *looks very pointedly at the people this is addressed to* Yes, you. You are amazing, and I adore you. I am blessed every moment I spend with you.

Thank you. Thank you for being who you are. Thank you for doing what you do. Thank you for loving me, because I know it's not easy, and I know the situation isn't easy. Thank you for letting me be who I am and follow my dreams and desires.

I love you. I will love you to the ends of the earth and back.

Thank you. From all that I am. Thank you.

Friday, May 8, 2009

Today Has Songs

Wait

Under a blackened sky
Far beyond the glaring streetlights
Sleeping on empty dreams
The vultures lie in wait
You lay down beside me then
You were with me every waking hour
So close I could feel your breath

When all we wanted was the dream
To have and to hold that precious little thing
Like every generation yields
The new born hope unjaded by their years

Pressed up against the glass
I found myself wanting sympathy
But to be consumed again
Oh I know would be the death of me
And there is a love that's inherently given
A kind of blindness offered to appease
And in that light of forbidden joy
Oh I know I won't receive it

When all we wanted was the dream
To have and to hold that precious little thing
Like every generation yields
The newborn hope unjaded by their years

You know if I leave you now
It doesn't mean that I love you any less
Its just the state I'm in
I can't be good to anyone else like this

When all we wanted was the dream
To have and to hold that precious little thing
Like every generation yields
The new born hope unjaded by their years...

--Sarah McLachlan

Devotion

I pulled out with the mountain laurel blooming
On a dirt road that is soon to be paved
Down to the site of my original establishment
And the west end family grave

Cause one day moves into two
And I'm losing
Everything except for you
And I would sing you a song of devotion
Yeah that's what I should do


Blood runs thick and when it rains it pours down
On the family tree
on the fields of war
I spend my time being broken hearted and grieving bound
Yeah I haven't much need to look forward

I just let a one day move into two
I'm losing
Everything except for you
I would sing you a song of devotion


Book of days
The way things lay
That's just space and time
I gave it up
All for a love
That won't be defined


I've had enough temporary acquisition
Building fences for no gain
Taking dead trees down
before the winter freeze I said
Let 'em rot, and fall where they may.

Just let one day move into two
I'm losing
Everything except for you
Ah yeah
I would sing you a song of devotion
That's what I should do

It's the book of days
It's the way things lay
Now that's just space and time
I gave it up
All for your love

Thats what I should do

That's what I should do

Yeah
That's what I should do

--Indigo Girls (Amy Ray)

Romeo & Juliet

A love struck romeo
Sings the streets a serenade
Now he's laying everybody low
He's got a love song that he made
He finds a streetlight
And he steps out of the shade
And says something like
You and me, babe, how about it?

Juliet says hey, it's Romeo!
You nearly give me a heart attack!
Yeah well, he's underneath the window
Now she's singing hey-la, my boyfriend's back
You shouldn't come around here
Singing up at people like that
Ah anyway, whatcha gonna do about it?

Juliet
The dice were loaded from the start
And I bet and you exploded into my heart
And I forget, I forget the movie song
When you gonna realize
It was just that the time was wrong
Julie

We both come up on different streets
And they both were streets of shame
You know they're both dirty, both mean
Yes and the dreams were the same
And I dreamed your dream for you
And now your dream is real
So tell me honey
Now how can you look at me
As if I was just another one of your deals

Now you can fall for chains of silver
And you can fall for chains of gold
You know you fall for pretty strangers
And the promises they hold
Well you promised me everything
And then you promised me thick and thin
Now you just turn away and say
Romeo, I think I used to have a scene with him.

Ah juliet
When we made love you used to cry
You said I love you like the stars above
Gonna love you 'till I die
There's a place for us
I know you know this song
Now when you gonna realize
It was just that the time was wrong
Julie

But I can't do the talks like they talk on my tv screen
I can't do a love song not the way you sang them to me
I can't do everything but I would do anything for you
Oh no I can't do anything except be in love with you

Yeah now and all I do is miss you
And the way it used to be you know
And all I do is keep the beat
I keep bad, bad company
And all I do is kiss you
Through the bars of a rhyme
When julie I'd do the stars with you
Anytime

Ah juliet
When we made love you used to cry
You said I love you like the stars above
I'm gonna love you till I die
There's a place for us
I know you know the movie song
One day we're gonna realize
It was just that the time was wrong
Julie
Julie
Julie

Now this love struck romeo
He sings the streets a serenade
Now he's laying everybody low
He's got a love song he made
He finds a convenient streetlight
And he'll step out of the shade
And hel'l say something like
You and me, babe, how bout it?

--Indigo Girls (covering Dire Straits)

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Today Has Songs

Wherever You Will Go

so lately,
been wondering
who will be there to take my place
When i'm gone, you'll need love
To light the shadows on your face

If the great wave shall fall
It'd fall upon us all
And between the sand and stone
Could you make it on your own

If i could, then i would
I'll go wherever you will go
Way up high or down low
I'll go wherever you will go

And maybe, i'll find out
The way to make it back someday
To watch you, to guide you
Through the darkest of your days

If the great wave shall fall
It'd fall upon as all
Well i hope there's someone out there
Who can bring me back to you

If i could, then i would
I'll go wherever you will go
Way up high or down low
I'll go wherever you will go

Runaway with my heart
Runaway with my hope
Runaway with my love

I know now, just quite how
My life and love might still go on
In your heart and your mind
I'll stay with you for all of time

If i could, then i would
I'll go wherever you will go
Way up high or down low
I'll go wherever you will go

If i could turn back time
I'll go wherever you will go
If i could make you mine
I'll go wherever you will go

--The Calling

One Thing

Restless tonight
Cause I wasted the light
Between both these times
I drew a really thin line

It’s nothing I planned
And not that I can
But you should be mine
Across that line


If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn’t that be something

I promise I might
Not walk on by
Maybe next time
But not this time


Even though I know
I don’t want to know
Yeah I guess I know
I just hate how it sounds

--Finger 11

The One I Love

Gonna close my eyes
Girl and watch you go
Running through this life darling
Like a field of snow

As the tracer glides
In its graceful arc
Send a little prayer out to ya
'cross the falling dark

Tell the repo man
And the stars above
You're the one I love

Perfect summers night
Not a wind that breathes
Just the bullets whispering gentle
'mongst the new green leaves

There's things I might have said
Only wish I could
Now I'm leaking life faster
Then I'm leaking blood

Tell the repo man
And the stars above
You're the one I love
You're the one I love
The one I love

Don't see Elysium
Don't see no fiery hell
Just the lights up bright baby
In the bay hotel

Next wave coming in
Like an ocean roar
Won't you take my hand darling
On that old dance floor

We can twist and shout
Do the turtle dove
And you're the one I love
You're the one I love
The one I love

--David Gray

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Today Has Songs

This one's for the past... you know who you are, and you know what you did. It's your karma. You have to live with it. I am strong, stronger than you, and I will make it through this like I made it through everything else.

Because of You

I will not make
The same mistakes that you did
I will not let myself
Cause my heart so much misery
I will not break
The way you did, you fell so hard
I’ve learned the hard way
To never let it get that far

Because of you
I never stray too far from the sidewalk
Because of you
I learned to play on the safe side so I don’t get hurt
Because of you
I find it hard to trust not only me, but everyone around me
Because of you I am afraid

I lose my way
And it’s not too long before you point it out
I cannot cry
Because I know that’s weakness in your eyes
I’m forced to fake
A smile, a laugh, every day of my life
My heart can’t possibly break
When it wasn’t even whole to start with

I watched you die
I heard you cry every night in your sleep
I was so young
You should have known better than to depend on me
You never thought of anyone else
You just saw your pain
And now I cry in the middle of the night
For the same damn thing

Because of you
Because of you
Because of you I am afraid

Because of you I never stray too far from the sidewalk
Because of you I learned to play on the safe side so I don’t get hurt

Because of you I try my hardest just to forget everything
Because of you
I don’t know how to let anyone else in
Because of you
I’m ashamed of my life because it’s empty
Because of you I am afraid

Because of you

-- Kelly Clarkson

This is for the better times... the times we have today. I love you and I cherish you.

I Could Not Ask For More

Lying here with you
Listening to the rain
Smiling just to see
The smile upon your face

These are the moments I thank God that I'm alive
These are the moments I'll remember all my life
I found all I've waited for
And I could not ask for more

Looking in your eyes
Seeing all I need
Everything you are
Is everything to me

These are the moments
I know heaven must exist
These are the moments
I know all I need is this
I have all I've waited for
And I could not ask for more

I could not ask for more than this time together
I could not ask for more than this time with you
Every prayer has been answered
Every dream I have's come true
And right here in this moment is right where I'm meant to be
Here with you here with me

These are the moments
I thank God that I'm alive
These are the moments
I'll remember all my life
I've got all I've waited for
And I could not ask for more

I could not ask for more than this time together
I could not ask for more than this time with you
Every prayer has been answered
Every dream I have's come true
And right here in this moment is right where I'm meant to be
Here with you here with me


I could not ask for more than the love you give me
'Coz it's all I've waited for
And I could not ask for more
I could not ask for more

-- Edwin McCain


And this is for Right Now. This Minute. for Us.

Walk This World

I have slept beside the winter
And the green is growing slow
I have watched you find the places
Hidden by the snow
I have tripped into a valley
That is blue 'till you can see
I want you to come walk this world with me

With the light in our eyes its hard to see
Holding on and on to what we believe
I'm not touched but I'm aching to be
I want you to come walk this world with me.

And I'm sucked in by the wonder
And I'm fucked up by the lies
And I dig a hole to lie in
And I build some wings to fly
And I think that I could love you
Cause you know how to be free
I want you to come walk this world with me.

With the light in our eyes it's hard to see
Holding on and on 'till we believe
With the light in our eyes it's hard to see
I'm not touched but I'm aching to be
I want you to come, I want you to come
I want you to come walk this world with me.

And it's burning in our fingers
And it's burning on the road
And I like the way you're broken
And I'll like you when you're old
And I see you in the garden
And I feel you plant the seed
I want you to come walk this world with me.

With the light in our eyes it's hard to see
Holding on and on 'till we believe
With the light in our eyes it's hard to see
I'm not touched but I'm aching to be
I want you to come, I want you to come
I want you to come walk this world with me.

--Heather Nova


Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Today Has Songs!

Huzzah!

She Will Be Loved

Beauty queen of only eighteen She
had some trouble with herself
He was always there to help her
She always belonged to someone else

I drove for miles and miles
And wound up at your door
I've had you so many times but somehow
I want more

I don't mind spending every day
Out on your corner in the pouring rain
Look for the girl with the broken smile
Ask her if she wants to stay awhile
And she will be loved
She will be loved

Tap on my window
Knock on my door
I want to make you feel beautiful
I know I tend to get so insecure
It doesn't matter anymore

Its not always rainbows and butterflies
Its compromise that moves us along
My heart is full and my door's always open
You can come anytime you want

I don't mind spending every day
Out on your corner in the pouring rain
Look for the girl with the broken smile
Ask her if she wants to stay awhile
And she will be loved
She will be loved

I know where you hide
Alone in your car
Know all of the things that make you who you are
I know that goodbye
Means nothing at all
Comes back and begs me to catch her every time she falls

--Maroon 5

Spoon

Spoon in spoon,
Stiring my coffee and
I think of you
And turn to the gate
But on my way
Came up with the answers
Scratched my head
And the answers were gone

From hand to hand
Wrists to the elbow red
Blood, sand
Could dad be god?
Crosses cross
Hung out like a wet rag
Forgive you why
You hung me out to dry

Maybe I'm a little crazy
But laughing out loud
Makes it all pass by
Maybe you're a little crazy
But laughing out loud
Makes it all subside

Holding, I'm holding
Falling, I'm still falling

Spoon in spoon
Stirring my coffee
I think of this
And turn to the gate
But on my way crack
Lightening and thunder
Hid my head
And the storm slipped away

Maybe I'm a little crazy
But laughing out loud
Makes it all pass by
Maybe you're a little crazy
But laughing out loud
Makes it all all right
Laughing out loud

(alanis)

From time to time
Minutes and hours
Some move ahead
While some lag behind
Like the balloon
that rise and then vanish
This drop of hope
That falls from his eye

(dave)

Spoon in spoon
Stirring my coffee
I think of this
And turn to go away
But as I walk
The voices behind me say
Sinners sin
Come now and play

Laughing out loud
Come now and play.
-- Dave Matthews Band

Breathe You In

The sound of beating hearts so anxious
A sacred rhythm pulsing with desire
The time we spend alone, it saves us
The things we learn in solitude inspire
Its good to love for love is hard to find
But to love is realized

I can breathe you in
I can taste every moment
And the world in your patient eyes
It will wait 'til we have arrived
I'm so alive
And I breathe you in

I'm breathing in your touch so reckless
I'm breathing in the words
that slip softly from your
fingertips
The one you've blessed is all but helpless
The largest lesson given will impower
Its good to love for love is hard to touch
If this life is large enough

I can breathe you in
I can taste every moment
And the world in your patient eyes
It will wait til we have arrived
I'm so alive
And I breathe you in

Your scent on my pillow
Is enough to get me through
But there's so much more to
learn apart from you
Our time in a bottle
Would be wasted if it were used
When there's so much left for love to prove

So I breathe you in
I can taste every moment
And the world in your patient eyes
It will wait til we have arrived
I'm so alive
And I breathe you in

-- David Mead